2007-08 Report

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 2007–08

INITIATIVES AND SERVICES

To develop the Gallery's unprecedented level of

cooperative marketing with tourism sector partners,

two senior staff visited New Zealand, a key market for

international visitors to the Gallery. Andrew Clark,

Deputy Director, Programming and Corporate Services,

and Celestine Doyle, Marketing and Sponsorship

Manager, travelled to New Zealand to promote the

'Andy Warhol' exhibition to potential audiences, and to

further develop the New Zealand market for future

major exhibitions. The visit to New Zealand was supported

by Queensland Events Corporation, a Principal Partner of

the 'Andy Warhol' exhibition.

Nicholas Chambers, Curator, Contemporary International

Art, travelled to the United States to accompany the

important Collection work by Takashi Murakami

And then,

and then and then and then and then

1994, on loan for

an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art,

Los Angeles. David Burnett, Curator, International Art,

also travelled to the United States to courier the work

between Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum of Art,

New York.

Nick Ashby, Installation Officer, attended the 2007 Venice

Biennale. He was selected as an Installation Technician

and Visitor Services Officer at the Biennale. Assistance

towards this professional development opportunity was

provided by Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for

the Arts.

Robert Zilli, Conservation Framer, undertook a Pratt

Foundation/International Special Skills (ISS) Institute

Overseas Fellowship at the Campbell Centre for Historic

Preservation Studies, Mount Carroll, Illinois.

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF ASIA PACIFIC ART (ACAPA)

The Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art (ACAPA), the

research arm of the Gallery's Asia Pacific activities,

supports artist and curator residencies, academic

research projects, public lectures, forums and

publications. The Gallery's Research Library collects

and maintains holdings of Asian and Pacific materials

including catalogues, journals, images and research files,

all of which are available to researchers and visiting

ACAPA scholars.

During the year ACAPA supported the visit of artist Lee

Mingwei to undertake the major project

Gernika in sand

and an associated eight-hour performance.

The successful partnership with Griffith Asia Institute,

Griffith University, to host the Perspectives: Asia lecture

series continued, with eight lectures presented:

'Travellers' Tales: Australian Tourism in Asia and the

Impact on the Australian Psyche', 'While We Weren't

Looking: The New Asia and How it Challenges Australia',

'Is India the Next China?', 'In the Neighbourhood: The

Challenges of Australia's Regional Engagement', 'Shock,

Horror — Drongo Oz Journo Runs Amok in Asia! How the

Australian Media Assesses the Importance of Asian News',

'India and Australia — The Battle for World Cricket',

‘Pakistan’s Regional Security’ and 'Asian Cuisine and

Australian Society'.

PUBLICATIONS

Major publications, exhibition catalogues and

Artlines

magazine were produced during the year for distribution

through Gallery Store outlets, the Store's online service

and the book trade. A range of educational and public

program materials, both printed and online, was also

produced.

For the 'Andy Warhol' exhibition a substantial 320-page

publication was produced in both softcover and

hardcover. This publication featured 14 essays and

interviews by Gallery curators and international writers

and over 200 illustrations.

Young audiences received

Pop Mag

, a 32-page children's

activity booklet developed especially for younger visitors

to the exhibition and the Silver Factory: Andy Warhol for

Kids. Free for children, the booklet was modelled on

Warhol's

Interview

magazine and 48 000 copies were

distributed. A fold-out

Summer Festival Program Guide

was produced with 14 150 copies handed out free to

visitors.

For the 'Picasso & his collection' exhibition, organised by

the musée national Picasso, Paris, in association with the

Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia, a

312-page publication was released in both softcover and

hardcover editions. The book featured essays by Anne

Baldassari and Philippe Saunier, as well as an extract

reprinted from

Picasso's Mask

(1974) by André Malraux.

Published to coincide with a survey exhibition of the

Australian modernist painter Kenneth Macqueen, the 160-

page publication

Making it Modern: The Watercolours of

Kenneth Macqueen

was a sell-out success. Contributors

included the exhibition's curator, Samantha Littley, other

Gallery curatorial staff, and leading Australian academics

and writers.

Katharina Grosse: Picture Park

, the 48-page large-format

publication that documented the exhibition installation

at GoMA, was also produced in a special signed and

numbered limited edition. Each copy has a unique canvas

cover spray-painted by the artist.

A 34-page catalogue was produced for the 'Xstrata Coal

Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2007' exhibition, with

essays on each of the ten artists featured, including the

Award winner, Genevieve Grieves.

Place Makers: Contemporary Queensland Architects

, a

320-page publication with more than 350 illustrations,

was also in development for release in August 2008.

The book is a collection of 55 of the most arresting

residential, public and institutional buildings designed

by Queensland architects over the past 20 years.

Publications produced included:

Andy Warhol

Katharina Grosse:

Picture Park

Picasso & his

collection

and

Artlines

magazine.