Cover: Visitors viewing Gemma Smith's sculptural works Adaptable 2008 in ‘Contemporary : Optimism’, with Jan Nelson's 'Walking in tall grass' series in the background. November 2008. Photograph: Joanne Bell This page: Concept drawing by Timothy Horn of his work Medusa 2006 and installation view of the work with guests at the opening of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, November 2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth

REVIEW ART GALLERY | GALLERY OF MODERN ART

CONTENTS

Rewind / 8 Chair’s message / 8 Director’s message / 9

Rewards / 10 Selected 2008 exhibitions / 10 Australian Cinémathèque / 34 Public programs / 38 Up Late / 40 Children’s Art Centre / 42 Publishing / 46 Regional programs and services / 48

Resources / 50 Highlights of Collection acquisitions / 50

Returns / 60 Attendance, visitor comments / 60

Relationships / 62 It's all about art and people Government and corporate support, staff and volunteers / 62 Foundation / 66 Gallery Members / 68 2008 exhibitions and sponsors / 70

Ready? / 74 2009 selected highlights . . . the year ahead 2009 highlights / 74 Visiting information / 80

Left: Curatorial Manager, , Julie Ewington speaking during the opening weekend Installation view of the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall. (Foreground: George Baldessin’s of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ exhibition. Foreground: Emily Floyd / Three pears 1975, © George Baldessin 1975. Licensed by Viscopy, 2008. crossed with feminist science fiction 2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth Background: Joan Miro’s Monument cast 1970.) Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter perform Previous pages – Top row: Michael Leunig with his work Song 2008 at an artist’s talk during at the opening of the ‘Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008’ exhibition, July 2008. the opening weekend of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, November 2008. Children Bottom row: A visitor photographs Tony Albert’s Sorry 2008 in ‘Contemporary Australia: making ‘paper sculptures’ in Yo Picasso Kids at the Children’s Art Centre. Queensland Art Optimism’. Angela Goddard, Curator of Australian Art to 1970, presents a talk for Gallery Gallery Foundation members view ‘Mountain and Streams: Chinese Paintings from the NGV Members on ‘Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective’, June 2008. Robert Forster performs during Asian Collection’, March 2008. Henry Bartlett, CMG, OBE and guest at the Foundation viewing of the opening weekend of the ‘Andy Warhol’ exhibition. Tom Sokolowski, Director, The Andy the exhibition ‘War: The Prints of Otto Dix’, November 2008. Opening night guests view works Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, at the ‘Andy Warhol’ opening. The High / Perpetual Xmas, No in ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’. Scene from ‘Picasso & his collection’ exhibition. Abstractions 2008 by Scott Redford, financial assistance received through Arts Queensland Middle row: Visitors view art work in the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall — Walangkura from art+place, the Queensland Government’s Public Art Fund. Visitors look closely at Ron Napanangka’s Untitled (Tjintjintjin) 2006 (left) and George Tjungurrayi’s Untitled Mueck’s In bed 2005. (Mamultjulkulnga) 2007. Visitors view ‘War: The Prints of Otto Dix’, November 2008. Photographs: Joanne Bell, Ray Fulton, Natasha Harth. artist Jan Nelson prepares for 'Optimism'

Jan Nelson and assistant preparing to install her work for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, November 2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth. 'Innovative audience development is an REWIND inherently optimistic endeavour, essential to the life and future of an art museum.'

On behalf of the Gallery’s Board of Trustees, The Gallery is grateful for the wonderful support it I thank our Director, Tony Ellwood, for his leadership receives from many sources —from government, this year, along with the members of his executive the Foundation, members and corporate supporters, management team, Andrew Clark, Deputy Director, as well as from its much-valued staff. Most Programming and Corporate Services; Lynne importantly, the success of the Gallery’s programs Seear, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection is fundamentally dependent upon the support of Development; and Celestine Doyle, Marketing its audiences. Innovative audience development and Sponsorship Manager. I also acknowledge is an inherently optimistic endeavour, essential and thank my fellow Trustees, this year’s outgoing to the life and future of an art museum. Trustees, and our former Chair of Trustees, Wayne In 2008, the Gallery achieved record attendances; Goss, who served as Chair from 1999 until February attracted significant growth in Gallery membership; this year. We’re also very grateful for the professional secured unprecedented levels of both corporate CHAIR'S expertise and energy of our staff, and for the DIRECTOR'S and private support; and continued to develop MESSAGE generosity of the volunteers who support us MESSAGE new audiences, particularly through the Australian in so many ways. 2008 has been a great year for the Queensland This year closed with a great sense of achievement Cinémathèque, the Children’s Art Centre and the Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art. The achievements of 2008 would not be possible and momentum, and the launch of ‘Contemporary new Up Late programs. without our corporate partners and sponsors, and Queensland audiences have been wonderfully Australia: Optimism’ — the first in a new triennial This new publication provides an overview of the including the members of our new exhibition support supportive of the exhibitions, public programs, series of exhibitions dealing with the visual art and milestones of 2008 and a glimpse into the offerings program, Chairman’s Circle. Thank you also to member events, and activities for children and culture of contemporary Australia. It’s an exhibition of 2009. I invite you to reflect on 2008, and to visit those generous individual benefactors, including families presented across both sites, as well as theme which brings together forward-looking us in the year ahead. the films and popular new Up Late programs at Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina Fairfax, Philip Bacon, artists who are willing to engage with prospect and GoMA. The Gallery’s major international exhibitions, AM, James Sourris and Henry Bartlett, CMG, OBE, opportunity. And, in many ways, it’s the kind of focus in particular, have been strongly supported by who have assisted the Gallery in securing important that has absorbed the Gallery this year. interstate and international visitors. new acquisitions. The 2008 program of exhibitions was truly We’re extremely grateful to the Queensland This new publication, our 2008 Review, is an diverse and was supported by the accessible and Tony Ellwood Government for its continued substantial support opportunity to consider the past year and to sophisticated interpretive and educational programs Director, Queensland Art Gallery for our work. In particular, I’d like to thank the acknowledge the artists, staff, volunteers, for which the Gallery is recognised. The Gallery is Honourable , MP, Premier of Queensland, supporters and audiences who’ve contributed also recognised for its strength as a collector of the and the Honourable Rod Welford, MP, Minister for in so many ways to the life of the Gallery. contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific. This year Education and Training and Minister for the Arts, for I trust you enjoy our 2008 Review. we were able to confidently and significantly broaden their enthusiasm for our programs. The Queensland the reach of our contemporary collections, and a Government is passionate about knowledge, group of important new international acquisitions Director Tony Ellwood leads a tour of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ for sponsors. creativity and innovation, and these qualities are was assisted by the very generous support of Tim Photograph: Ray Fulton Background: Guests at the announcement of ‘American Impressionism and Realism: integral to the programming and commitments Fairfax, AM, and his wife Gina Fairfax. A Landmark Exhibition from the Met’, October 2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth of the Gallery. My thanks also to Rachel Hunter, Director-General, Department of Education, Training Professor John Hay, AC and the Arts; Leigh Tabrett, Deputy Director-General, Chair, Board of Trustees Arts Queensland, and the supportive staff of Arts Queensland. We’re also thankful for the valuable support of the Australian Government, provided

through the Australia Council, its arts funding and Professor John Hay, AC, Chair of the Gallery’s Board of Trustees, speaking at the announcement of ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from advisory body. the Met’, October 2008, at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Ray Fulton @ the Met announcement 8 / Rewind 31/10/08 Rewind / 9 REWARDS Selected 2008 exhibitions 'Optimism' - 1st in a new Aust. series

‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ is the first in a Represented in the exhibition are senior artists Robert triennial series of thematic contemporary Australian art MacPherson, Michael Leunig, Robert Owen and exhibitions. The series aims to be the most significant Nawurapu Wunungmurra; mid-career artists Vernon showcase of contemporary Australian art in the country. Ah Kee, Patricia Piccinini, Scott Redford and Jan Nelson; and emerging artists Tony Albert, Gemma Smith ‘Optimism’ presents more than 250 works by 67 and Reichelt. The Australian Cinémathèque is emerging, mid-career and senior artists from every state presenting retrospectives of three important Australian and territory. The exhibition represents many aspects filmmakers: Rolf de Heer, Clara Law and Ivan Sen. of contemporary Australian visual art and culture — painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, The Children’s Art Centre has worked directly with 12 video, cinema, animation, performance, music and of the artists, creating one of the Gallery’s strongest ever comedy. It also includes specially commissioned large- children’s programs — Kids Contemporary Australia.

scale new works, some to be acquired by the Gallery. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Brisbane-based author John Birmingham spoke at the exhibition’s media preview and Australian comedian Judith Lucy surprised opening night guests with a performance which closed the official part of the Contemporary opening program.

Australia: Scenes from the 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' opening. Left: Guests with Kathy Temin's installation My monument: White forest 2008. Above left: Christian de Vietri's Simon 2005 surrounded by guests. Above right: A visitor views Dale Frank’s works, The Optometrists 2008 (left) and Dale. I’m not sure if your comments over lunch the other day were meant to embarrass me. In any case they didn’t, I’ve seen and heard it all before, you should be embarrassed. I don’t think either of us deserved your petulance and tiresome behavior. My sciatica nerve also plays up a bit, but from Optimism the way you’re getting around I’d say it’s more a case of having too much shit in your pants. They were boring paintings, do something else 2008 (at right). 15 November 2008 – 22 February 2009, GoMA sketch for Michael Photographs: Natasha Harth

10 / Rewards Zavros's Studioland in Rewards / 11 Kids Contemporary Australia 'It shows a real understanding and real conf idence in what is happening in Australia.' Artist Patricia Piccinini on 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism'8 Nov in2008 The Courier Mail,

Patricia Piccinini’s The stags 2008 in ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, with works by Jan Nelson in the background. Photograph: Natasha Harth

12 / Rewards Rewards / 13 Australia’s first major Andy Warhol retrospective was The Children’s Art Centre offered a specially developed exclusive to Brisbane. Spectacularly presented, the program of interactive activities and, for 11 days in exhibition attracted 232 389 visitors — a record for January, it presented the Andy Warhol Summer Festival. a paid exhibition at the Gallery. During the exhibition, the Gallery introduced a successful More than 300 works were included — paintings, Friday night Up Late series, with international, Australian drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos and and local live music, talks, films and entry to the exhibition.

installations — dating from the 1950s until just before Principal Partners were Santos Ltd and Queensland Events Corporation. Warhol’s death in 1987. Along with iconic images The ‘Andy Warhol’ exhibition was organised by the Queensland and celebrity portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Art Gallery and The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Onassis, Mao Zedong and Elvis Presley, the exhibition Museums of Pittsburgh. Funding for insurance was provided through the included early commercial works, Campbell’s soup Queensland Government Exhibition Indemnity Scheme, administered by Arts Queensland. can images, important ‘Death in America’ works, Interview magazine, late-career abstract paintings, and an installation within the Children’s Art Centre of Warhol’s hypnotic Silver Clouds 1966. The Australian Cinémathèque presented one of the largest surveys of Warhol’s film work ever compiled, with 51 restored films and 279 Screen Tests loaned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. A dedicated screening Robert Forster room integrated some of Warhol’s best known films of * the 1960s within the main exhibition galleries. and friends played Opening weekend events included performances of Velvet Underground ANDY Velvet Underground songs by acclaimed Australian singer–songwriter Robert Forster and an exhibition songs symposium with keynote speaker Tom Sokolowski, Left: Visitors in GoMA’s Long Gallery, viewing works that Andy Warhol made for television. Director, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Inset: Andy, the character who featured in Pop mag, the children’s activity booklet created for young visitors to the exhibition and to the Silver Factory: Andy Warhol for Kids. WARHOL Above left: Children and families enjoying a hula hoop activity as part of the Andy Warhol Summer Festival, January 2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth 8 December 2007 – 13 April 2008, GoMA Above right: Staff installing Andy Warhol’s Raphael Madonna - $6.99 1985.

