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Ever Present: Photographs from the Queensland Art Gallery
Collection 1850–1975
8 June – 13 October 2013 | QAG
This exhibition presented works by unknown nineteenth-
century photographers alongside iconic images by some of the
masters of the twentieth century, such as Walker Evans, Henri
Cartier-Bresson and Diane Arbus. Images from photography’s
early years have a peculiar temporality, but also deliver the
past to us in a very immediate and familiar way, making the
past ‘ever present’.
Quilts 1700–1945
15 June – 22 September 2013 | QAG | Ticketed exhibition
‘Quilts 1700–1945’ from the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, offered visitors an unprecedented opportunity to
see over 30 quilted and patchworked bed covers and bed
hangings, as well as sewing accessories, created over a period
of two-and-a-half centuries. In addition, the exhibition provided
a rare chance to view
The Rajah quilt
1841 — generously on
loan from the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra — sewn
by women on board the convict ship
HMS Rajah
, during their
transportation to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in 1841.
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Glass from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
22 June 2013 – 24 August 2014 | QAG
A diverse selection of works from the Collection highlighted
the magical qualities of glass, which until the middle of the
nineteenth century was a rare commodity for the privileged few.
Ruth Stoneley: A Stitch in Time
13 July – 7 October 2013 | QAG
As part of the Glencore Queensland Artists’ Gallery
program, this exhibition of contemporary quilts by
leading Brisbane quilt‑maker and teacher Ruth Stoneley
(1940–2007) showcased exemplars of her work, from early
experimentations with the contained patterns of traditional
quilts to the free-fowing, abstract and expressive works of
her later years.
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Everyday Magic
7 September 2013 – 16 March 2014 | GOMA
‘Everyday Magic’ drew from the Gallery’s contemporary
collections to explore how everyday materials and situations
can be transformed into art. These works could be said to turn
the banal on its head, making audiences laugh or re-evaluate
commonly accepted notions about art.
Kathy Temin
My monument: White forest
2008
28 September 2013 – 16 February 2014 | GOMA
Evoking Dr Seuss’s
The Lorax
, Kathy Temin’s
My monument:
White forest
2008 is an immersive environment of cartoon-like
trees created from fuffy white fabric set against a sky-blue
background. The beauty of the installation suggests
a fantasy world of excess, yet Temin’s soft materials are
earthly and physical.
Scott Redford and Ed Ruscha: Gold Coast Meets West Coast
18 October 2013 – 23 March 2014 | QAG
This display emphasised how Scott Redford’s iconography
of the Gold Coast and Ed Ruscha's work memorialising late
twentieth-century California draw on urban and suburban
landscapes and explore the intersections between art and
society in postwar Queensland and California.
Pleasure of Place: Photographs by Richard Stringer
26 October 2013 – 16 March 2014 | QAG
This Glencore Queensland Artists’ Gallery program exhibition
acknowledged the artistic achievements and significant body
of work developed by renowned Queensland photographer and
teacher Richard Stringer over 40 years. It explored the varied
subjects that have inspired Stringer, including landscapes,
industrial archaeology and the urban environment, as well as
his lifelong work documenting Queensland’s built environment.
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