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A Bit Na Ta: A Sense of Place, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Simpson Harbour, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea / Photograph: David Bridie ‘A Bit Na Ta’ locates the – source of the sea – Blanche Bay, Rabaul – in the Tolai language of East New Britain. It is also the...
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A Bit Na Ta: A Sense of Place, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea/ Part 2
Kaul and Wagi from Moab stringband enacting old customs ‘A Bit Na Ta’ locates the – source of the sea – Blanche Bay, Rabaul – in the Tolai language of East New Britain. It is also the title of a...
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Highlight: Under the jacaranda
R Godfrey Rivers, England/Australia 1858–1925 / Under the jacaranda 1903 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 1903 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery A concentrated presentation of Australian collection...
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The QAGOMA Future Collective takes on the art of collecting
(l-r) Panelists Glenn Manser, Joshua Jones, Justin Nicholas, Danielle Renshaw and Simon Wright share their collecting experiences with Future Collective members and their guests, GOMA, 2016 /...
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Backstage Pass with Jess Cuddihy
Jess Cuddihy, Education Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Art finalist, 2004 When I was sixteen I spent countless hours haunting the art block at school. Lunchtimes were consumed turning my myriad of...
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The art of tackling dementia
Visitors engaging with the artwork during the Art and Dementia tours Angela Bensted, Your Time Magazine visited the Gallery and joined one of our free Art and Dementia discussion-based tours designed...
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Re/discover an inspirational icon
Camille Serisier is a visual artist, her practice centres around her playful tableau of vibrant photographs, idea drawings, films and interactive installations. Through these ambitious and elaborate...
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How culture binds Australia and Papua New Guinea
Yesterday marked the close of ‘No. 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016‘. This was a landmark exhibition, the first in Australia to exclusively explore contemporary Papua New Guinean art. The...
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Galvanised into action: The transformation of the Queensland Art Gallery
When the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) opened in a new building at South Brisbane in 1982, the contrast with the first art gallery established in Queensland could not have been more marked. The...
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A cultural centre for Queensland
Since the Queensland Art Gallery opened in 1982, the Cultural Centre has evolved into the arts and culture centrepiece of the state. The Gallery and the Cultural Centre is architecturally significant...
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Art speaks at GOMA Talks
The QAGOMA and ABC Radio National GOMA Talks collaboration is now in its sixth year and continues to explore important issues, inspired by art. Art speaks to us all in different ways. It perplexes,...
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Making Modernism
Even though they did not discuss their work with each other, North American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and Australians Margaret Preston (1875–1963) and Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984)...
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Art as exchange
Learning staff are travelling to five regional communities to deliver digital storytelling workshops with secondary students and regional arts education roundtables with arts educators. The first round...
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A Bit Na Ta: A Sense of Place, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea/ Part 2
Kaul and Wagi from Moab stringband enacting old customs ‘A Bit Na Ta’ locates the – source of the sea – Blanche Bay, Rabaul – in the Tolai language of East New Britain. It is also the title of a...
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Highlight: Under the jacaranda
R Godfrey Rivers, England/Australia 1858–1925 / Under the jacaranda 1903 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 1903 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery A concentrated presentation of Australian collection...
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Investing in the development of QAGOMA’s Collection
Now in its third year, QAGOMA’s youngest supporter group, the Future Collective are putting their combined might behind Australian artists and investing in the development of the Gallery’s Collection....
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Not unlike the myth, ‘Narcissus garden’ mesmerises
Future Collective member Rosemary Willink shares some thoughts on her Collection favourite — Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus garden 1966/2002. Yayoi Kusama is everywhere right now. By this I mean she is the...
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William Dobell and Modern Mannerism
As we countdown to the opening of the Australian Collection reimagined from 10.00AM Saturday 30 September, we take a look at Wiilliam Dobell’s The Cypriot 1940, a portrait of his friend Aegus...
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Sidney Nolan’s Mrs Fraser is a spectacular colonial narrative
As we take a reimagined view of the Australian Collection, we revisit Sidney Nolan’s painting Mrs Fraser and its captivating story before it returns on view. In 1947 Nolan spent an extended period in...
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Dale Harding discusses his incredible year
Dale Harding graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2014, yet his opportunities and achievements since speak to a much longer practice, indeed a ‘cultural continuum’ to which he is connected...
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