Tag: Foundation Appeal

Pannaphan Yodmanee draws on Buddhist cosmology to create her installations

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   8 Apr 2019

This year, as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Foundation, Thai artist Pannaphan Yodmanee’s extraordinary work In the aftermath 2018, commissioned for ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) is the subject of our 2019 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Foundation Appeal. Watch the installation time-lapse SUBSCRIBE to…

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Pannaphan Yodmanee’s ‘In the Aftermath’ is a complex, immersive installation

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   1 Mar 2019

From the age of ten, Thai artist Pannaphan Yodmanee was taught traditional Buddhist painting techniques by a monk at her local temple, and while she draws on this depth of knowledge, she moves beyond traditional conventions to connect the symbolic, the spiritual and the secular in exciting and experiential new ways. Through years of refining…

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A meeting of minds

Posted by Simon Wright   ●   11 Jun 2018

Metafisica Australe 2017 is a rich, contemporary symbiosis of the personal, professional and cultural reflections of two great Australian artists. The subject of this year’s QAGOMA Foundation Appeal, Metafisica Australe is a significant 72-panel painting that is the latest artwork resulting from the collaborative efforts of Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers. Simon Wright was present when…

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Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers collaborate on ‘Metafisica Australe’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   14 May 2018

Warlpiri/Luritja artist Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers have collaborated on 24 artworks together since 2001, and the latest of these, the striking 72-panel painting Metafisica Australe 2017 is the subject of our 2018 Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Foundation Appeal. The expansive and compelling work holds special meaning, as it reflects…

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Watch how James Turrell’s Architectural Light will transform GOMA

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   4 Jul 2017

This animation gives a sense of how GOMA will be transformed by James Turrell’s magnificent Architectural Light commission. QAGOMA is dedicated to bringing a long-dormant vision for the GOMA building to life some ten years after its opening. The city and community can equally share in this truly public artwork which will be illuminated nightly.…

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From the Director: James Turrell light commission to transform GOMA

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   12 Jun 2017

I am delighted to unveil our plan to transform the Gallery of Modern Art’s  ‘white box’ into a monumentally-scaled solid light wall. Part of the architects’ design concept by Architectus + Davenport Campbell lead architects Kerry Clare, Lindsay Clare and James Jones was for GOMA to have an artist-illuminated ‘white box’ on the building’s eastern…

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