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Richard Long: Ring of Stones
22 February – 20 July 2014 | QAG
Ring of Stones
1982, a circular arrangement of 258 large stones,
is an example of artist Richard Long’s ongoing engagement with
the landscape, evoking its natural cycles and rhythms.
Trace: Performance and its Documents
22 February – 6 October 2014 | GOMA
‘Trace’ drew out relationships between performance and its
documentation, bringing together new commissions with
70 historical and contemporary works from the Gallery’s
Collection. The works span numerous cultural contexts and
types of performance, including feats of endurance, repetitive
actions, shamanistic rituals and vaudevillian acts.
Seen + Heard: Works and Multiples from the Collection
15 March – 3 August 2014 | GOMA
‘Seen + Heard’ presented works from the Collection that
directly incorporate or indirectly refer to sound and music,
demonstrating the diverse lines of infuence between pop
music, wider popular culture and visual art. It explored this
nexus in over 120 historical and contemporary works by more
than 30 artists, all drawing on the interaction of sound and
music, image and text, object and sculpture, and video and the
moving image.
Transparent: Watercolour in Queensland 1850s–1980s
22 March – 20 July 2014 | QAG
‘Transparent’ explored the history of watercolour painting
in Queensland. The exhibition brought together over 150
watercolours from the Gallery’s Collection, demonstrating
the medium’s important role in the state’s visual history from
its earliest colonial beginnings to more recent interpretations.
Used by early settlers to depict the landscape, by later artists
to evoke the growing city of Brisbane and by wartime artists to
record daily activities, the medium of watercolour is portable
and adaptable, perfect for capturing quick impressions.
Ah Xian: Heavy Wounds
29 March – 3 August 2014 | QAG
‘Heavy Wounds’ is an important suite of early paintings by
Chinese-born Australian artist Ah Xian, generously gifted by the
artist and donors. It draws on the iconography of socialist realist
first aid posters from China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) and
conveys experiences of trauma and the process of healing.
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art 2014
5 April – 22 June 2014 | GOMA
This annual exhibition, an initiative of the Department of
Education, Training and Employment and supported by
QAGOMA, showcased the outstanding achievements of senior
visual art students from schools throughout Queensland.
Sam Fullbrook: Delicate Beauty
5 April – 10 August 2014 | QAG
The third exhibition in the Glencore Queensland Artists’ Gallery
program for the year was the first major exhibition in almost
20 years of the work of one of Australia’s most infuential
postwar painters, Sam Fullbrook (1922–2004). The exhibition
built on a significant group of works from the Gallery’s
Collection, augmented by significant public and private loans,
and highlighted the evocative, timeless work of this highly
skilled colourist and tonalist.
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Yirrkala Drawings
12 April – 13 July 2014 | QAG
Developed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in association
with Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre at Yirrkala and the
Berndt Museum at the University of Western Australia, ‘Yirrkala
Drawings’ was the first major exhibition of a group of drawings
by senior Aboriginal leaders and bark painters from Yirrkala
in north-east Arnhem Land. These exuberant drawings —
produced in 1946–47 with coloured crayons and brown paper
provided by young anthropologists Ronald M Berndt and
Catherine H Berndt — express the intricacies of Yolngu culture,
clan relationships and connection to country.