Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11 Report of the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees
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2010–11 Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11 Report of the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees 16 September 2011 The Honourable Rachel Nolan, MP Minister for Finance, Natural Resources and The Arts GPO Box 611 BRISBANE QLD 4001 Dear Minister I am pleased to present the Annual Report 2010–11 for the Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees. I certify that this annual report complies with: • the prescribed requirements of the Financial Accountability Act 2009 and the Financial and Performance Management Standard 2009, and • the detailed requirements set out in the Annual Report requirements for Queensland Government agencies. A checklist outlining the annual reporting requirements can be accessed online at www.qag.qld.gov.au/about_us/annual_reports Yours sincerely, Professor John Hay, AC Chair, Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Contents Cover: 4 Introduction 80 Engagement with the Asia Pacific region The opening weekend of ‘Surrealism: The Poetry of • Vision • Asian and Pacific Collection Dreams’, showing Victor • Purpose • Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art Brauner’s Loup-table • About the Queensland Art Gallery 82 Performance measures (Wolf-table) 1939,1947 | Donation of Jacqueline 83 Collection acquisitions Victor-Brauner 1982 | 7 Chair's overview 97 Exhibitions schedule and sponsors Collection: Musée national 101 Publications d'art moderne, Centre 11 Director’s overview Pompidou, Paris | © Victor 105 Statistical summary Brauner/ADAGP. Licensed 14 Background by Viscopy, Sydney, 2011 106 Financial performance 14 Government objectives • Summary of financial performance Inside cover: 15 Strategic plan 2010–15 Inside Céleste Boursier- • Budget versus actual results Mougenot’s from here 15 Operational plan 2010–11 to ear (v.13) 2010 sound • Financial statements installation for ‘21st 16 Outcomes • Certification of the financial statements Century: Art in the First • Independent auditor’s report Decade’ | Purchased 2011. 16 Institutional profile Queensland Art Gallery • Exhibitions 128 Proposed forward operations Foundation • Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery • Strategic plan 2011–16 Installation views of ‘Art, • National partnerships • Operational plan 2011–12 Love and Life: Ethel Carrick • Australian Cinémathèque and E Phillips Fox’. Photographs: Brad Wagner • National and International touring 131 Governance exhibitions 131 Management and structure • Business development • Organisational structure 29 Cultural tourism • Queensland Art Gallery Board • Partnerships of Trustees • Strategic tourism marketing • Executive management 39 Collection development • Queensland Art Gallery Foundation • Acquisition highlights • Audit and Risk Management Committee • Collection exhibition and display • Workplace Health and Safety highlights Committee • Collection resource lounge 136 Compliance • Publishing 137 Human resources • Collection management 138 Operations 61 Accessibility and education 140 Feedback form • Regional programs and services • Children’s Art Centre 141 Glossary • Public Programs • Gallery Members • Education • Online strategy Introduction Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11 5 Introduction Vision Increased quality of life for all Queenslanders through enhanced access to, understanding and enjoyment of, the visual arts, and furtherance of Queensland’s reputation as a culturally dynamic state. Purpose The Gallery’s after-hours significant national survey of contemporary Australian The Gallery’s Collection comprises more than 15 000 To be the focus for the visual arts in Queensland and The Gallery annually presents a program of Australian programming takes full art and highlights the extraordinary range, ambition and historical and contemporary Australian, Indigenous a dynamic and accessible art museum of international and international exhibitions, showcasing art works from advantage of GoMA’s achievement of contemporary practice. ‘Contemporary Australian, Asian, Pacific and other international works standing. a diverse range of artists as well as art movements of spectacular position on the Brisbane River Australia: Optimism’, was the first exhibition in the of art. historical importance and contemporary interest. Since series (15 November 2008 – 22 February 2009) and the About the Queensland Art Gallery becoming a two-site institution in 2006, the Gallery has second will open in early 2012. The Queensland Art Gallery is governed by the presented a number of major international exhibitions Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees. The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) is Queensland's including: ‘Andy Warhol’, ‘Picasso & his collection’, The Queensland Art Gallery