Now in its third year, QAGOMA’s youngest supporter group, the Future Collective are putting their combined might behind Australian artists and investing in the development of the Gallery’s Collection. The group met at GOMA last month to discuss all things commissioning and hear from the artist they voted to commission two new works by in…
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The outstanding contributions of three of the Gallery’s most dedicated benefactors have recently been honoured with new named acknowledgments. Alongside our GOMA Turns 10 celebrations, the three named spaces provide an excellent opportunity for us to recognise the crucial importance of benefaction to the Gallery, and in particular the inspiring giving of the three donors being…
My earliest memory of the Queensland Art Gallery would either be the impossible tension that Rene Magritte creates by stripping the twilight out of his sudden juxtapositions of night and day, or the deep perspective of a lonely Giorgio de Chirico piazza rich with a sense of loss and the horizon’s unlikely possibility. Both were…
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VIDA LAHEY TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP Applications for the 2017 Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship Close Soon The Vida Lahey Memorial Travelling Scholarship offers its recipient $40,000 to enable research based travel, and in 2015 it provided its inaugural beneficiary Matthew Perkins with a valuable year of study of the development of Australian video art. Matthew’s project sought…
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Arthur Boyd’s Sleeping bride 1957-58 is destined to join the ranks of the most celebrated and iconic works in the QAGOMA Collection. From the celebrated allegorical series of paintings ‘Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste’ – often known as the ‘Brides’ – Sleeping bride is one of Boyd’s defining contributions to Australian art. The Victorian-born artist…
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Anne and Greg Hunter can tell a remarkable tale of art enthusiasm and generosity – it starts with them reading an artwork label and ends with them helping to realise the acquisition of a talented Mithila artist’s work. Having relocated to Brisbane after many years in regional Queensland, QAGOMA Premium Members Anne and Greg Hunter…
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