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2015 REVIEW2015 CONTENTS 04 FROM 2015 THE DIRECTOR 06 SNAPSHOT 06 2015 SNAPSHOT 08 PICTURE COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS 48 PICTURE / PEOPLE DAVID LYNCH: AUDIENCES AND BETWEEN TWO WORLDS ENGAGEMENT 10 64 PARTNER PARTNERSHIPS AND PRACTICES 74 PROGRAM 2015 EXHIBITION PICTURE / SCHEDULE THE 8TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL 78 26 OF CONTEMPORARY ART PREPARE Brian Robinson / 2016 IN PREVIEW XXlllVlllMCMLXXlllXVllVLLMCMVLl (when worlds collide) 2012 / Installation view in ‘GOMA Q’ / Courtesy: The artist, Mossenson Galleries, Perth, and Michael Reid Sydney / Installation view in ‘GOMA Q’ / Photograph: Natasha Harth TITLE PAGE / Bhenji Ra performs Ex Nilalang: Incarnations 2015–16 under Haegue Yang’s Sol LeWitt Upside COVER / Down – Open Modular Cubes (Small), Expanded Melati Suryodarmo performs I’m a 958 Times 2015 for the APT8 opening weekend / Ghost in My Own House 2012, a 12-hour Haegue Yang work purchased 2015 with funds from durational performance, on the opening PREPARE / Tim Fairfax, AC, through the Queensland Art Gallery | weekend of APT8 / November 2015 / A WORLD VIEW: Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / November 2015 / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon 82 THE TIM FAIRFAX, AC GIFT Photograph: Chloë Callistemon PAGE 04 REVIEW2015 FROM THE DIRECTOR FROM THE DIRECTOR REVIEW2015 PAGE 05 FROMTHE DIRECTOR The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery exhibition and convergence of art, The Gallery is guided by an astute of Modern Art presented an insistently performance and public programs. Board, among whom I especially thank contemporary program in 2015. We The APT energises the entire Chair, Professor Susan Street, AO, and featured solo exhibitions of ambitious organisation and our audiences Deputy Chair Philip Bacon, AM, and an scale, took advantage of our parallel flooded QAG and GOMA in record engaged Executive Management visual art and cinema spaces and saw numbers for the opening night and team and staff. sustained progress toward our goal weekend events. It’s also a vital In 2016, we will present major to be the leading institution for the cog in our collection development exhibitions by the late Queensland contemporary art of Australia, machine, with 70 per cent of its painter Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Asia and the Pacific. 250 artworks brought into the Sally Gabori and acclaimed New contemporary Australian, Asian York artist Cindy Sherman. We will Australian artist Robert MacPherson’s and Pacific art collections. 2400-sheet 1000 FROG POEMS: explore four decades of art from 1000 BOSS DROVERS 1996–2014 APT8 saw institutional innovations our neighbours Papua New Guinea dramatically occupied the full height too, with the return of a scholarly and honour the generosity of our of GOMA’s largest wall, and New conference, and the initiation of remarkable benefactor Tim Fairfax, AC. Zealand artist Michael Parekowhai’s a research collaboration with the We will also mark, with a swathe monumentally scaled stainless steel tertiary education sector in the of exhibitions, acquisitions and portrait of Captain Cook, The English Brisbane Consortium for the Visual commissions, the tenth anniversary Channel 2015, was pressed into a Arts. We also launched the Asia of our second building, the Gallery two-story replica 1930s Art Deco Pacific Council — a new organisation of Modern Art, a landmark not just house that greeted visitors to the committed to working with government for its iconic riverside presence, Fairfax Gallery. Meanwhile, artist and industry to build an enduring but for its role as a meeting place and auteur David Lynch animated platform for the APT — and introduced for ideas in Brisbane. the stimulating APT8 Live sequence the deep connection between his As we head into another exciting of performances throughout life-long practice as an artist and the year, Review takes a broad look back the exhibition. transcendent vision of his screen work. at our achievements in 2015 and These three exhibitions resulted from The APT, indeed all of our acknowledges the many people within direct collaboration with the artists, programming, would simply not the organisation and surrounding it and we are grateful for their support. be possible without the support of that bring these projects to life: Another highlight was ‘GOMA Q’, our the Queensland Government. I wish artists and audiences, stakeholders first exhibition in many years of recent to very warmly thank Premier and and staff. My thanks go to them all. work by some of Queensland’s most Minister for the Arts, the Honourable prominent emerging, mid-career and Annastacia Palaszczuk, MP, and the senior artists. It won’t be the last Department of Premier and Cabinet, time we engage with the local in this along with Arts Queensland and CHRIS SAINES, CNZM way, just as we do with