is the only state gallery premier visual arts institution. The driving philosophy of ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark in Australia to provide a comprehensive program of Queensland Art Gallery Board our institution is to connect art and people and in 2010 Exhibition from the Met’ and ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Collection-based travelling exhibitions, educational of Trustees the two-site Queensland Art Gallery was the most visited Past/Present/Future’. The Gallery’s contemporary art services and public programs to regional areas as part of art museum in Australia. exhibitions and programs have positioned GoMA as its core business. This year’s Regional Services program The Board is a statutory body. Its existence, functions and Australia’s leading contemporary art museum. included two travelling exhibitions and four public powers are set out in the Queensland Art Gallery Act 1987. Established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art programs which are profiled on pages 63–67. Gallery, the Gallery was housed in a series of temporary The Gallery's flagship project is the Asia Pacific Triennial For performing its functions, the Board has all the premises throughout its early history. It did not have of Contemporary Art (APT) series of exhibitions, the The Children’s Art Centre is recognised as an powers of an individual and may, for example, enter a permanent home until the opening of its current only major recurring international exhibition to focus international leader in developing interactive art projects into arrangements, agreements, contracts and deeds; architecturally acclaimed building as part of the Cultural exclusively on contemporary art of Asia, the Pacific and for children, as well as a dynamic children’s publishing acquire, hold, deal with and dispose of property; engage Centre at South Bank in 1982. Australia. Over the 20 years since the inception of this program. It is also well regarded for its innovation in consultants; appoint agents and attorneys; charge, and exhibition series, the Gallery has formed an internationally audience access, through presenting engaging, large- fix terms, for goods, services, facilities and information The second site, the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), significant collection of art from the Asia Pacific region scale public programs and integrating new technologies supplied by it; and do anything else necessary or opened in December 2006. GoMA focuses primarily on and has recently begun a series of country-specific to enhance visitor experience. desirable to be done in performing its functions. the presentation of art of the twentieth and twenty-first exhibitions from the Collection including ‘The China centuries. Project’ (2009) and ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’ The Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents curated Further information on the Queensland Art Gallery (2010). film programs and exhibitions exploring the important Management and Structure is available on page 131. lines of influence between the moving image and other ‘Contemporary Australia’ is the Gallery’s series of areas of visual culture. contemporary Australian art exhibitions. The series is a Chair's overview Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11 7 Chair’s overview During its 14-week exclusive The Queensland Art Gallery has continued its commitment Queensland and Minister for Reconstruction, and the season at the Gallery of to enhancing the cultural life of Queenslanders by new Minister for the Arts, Rachel Nolan, MP, Minister for Modern Art (7 August – providing access to, understanding and enjoyment of, the Finance, Natural Resources and The Arts. Our thanks 14 November 2010), ‘Valentino, Retrospective: visual arts, through an exceptional range of exhibitions, go to Ken Smith and John Bradley, former and current Past/Present/Future’ programs and publications in 2010–11. Directors-General, Department of the Premier and attracted more than Cabinet; Leigh Tabrett, PSM, Deputy Director-General, 200 000 visitors Guided by our philosophy of bringing people and art Arts Queensland; and the Executive and staff of Arts together, the Gallery has firmly established its position Queensland and Events Queensland for their support. We as a national leader in the presentation of modern and also extend our thanks to the Australian Government, the contemporary art and ideas. In 2010–11, we have Australia Council for the Arts, and Visions of Australia. continued to attract national and international visitors to the Gallery, recording 1 681 399 visitors across the two Santos’ landmark partnership with the Gallery, supporting sites — an increase of over 280 000 on last financial year. the annual summer series of exhibitions and the Children’s Art Centre is built on a mutually beneficial relationship ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future’ attracted