2010-11 Report

Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11

Outcomes

Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2010–11

Outcomes

The simple joy of Martin

Creed’s installation in '21st

Century: Art in the First

Decade'.

Martin Creed | Scotland

b.1968 |

Work No. 956

2008 |

Purple balloons | Multiple

parts, each balloon 28cm

diameter | Installed size

variable | Courtesy: The artist

and Hauser & Wirth, Zurich,

London and New York

Scott Redford conducted a

floortalk and workshop for

young people as part of the

Gallery’s New Wave Teens

program

Participants in a My Gen

50+ tour focusing on

Queensland art explored

the ‘Scott Redford’

exhibition

Below: The Premier of

Queensland and then

Minister for the Arts, Anna

Bligh,

, officially opened

the Gallery’s ‘Scott Redford:

Introducing Reinhardt

Dammn’ exhibition

Institutional profile

The Gallery has continued to develop and promote

its curatorial and programming directions to diverse

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profile across its two sites. This has been achieved by:

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programs and events across both QAG and GoMA

in order to maintain strong attendance and a national

and international profile;

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as well as the continuities and interrelationships,

between historical and contemporary art and the

cultural focus of each building respectively;

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scale and ambition, the benefits and opportunities

provided by the two sites;

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management and business development strategies

to maintain a strong national and international profile

and support; and

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Centre partner institutions to ensure that the Gallery

plays an important role in animating and raising the

profile of the Cultural Centre as a whole.

Exhibitions

Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn

19 November 2010 – 13 March 2011 l QAG

Scott Redford is a leading Australian artist who has firmly

placed his home town, Queensland's Gold Coast, on

the contemporary art map. His intelligent and passionate

investigation of vernacular visual culture has enlivened

Australian art. This major solo exhibition showcased his

development of the fictitious character Reinhardt Dammn

in dialogue with key works from the last decade.

'Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn'

featured surfboard sculptures, videos and paintings,

suites of fibreglass objects and canvases with shiny,

highly coloured acrylic surfaces. At the same time, the

10-metre signage sculpture

The High / Perpetual Xmas,

No Abstractions

2008 outside the Gallery of Modern

Art provided a link between GoMA and QAG, where the

exhibition was displayed.