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14 Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees Annual Report 2013–14
OUTCOMES
Cinema
The Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque curated seven major
international film programs exclusive to Brisbane. The
programs sourced the best available screening materials
internationally, giving audiences many opportunities to view
films not normally accessible to the public.
The Australian Cinémathèque screened 441 short and feature
films in 500 screenings attended by 24 365 visitors. They
included the major curated film programs ‘My Life As I Live
It: First Peoples and Black Cinema’, ‘Claire Denis’, ‘Andrey
Tarkovsky: Poet of the Cinema’, ‘Fairytales and Fables’ and ‘The
Last of England: Thatcherism and British Cinema’. Two ticketed
programs were also presented — ‘Action, Hong Kong Style’ and
‘Orson Welles: A Retrospective’.
For full exhibition and cinema program details, see pages 46–53.
Provide an economic benefit to Queensland
through the presentation of major exhibitions
and building the Gallery’s profile as an important
cultural tourism destination.
Three exclusive-to-Queensland ticketed exhibitions were
presented in 2013–14:
Exhibition
Total
visitors
Associated
Economic
Impact
Total
visitor
nights
Visitors
from
interstate
or
overseas
Quilts
1700–1945
42 758 $4.13m 137 824 32%
California
Design
1930–1965
59 999 $2.08m 103 328 21%
Cai Guo-Qiang:
Falling Back
to Earth
229 323 $14.51m 540 836 21%
TOTAL
332 080 $20.72m 781 988
These exhibitions contributed to a cumulative estimated
economic benefit of more than $79 million to Queensland
from ticketed exhibitions presented since the Gallery became
a two-site institution in December 2006.
To achieve these results, the Gallery has collaborated with
sponsors and tourism sector partners to attract greater local,
intrastate, interstate and international audiences. For more
information on these partnerships, see page 16.
Expand and strengthen important partnerships
and alliances between the Gallery and key
national and international museums, arts
touring organisations and potential sponsors.
Relationships with national and international museums and
cultural organisations were strengthened across a range of
alliances and involved both incoming and outgoing exhibitions.
International
‘Quilts 1700–1945’, organised by the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London (V&A), and curated by Sue Prichard, Curator
of Contemporary Textiles, was the second major textiles
exhibition staged in partnership with the V&A. ‘Hats: An
Anthology by Stephen Jones’ was presented at QAG in 2010.
‘California Design 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way’ was
organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
and curated by Wendy Kaplan, Curator and Department Head,
and Bobbye Tigerman, Associate Curator, from LACMA’s
Decorative Arts and Design Department. This was QAGOMA’s
first collaboration with LACMA.
QAGOMA worked closely with artist Cai Guo-Qiang and
Cai Studio to realise ‘Falling Back to Earth’.
The Gallery’s major exhibition of contemporary Indigenous
Australian art, ‘My Country: Contemporary Art from Black
Australia’, curated by Bruce McLean, Curator, Indigenous Art,
was presented at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New
Zealand (28 March – 17 August 2014), and was accompanied
by the Children’s Art Centre artist project ‘Gordon Hookey:
Kangaroo Crew’.
Yayoi Kusama’s
Obliteration room
2002 to present toured
internationally to four venues in South America, three venues
in Asia and one venue in Switzerland.
For full details of touring exhibitions, see pages 50–51.
As an associate member of the Fédération Internationale
des Archives du Film (FIAF), the Gallery’s Australian
Cinémathèque collaborated with a number of prestigious
international film organisations, including institutions and
archives in the United Kingdom, United States, China, Hong
Kong, Russia, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy and the Czech
Republic. FIAF membership facilitated the loan of film prints
otherwise unavailable for screenings.