2007-08 Report

QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 2007–08

HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

SEPTEMBER

Olafur Eliasson's

The cubic

structural evolution project

2004 begins its 12-venue

regional Queensland tour at

Pinnacles Gallery,

Thuringowa.

The Australian

Cinémathèque presents

Breathless: French New

Wave Turns 50, a program

of 126 films exploring the

important cinematic

developments from the end

of the 1950s through the

1960s in Paris.

OCTOBER

The retirement of Wayne

Goss as Chair of the

Queensland Art Gallery

Board of Trustees is

announced on 12 October.

Mr Goss is commended for

leading the Gallery through

almost a decade of great

change, including the

development of GoMA and

the continued development

of the Asia Pacific Triennial of

Contemporary Art exhibition

series. Mr Goss's third term

ends in February 2008.

The campaign for 'Andy

Warhol' — Australia's

first major Andy Warhol

retrospective — is launched

on 17 October at GoMA. The

Honourable Anna Bligh,

Premier of Queensland; the

Minister for Education and

Training and Minister for the

Arts, the Honourable Rod

Welford,

; and the

Minister for Tourism,

Regional Development and

Industry, the Honourable

Desley Boyle,

, speak at

the launch.

JULY 2007

Tony Ellwood, former Deputy

Director, National Gallery

of Victoria, joins the Gallery

as Director.

A major retrospective of

the work of Howard Arkley,

a National Gallery of Victoria

Touring Exhibition, opens

at the Gallery of Modern Art

(GoMA) on 6 July.

Katharina Grosse's

exhibition 'Picture Park'

opens at GoMA on 15 July.

One of the most exciting

and innovative abstract

painters working today,

Grosse transforms the Long

Gallery, working in situ with

over-scaled balloon shapes,

canvases, pigmented earth

and energetic gestures of

spray paint.

AUGUST

The free public seminar

series Perspectives: Asia

continues, with eight

seminars presented during

the year. The series, which

explores issues of

contemporary culture,

politics and society in the

region, is jointly presented

by the Griffith Asia Institute,

Griffith University; and the

Australian Centre of Asia

Pacific Art, Queensland Art

Gallery.

Genevieve Grieves wins the

Xstrata Coal Emerging

Indigenous Art Award 2007

with her five-channel video

installation

Picturing the old

people

2006–07.

NOVEMBER

An exhibition of some 130

watercolours by Kenneth

Macqueen opens at the

Queensland Art Gallery.

'Making it Modern: The

Watercolours of Kenneth

Macqueen' highlights

Macqueen's importance as

an Australian modernist

and features imagery of the

Darling Downs, and the

Gold and Sunshine Coasts.

The exhibition was curated

by the Queensland Art

Gallery and developed with

the support and assistance

of the Macqueen family.

A significant acquisition by

internationally acclaimed

sculptor Anish Kapoor is

unveiled at GoMA. The

large-scale sculpture

Untitled

2006–07 was

commissioned to mark the

opening of the GoMA and

was dedicated to former

Director Doug Hall,

DECEMBER

'Andy Warhol' opens at

GoMA. The exhibition was

organised by the

Queensland Art Gallery and

The Andy Warhol Museum,

one of the four Carnegie

Museums of Pittsburgh.

Exclusive to Brisbane, the

exhibition attracts crowds

of more than 232 000 —

a Queensland Art Gallery

record for a paid exhibition.

More than 25 000 school

students visit the Gallery

for 'Andy Warhol'. The

Australian Cinémathèque

presents an in-depth survey

of Warhol's films and the

Children's Art Centre

presents the Silver Factory:

Andy Warhol for Kids.

A summer guide to the

Cultural Centre is produced

collaboratively by Cultural

Centre partner institutions

and Arts Queensland.

Cultural Centre Summer in

Brisbane 2007/08

is the

first of two guides produced

to promote programming

across the Cultural Centre

precinct.

JANUARY 2008

The Gallery introduces an

Up Late series, and this

Friday night program of

Warhol-related live music

and guest talks is

supported by capacity

audiences.

The free 11-day Andy

Warhol Summer Festival

attracts more than 71 000

visitors between 18 and 28

January. In regional

Queensland, more than

2700 people experience the

festival with a special day

of Warhol-inspired activities

across 24 venues on

19 January.

Sir Bruce Watson,

, retires

as President of the Gallery

Foundation after 22 years,

and Tim Fairfax,

, is

appointed to the role.

LEFT TO RIGHT

Tim Fairfax,

, President, Queensland

Art Gallery Foundation, speaking at

the Foundation viewing of 'Sidney

Nolan: A New Retrospective', 6 June

2008.

Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland

Art Gallery; Martyn Eames,

Vice President Corporate and People,

Santos; the Honourable Anna Bligh,

, Premier of Queensland, and

Wayne Goss, then Chair, Queensland

Art Gallery Board of Trustees, at the

'Andy Warhol' Media Preview,

7 December 2007.

Professor John Hay,

, Chair, Board

of Trustees, speaking at an event to

recognise the contribution to the

Gallery of former Chair Wayne Goss,

held on 30 June 2008.

A special blessing ceremony was held

as part of Lee Mingwei’s Bodhi Tree

Project, 1 May 2008.

Installation view of 'Katharina Grosse:

Picture Park' 2007.