14 / Rewards Rewards / 15 Staff installing the series of portraits of Chairman Mao for the ‘Andy Warhol’ exhibition. Photograph: Natasha Harth

16 / Rewards Rewards / 17 Curated by the Director of the musée national Picasso, The Up Late series again offered contemporary live , Anne Baldassari, the exhibition presented more entertainment, talks, films and entry to the exhibition.

than 100 works from Picasso’s extraordinary personal Presented by Queensland Events Corporation, ‘Picasso & his collection and around 80 important works by the artist collection’ was organised by the musée national Picasso, Paris, himself. The collection was presented for the first in association with the Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia. The Principal Sponsor was Mazda Australia and the time outside Europe and exclusively in Brisbane and Principal Donor was Singapore Airlines. attracted 206 580 visitors. The exhibition was indemnified by the Australian Government ‘Picasso & his collection’ included paintings, drawings through Art Indemnity Australia, in partnership with the Queensland Government Exhibition Indemnity Scheme, administered by Arts and prints by Matisse, Renoir, Cézanne, Rousseau, Queensland. Modigliani, Braque and others, as well as a selection of Oceanic and African works. Critic John McDonald described the exhibition as ‘a scholarly affair that invites viewers to use their imaginations to unravel a loose network of affinities. It is a long, animated conversation between paintings, drawings and sculptures from different epochs and different parts of the world’. (Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June 2008) The Australian Cinémathèque curated a program '. . . a long, animated exploring Picasso’s relationship to cinema and also presented a program celebrating French poet and conversation between screenwriter Jacques Prévert, whose collages featured paintings, drawings in the exhibition. PICASSO The Children’s Art Centre offered art-making activities and sculptures . . .' for children, a contemporary media lounge for young Views of 'Picasso & his collection'. Opposite: Henri Matisse / Marguerite 1906–07 / Oil on canvas / 65 x 54 cm / Collection: musée people and an innovative lecture program, I Art national Picasso, Paris. Above left: A visitor enjoys the Contemporary Media Lounge at the Children’s Art Centre during History, for secondary students. ‘Picasso & his collection’. Above right: Mr Philippe Saunier, formerly Curator, musée national Picasso, Paris, leads a tour, & HIS COLLECTION June 2008. 9 June – 14 September 2008, GoMA Photographs: Ray Fulton

18 / Rewards Rewards / 19 Carchesio limited edition record

featuring original art Eugene Carchesio is a Brisbane-based artist and musician who has exhibited and performed since the early 1980s. His work @ Gallery Store art and music explore many interrelated ideas. Carchesio’s practice uses modest means to explore the essence of things and to suggest what is beyond physical nature. His visual art consists of two major pursuits — drawings and watercolours on paper, and small sculptural cardboard constructions. He also mounts installations that usually take elements of his more intimate works into a larger scale. Carchesio explores colour, pattern, geometry, abstraction, construction and sound within a loose framework that primarily draws from twentieth-century art movements but also ranges across cultures and eras. ‘Someone’s Universe’ included more than 300 works and was organised for the Queensland Art Gallery by guest curator Michael Snelling. Carchesio has been represented in many major exhibitions around Australia and has been selected for significant international projects including the SOMEONE’S ‘10th Indian Triennale of Contemporary Art’ in 2001 and ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. This important survey exhibition reflected the Gallery’s ongoing UNIVERSE: commitment to collecting, researching and presenting the works of Queensland and The Art Australian artists. Background: Guest curator Michael Snelling leads a tour of ‘Someone’s Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio’. Top: Tamsin Cull, Gallery Members Coordinator, leads a tour for the Art in the Afternoon program for Young Members, October 2008. Photographs: Ray Fulton Of Eugene Left: Eugene Carchesio / Mysteries of the self (detail) 2008 / 13 watercolours with pencil / Purchased 2008. Queensland Carchesio Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery 25 October 2008 – 1 February 2009, QAG

20 / Rewards Rewards / 21 ‘Making it Modern’ highlighted Queensland artist Kenneth Macqueen’s importance as a key Australian modernist. The exhibition featured more than 130 'On the evidence of this show, he is watercolours, drawn from the Gallery’s Collection and from public and private collections. one of the most underrated Australian In 1922, Macqueen (1897–1960) settled on a property near Millmerran on Queensland’s Darling Downs. artists of the mid-20th century.' The open, undulating landscape became the focus of John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 April 2008 both his farming and his art. Macqueen’s watercolours reflected an optimistic vision of the country he worked — his crisp, clear washes evoked its climate and landforms.

Kenneth Macqueen / Contour ploughing c.1945 / Watercolour with gouache over pencil / Purchased 2001. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

Also important within Macqueen's practice are MAKING IT the watercolours inspired by family holidays on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, images that captured the patterns and pleasures of the seaside. MODERN: THE Although Macqueen worked in relative isolation on the Darling Downs property, he exhibited regularly in Sydney and in other state capitals. He is represented in the National Gallery of WATERCOLOURS Australia, in most Australian state and regional galleries and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ‘Making it Modern’ was developed with OF KENNETH the support and assistance of the Macqueen family. The exhibition was sponsored by Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd, who are also supporting a selection of Macqueen's works travelling to Mackay and, in 2009, to Toowoomba.

Kenneth Macqueen / Stranded tree trunk 1935 / Watercolour with pencil / Purchased 1998 with the assistance of Philip Bacon, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Background: Installation view of 'Making it Modern: The Watercolours of Kenneth MACQUEEN Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Macqueen'. Photograph: Natasha Harth 10 November 2007 – 5 May 2008, QAG

22 / Rewards Rewards / 23 Peter Alwast Inaugural winner

Peter Alwast won the inaugural Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award, the most significant prize for new media in the country. Alwast’s winning entry, Everything 2008, is a three-channel video installation in which the artist interweaves elements of painting, drawing, video, 3-D modelling and digital animation. The Award exhibition showed the winning work by Alwast, a work by David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (NSW) that was highly commended by the judges, and works by seven other short-listed artists: Julie Dowling (WA), Anita Fontaine (Qld/NL), Natalie Jeremijenko (Qld/USA), Adam Nash (VIC), Sam Smith (NSW), John Tonkin (NSW), and Mari Velonaki (NSW).

The Award was announced by the Honourable Anna Bligh, MP, Premier of Queensland. The $75 000 biennial acquisitive Award recognises Shortlisted artists working in areas such as video, digital animation, gaming, computer-based art and artificial intelligence. The inaugural $25 000 Premier’s New Media Art Scholarship was awarded to Leah Barclay, a Queensland Conservatorium of Music graduate, whose new media sound compositions draw on environmental and political themes. PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND'S NATIONAL NEW

Background: The Honourable Anna Bligh, MP, Premier of Queensland, and Peter Alwast, winner of the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award, October 2008. Above: Guests discuss Natalie Jeremijenko’s installation GreenLight system 2007. Photographs: Ray Fulton MEDIA ART AWARD Top: Anita Fontaine / CuteXdoom II (production still) 2008. 1 November 2008 – 8 February 2009, GoMA

24 / Rewards Rewards / 25 'Albert Namatjira painted not so

much what heArchie saw Roach but what he felt inside.'

Gunybi Ganambarr was awarded the Xstrata XSTRATA COAL Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008 for his stunning contemporary interpretation of the tradition EMERGING of bark painting. Ganambarr, of the Ngaymil people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, was INDIGENOUS awarded the $30 000 prize for his work Burrut’tji at Baraltja 2008. The ten finalists are collectively some ART AWARD of the most exciting emerging Indigenous artists in Australia. 11 July – 12 October 2008, GoMA Other short-listed artists featured in the exhibition were: Milly Kelly (Jigalong/Newman, WA), Josie Kunoth Petyarre and Dinni Kunoth Kemarre (Utopia, NT), Beaver Lennon (Ceduna, SA), Loongkoonan (Derby, WA), Patsy Marfura (Peppimenarti, NT), Archie Moore (Brisbane, Qld), Glenn Pilkington (Perth, WA), and Daniel Walbidi (Bidyadanga, WA). This year’s award, announced by the Honourable Anna Bligh, MP, Premier of Queensland, was the third and final in a highly successful three- year partnership between Xstrata Coal and the NAMATJIRA Queensland Art Gallery. First presented in 2006, the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award TO NOW was Australia’s first award dedicated exclusively 18 October 2008 – 15 February 2009, QAG to emerging Indigenous art. Previous winners were Jonathan Jones, who won in 2006 with his large- Albert Namatjira’s adoption of the European medium scale sculptural installation Lumination fall wall of watercolour for his landscape painting remains weave 2004/2006; and Genevieve Grieves, who an inspiration to contemporary artists from Ntaria won in 2007 with Picturing the old people 2006–07, (Hermannsburg) and the surrounding regions of Central a five-channel video installation. Australia. Since the 1930s, artists there have been producing vibrant art works that have made their country In addition to the prize money awarded to the celebrated throughout Australia. The exhibition explores the beginnings of the winning artists, Xstrata Coal has contributed $150 000 over three years for the Gallery to ‘Namatjira to Now’ presents more than 100 art works, Hermannsburg School in the mid 1930s, and also acquire contemporary Indigenous art works. including iconic Hermannsburg School watercolours, looks at the reinvention of the tradition by a new as well as ceramics and acrylic paintings on canvas. generation of artists. The Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award was a national Winner of the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award, Gunybi Ganambarr, with his prize awarded by the Queensland Art Gallery and Xstrata Coal Irene Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Albert and Rex painting 2003 / Synthetic polymer work Burrut’tji at Baraltja 2008, now part of the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Background: Installation view of ‘Namatjira to Now’ at the Queensland Art Gallery. paint on linen / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Photograph: Natasha Harth 2006–08. Photograph: Natasha Harth Queensland Art Gallery

