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Future Exhibition Highlights: 2003
There are some fantastic exhibitions to look forward to at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2003. Opening in March, the children's exhibition 'Colour' will invite young visitors and their families to explore the ways in which colour has been used by artists. 'Colour' will continue the Gallery's groundbreaking series of children's exhibitions that stimulate the senses and challenge the mind.
In July, 'Story Place: Indigenous Art of Cape York and the Rainforest' will celebrate and explore the intrinsic links between art works, ceremonies, dances and beliefs unique to the Indigenous people of the Cape York region. Works such as sculptures from Aurukun, rainforest shields, fibre objects, works on paper, and contemporary paintings from the Lockhart River region will be included. Following its display at the Gallery, the exhibition will travel to venues in North Queensland.
Drawn from public and private collections, the focus of the National Gallery of Australia travelling exhibition 'Seeing the Centre: The Art of Albert Namatjira 1902-1959' will be 50 of the finest watercolours by this iconic Australian artist, tracing his career from the 1930s to his death in 1959. The exhibition will open at the Queensland Art Gallery in August 2003.
'Pop: The Continuing Influence of Popular Culture on Contemporary Art' is an exciting new travelling exhibition which will tour to eight regional Queensland centres throughout 2003-04. The exhibition will feature a selection of works from the Gallery’s Collection dating from the 1960s to the present, by artists such as Andy Warhol and Howard Arkley.
Following APT 2002, the International Galleries will be re-hung in a new configuration.The architectural design of the display spaces will be modified to allow viewers to make new visual connections between well-known Collection works and those that have recently been acquired. These include an installation by the English-based group Art & Language, a group of contemporary photographs by New Zealand expatriate Bill Culbert and a late 19th century Dutch landscape in oil by P.C. Dommersen. Also on display will be a major diptych by German artist Sigmar Polke from 2000 which the Gallery is in the process of acquiring.
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