2005-06 Report

highlights and achievements

/ QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 05/06

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 05/06 /

highlights and achievements

JULY 2005

‘The Art of Fiona Hall’,

organised by the

Queensland Art Gallery,

opens at the Art Gallery of

South Australia, in

Adelaide, on 8 July; this

exhibition is the first survey

of this leading artist’s work

to be staged by an

Australian gallery in more

than a decade.

‘Press Pause: Recent

Australian Video

Installations’ featuring Susan

Norrie’s

Enola

2004, David

Rosetzky’s

Untouchable

2003 and Daniel von

Sturmer’s

The Truth Effect

2003 opens in Gallery 4.

The inaugural lecture in the

Perspectives: Asia series of

free public seminars is

presented by Professor

Michael Wesley, Director of

the Griffith Asia Institute,

and Doug Hall,

, Director,

Queensland Art Gallery. The

series is a joint initiative of

the Griffith Asia Institute,

Griffith University, and the

Gallery’s Australian Centre of

Asia–Pacific Art.

AUGUST

‘Sparse Shadows, Flying

Pearls: A Japanese Screen

Revealed’ — an intimate

exhibition focusing on a pair

of seventeenth-century

Japanese screens by Unkoku

To- eki gifted to the Gallery by

James Fairfax,

— opens in

Gallery 14.

The Gallery’s magazine

Artlines

is relaunched —

now a 48-page magazine

with national distribution, it

features themed issues,

specially commissioned

writing, and art news from

the Asia–Pacific region.

SEPTEMBER

The Gallery Foundation’s

Blackman Art Appeal is

launched to raise funds

for the acquisition of

City lights

1952 by

distinguished Australian

artist Charles Blackman.

JANUARY 2006

The Children’s Arts Centre is

announced as a major

initiative of the Gallery of

Modern Art (GoMA) by the

Honourable Rod Welford,

Minister for Education and

Minister for the Arts; with

the opening of GoMA on 2

December 2006, the

Children’s Arts Centre will

have a permanent base,

with a dedicated exhibition

space, teacher resources

and workshop facilities.

Box City — the largest scale

interactive art work for

children to be

commissioned by the Gallery

— is created by children and

their families working with

over 30 artists as part of the

‘Made for this World’

Summer Family Day on

15 January.

FEBRUARY

‘Margaret Preston: Art and

Life’ and ‘Grace Cossington

Smith: A Retrospective

Exhibition’, travelling

exhibitions from the Art

Gallery of New South Wales

and the National Gallery of

Australia respectively, open

at the Gallery — the

exhibitions are on show

together for the first time on

their national tours.

‘Queensland Live:

Contemporary Art on Tour’

begins an eight-venue

Queensland tour at the

Gladstone Regional Art

Gallery and Museum; this

exhibition tour is the first

regional Queensland

activity which is part of the

Gallery of Modern Art

opening celebrations.

MARCH

The annual ‘Education

Minister’s Awards for

Excellence in Art’ exhibition

opens in Gallery 6 and

displays outstanding work

by 29 students from

secondary schools

throughout Queensland.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

Installation view of ‘Sparse Shadows,

Flying Pearls: A Japanese Screen

Revealed’, held at the Queensland Art

Gallery 27 August – 27 November 2005.

Box City, under construction on 15

January 2006 as part of the exhibition

‘Made for this World’.

The travelling exhibitions ‘Margaret

Preston: Art and Life’ and ‘Grace

Cossington Smith: A Retrospective

Exhibition’ were held at the Queensland

Art Gallery 18 February – 1 May 2006.

Installation view of ‘Barbara Heath:

Jeweller to the Lost’, held at the

Queensland Art Gallery 15 October 2005

– 26 March 2006.

OCTOBER

‘Barbara Heath: Jeweller to

the Lost’, a survey exhibition

of one of Australia’s

foremost jewellers, opens in

Gallery 17.

The Gallery’s Sculpture

Conservator, Amanda

Pagliarino, is named the

Australian Institute for the

Conservation of Cultural

Material Conservator of the

Year 2005.

NOVEMBER

The Gallery of Modern Art’s

Australian Cinémathèque is

launched by the Honourable

Rod Welford,

, Minister for

Education and Minister for

the Arts, at the opening of

the inaugural Australian

Cinémathèque exhibition

and film program, ‘Kiss of

the Beast’.

Developed around the

theme of the built

environment, ’Made for this

World: Contemporary Art

and the Places We Build’

opens and continues the

Gallery’s presentation of

contemporary art for

contemporary kids.

DECEMBER

Work commences on the

Gallery’s new entrance and

foyer on the existing

building’s northern aspect.

The new entry will link to the

Gallery of Modern Art via the

Stanley Place public plaza.

From their home computers,

young visitors explore

Kusama’s World of Dots —

an online children’s

interactive developed by the

Gallery in collaboration with

Japanese artist Yayoi

Kusama.

The ten-day ‘Kiss of the

Beast’ film program opens

at the Australian Centre for

the Moving Image,

Melbourne.

APRIL

Jonathan Jones is announced

as the inaugural winner of

the ‘Xstrata Coal Emerging

Indigenous Art Award’ — an

annual, acquisitive art award

of $30 000 for Indigenous

artists; his winning work

lumination fall wall weave

2004/2006 is displayed in

Gallery 2 as part of the Award

exhibition featuring the work

of all ten short-listed artists.

MAY

At the 2006 Museums

Australia Multimedia and

Publication Design Awards,

the Gallery wins first place in

the small exhibition

catalogue category for

Sparse Shadows, Flying

Pearls: A Japanese Screen

Revealed

, and first place in

the multimedia category for

Kusama’s World of Dots

children’s interactive.

JUNE

26 716 people visit

Queensland Art Gallery

travelling exhibitions in

regional Queensland in

2005–06.

The Provenance Research

Project — initiated in 2001

to confirm the Gallery’s

good title to works of

European origin that may

have been confiscated

during the 1933–45 period

of Nazi rule — is completed,

and the results published on

the Gallery’s website.

Preparations intensified for

the public opening of the

Gallery of Modern Art

(GoMA), the refurbished

Queensland Art Gallery and

‘The 5th Asia–Pacific

Triennial of Contemporary

Art’ (APT5); APT5, to open on

2 December 2006 in both

the Queensland Art Gallery

and GoMA, will feature 37

artists and 2 multi-artist

projects, as well as curated

programs of performance,

film and video, and a

summer festival for children.

HIGHLIGHTS AND

ACHIEVEMENTS