Opening on Saturday 30 November 2024, the 11th chapter of the Gallery’s flagship exhibition series — the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art — will feature seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries. We look back at all ten of the previous Triennial’s memorable installations on the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall, dating back…
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For more than three decades, the much-anticipated, home-grown exhibition — The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art — has showcased an evolving mix of the most exciting and important developments in contemporary art from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific. It’s been instrumental to shaping the Gallery and Brisbane’s identity and global prominence. As our…
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Once a prominent colonial Queensland artist, Anthony Alder (27 December 1838–1915) and his works had all but vanished from public memory until, in 2011, his descendants’ estate was offered to the State Library of Queensland. Here, we reintroduce you to one of his works Heron’s home 1895 (illustrated). ‘Heron’s home’ | Before Conservation Art history…
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Despite their enduring popularity since the 1960’s, artists’ books remain an elusive concept requiring some disambiguation. As Lucy Lippard, American writer and longtime champion of the artist’s book, notes, artists’ artists’ books are not books about art or on artists, but books as art1. Artists’ books can be read as conceptual artworks, with the book…
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In 1914, Melbourne-born artist Charles H Lancaster (1886–1959) moved to Brisbane to manage the stained-glass department at RS Exton and Co., where William Bustard (1894-1973) was subsequently appointed as chief designer. Brisbane’s ensuing building boom inspired both Lancaster and Bustard to make paintings of the dynamic civic projects developing around them, and they became active…
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In 1974, Australian artist Janet Dawson moved from Sydney to Binalong in regional New South Wales. Inspired by her new rural surroundings, she began to embrace more flowing forms, shifting her focus away from the hard-edge painting that she was known for in the 1960s. Describing this transition, Dawson said, ‘In the 60s I accepted…
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