26 / Rewards Rewards / 27 * Mt Coot-tha from Dutton Park

SCULPTURE FROM creative LIGHT AND SPACE: THE COLLECTION generation COLONIAL ART 'Just on 49 per cent of Ongoing display, QAG EXCELLENCE AWARDS AND QUEENSLAND Major postwar sculptural works from the Gallery’s in visual art and 28 June – 19 October 2008, QAG visitors to the Warhol Collection are profiled in Gallery 3, overlooking design ‘Light and Space: Colonial Art and Queensland’ the sculpture courtyard and adjacent to the 20 March – 15 June 2008, GoMA examined how Western visual art in Queensland show were under the light-filled space of the Robin Gibson entry began with the work of exploration artists such The annual Creative Generation Excellence of the Queensland Art Gallery. The selected as William Westall, who accompanied Matthew Awards in Visual Art and Design recognise age of 39, which is works reflect the inventiveness of twentieth- Flinders on his circumnavigation of Australia and promote outstanding achievements by art century sculpture, as artists explored the new from 1801 to 1803. Westall’s prints from the extraordinary for a students from state and non-state secondary vocabularies of abstract art and experimented voyage were shown, along with a number of schools throughout Queensland, including with industrial materials and methods. Key new acquisitions. These included lithographs state gallery. The old regional and remote communities. A selection Australian works include Robert Klippel’s No. produced in Brisbane in 1865 by Silvester of 50 works, including paintings, sculptures, 247 Metal construction 1965–68 and Ron Diggles (1817–80), a notable ornithologist and ideas about youth not works on paper and new media, was shown. Robertson-Swann’s Elvira Madigan 1971, which a key figure in the early cultural life of the city. supporting the arts no were exhibited together in the 1973 Biennale Organised by Education Queensland and supported by The display also included JA Clarke’s Panorama the Queensland Government. of Sydney. of Brisbane 1880, on loan from the Queensland longer holds true in Visitors in Gallery 3, Queensland Art Gallery, with ‘Sculpture from the Collection’. Diane Pook / St Hilda's School / State of Being 1 / Photograph / Courtesy: The artist Museum, several significant examples of furniture and works by English-born R Godfrey Rivers — Queensland.' regarded as the ‘father figure’ of art Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland Art in Queensland. FJ Martyn Roberts / Evening (Mt Coot-tha from Dutton Park) 1898 / Oil on canvas / Gallery, in Herald Sun, 27 October 2008. Purchased 1997 with funds from M.I.M Holdings Limited through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

> 25 000 students visited 'Andy Warhol' exhibition

Background: School groups outside GoMA during ‘Andy Warhol’. Photograph: Natasha Harth

28 / Rewards Rewards / 29 PLACE MAKERS: CONTEMPORARY QUEENSLAND ARCHITECTS 2 August – 23 November 2008, GoMA

‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architectural practices featured in the exhibition Architects’, featuring the work of 22 Queensland were: Rex Addison, Andresen O’Gorman architects, was the largest exhibition of Architects, Arkhefield, Bark, Bligh Voller Nield, contemporary architecture ever shown in an Bud Brannigan Architects, Lindsay & Kerry Clare Australian art museum. The exhibition showcased (Architectus), Cox Rayner Architects, Donovan significant residential, public and institutional projects Hill, Elizabeth Watson Brown Architects, Ian built during the past two decades, documenting Moore Architects, James Russell Architect, the work of Queensland-based practices that JMA Architects QLD, m3architecture, Owen span several generations. ‘Place Makers’ explored and Vokes, Phorm Architecture + Design, diverse design responses to our climate, changing Gabriel Poole, Richard Kirk Architect, Riddel lifestyle patterns and population growth. It provided Architecture, Steendÿk, Jennifer Taylor and a fascinating insight into historical influences on James Conner, and Wilson Architects.

today’s architecture and influential efforts to develop The Queensland Government was the Principal Partner of a built environment responsive to the subtropics. the exhibition, through the Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry.

Above: Final year University of Queensland architecture student Jon Henzell working on one of 11 scale models specially made for the exhibition. Left: Bligh Voller Nield (in association with Daniel R Fox), ‘Gully House’ 2004 (installation view). The exhibition included scale models, commissioned films and large-scale Below: Guests at the exhibition opening, August 2008. photography. Photograph: Natasha Harth Photographs: Ray Fulton

30 / Rewards Rewards / 31 GERNIKA IN SAND 3 May – 6 July 2008, GoMA

Picasso’s Guernica 1937 (in Basque Gernika) depicts the massacre of Basque civilians by the Spanish military in the early twentieth century, and is considered one of the most powerful political Contemporary art works of that century. In this major installation, New York-based Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei collections: recreated Picasso’s famous work in sand. The work was later transformed by the artist in an eight-hour New acquisitions performance. 6 September 2008 — 18 January 2009, 3.3 and 3.4, GoMA During his visit, Mingwei also took part in a special 25 October 2008 — 22 February 2009, 3.1, GoMA blessing ceremony as part of his Bodhi Tree Project at the Queensland Cultural Centre. The This dynamic display features recent Bodhi Tree Project is a public art initiative linked significant acquisitions for the Gallery’s to the Queensland Government’s Cultural Centre Collection. It gives a snapshot of the redevelopment. A young Bodhi tree was planted international field of contemporary art and near the entrance to GoMA and blessed by monks points to lines of influence and dialogue Bodhi Tree from the Chung Tian Temple, Brisbane. between artists of different cultures and generations. The generosity of Tim Fairfax, Project blessing AM, and Gina Fairfax, made possible the acquisition of a major screen-based 01/05/08 installation by Candice Breitz, work by American photographer William Eggleston, a major sculpture by Tobias Putrih, work by Swiss photographer Beat Streuli and a P. 51 specially commissioned tapestry, from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop using a work by New Zealand artist Yvonne Todd. The display also includes Ron Mueck’s monumental sculpture In bed 2005, and an installation of 39 metronomes by British artist Martin Creed, Work no. 189 1998.

Performance by Lee Mingwei as part of the ‘Gernika in Sand’ exhibition, June 2008. Recent Asian and Pacific acquisitions include Yvonne Todd (designer) / Victorian Tapestry Workshop (workshop) est. Photograph: Ray Fulton 1976 / Sue Batten (weaver) Amy Cornall (weaver) / Alice Bayke 2008 / Matthew Ngui’s video work Swimming: at Commissioned 2006 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina Fairfax Background: The Venerable Ru Hao, the Venerable Chueh Shan (Abbess of the Chung Tian through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Temple) and the Venerable Chueh Chuan perform a blessing ceremony as part of the Bodhi least 8 points of view 2007. Art Gallery / Photograph: Joanne Bell Tree Project. Photograph: Natasha Harth

32 / Rewards Rewards / 33 Film still from Ten Canoes 2006 The Australian Cinémathèque is the only facility of its kind in an Australian art museum. In 2008, it presented more than 600 screenings. Among 2008’s most significant film programs was Out of the Shadows: German Expressionism and Beyond (4 September – 30 November 2008). This major retrospective showcased film in an expressionist vein from Germany’s Weimar period onwards, and included 86 features and 8 shorts. More than 40 silent films were presented with live piano, organ and electronic musical accompaniment, and 28 films with live subtitling. Another major thematic film program, Visual Music (28 March – 1 June 2008) featured an extraordinary range of visual music pioneers — selections of rarely screened classics and contemporary works by Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, James and John Whitney, As part of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, The Cinémathèque presented major programs Jordan Belson and Mary Ellen Bute. It also the Cinémathèque presents retrospectives of three in conjunction with the Gallery’s exclusive ‘Andy included the largest program of the innovative important Australian filmmakers — Rolf de Heer, Warhol’ and ‘Picasso & his collection’ exhibitions. early Walt Disney animations, the Silly Symphonies. Ivan Sen and Clara Law (15 November 2008 – 22 Other 2008 highlights included The Silent Clown: Other music-related programming included February 2009). De Heer is recognised internationally Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin (28 June – 13 Icelandic Waves (9–30 May 2008), a series of as one of Australia's leading filmmakers, attracting July 2008), a program highlighting the acting and documentaries and video programs celebrating both critical and commercial success for films such directing talents of cinematic comedy pioneer Max the extraordinary music culture of Iceland. as Ten Canoes 2006 and Bad Boy Bubby 1993. Linder and his influence on American silent comedy. Highlights included Heima 2007, the first live film Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law has made films Less widely known than his counterparts in the by Sigur Rós, and three curated programs of video dealing with themes of migration and identity within United States, such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster clips and short films. a distinctly Australian context, and Ivan Sen is an Keaton, the charismatic Linder influenced a host Indigenous filmmaker acclaimed for his powerful of screen actors. Nine films were accompanied by short films and features including Beneath Clouds David Bailey on the Wurlitzer organ. 2002 and Yellow Fella 2005. The Cinémathèque will also screen a series of films starring iconic Australian Left: Metropolis (production still) 1926 / Image courtesy: British Film Institute Above: Ten Canoes (production still) 2006 / Image courtesy: Palace Entertainment >600 screenings actress Nicole Kidman in January 2009. Background: Cinema interior. Photograph: Natasha Harth in 2008 AUSTRALIAN CinÉmathèque The Australian Cinémathèque collects, presents and interprets film and screen culture.

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* many international artists seen here for the first time in Australia

Modern Ruin The Leisure Class (12 July – 12 October 2008, Australian Cinémathèque (13 October 2007 – 2 March 2008, Australian and Media Gallery, GoMA, exhibition and film program) Cinémathèque and Media Gallery, GoMA, exhibition ‘Modern Ruin’ brought together artists and filmmakers and film program) who revaluate the utopian dreams and forms of the Conspicuous leisure, conspicuous consumption, modern period, looking back to modern art, architecture conspicuous waste; this exhibition and film program and design to explore their historical failures, respond to drew its name from economist Thorstein Veblen’s their particular aesthetic qualities, and express a sense of celebrated monograph The Theory of the Leisure loss. This return to Modernism’s purified forms represents Class 1899. The exhibition included film, video and an attempt to imagine new meanings for them. installation works by artists who respond strongly to the contemporary packaging of leisure, consumption and The exhibition featured film, video and installation by lifestyle as markers of identity. many artists exhibiting for the first time in Australia, including: Chris Cornish, Andreas Fogarasi, Ann The screening program included films by Michelangelo Lislegaard, Ursula Mayer, Laurent Montaron, Daimantus Antonioni, Guy Debord, Marc'O, Rosalind Nashashibi Narkevicius and Anri Sala. and Jacques Tati. Pierre Bismuth: Coming Soon (20 March – 22 June 2008, Media Gallery, GoMA) French artist Pierre Bismuth is renowned for his mischievous responses to cinema and the print media. Bismuth’s exhibition at GoMA, his first in Australia, focused on a group of video works that humorously deconstructed the conventions of feature MEDIA film. Complementing the exhibition were Australian Cinémathèque screenings of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004, for which Bismuth won an Academy Award as co-author, and Michelangelo GALLERY Antonioni’s The Passenger 1975. A series of exhibitions were curated specifically for the Media Gallery at GoMA, a dedicated space with high-end media capabilities.

The programming featured many international artists being shown Left: Opening of the ‘Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award’, October 2008. Photograph: Ray Fulton Above: Aernout Mik / Pulverous (video still) 2003 / Purchased 2005. The Queensland in Australia for the first time. Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

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collection PicassoHighlights & his Collection More than 33 000 school and tertiary students visited the exhibition 380 teachers attended the Gallery’s Look Out program, which included workshops and information sessions for early years, primary and secondary teachers 200 local and regional teachers attended an exhibition viewing and briefing Almost 600 visitors attended the seven-week ‘Talking About Modern Art’ series led by Dr Mark Pennings, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts, Queensland University of Technology. The series introduced visitors to the major developments in art history from the late nineteenth century onwards.

Andy Warhol A lively and engaging Children’s Art Centre, increased More than 25 000 school students visited program delivery to regional Queensland, and the the exhibition successful introduction of late night programming 200 local and regional teachers attended an were highlights of the year. exhibition viewing and briefing 381 teachers and tertiary students attended A comprehensive range of interpretive programs the Gallery’s Look Out teacher programs and encouraged audiences of all ages to find out more New Wave tertiary program about this year’s exhibitions and Collection displays. 200 people attended the ‘Andy Warhol’ The Gallery’s regular public programs include lectures, symposium on 7 December, featuring Tom tours and talks, in-conversation programs, seminars Sokolowski, Director, The Andy Warhol and performances, all directly linked to exhibitions Museum, local academics and catalogue writers and displays. More than 800 visitors attended opening week end talks The Gallery and its programs are also a rich resource 1476 people attended the 17 public programs for students and educators. Online education kits and held during the exhibition. tours and professional development programs are provided to educators. The New Wave program offered Place Makers: Contemporary events specifically for tertiary students and young Queensland Architects people. 710 people attended architect talks, panel discussions and lectures.

Special Events Visiting Scholar Lecture with Terry Smith, recipient of the Daphne Mayo Professorship in Visual Culture Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) PUBLIC Left: Author Linda Jaivin presents a writer’s talk during the ‘Andy Warhol’ opening weekend Gold Medallist talk by 2008 Gold Medallist celebrations. Background: A selection of Andy Warhol's celebrity portraits from the 1970s and 1980s. Photograph: Ray Fulton Richard Johnson. Top: Singer-songwriter and respected community member Cygnet Repu speaks about the Mabuiag Island mask featured in ‘Picasso & his collection’. Photograph: Ray Fulton Above: Andrew Clark, Deputy Director, Programming and Corporate Services, speaks about PROGRAMS the Children’s Art Centre. Photograph: Natasha Harth 38 / Rewards Rewards / 39 'One of the attractions is that people's time is precious; they want an art experience, a social experience, music and education, and all those things combine with Up Late.' Andrew Clark, Deputy Director, Programming and Corporate Services, (The Courier-Mail, 8 November 2008).

The latest Up Late series coincides with ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ and presents an all-Australian program of talks, music, comedy and film from 2 January to 20 February 2009. AndyHighlights Warhol Up Late Up Late began during ‘Andy Warhol’, with the series Music: Caribou (Canada); New Pants (China); running from 4 January to 11 April 2008. More than I Heart Hiroshima (Brisbane); Glass Candy (Oregon) 20 000 people attended; 57 per cent of visitors Speakers: Glenn A Baker (music historian), Noel surveyed were under 35 and 46 per cent cited visiting Mengel (Chief Music Writer, The Courier-Mail), the exhibition as the main reason for attending. Amber Long (Jean Brown shoes) In a special closing performance for Up Late, ARIA Finale: Wolfmother award-winning band Wolfmother played to a sell-out Picasso & his collection crowd on 12 April, the night prior to the exhibition’s close. Music: Basia Bulat (Canada); Yves Klein Blue A second Up Late series (13 June – 12 September (Brisbane); Katie Noonan (Brisbane) 2008) was developed for ‘Picasso & his collection’. Speakers: Ipswich Mayor Cr Paul Pisasale; Its finale was a much anticipated and rare acoustic Malcolm Enright (artist, designer and collector); performance by Kate Miller-Heidke and long-term Donna Marcus (artist) collaborator Keir Nuttall. Almost 15 500 attended Finale: Kate Miller-Heidke UP LATE Up Late during ‘Picasso & his collection’. The Gallery launched its Up Late program in January 2008, and over its first two seasons attracted more than 35 000 visitors. 'Australia Up Late' Left: Visitors at the frontline of a performance by Canadian group Caribou, at an Andy Warhol The after-hours series — with local, national and international 2/1/09 Up Late event. Photograph: Joanne Bell from Top left: Wolfmother performs at GoMA as the closing act for Andy Warhol Up Late. performers, entertaining speakers, films, exhibition entry and Photograph: Joanne Bell Top right: Brisbane-based designer and collector, Malcolm Enright showcases some of the stools he has collected over the past 40 years in his ‘Show & Tell’ talk ‘Bums on Seats’. The night-time access to GoMA — attracted new and diverse audiences. talk was part of Up Late during 'Picasso & his collection'. Photograph: Ray Fulton

40 / Rewards Rewards / 41 In 2008 the Children’s Art Centre presented interactive displays and artist projects, artist-run workshops, publications, touring activities and a dedicated festival.

This year also commemorated ten years of innovative Highlights During ‘Andy Warhol’, the Centre became the children's programs by the Gallery. Silver Factory: Andy Warhol for Kids. The Factory showed some of Warhol’s art works with special Several artists in ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ appeal for kids, including a large-scale collaborated with Gallery staff to create new activities installation of Silver Clouds 1966. Visitors could for kids, specifically related to the ideas behind the create their own screen test or a Warhol-style exhibition and their practices. photobooth portrait. Also during 2008, the Centre developed major More than 71 000 people attended the 11-day Soundtrack: programs for the exhibitions ‘Andy Warhol’ and Andy Warhol Summer Festival in January 2008; there were 60 workshops, 44 performances, 22 ‘Picasso & his collection’. Tours for Kids and Toddler cinema screenings, 16 artist talks, 11 storytelling Yelle,France Tuesday focused on the Collection all through the year. sessions and 12 quiz shows. The Gallery worked with local artists to create monthly More than 2700 people attended the Summer workshops for the Sunday at the Gallery program, and Festival – Queensland, a one-day Andy Warhol to present special winter and spring holiday workshops. event for children and families at 24 regional The Centre also contributed tours and workshops to Queensland venues. the 2008 Out of the Box Festival. During ‘Picasso & his collection’, art-making activities introduced kids to Picasso, his ideas A Summer Festival is staged each year, with a special and his passion for collecting. day of festival activities presented simultaneously in CHILDREN'S 2426 students, including 702 regional students, regional Queensland communities. attended I Art History talks during ‘Picasso The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos Ltd. & his collection’; local academics, artists, arts professionals and Gallery staff contextualised ART CENTRE Picasso’s work for secondary school students. Left: Children try out the DJ booths in the Contemporary Media Lounge as part of the The Gallery has a long history of working directly with contemporary Children’s Art Centre during ‘Picasso & his collection’. Photograph: Ray Fulton Top: Specially designed interactive tours for kids engage children and families. This group visited ‘Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective’, an exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of New artists to create meaningful activities and art experiences for children. South Wales and shown at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Ray Fulton

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Background: School groups enjoy activities in the Silver Factory: Andy Warhol for @ the children's art centre Kids, at the Children’s Art Centre. Photograph: Natasha Harth Top: Kids participating in a research trial for Emily Floyd’s activity ‘Make a manifesto’ — part of the Kids Contemporary Australia activities at the Children’s Art Centre. Photographs: Ray Fulton

