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Republic of Congo strengthened the Gallery’s holdings
of contemporary international sculpture.
Key acquisitions of
Film, Video and New Media
included
Mika Rottenberg’s
Mary’s cherries
2004 and Oskar Fischinger’s
Raumlichtkunst (Space-Light-Art)
c.1926/2012, a three-
channel HD video projection exploring the important lines
of infuence between art and the moving image.
The
QAGOMA Research Library
acquired
Kiroku
, a 24-volume
photographic journal by Japanese artist Daido Moriyama,
purchased with funds donated by Dr Caroline Turner though
the QAGOMA Foundation. Numerous vinyl LP records and
items of music-related ephemera were acquired for the
Research Library’s collection; many were gifts from Scott
Redford, as part of the development of the exhibition
‘Seen + Heard: Works and Multiples from the Collection’.
For a full list of acquisitions, see pages 21–45.
Present a dynamic range of exhibitions
(including travelling exhibitions) and displays
focused on or incorporating Collection works.
Major Collection-based exhibitions included:
• ‘Harvest’, in conjunction with the film program
‘Harvest: Food on Film’, at GOMA
• ‘Transparent: Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s’
at QAG.
Collection-based exhibitions and displays at GOMA with
a strong focus on contemporary Indigenous Australian Art
holdings included:
• ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art
from Black Australia’, which later toured to the Auckland
Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand.
• ‘Death and Life: rakuny ga walnga: Contemporary
Arnhem Land Art’
• ‘Voice and Reason’
• ‘Terrain: Indigenous Australian Objects and Representations’.
Exhibitions at GOMA that examined the contemporary
collections from a range of perspectives included:
• ‘Earth and Elsewhere: Contemporary Works from
the Collection’
• ‘Everyday Magic’
• ‘Seen + Heard: Works and Multiples from the Collection’
• ‘Trace: Performance and its Documents’.
Exhibitions staged as part of the Glencore Queensland Artists’
Gallery program focused on three highly regarded artists
in different fields. Drawing on the Collection and augmented
by loans, including works from the artists and their families,
these exhibitions included:
• ‘Ruth Stoneley: A Stitch in Time’
• ‘Pleasure of Place: Photographs by Richard Stringer’
• ‘Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty’.
An ongoing program of changing international art displays
at QAG included a presentation of early twentieth-century
German expressionist prints and works on paper, which
demonstrated the effects of World War One on German
society. International photography was explored in depth with
the exhibition ‘Ever Present: Photographs from the Queensland
Art Gallery Collection 1850–1975’.
Displays of Collection works at QAG and GOMA by leading
artists featured significant artworks by William Robinson,
Fred Williams, Bea Maddock, Kathy Temin, Richard Long,
Ah Xian, Scott Redford and Ed Ruscha throughout the year.
Collection works toured to regional venues with the
continuing exhibitions ‘Lloyd Rees: Life and Light’ and ‘Ah Xian:
Metaphysica’. Following its display at QAG, ‘Ever Present:
Photographs from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
1850–1975’ commenced a regional tour in November 2013.
For a full list of exhibitions, see pages 46–53.
A total of 54 objects from the Collection were lent to regional,
national and international galleries for exhibition purposes;
12 of these objects were lent to regional Queensland galleries.
As at 30 June 2014, 178 objects were on loan to Queensland
Government offices.
Continue scholarly research into the Collection
and dissemination of such information through a
wide variety of publications and public programs.
Research
The
Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art
(ACAPA), the Gallery’s
Asian and Pacific research arm, hosted two curatorial volunteers
and two curatorial interns: Michael Kisombo (Papua New Guinea)
as part of the Prime Minister’s Pacific Program, and Junghee
Mun (South Korea) as part of a Public Service Exchange through
the Queensland-Gyeonggi-Do Sister State Agreement.
ACAPA’s long-running
Perspectives: Asia
seminar program,
presented in collaboration with the Griffith Asia Institute,
attracted sizeable audiences. Issues vital to the Asia Pacific
region were addressed by speakers including the Honourable
Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s Minister for Lands, Geology
and Mines; Steve Howard, secretary general of The Global