Tag: Asian & Pacific art

Aisha Khalid transforms traditional miniature painting with pins

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Nov 2018

Aisha Khalid is one of a generation of artists from Pakistan who have transformed the tradition of miniature painting into an internationally celebrated form of contemporary art. In recent years, Khalid’s practice has extended to significantly larger paintings, murals, installations and tapestries. In her textile works, Khalid draws on a form of visual language embedded in…

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Lee Mingwei ‘Bodhi Tree Project’: An ambitious living artwork

Posted by Tarun Nagesh   ●   22 Apr 2017

Every year as part of Brisbane’s Buddha’s Birthday Festival, members of Chung Tian Buddhist Temple perform a special blessing ceremony on the front lawn of the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), to honour a tree descended from an ancient Bodhi Tree at the site which gave birth to Buddhism. Bodhi Tree Blessing, 2015 Just over…

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Watch as we install Huang Yong Ping’s spectacular ‘Ressort’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   6 Apr 2017

Huang Yong Ping’s spectacular Ressort 2012 is part of a series of large-scale sculptures that depict a snake or dragon, a central symbol in Chinese culture, as well as in many other countries around the world. The work plays on different interpretations of the snake, from creation and temptation to wisdom and deception. Symbolically linking sky and…

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An improbable performance

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   16 Nov 2016

Michael Parekowhai is one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary artists. Primarily sculptural, his works often play with scale and space, using humour to comment on the intersections between national narratives, colonial histories and popular culture. Parekowhai is known for bringing together an array of references, sometimes in a single object, with in-jokes and snippets of…

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‘Green hypermarket’ series

Posted by Tarun Nagesh   ●   24 Aug 2015

Edwin Roseno’s ‘Green hypermarket’ series is a poignant reminder of economic and environmental tensions that are increasingly relevant today in countries of the Asia Pacific region. Yogyakarta-based photographer Roseno is an active member of the young generation of Indonesian artists that were highlighted in APT7. He is the manager of MES56, a prominent Yogyakarta photographic…

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Huang Yong Ping ‘Ressort’: A gigantic snake skeleton

Posted by Russell Storer   ●   13 Mar 2013

The Gallery commissioned and acquired one of the signature works of The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Ressort 2012, a sculpture by the Chinese–French artist Huang Yong Ping. The gigantic aluminium snake skeleton that spirals 53 metres across the Watermall, Ressort 2012 was a fitting centrepiece for APT7. This is not only…

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