44 / Rewards during 'Andy Warhol' Rewards / 45 The range and depth of the Gallery’s publishing program was reflected in the titles produced in 2008. Major publications included the successful catalogue Picasso & his collection, produced in association with PicassoHighlights & his collection musée national Picasso, Paris, and Art Exhibitions Anne Baldassari, Philippe Saunier and Australia. Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland André Malraux Architects, featuring the work of 22 leading Queensland Soft and hard cover editions – 312 pages architectural practices, was also popular with audiences. $39.95 and $69.95 In addition to the catalogue on contemporary Australian Modern Ruin artist, Eugene Carchesio, Someone’s Universe: The Art Kathryn Weir of Eugene Carchesio, the work of over 60 Australian 32 pages – $9.95 artists was highlighted in the exhibition catalogue Place Makers: Contemporary Contemporary Australia: Optimism. Work by Australian Queensland Architects Indigenous artists featured in the Xstrata Coal Emerging Edited by Miranda Wallace and Sarah Stutchbury Indigenous Art Award 2008 publication. Soft and hard cover editions – 320 pages In 2008 the Andy Warhol publication was awarded Best $49.95 and $79.95 Large Catalogue by the Art Association of Australia Someone's Universe: and New Zealand, Picasso & his collection received a The Art of Eugene Carchesio Gold Medal (Limited Edition Book) from the Queensland Michael Snelling, Domenico de Clario, Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards, and Katharina Nathan Shepherdson and Michael Hawker Grosse: Picture Park won a Best in Show award from 136 pages – $29.95 the Design Institute of Australia (Qld). Premier of Queensland's Artlines, the Gallery’s magazine, was redesigned and National New Media Art Award produced quarterly to bring news and features about 64 pages – $19.95 the Gallery’s Collection and programs to members Contemporary Australia: Optimism and supporters. 280 pages – $45.00 The Gallery’s website was redesigned in late 2008. Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Throughout the year, dedicated exhibition websites Art Award 2008 were developed for ‘Andy Warhol’, ‘Picasso & his 32 pages – $14.95 collection’, ‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’ and ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’. Online education resources were also produced for PUBLISHING Left and above: Titles published by the Gallery. Photographs: Natasha Harth selected exhibition projects. 46 / Rewards Rewards / 47 Highlights @ Artspace, Mackay Travelling Exhibitions Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic structural evolution project 2004 visited eight venues, as part of its continuing 12-venue tour. Eliasson’s popular interactive artwork invites audiences to participate in the construction of an ever- evolving, white Lego metropolis. ‘Myth to Modern: Bronzes from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection’ travelled to seven venues, as part of its continuing 13-venue tour. The exhibition explores the figure through bronze sculpture, and features works from the Gallery’s International and Australian collections. ‘Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour’ presents an exhibition of 50 photographic and moving image works. The works are from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and many have been acquired through its Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition series. @ Cairns Art Gallery The exhibition includes works by Ai Weiwei (China), Rashid Rana (Pakistan), Tsuyoshi Ozawa New to the program this year was a travelling lecture (Japan), Qin Ga (China), Stephen Page tour, developed by the Gallery to coincide with the (Australia), and Sima Urale (Samoa/New Zealand). ‘Picasso & his collection’ exhibition. The tour was 'Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour' is a regional designed for rural and remote areas of the state, with program of the Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Gallery staff visiting 25 regional venues and talking with Triennial of Contemporary Art, which is supported by the hundreds of local visitors. Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments, administered A programming highlight was the Andy Warhol by Arts Queensland. Summer Festival – Queensland, a one-day event held ‘Making it Modern: The Watercolours of simultaneously at 24 regional Queensland venues in Kenneth Macqueen’ opened at Artspace January 2008. Mackay in December, and will travel to the Gallery staff also visited regional communities Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery in 2009. REGIONAL This selection of watercolours was originally throughout the year to assist with exhibition installations and demounts, to train volunteers, judge awards, deliver presented in the major retrospective of Kenneth Macqueen’s work at the Queensland Art Gallery education programs, and provide consultancy services in 2008. for arts workers. PROGRAMS The tour of 'Making it Modern: The Watercolours Two regional arts workers participated in a two-week of Kenneth Macqueen' is sponsored by Leighton placement with the Access, Education and Regional Contractors Pty Ltd. AND SERVICES Services section, through The Backstage Pass: Queensland Art Gallery Regional Internship. Allison The Queensland Art Gallery is the only state gallery in Australia Bateman, Exhibition Officer, Hervey Bay Regional to provide a comprehensive program of collection-based Gallery, and Marg Naylor, Public Programs Co-ordinator, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, were awarded Left: Installation view of touring exhibition ‘Frame by Frame’, featuring Ai Weiwei’s travelling exhibitions, educational services and programs the internship from 26 May to 8 June 2008. photographic work Dropping a Han Dynasty urn 1995 / Photographer: Anna Thurgood. Top: A child enjoys an Andy Warhol Summer Festival – Queensland activity at Cairns Regional to regional areas as part of its core business. Gallery. Photograph: Camilla Tunnell

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RON MUECK In bed 2005 *Installed GoMA, Nov 08

Born and raised in , Ron Mueck is today In bed depicts a middle-aged woman who has been recognised as being among the most significant carefully composed so that the position of her body contemporary sculptors working in a realist tradition. and facial expression are highly naturalistic, while also His first major outing as a visual artist (having previously suggesting a range of narrative possibilities. At over worked as a commercial model maker) was in one of one-and-a-half metres high and almost seven metres the defining exhibitions of the 1990s — ‘Sensation: long, the size of the subject has been massively Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection’. Held exaggerated. While the viewer may at first be taken in 1997 at the Royal Academy, , ‘Sensation’ aback by the monumental scale, this experience is included works by many of the leading contemporary ultimately tempered by the decidedly unspectacular British artists of the day including Damien Hirst, Jake nature of the subject. The frozen moment of solitary and Dinos Chapman, Chris Ofili and Rachel Whiteread. reflection captured in the sculpture prompts us to reflect COLLECTION on the psychology of prosaic, everyday situations.

ACQUISITIONS Ron Mueck / In bed 2005 / Mixed media ed. 1/1 / Purchased 2008. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / Image courtesy: Anthony d’Offay, London. Highlights of the Gallery’s 2008 acquisitions for its Australian, Left: Installation view of new acquisitions in Gallery 3.1, GoMA. Foreground: Tobias Putrih / Connection 2004 / Cardboard boxes / Purchased 2008 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Background: Michael Parekowhai / The Horn of Indigenous Australian, international, Asian and Pacific collections Africa 2006 / Automotive paint, wood, fibreglass, steel, brass / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund in recognition of the contribution to the Gallery by Wayne Goss (Chair of Trustees 1999–2008) / Collection: Queensland are profiled on the following pages. Art Gallery / Photograph: Natasha Harth

50 / Resources Resources / 51 CANDICE BREITZ King (a portrait of Michael Jackson) 2005

Candice Breitz is internationally renowned for her The resulting work is an extraordinary a capella cover sophisticated video installations, which draw on popular of Thriller in which Jackson himself is conspicuously culture sources including music, video and cinema. absent; instead, the highly constructed and idealised EUGENE Her work was first seen in Australia when her video figure of the pop star is represented through the portraits of Annie Lennox and Whitney Houston were accumulative interpretations of those who consume his exhibited in ‘Video Hits: Art & Music Video’ at the music. As writer Jessica Morgan has stated: ‘Perhaps VON GUÉRARD Queensland Art Gallery in 2004. this is the most authentic portrayal of a celebrity A view from Daylesford towards the Pyrenees c.1864 possible — an amalgamation of our various forms In King (a portrait of Michael Jackson) the artist of identification with the virtually non-existent reality Through a generous donation, Brisbane gallery director The serene interpretation of countryside in A view investigates -old genre of portraiture through of the star'. Philip Bacon made possible the acquisition of Eugene from Daylesford towards the Pyrenees shows land a quasi-anthropological study of fandom. To produce Von Guérard’s A view from Daylesford towards the recently explored: the westward thrust into the the work, the artist recruited Michael Jackson fans by Pyrenees c.1864. Von Guérard is arguably Australia’s wilderness is represented by two diminutive figures in placing ads in newspapers, magazines and fanzines, as most significant artist of the colonial period. His work the foreground; one, presumably, is the artist himself. well as on the internet. Once she assembled a group is an essential component of any substantial collection In this picturesque, golden panorama, with the morning of 16 participants, Breitz gave each the opportunity to of Australian art, but until this acquisition von Guérard sun striking the slopes of Hepburn Hill, von Guérard perform Jackson’s 1982 album, Thriller, individually in a had been represented in the Collection by a group of suggests a land of opportunity for energetic settlers. professional recording studio. lithographs only. The painting is a fine example of the adaptation of European landscape painting to the new continent. 1st Aust. showing, Von Guérard came to Australia in 1852 during the gold rush period and stayed for almost 30 years. He was, QAG, 2004 perhaps, the first classically trained painter to work in Victoria. During this time, he travelled extensively throughout the state, also visiting Tasmania, South *1st von Guérard Australia, , and New Zealand. Candice Breitz / King (a portrait of Michael Jackson) 2005 / 16-channel video installation: painting for the collection colour, sound, 42:20 minutes / Purchased 2008. Purchased 2008 with funds from Tim Fairfax, He made extensive field notes or sketches as he AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / travelled, and once back in his studio, von Guérard Eugene von Guérard / A view from Daylesford towards the Pyrenees c.1864 / Oil on canvas / Image courtesy: Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan Purchased 2008 with funds from Philip Bacon, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery would rework these into paintings. Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

52 / Resources Resources / 53 THOMAS DEMAND Landing 2006

Thomas Demand explores the relationship between Landing has an objective and matter-of-fact quality that photography and reality. His works usually take their we might associate with crime-scene photography. It is point of departure from a found image. Demand based on a conservator’s photograph of an unfortunate george then makes a large-scale model that meticulously but undeniably slapstick incident at the Fitzwilliam reconstructs the image using paper and cardboard. Museum in Cambridge, England, in which a man nona * from Western Torres Strait Once complete, he produces a single photograph of the tripped over his shoelaces, fell down a staircase, and Dhoeris model so carefully composed that it appears to depict knocked over three highly valuable vases. the actual, real-world scenario. There is, however, Having grown up without knowledge of his own The larger sizes and more elaborate designs reflect a something unsettling and surreal about the final image Western Torres Strait styles of dhoeri (headdress) and hierarchy of warriors, consistent with military regalia that entices us to study its details and, as we do so, its accustomed to seeing cardboard cut-outs worn by in all cultures. Nona has altered some elements, artifice begins to unravel. dancers, George Nona decided to investigate these making each dhoeri identifiably his own and creating Torres Strait icons. Researching books, photographic new interpretations in the spirit of the traditional archives and rock paintings, Nona discovered some 28 headdresses, now used for performance rather than dhoeri – many of which have not been made for over 70 war. A group of dhoeris were shown in ‘Contemporary years – made specifically for war, and has revived the Australia: Optimism’, 15 November to 22 February 'For GoMA, it's now about buying "art of your time".' practice of creating them. Each shows the hallmarks 2009, at GoMA.

Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland Art Gallery, TheThomas Australian, Demand / Landing 11 2006 / SeptemberChromogenic colour print2008 on paper with Diasec, ed. 1/6 / of traditional dhoeri, with diamond designs disrupting George Nona / Kala Lagaw Ya people / Kukui Mabaigaw Dhoeri 2007 / Cane, bamboo, string Purchased 2008. The Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / with natural pigment, beeswax, shell, eagle and cassowary feathers / Purchased 2008. The Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / Image courtesy: The artist and Monika Sprüth Philomeme perfect white feathered manes. Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / Collection: Queensland Magers, London. © Thomas Demand 2006/VG Bild-Kunst. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2008 Art Gallery

54 / Resources Resources / 55 NIGEL COOKE To work is to play 2008

Nigel Cooke wants to simultaneously represent ‘all the characteristics of painting, from the retarded to the sophisticated . . . as though the whole past lives ZHU WEIBING AND JI WENYU of the medium were flashing before its eyes'. Highly People holding flowers 2007 stylised popular art forms, such as graffiti and the graphic novel, are important touchstones for Cooke. People holding flowers is the most ambitious sculpture The flowers inevitably recall Chairman Mao's dictum At the same time, his technique bears resemblance to date by collaborative artists Zhu Weibing and 'Let a hundred flowers bloom. Let a hundred schools of to Flemish Renaissance painting. He is interested in Ji Wenyu. This exceptional work, which reflects the thought contend', which preceded the bloody purges the collision between this artisanal, labour-intensive artists’ growing international profile, is comprised of of his ‘100 flowers campaign’ of 1957. As artists of approach to painting and the immediacy that is possible Influences 400 individual figures made from the same mould: their the post-Cultural Revolution generation, Zhu Weibing in contemporary image making. hands, faces and feet are painted with bright plastic and Ji Wenyu endow these flowers with an additional Graffiti, graphic novels, colours, and each wears an immaculate matching significance, representing the increasing consumerism The work also invokes the grand-scale narrative black business suit. Their colourful faces are blank and of contemporary society. paintings of the nineteenth-century: it compresses expressionless, although a sense of dynamism and an enormous amount of pictorial information into the Flemish Renaissance movement is created by their poses and the lush, tactile minute details of the painting, creating a very dynamic fabric of the flowers. and active visual experience.

Nigel Cooke / To work is to play 2008 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Estate of Lawrence F King in memory of the late Mr and Mrs SW King through the Queensland Early acquisition for APT6, Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / Image courtesy: Stuart Shave/ Zhu Weibing and Ji Wenyu / People holding flowers (detail) 2007 / Acrylic paint on resin; velour, Modern Art, London steel wire, dacron, lodestone and cotton / Purchased 2008 with funds from Michael Simcha opening Dec 2009 Baevski through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

56 / Resources Resources / 57 CHARLES BLACKMAN LISA MICHAEL Barnes Auto, Brisbane 1952 PAREKOWHAI ADAMS Charles Blackman’s visits to Queensland figured The Horn of Africa 2006 Rose Garden 2008 prominently throughout his long and distinguished The Horn of Africa, by New Zealand Maori artist career. In early 1948, Blackman hitchhiked to Brisbane, This enchanting painting by Lisa Adams comes from LILY Michael Parekowhai, is one of the most significant where he met the young artists of the Miya Studio, the the artist’s realisation that as she grows older her MINDINDIL KARADADA works purchased for the Pacific collection to date. Barjai writers, and his wife-to-be, Barbara Patterson. thoughts and experiences have accumulated, as Wandjina figure 1990 Spectacular in appearance and complex in its allusions, While in Brisbane, Blackman viewed Sidney Nolan’s have the thorns on the ladder. Self-knowing without the sculpture exemplifies Parekowhai’s ingenious exhibition of paintings, inspired by Fraser Island, at the being psychoanalytical, Rose garden 2008 has a Lily Mindindil Karadada was born in the Prince Regent practice. Part of a series, The Story of a New Zealand Moreton Gallery. He and Patterson moved to Melbourne surreal quality, but also recalls much older traditions of River area in the Kimberley, Western Australia. She River, the work interrogates some of the captivating and in 1951. Barnes Auto, Brisbane and another work in illustrated proverbs and folk tales. is one of the most senior Kimberley artists whose intertwined pakeha and Maori histories of New Zealand. the Gallery’s Collection, City Lights, were painted in Rose Garden 2008 was included in The Salon Project, responsibility it is to represent the Wandjina spirit figure. Brisbane the following year, and show the influence of The work’s title alludes to the Eastern African peninsula, which formed part of the exhibition ‘Contemporary Karadada specialises in refined representations of Nolan’s paintings. These striking images link Brisbane thought to be one of the areas where humans first Australia: Optimism’. The Salon Project considered the Wandjina spirits, which she often shows emerging from avant-garde artists and writers of the 1940s and 50s emerged. More locally, Parekowhai’s sculpture work of 12 contemporary Australian representational a veil of dots (rain), referring to her connection with with their southern counterparts. abstractedly resembles the cartographic form of painters and one video artist. water bubbling from a spring. A spring was observed the North and South islands of New Zealand. Barnes Auto was, for many years, the only location by her father at the time of her conception and he The piano could be seen as the culturally and politically in Brisbane where you could buy petrol after hours. named her Mindindil, meaning bubbles. Wandjina top-heavy North island, whilst the South island is Previously located at the corner of Queen Street and figures are recognisable for their distinctive form. The playfully represented by a seal, evoking a wild and North Quay, Barnes Auto Co. continues its business in Optimism's Wandjina spirit is said to have come from the sea and uninhabited place. today in the suburb of Rocklea. the sky to create the features of the landscape and was Salon Project then absorbed into the walls of rock shelters and caves. Charles Blackman / Barnes Auto, Brisbane 1952 / Oil on composition board / Purchased 2008 Michael Parekowhai /The Horn of Africa 2006 / Automotive paint, wood, fibreglass, steel, brass with funds derived from the gifts of Maria Therese Treweeke, Lady Trout, SH Ervin, Sali Lily Mindindil Karadada / Tjarintjin/Woonambal people / Wandjina figure 1990 / Natural / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Herman, Sir James (Robert) McGregor, Robert Wilson, Captain Neil McEacharn, Naomi and Lisa Adams / Rose garden 2008 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Xstrata pigments with bush gum on canvas / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Estate of Lawrence Acquisitions Fund in recognition of the contribution to the Gallery by Wayne Goss (Chair of Simon Bracegirdle and Oscar Edwards / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery. © Charles Community Partnership Program through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: F King in memory of the late Mr and Mrs SW King through the Queensland Art Gallery Trustees 1999–2008) / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Blackman 1952. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney, 2008 Queensland Art Gallery. © Lisa Adams, 2008 Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

58 / Resources Resources / 59 ‘Well, obviously playing at 'Well, obviously playing at GoMA was the highlight for me. . . I also GoMARETURNS was the highlight for me. . . I also attended attended other Up Lates and I think the highlight was really just otherIn theUp financial Lates year and 2007-2008 I think – totalthe attendancehighlight for thewas Queensland really just the overall experience of having a band play amidst the Warhol pieces Art Gallery and the Gallery of Modern Art reached 1 304 440. and the opportunity to visit such a beautiful space in the evening . . . the Queenslandoverall Art Gallery Annual experience Report, 2007-08. of having a band play amidst I also love the excitement and enthusiasm that the program engendered amongst Brisbane residents. . . I think it's one of the Warhol pieces and the opportunity to visit such the most exciting and successful initiatives that the Brisbane arts/ a beautiful space in the evening'I thought . . . theI exhibitionalso love was the music community . . . has ever seen (in my time at least !)'. magnificent. It gave a real insight Visitor and performer, Andy Warhol Up Late. excitement'It was a sublime and exhibition enthusiasm . . . intothat Picasso's the programlife and influences.' engendered amongstI could hardly Brisbane believe what residents. there . . I think Visitorit's to ‘Picasso one & his collection'. of 'The Australian Cinémathèque features was to be learnt from viewing the programs of a scale and ambition unlike thehistory most of artexciting from his perspective. and successful initiatives that the anything ever seen in this country.' BrisbaneFabulously curated arts/music and conceived community has ever seen (in my Mark Naglazas, ‘City oversight on cinema art’, West Australian, 6 August 2008. exhibition. I'll never ’forget. it.' time Visitor to ‘Picassoat & hisleast!) collection’. 'The new Gallery of Modern Art is a 'The Gallery has become the city's new Friday

beautiful building and going there is a meeting place, with art buffs and art students bigger experience than merely looking at mixing it with with diners and rock fans the art on display.' seeking their very own 15 minutes of fame.' 'We can't wait for the Visitor to Up Late during ‘Picasso & his collection'. The Courier-Mail, 23 February 2008. NYMet to arrive in May.' New member visiting ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ preview, 23 November 2008. 'My visit brought‘It back was memories a sublime of visits exhibition to the Guggenheim . . . and 'My highlights included the Torres MoMA in NYC & also the MoMA in San Francisco. Architecturally, Strait Island mask, African the buildingI iscould a real winnerhardly . . . believeBrisbane just what gets better there drums and figurines Picasso & better thanks in large part to the artistic offerings . . . 'Thank you for programming the I look forward to the Picasso showing in June.' 'My visitPere Portabellabrought films . . .Keepback hadmemories collected - this gave meof a visitsVisitor to Warhol Upwas Late.to tothe be learnt Guggenheim from viewing the and up the great work - presenting different insight to his work.' Visitor to Up Late during ‘Picasso &history his collection'. of art from his perspective. Fabulously curated and conceived challenging, provoking, amazing 'Very excited about Out of the Shadows, German and inspiring films.' the Picasso showingExpressionism in June.' and Beyond film program. Featured on my MOMA Visitorin email. NYC & also the MOMA in San Francisco. Architecturally, radio show, Talking Pictures, Radio 4 RPH 1296 AM . . . exhibition.Everyone who I'll loves never cinema should know about this!' the building'. . .when I gois to Brisbanea real it is nearly winnermandatory to go the .QAG, . .Brisbane just gets better & better Visitor email. and now with GoMA, I am even more inclined to make a visit to Approximately half the visitors to each of the international the galleries part of my 'Brisbane Experience'.' forget it. thanks in large part to theToowoomba visitor artistic to Andy Warhol Up Late. offeringsexhibitions this year were .visitors . .I to’ Brisbane.look forward to 60 / Returns Returns / 61 RELATIONSHIPS It's all about art and people

Relationships are essential to the Gallery’s purpose. − Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA) partnered with the Relationships with audiences, artists, colleagues, staff, Gallery to bring ‘Picasso & his collection’ to Brisbane; volunteers, government, corporate supporters, the we will work together again to present ‘American tourism sector, benefactors, the media, and touring and Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition funding agencies, are among those that sustain our from the Met’ in 2009. activities and help us achieve our goals. − In addition to its ongoing funding, the Queensland Notable highlights this year: Government will fund the much-needed refurbishment of gallery spaces in the original − With 204 staff and 81 volunteers the Gallery achieved Queensland Art Gallery building in 2009. a total attendance of 1 304 440 in the financial year 2007–08. − The Australian Government, through Art Indemnity Australia, and the Queensland Government provided − Unprecedented investment from media and tourism funding for insurance for ‘Picasso & his collection’. partners contributed to a record level of sponsorship. − Queensland Events Corporation was Presenting Partner for ‘Picasso & his collection’ and, with Santos, was Principal Partner for ‘Andy Warhol’. − Collaborative marketing with Tourism Queensland and Brisbane Marketing increased visitor numbers and helped profile the Gallery and Brisbane as a major cultural tourism destination. − The Chairman’s Circle, a new exhibition support program, attracted 11 corporate members in its first year.

