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The Director and Gallery staff undertook international
research travel, particularly in the Asia Pacific region, as
part of the development of ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art’ (APT8) and other exhibitions. This included
meeting with artists and colleagues from museums and arts
organisations to expand networks and strengthen alliances
with the Gallery for potential future collaboration. APT travel
is funded by the Australia Council.
National
‘Yirrkala Drawings’ was developed by the Art Gallery of New
South Wales in association with the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art
Centre at Yirrkala and the Berndt Museum at the University of
Western Australia.
In partnership with the 2013 Brisbane International Film
Festival, the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque curated and
presented the film program ‘Andrey Tarkovsky: Poet of the
Cinema’. Other public screenings were held at the Gallery in
association with the festival. The Gallery developed a new
partnership with the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, showcasing
selected 2013 award-nominated films and hosting special
events with visiting international guests.
Guest lectures were made possible through relationships
with local and interstate institutions. Two international artists
exhibiting at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art — Simon
Starling and Kerry Tribe — delivered lectures at GOMA;
UK-based Richard Long presented an artist talk at GOMA
through a project collaboration with Sydney’s Museum of
Contemporary Art and Garvan Institute of Research; while
US-based artist Tehching Hsieh presented a keynote lecture
through a partnership with CarriageWorks, Sydney.
The Gallery maintains reciprocal membership benefits with
all state art galleries through membership of the Australian
Federation of Friends of Museums (AFFM). QAGOMA’s
Members Coordinator is the Queensland representative and
Vice President of AFFM, and encourages regional Queensland
galleries to become involved with AFFM.
Guests from the State Library of Queensland’s black&write!
project facilitated QAGOMA Members Book Club discussions
in July and August 2013, focusing on some of the themes
presented in ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home’.
The Centre for Contemporary Art Conservation hosted
two conservation interns from the University of Melbourne.
Gallery conservators collaborated on research projects with
the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of
Melbourne, and were invited to examine student theses.
Government Partners
The Gallery partnered with state and federal government
agencies to celebrate Australia’s diverse cultures. The
Queensland Government provided important support for
programs and initiatives throughout the year, including:
• Tourism and Events Queensland’s investment in ‘Cai
Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’ recognised the significant
contribution this exclusive-to-Brisbane exhibition made to
cultural tourism, including its economic benefit to the state.
• Funding from the Department of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs created an
opportunity for ‘Kangaroo Crew’ to tour regionally to ten
remote Indigenous communities through QAGOMA’s Kids
on Tour initiative.
• The Backing Indigenous Arts program provided support
for Queensland artists Megan Cope and Gordon Hookey
to participate in ‘My Country, I Still Call Australia Home:
Contemporary Art from Black Australia’.
The Australian Government, through the Australia Council for
the Arts, its arts funding and advisory board, and the Visual
Arts and Crafts Strategy, provided ongoing funding for the
development of APT8.
The Gallery partnered with Brisbane City Council’s Brisbane
Marketing to promote Brisbane as a destination for cultural
tourism for ‘Quilts 1700–1945’, ‘California Design 1930–
1965: Living in a Modern Way’ and ‘Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling
Back to Earth’.
Cultural Precinct
QAGOMA contributes to a range of Cultural Precinct working
groups focusing on programming, positioning, the digital
precinct and infrastructure planning. In addition to working
together on collection storage and wayfinding solutions,
QAGOMA and precinct partners, the State Library of
Queensland (SLQ), Queensland Museum (QM) and Queensland
Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), collaborated on a range
of programs:
• QAGOMA, SLQ and QM presented Memories from a
Forgotten People, a project marking the contribution of
Australian South Sea Islanders to Queensland over the last
150 years.
• In collaboration with the Department of the Premier and
Cabinet, a Precinct Adventure Trail was presented during
Queensland Week 2014.
• Jemima Wyman’s ‘Pattern Bandits’ at GOMA’s Children’s
Art Centre was featured in Out of the Box, the cross-
precinct festival for children under eight.