regional and Tourism and Events Queensland. DIRECTOR international programming. We’re also privileged to have the QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY backing of a deeply committed GALLERY OF MODERN ART Chris Saines speaks at the QAGOMA The project that most consumed us, sponsorship family, and the Members’ Christmas Party at GOMA / December 2015 / Photograph: as it does every three years, was generosity of many wonderful Chloë Callistemon ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of donors through the Gallery’s Contemporary Art’, our flagship Foundation. PAGE 06 REVIEW2015 2015 SNAPSHOT 2015 SNAPSHOT REVIEW2015 PAGE 07 2015 QAGOMA ON SNAPSHOT TOTAL 2015 SOCIAL MEDIA ATTENDANCE 1.18 MILLION FACEBOOK 62 000+ LIKES QAG (UP 36%) 546 000 TWITTER GOMA 28 000+ FOLLOWERS 635 000 (UP 80%) CHILDREN 12 INSTAGRAM AND UNDER 21 000+ FOLLOWERS 225 000 (UP 75%) ‘David Lynch: Between 28 200 Two Worlds’ was a STUDENTS IN world-first exhibition BOOKED GROUPS of the renowned artist’s painting, photography, sculpture, installation, music and film. AUSTRALIAN APT8 broke records CINÉMATHÈQUE for an opening day with more than 27 500+ VIEWERS 17 000 visitors ACQUISITIONS 351 SCREENINGS to the opening 236 ARTWORKS, BRINGING 278 FILMS events on Friday THE COLLECTION TO 20 November. 16 953 OBJECTS VOLUNTEER HOURS 32 257 More than 1000 2000+ viewers a week VOLUNTEER saw ‘Cult Japan’ GUIDED TOURS CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT / screenings, the Australian Visitors arrive for the APT8 FOR 10 000 Cinémathèque’s most opening party / November 2015 / VISITORS Photograph: Chloë Callistemon popular ticketed film program to date. Visitors to ‘David Lynch: Between 39 TOURS Two Worlds’ / March 2015 / Photograph: Brodie Standen FOR 191 PEOPLE Screening of The Passion Joan of Arc WITH DISABILITY 1928 during ‘Myths and Legends’ / January 2015 / Live accompaniment: hazards of swimming naked / 17 000+ VISITORS TO Photograph: Mark Sherwood 121 PUBLIC PROGRAMS PAGE 010 REVIEW2015 PICTURE PICTURE REVIEW2015 PAGE 011 DAVID LYNCH BETWEEN TWO WORLDS 14 MARCH – 8 JUNE 2015 GOMA CURATOR / JOSÉ DA SILVA, SENIOR CURATOR AND HEAD OF AUSTRALIAN CINÉMATHÈQUE Conceived and developed by QAGOMA in collaboration ATTENDANCE with artist, filmmaker and musician David Lynch, ‘Between Two Worlds’ exploited GOMA’s combination 44 000+ LEFT TO RIGHT / of gallery and cinema to present an exhibition of 200 David Lynch masterclass / paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos — exploring March 2015 / Photograph: VISITORS Brodie Standen industry and organic phenomena, manifestations of inner conflict and a deeper reality in our everyday experience — Chrysta Bell and band perform FROM at the opening party / March 2015 / and screen all of Lynch’s films. Photograph: Joe Ruckli The artist was joined in conversation by eminent Australian OUTSIDE PREVIOUS PAGE / film critic David Stratton in a sold-out event at QPAC, and Xiu Xiu perform the music BRISBANE of Twin Peaks / April 2015 / attended the opening-night performance by Lynch muse and Photograph: Mark Sherwood chanteuse Chrysta Bell, who held the audience spellbound. 50% PAGE 012 REVIEW2015 PICTURE PICTURE REVIEW2015 PAGE 013 MUSIC IN CONVERSATION Opening performance CAPACITY CROWD 1500+ by Chrysta Bell ARTIST MASTERCLASS Xiu Xiu perform the DELIVERED TO 677 QUEENSLAND music of Twin Peaks ARTISTS AND FILMMAKERS, HEXA [Jamie Stewart + INCLUDING 500 IN REGIONAL Lawrence English] perform QUEENSLAND VIA WEBCAST in response to Lynch’s factory photographs PROGRAMS BY NIGHT SERIES, Lynch By Night ILLUSTRATED LECTURES, sessions with Australian A CAPACITY TWIN PEAKS electronic artists TRIVIA NIGHT. The Gallery of Modern Art, with its on-site Australian Cinémathèque, seems purpose built to house this retrospective of Lynch’s diverse creative practice... Mr Lynch and Brisbane are each having a moment, coming together on equal terms. MANUSCRIPT CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT / David Lynch / Untitled 2007 / PUBLICATION Installation after a drawing by David Lynch / 700 x 805 x 340cm / Essays by José Da Collection Fondation Cartier pour Silva and Greg Hainge, l’art contemporain, Paris / artist interview, Photograph: Mark Sherwood David Lynch / Untitled c.1977 / sold out before close Felt-tip marker on paper / of exhibition 7.6 x 12.7cm / Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris Publications, merchandise MERCHANDISE and damn good coffee / Exclusive exhibition Photograph: Mark Sherwood Installation view of Lynch’s t-shirts, David Lynch factory photographs / March 2015 / signature coffee blend Photograph: Brodie Standen PAGE 014 REVIEW2015 PICTURE PICTURE REVIEW2015 PAGE 015 MICHAEL PAREKOWHAI THE PROMISED LAND 28 MARCH – 21 JUNE 2015 LEFT / GOMA Installation view of The Song of the Frog 2006 / Collection: Michael and CURATOR / MAUD PAGE, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Eleonora Triguboff; and They Comfort Me III