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The inaugural QAGOMA Reconciliation Action Plan
QAGOMA invited artist Tony Albert, whose connection to the Gallery spans more than two decades, to speak at the recent launch of Gallery’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. The following is the edited...
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Mother, child & fashionable beach culture
It is easy to see why Emanuel Phillips Fox’s Bathing hour (L’heure du bain) c.1909 is one of the most popular paintings in the Gallery’s Australian Art Collection: sun sparkling on a golden beach; a...
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The ACE Project: Returning home
Edith Amituanai’s captivating ‘L’a’u Pele Moana (My darling Moana)’ 2021 was one of the first artworks to be installed as part of ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). Its...
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Unlocking the collection: Project digitise
As part of QAGOMA’s Collection Online project, the Gallery joins forces with Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for a new Digital Residency, writes Tonya Turner, that will reveal how digital...
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The ACE Project: Healing the Spirit of Collections
“And this is what we call, area five… the Pacific Art collection”, the heavy metal doors open sending out a cool breeze. Stepping inside I remember the words of my Mum and Aunties, don’t forget to call...
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The ACE Project: Making space/s
For artists and arts workers, meaningful community engagement requires a long-term commitment to learning, write ACE Project team members Moale James and Osanna Fa’ata’ape, who here explore the ‘The...
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Art as diplomacy in the Asia Pacific region
An ongoing aim in Australian diplomacy is to deepen the nation’s engagement with the dynamism and diversity of the Asia Pacific region. Through cultural exchanges like the Asia Pacific Triennial of...
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The jewellery in The Fortune-Teller c.1630s
European jewellery of the Renaissance was colourful, opulent and intricate. It was also widely popular, as the portraiture of this time shows the often extraordinary amount a wealthy man or woman might...
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European Masterpieces digitally enhanced
An exhibition of 65 artworks representing the achievements of the greatest painters in the Western tradition from one of the world’s leading art museums is undoubtedly a drawcard. Add to this The...
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The jewellery of Selvaggia Sassetti (born 1470)
The coral of Selvaggia Sassetti’s necklace would not have travelled far from its once plentiful source in the Mediterranean sea. Precious red coral grows in a characteristic branching plant like form...
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The Rave scene: Its connection to film and pop culture
Following on from the Rave film program that recently screened at the Australian Cinémathèque and in time for Record Store Day on 12 June, Brisbane-based musician and DJ, Phil Smart reflects on his...
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Conserving Gordon Bennett’s diptych ‘Number three’
Unconventional types of damage require unconventional treatment strategies. This is certainly true for the collaborative major treatment QAGOMA’s paintings conservation team completed on Gordon...
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Dancing across the landscape is the spirit of the Plains
On the face of it, Sydney Long’s (1871-1955) Spirit of the Plains 1897 is an unusual painting to have emerged from the Antipodean colonies in the final years of the nineteenth century. Find out why and...
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Reflections of a Graduate Paper Conservator
As the Graduate Paper Conservation Intern, I have had the privilege of being fully immersed within the dynamic and exciting environment of the Conservation Department, made up of four specialty teams;...
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Preserving Our Past: Conservation frames and furniture
QAGOMA’s well equipped frame studio is unique to any public art museum in Australia, producing all the gallery’s framing needs as well as carrying out conservation and restoration treatments. Go...
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Preserving culture through fashion and design
QAGOMA’s current Open Studio artist is designer, curator, mentor and business owner Grace Lillian Lee. Visit Lee at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) until 24 May 2020 as she shares her studio practice...
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Growing with the Queensland Art Gallery
Miriam Prystupa worked at the Queensland Art Gallery from its opening on South Bank in 1982 until 1999. However, she also has a more personal connection to the Gallery, her father Peter was appointed...
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Accomplished and capable: Hilda Rix Nicholas ‘The fair musterer’
Dressed in jodhpurs, a short-sleeved shirt and riding boots, Hilda Rix Nicholas’s ‘fair musterer’ is ready for the day’s work. Her nonchalant pose is easy, confident and self-assured; it suggests that...
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The allure of the savage beauty of Belle-Île
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the fierce wildness and ‘savage beauty’ of Belle-Île, the small island off the coast of Quiberon in Brittany, France, exerted a powerful attraction...
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Ian Fairweather: Life lines
The QAGOMA Research Library holds a collection of letters, photographs and other memorabilia relating to the famously reclusive artist Ian Fairweather, who spent the last two decades of his life in a...
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