Left: An opening event for the ‘Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award’, October 2008. Photograph: Ray Fulton Above left: Artists Yoshitomo Nara and Hideki Toyoshima (pictured) discuss work for 'The Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial' with Gallery staff. Photograph: Natasha Harth Above right: The Honourable Rod Welford, MP, Minister for Education and Training and Minister for the Arts, discussing an art work at the opening of ‘Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design’, March 2008. Photograph: Ray Fulton

62 / Relationships Relationships/ 63 Background: Guests at special benefactors' preview of 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism’. Bottom left: Gallery staff being briefed after a Board of Trustees meeting, October 2008. Bottom right: Volunteer Guide Margaret Hofmeister taking visitors on a tour of Collection works, including Fang Lijun’s 980810 1998. Photographs: Natasha Harth

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The Queensland Art Gallery Foundation raises funds The appeal also sought support for Children’s Art to support the growth of the Gallery’s Collection and Centre artist projects being developed for ‘Optimism’. the presentation of exhibitions and programs. In the Outstanding acquisitions made possible through the 2007–08 financial year, the Foundation raised $8.3 Foundation in 2008 included: million, including donations and bequests; sponsorships • A series of important contemporary international from corporate sponsors, grant agencies and acquisitions, assisted by Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina government bodies; and gifted art works. Also in Fairfax; these include works by Candice Breitz, 2007–08, 287 works were acquired for the Gallery’s William Eggleston, Tobias Putrih, Beat Streuli and Collection through, or with the support of, the Foundation. Yvonne Todd. Tim Fairfax, AM, became Foundation President in • A major addition to the historical Australian collection; January, following the retirement of Sir Bruce Watson, the purchase of Eugene von Guérard’s A view from AC. Sir Bruce made a significant contribution over Daylesford towards the Pyrenees c.1864, made the past 22 years, and the Gallery community was possible with the support of Brisbane gallery director saddened by his passing in November 2008. Philip Bacon, AM, who is also a Special Patron of the Foundation. Foundation members attended private viewings of major exhibitions throughout the year. The Annual • An important work by emerging artist Tony Albert, Dinner in May was attended by more than 200 Sorry 2008, was acquired with assistance from James members including, as special guest, the outgoing Sourris. The work showed in ‘Contemporary Foundation Patron, now Australia’s Governor-General, Australia: Optimism’. Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC. Her successor • A 17th-century work Pair of six fold screens: Birds as Foundation Patron is Governor of Queensland, Her and flowers of the four seasons, and a group of QUEENSLAND Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley, AO. Chinese ceramics, were acquired for the Gallery’s historical Asian collection, with the continued support As 2008 came to a close, the Foundation launched of Henry Bartlett, CMG, OBE. the successful ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’

appeal. The appeal invited supporters to assist with Left: Tim Fairfax, AM, President, Queensland Art Gallery Foundation, speaks about the ART GALLERY 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' appeal. Photograph: Ray Fulton

the purchase of works that had been selected for Above left: Her Excellency the Governor of Queensland Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, and Philip ‘Optimism’ and identified as key acquisitions for the Bacon, AM, at the annual Foundation dinner, May 2008. Photograph: Ray Fulton Above right: Foundation members and guests hear from m3architecture’s Michael Banney Gallery’s contemporary Australian collection. at a viewing of ‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’, August 2008. FOUNDATION Photograph: Natasha Harth 66 / Relationships Relationships/ 67 'The range of programs

has introduced members In 2008 the Gallery Members program took on a new life, with significant membership growth, a new name like me to new gallery experiences, and a redeveloped suite of benefits and events. and the chance to visit exhibitions A membership drive during ‘Andy Warhol’ increased out of hours, and to enjoy music membership by more than 400 per cent and during ‘Picasso & his collection’, an additional 1182 in the wonderful GOMA building members joined. is high on my list of what makes Gallery Members have access to on-site talks, tours, lectures and lunches at the Gallery, exclusive film Brisbane a great place to live.' screenings, artist workshops and interactive tours for Young Members, and a range of special offers Gallery Member comment and discounts. Also new to the program is ‘First Look’, a monthly opportunity for members to see works recently acquired for the Gallery’s Collection. A full-colour regular program of events provides a detailed guide to what’s on for members.

membership increased by >400% Left: Gallery Members at ‘Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects’. GALLERY Photograph: Ray Fulton Top: Angela Goddard, Curator. Australian Art to 1970, gives a floor talk for Gallery Members with works including Eugene von Guérard’s A view from Daylesford towards the Pyrenees c.1864. Photograph: Ray Fulton Above: Bruce McLean, Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, talking to Gallery Members about artist Billy Nolan Tjapangati’s Punkilpirri 2002, in October 2008. MEMBERS Photograph: Natasha Harth. 68 / Relationships Relationships/ 69 EXHIBITIONS SCHEDULE AND SPONSORS

EXHIBITIONS PRESENTED AT THE GALLERY CREATIVE GENERATION Excellence Awards PICASSO & HIS COLLECTION PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND’S NATIONAL NEW IN VISUAL ART AND DESIGN (2008) MEDIA ART AWARD PROTEST: AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL POSTERS 9 June – 14 September 2008 (GoMA) 1972–92 20 March – 15 June 2008 (GoMA) Organised by the musée national Picasso, Paris, in association with the 1 November 2008 – 8 February 2009 (GoMA) Organised by Education Queensland and supported by the Queensland Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia 28 July 2007 – 24 February 2008 (QAG) Government Presented by Principal Sponsor Principal Donor

THE LEISURE CLASS 13 October 2007 – 2 March 2008 (Media Gallery, GoMA) WAR: THE PRINTS OF OTTO DIX Major Sponsors 7 November 2008 – 1 February 2009 (QAG) PIERRE BISMUTH: COMING SOON MAKING IT MODERN: THE WATERCOLOURS OF 20 March – 22 June 2008 (Media Gallery, GoMA) KENNETH MACQUEEN 10 November 2007 – 5 May 2008 (QAG) A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition. The National Gallery LEE MINGWEI’S GERNIKA IN SAND of Australia is an Australian Government Agency. Sponsored by 3 May – 6 July 2008 (GoMA)

Supporting Sponsor Indemnified by Project supported by CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIA: OPTIMISM 15 November 2008 – 22 February 2009 (GoMA)

ANDY WARHOL Founding Supporter

8 December 2007 – 13 April 2008 (GoMA) Lin Ming-nang, Lin Chun-hsiang and Yang Hon-pon Organised by the Queensland Art Gallery and The Andy Warhol Museum, MODERN RUIN one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Funding for insurance has 12 July – 12 October 2008 (GoMA) been provided through the Queensland Government Exhibition Indemnity Principal Sponsor Scheme, administered by Arts Queensland. GORDON BENNETT This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Principal Partners 10 May – 3 August 2008 (GoMA) LIGHT AND SPACE: COLONIAL ART AND A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition QUEENSLAND 28 June – 19 October 2008 (QAG)

Major Sponsors Major Sponsors XSTRATA COAL EMERGING INDIGENOUS ART

AWARD (2008) 11 July – 12 October 2008 (GoMA) This exhibition is supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through A national prize awarded by the Queensland Art Gallery and Xstrata Coal Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and state and 2006–08 territory governments. Sponsored by

Supporting Sponsors QUEENSLAND DESIGN ON SHOW 2008 Supporting Sponsors 31 May – 27 June 2008 (GoMA)

A Queensland Week event. PLACE MAKERS: CONTEMPORARY QUEENSLAND The High / Perpetual Xmas, No Abstractions 2008 by Scott Redford has received financial assistance through Arts Queensland from art+place, the ARCHITECTS Queensland Government’s Public Art Fund. Collection: ArtWorks Queensland 2 August – 23 November 2008 (GoMA)

Presented by the Design Institute of Australia (Queensland Branch) and QUT Principal Partner MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS: CHINESE PAINTINGS Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering FROM THE NGV ASIAN COLLECTION 19 March – 9 June 2008 (QAG) SIDNEY NOLAN: A NEW RETROSPECTIVE The Queensland Government is the Principal Partner of the exhibition, A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition 6 June – 28 September 2008 (QAG) through the Department of Tourism, Regional Development and Industry.

