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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Deborah Kelly
Here, Deborah Kelly’s collage characters are animated into ecstatic dance on the brink of political and environmental collapse. The Gods of Tiny Things was produced by attendees of a “collage camp” at Bundanon on Yuin Country, and forms part of Many Hands Make Life Work – Deborah Kelly and the Moving Image 2011–2021 at Maitland Regional […]
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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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The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
First impressions can be deceiving. The impact of this tenth version of The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (the APT) was less of a bang and more of what initially seemed like a whimper. Where were the big names? Where were the familiar biennale/triennale tropes? Where were the instagrammable icons? Yet during the weeks […]
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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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APT9
Michael Young previews the ninth edition of QAGOMA’s flagship exhibition series, ‘The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) ahead of its opening.
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