Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales, curated by Amanda Slack-Smith at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), is a remarkable exhibition, featuring over a hundred works assembled from genres including film, set design, original costumes, animation, and contemporary art. The exhibition is divided, though the crossovers are fluid, into three themes: “Into the Woods,” which draws mainly upon European […]
Joe Furlonger: Horizons
Joe Furlonger was born in Cairns in 1952. He grew up in the rural (now semi-rural) Samford Valley near Brisbane. As an adult he worked as a farmhand and on fishing boats, attended art schools in Brisbane and Sydney and, after a period of gestation and experimentation, launched an artistic career that has sustained over […]
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Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota was born in Osaka, Japan in 1972. Her parents came from the rural prefecture Kochi. In the summer they would take Shiota and her two brothers to her grandmother’s grave, which she would tend by removing the embedded weeds whose entangled roots were enmeshed in the soil above the body. It was a […]
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10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
It is not the first time I have seen the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in its planning stage, witnessing the potential scale of the event via models of the galleries of both of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) buildings, again dominated by the overarching footprint of […]
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Patricia Piccinini
Patricia Piccinini divides opinions with her hand-crafted hybrid objects that dissolve notions of pure entities or borders having ever existed.
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