NAMATJIRA TO NOW Organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales 18 October 2008 – 15 February 2009 (QAG)

Principal Sponsor SOMEONE’S UNIVERSE: THE ART OF EUGENE CARCHESIO 25 October 2008 – 1 February 2009 (QAG)

70 / Relationships Relationships/ 71 SELECTED COLLECTION DISPLAYS OLAFUR ELIASSON’S THE CUBIC STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION FILM PROGRAMS PRESENTED AT Out of the Shadows: German Expressionism and Beyond PROJECT 4 September – 30 November 2008 FAIRWEATHER ROOM 7 September 2007 – 30 May 2009 THE AUSTRALIAN CINÉMATHÈQUE 86 features; 8 shorts (QAG) Andy Warhol A Queensland Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition Your Hidden Smile: The Films of Pedro Costa 8 December 2007 – 30 March 2008 ANISH KAPOOR UNTITLED 2006–07 Venues 3 to 10 of 12 venues 6–14 December 2008 (GoMA) 83 features; 352 shorts Ipswich Art Gallery 7 features; 4 shorts (IM)PERFECT: THE INFLUENCE OF JAPANESE CERAMICS 26 November 2007 – 3 February 2008 Silly Symphonies Co-presenter: Melbourne Cinémathèque 28 March – 27 April 2008 (QAG) Gold Coast City Art Gallery Contemporary Australia: Optimism 35 shorts NARCISSUS GARDEN 16 February – 30 March 2008 15 November 2008 – 22 February 2009 Pudovkin’s Mother 25 features; 12 shorts (QAG) Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum 1–4 May 2008 9 April – 24 May 2008 Kath and Kim IN THE SPIRIT OF FLUXUS 1 feature 2 January – 20 February 2009 (GoMA) Dogwood Crossing @ Miles 16 shorts 4 June – 27 July 2008 Visual Music A SPACE FOR HEALING 28 March – 1 June 2008 A Portrait of Nicole Kidman (GoMA) Cooloola Shire Public Gallery, Gympie 7 features; 148 shorts 2 August – 6 September 2008 3 January – 1 February 2009 SCULPTURE FROM THE COLLECTION Icelandic Waves 16 features Bundaberg Arts Centre (QAG) 9–30 May 2008 17 September – 26 October 2008 From the Outback to the Islands: Animation by Kids 5 features; 35 shorts SAND : SAVANNA : SALT 18–26 January 2009 Artspace Mackay (GoMA) Jacques Prévert 5 shorts 5 November – 14 December 2008 6–27 June 2008 MONUMENTS AND MOVEMENTS: PINTUPI PAINTINGS FROM Beat On: Australian Electronic Music Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery 11 features THE COLLECTION 2 January – 20 February 2009 23 December 2008 – 8 February 2009 Sponsor: Embassy of France in Australia and the Ministère des (QAG) 14 shorts Affaires Étrangères (Paris) EASTSIDE/WESTSIDE: PAINTINGS FROM CENTRAL FRAME BY FRAME: ASIA PACIFIC ARTISTS ON TOUR Picasso & his collection AUSTRALIA A Queensland Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition 13 June – 13 September 2008 (GoMA) Venues 1 and 2 of 7 venues 24 features; 13 shorts CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIONS: NEW ACQUISITIONS Artspace Mackay Sponsor: Embassy of France in Australia and the Ministère des (GoMA) 24 October – 30 November 2008 Affaires Étrangères (Paris) Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery The Silent Clown: Max Linder and Charlie Chaplin EXHIBITIONS PRESENTED IN REGIONAL 11 December 2008 – 24 January 2009 28 June – 13 July 2008 QUEENSLAND 5 features; 6 shorts MYTH TO MODERN: BRONZES FROM THE QUEENSLAND ART Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival GALLERY COLLECTION 17–23 July 2008 24 May 2007 – 5 July 2009 4 features; 7 shorts 'Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour' is a regional program of Presenter: Blackfella Films A Queensland Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition the Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Venues 4 to 10 of 13 venues which is supported by the Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy, an initiative Brisbane International Film Festival of the Australian, state and territory governments, administered by Arts 31 July – 10 August 2008 Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum Queensland. 53 features; 29 shorts 18 December 2007 – 23 February 2008 MAKING IT MODERN: THE WATERCOLOURS OF KENNETH Presenter: St George Bank Brisbane International Film Festival Rockhampton Art Gallery MACQUEEN 29 February – 4 May 2008 Modern Ruin A Queensland Art Gallery Travelling Exhibition 12 July – 12 October 2008 Bundaberg Arts Centre Venue 1 of 2 venues 19 features; 6 shorts 16 May – 29 June 2008 Artspace Mackay My Architect Caloundra Regional Art Gallery 5 December 2008 – 1 February 2009 13 August – 9 November 2008 9 July – 17 August 2008 Sponsored by 11 features; 15 shorts Gympie Regional Art Gallery Pere Portabella 21 August – 4 October 2008 15–31 August, 2008 Cairns Regional Gallery 11 features; 6 shorts 11 October – 30 November 2008 Green Screen Artspace Mackay 3–7 September 2008-12-01 5 December 2008 – 1 February 2009 8 features Co-presenter: Riverfestival 2008 George A Romero’s Dead Series 31 October – 1 November 2008 5 features

72 / Relationships Relationships/ 73 READY? 2009 selected highlights . . . the year ahead over 140 works LJ Harvey and His Times by 48 artists 21 February – 14 June 2009, QAG

Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871–1949) was an important practitioner and teacher in the arts and crafts movement in Queensland Three Decades: The Contemporary THE Chinese Collection and a figure of national significance. Harvey was an Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul accomplished potter and woodcarver, as well as the inspiration CHINA PROJECT for the largest school of art pottery in Australia. This exhibition 28 March – 28 June 2009, GoMA William Yang: Life Lines celebrates the gift of an important collection of Harvey’s works, ‘The China Project’ presents three unique points of view on from his grandsons, the Reverends David and Bruce Harvey Pottery by LJ Harvey and some of his most prominent students from the contemporary Chinese art. ‘Three Decades: The Contemporary Noble of Houston, Texas. Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Chinese Collection’ presents over 140 extraordinary works by 48 artists from the 1980s to the present, drawn primarily from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Coinciding with this exhibition is ‘Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul’, a solo exhibition by SPENCER one of China’s most eminent painters, and a commissioned project, ‘William Yang: Life Lines’, which focuses on the artist’s FINCH individual and family history as a Chinese–Australian. 28 February – 5 July 2009, GoMA and QAG

Spencer Finch is a contemporary American artist who explores the elusive and poetic qualities of human perception using a range of media including light installations, paintings, photographs and videos. This will be the artist’s first Australian exhibition and will include major new works.

Spencer Finch / CIE 529/418 (Candlelight) 2007 / Installation view at Massachuetts Museum of Contemporary Art, United States / Courtesy: The artist

Left: Zhang Xiaogang / Three comrades (from `Bloodline: The big family' series) 1994 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Above: William Yang / William in Chinese costume 1984 / Collection: the artist FLOATING LIFE: PRINCIPAL SPONSOR CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL FIBRE ART 1 August – 11 October 2009, GoMA

‘Floating Life’ will highlight the importance of fibre within Aboriginal culture and showcase the Queensland Art Gallery's unique collection that celebrates fibre-based art. The exhibition will include around 300 objects including Artist unknown / Galiwin’ku people / Ceremonial armband (dhuwa) 1996 / Bark fibre commissioned works by key artists, and important string with red-winged parrot and red-collared lorikeet feathers / Purchased 2008 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser, AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser, AM, through works by both mature artists and emerging talents. the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

74 / Ready? Ready? / 75 TIM JOHNSON: PAINTING IDEAS 20 June – 11 October 2009, GoMA world exclusive This major retrospective exhibition will focus on The exhibition is organised by the Art Gallery of New South Tim Johnson’s practice from the early 1970s. Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery. The exhibition is supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through It will explore the artist’s early conceptual work, Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and * his engagement with Indigenous Australian art and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian the iconography of Buddhist art, and will include Government and state and territory governments. Tim Johnson / Collaborating artists: My Le Thi, Karma Phuntsok / After Mt Meru: White important recent painting. tara, Shakyamuni, Mt Meru 1999 / Purchased 1999. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM and REALISM: Collection: Queensland Art Gallery A LANDMARK EXHIBITION FROM THE MET 30 May – 20 September 2009, QAG

The world exclusive exhibition ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met’ will feature more than 70 impressionist and realist paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York's fine collection of American Paintings and Sculpture. It will include some of America’s foremost artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Prendergast and Mary Cassatt. Highlighting how Australian artists responded to key artistic developments of the time, more than 30 iconic Australian paintings will also be included. RON Australian artists will include , Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin and Rupert Bunny. HURLEY The exhibition is organised by The Metropolitan Museum 15 August – 25 October 2009, GoMA of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia. Ron Hurley (1946 – 2002) was born into

John White Alexander / Repose 1895 / Anonymous Gift 1980 / Collection: the Goreng Goreng and Mununjali peoples The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photograph courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art of south-east Queensland. He led the development of the urban Indigenous art movement — with contemporaries such as Trevor Nickolls and Lin Onus — with specific reference to, and poignancy for, south-east Queensland. This exhibition will highlight the distinguished career of Ron Hurley as one of the early leaders of the urban political movement in Aboriginal art.

Ron Hurley / Bradman bowled Gilbert 1989 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 1990 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery

76 / Ready? Ready? / 77 Easton THE SIXTH ASIA PACIFIC PEARSON TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART 22 August – 1 November 2009, GoMA 5 December 2009 – 14 March 2010, GoMA

Easton Pearson’s contemporary edgy In 2009 'The Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' glamour, exquisite embroidered and will be presented in GoMA. Established in 1993, APT is the embellished fabrics and gorgeous colours only major recurring exhibition that focuses on contemporary will be explored through examples from art from both Asia and the Pacific. APT6 will present a the designers’ archive, together with video fresh and vibrant exhibition of work from the region, this footage, look-books and fabric samples. time including artists from West Asia and the Mekong River region, artists from North Korea, a major presentation of Based firmly on making clothes for a work from Vanuatu and an exciting program of Pacific subtropical lifestyle, Easton Pearson reggae performance. has grown into a distinctive, flamboyant label with worldwide appeal.

A model wears an Easton Pearson gown at the Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, 2008. Photograph: Six Photography

PAPERSKIN: Barkcloth across the Pacific 31 October 2009 – 14 February 2010, QAG

‘Paperskin’ will focus on the medium of barkcloth, a distinctive and visually breathtaking art form that has been practised across the Pacific region for centuries. The Queensland Art Gallery is assisted by the Australian Government Left: Sepa Seule / Popo (from the ‘Bebellic’ portfolio) 2007 / Screen print on through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. It is magnani paper, ed. of 45 / Purchased 2008. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / The exhibition will show a range of works, from delicate Collection: Queensland Art Gallery also supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Above: Herveline Lité / Le pigeon de Mataso (from the ‘Bebellic’ portfolio) 2007 / patterned textiles to large-scale ornate ceremonial masks. Australian, state and territory governments. Screen print on magnani paper, ed. of 45 / Purchased 2008. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Innovative interpretive materials and an integrated public FOUNDING SUPPORTER PRINCIPAL SPONSOR program will demonstrate the persistent influence of this art form on contemporary Pacific artists.

This exhibition is a collaboration with the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa and the Queensland Museum.

Stella Upia / Sihae 1 (Sahote clan design of fruit from the tree 1) 2006 / Natural pigments on barkcloth / Purchased 2007. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery . . . the only major recurring exhibition that focuses on contemporary art from both Asia and the Pacific . . . 78 / Ready? Ready? / 79 QueenslandVisiting Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane www.qag.qld.gov.au Tel: +61 (0) 7 3840 7303

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