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JULY
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To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2004, ‘Blak Insights’, which showcases the scope
and strength of the Gallery’s collection of contemporary Indigenous art, opens
at the Gallery.
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The Gallery’s partnership with Comalco for the ‘Story Place: Indigenous Art of
Cape York and the Rainforest’ project wins the 2004 Toyota Community Award
from the Australian Business Arts Foundation, the first time a Queensland arts
organisation has won a national arts sponsorship award.
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Story Place
is awarded an honorable mention in the exhibition catalogue
category of the American Association of Museums 2004 Museum Publications
Design Competition.
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‘Story Place’ opens at Cairns Regional Gallery accompanied by a program of
performances, music, artist talks and workshops. The state-wide tour of the
exhibition continues the Gallery’s commitment to providing access to the
Collection for regional Queensland audiences.
AUGUST
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‘Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’, an exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of
South Australia, officially opens and provides Queensland audiences with an
insight into the groundbreaking work of this Indigenous artist.
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Carapace
1954 by Richard Hamilton — one of the most important figures in
postwar British art — is gifted to the Gallery’s international art collection.
SEPTEMBER
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A construction milestone is achieved for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
— on 9 September the first foundation pile is driven into the ground at the
Kurilpa Point site. Construction is scheduled for completion by late 2006.
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The Queensland Art Gallery annual Foundation Art Appeal is launched to raise
funds for the acquisition of
Café tables
1957 by the renowned artist Ian
Fairweather, to strengthen the Gallery’s holdings of works by this significant
Queensland artist.
2004
OCTOBER
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‘White/Light’, an exhibition of minimalist works exploring
the visual qualities and cultural connotations of white and
light in contemporary art, opens with Yayoi Kusama’s
magnificent
Narcissus garden
1966/2000 taking centre
stage in the Gallery’s Watermall.
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An important addition to the international art collection,
Jesus healing the blind
c.1600–20, attributed to the
Circle of Joos de Momper, is acquired to complement
the collection of mid sixteenth- to mid seventeenth-
century art works held by the Gallery.
NOVEMBER
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‘Ten Thoughts about Frames’, an exhibition delving into
the art, history and techniques of framing, opens in
Gallery 14.
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‘Pop: The Continuing Influence of Popular Culture on
Contemporary Art’ concludes its eight-venue tour at
Ipswich Art Gallery; ‘Pop’ has been seen by over 40 000
people on its 2003–04 tour of regional Queensland.
DECEMBER
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Jana Sterbak’s
From here to there
2003, a major addition
to the Gallery’s international and moving-image collection,
is acquired and forms the centrepiece of the latest
Children’s Art Centre exhibition, ‘The Nature Machine:
Contemporary Art, Nature and Technology’, which opens
in Gallery 4.
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The Gallery’s redeveloped website, which features over
600 pages, goes live and provides increased access to
the Gallery’s collections and programs for local and
international audiences.
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The Queensland Art Gallery Foundation celebrates
25 years of supporting the Gallery’s acquisitions,
exhibitions and public programs.
JANUARY
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‘The Nature Machine’ Summer Festival for kids builds on
the Gallery’s achievements in children’s programming and
attracts close to 30 000 visitors to the Gallery over
9 days.
FEBRUARY
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A set of four striking photographs by New Zealand artist
Greg Semu, depicting the artist’s full-body tattoo (
pe’a
),
is acquired for the Gallery’s Pacific art collection.
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The Gallery welcomes Simryn Gill as the first Artist-in-
Residence for the Australian Centre of Asia–Pacific Art;
the Centre is committed to fostering alliances,
scholarship and publishing in the region.
MARCH
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‘The Art of Fiona Hall’, a major mid-career survey
exhibition of the work of one of Australia’s leading
contemporary artists, shows at the Gallery for 11 weeks
before travelling to the Art Gallery of South Australia in
July.
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The annual ‘Education Minister’s Awards for Excellence in
Art’ opens at the Gallery and profiles the outstanding
work of Queensland secondary school students.
APRIL
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The Gallery secures a sponsorship with Xstrata Coal to establish an emerging
Indigenous Australian art award and acquisitions program for the Gallery; the
partnership is worth over $300 000 over three years.
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Queensland audiences get the opportunity to view ‘No Ordinary Place: The Art
of David Malangi’, when the Gallery hosts the touring exhibition organised by
the National Gallery of Australia.
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The Gallery’s annual Prime event, ‘Prime 2005: New Art from Queensland’,
opens to coincide with National Youth Week and showcases the strength of
current art practice by eight Queensland artists aged 35 and under.
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‘Streeton: Works from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection’, an intimate
exhibition of works by pre-eminent Australian artist Sir Arthur Streeton,
commences an eight-venue Queensland tour at the Outback Regional Gallery
in Winton.
MAY
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The Gallery’s
Video Hits: Art & Music Video
publication wins best exhibition
catalogue at the 2005 Museums Australia Publication Design Awards, and
Ah Xian
is highly commended in the same category.
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Suhanya Raffel (Head of Asian, Pacific and International Art) is awarded a
Smithsonian Fellowship to work with colleagues at the Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
JUNE
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The Honourable Anna Bligh,
MP
, Minister for Education and Minister for the
Arts, announces that APT 2006, the fifth in the Asia–Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art series of exhibitions, is scheduled to open in late 2006 as
the opening exhibition at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.
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48 825 people visit Queensland Art Gallery travelling exhibitions in regional
Queensland in 2004–05.
From left to right:
Installation view of ‘The Art of Fiona Hall’,
organised by the Queensland Art Gallery.
Circle of Joos de Momper (artist)
The Netherlands 1564–1635
Monogrammist IC (currently unidentified)
(painter of staffage)
Jesus healing the blind
c.1600–20
Oil on timber panel
40 x 69.5cm
Purchased 2004 with funds from anonymous
donors through the Queensland Art Gallery
Foundation
Installation view of Jana Sterbak’s
From here to
there
2003 in ‘The Nature Machine: Contemporary
Art, Nature and Technology’.
Wayne Goss, Chair of the Queensland Art Gallery
Board of Trustees, and the Microchips team battle
it out at ‘The Nature Machine’ Quiz Show,
19 January 2005.
On 9 September 2004 foundation piling
commenced for the Queensland Gallery of
Modern Art.
2005
HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS