Page 49 - Annual Review 2008

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New to the program this year was a travelling lecture
tour, developed by the Gallery to coincide with the
‘Picasso & his collection’ exhibition. The tour was
designed for rural and remote areas of the state, with
Gallery staff visiting 25 regional venues and talking with
hundreds of local visitors.
A programming highlight was the Andy Warhol
Summer Festival – Queensland, a one-day event held
simultaneously at 24 regional Queensland venues in
January 2008.
Gallery staff also visited regional communities
throughout the year to assist with exhibition installations
and demounts, to train volunteers, judge awards, deliver
education programs, and provide consultancy services
for arts workers.
Two regional arts workers participated in a two-week
placement with the Access, Education and Regional
Services section, through The Backstage Pass:
Queensland Art Gallery Regional Internship. Allison
Bateman, Exhibition Officer, Hervey Bay Regional
Gallery, and Marg Naylor, Public Programs Co-ordinator,
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, were awarded
the internship from 26 May to 8 June 2008. Left: Installation view of touring exhibition ‘Frame by Frame’, featuring Ai Weiwei’s
photographic work Dropping a Han Dynasty urn 1995 / Photographer: Anna Thurgood.
Top: A child enjoys an Andy Warhol Summer Festival – Queensland activity at Cairns Regional
Gallery. Photograph: Camilla Tunnell
Highlights
Travelling Exhibitions
Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic structural
evolution project 2004 visited eight venues,
as part of its continuing 12-venue tour. Eliasson’s
popular interactive artwork invites audiences to
participate in the construction of an ever-
evolving, white Lego metropolis.
‘myth to modern: Bronzes from the
Queensland Art Gallery Collection’ travelled
to seven venues, as part of its continuing
13-venue tour. The exhibition explores the figure
through bronze sculpture, and features works
from the Gallery’s International and Australian
collections.
‘Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on
Tour’ presents an exhibition of 50 photographic
and moving image works. The works are from
the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and many
have been acquired through its Asia Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition series.
The exhibition includes works by Ai Weiwei
(China), Rashid Rana (Pakistan), Tsuyoshi Ozawa
(Japan), Qin Ga (China), Stephen Page
(Australia), and Sima Urale (Samoa/New Zealand).
'Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour' is a regional
program of the Queensland Art Gallery's Asia Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art, which is supported by the
Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the
Australian, state and territory governments, administered
by Arts Queensland.
‘making it modern: The watercolours of
Kenneth macqueen’ opened at Artspace
Mackay in December, and will travel to the
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery in 2009.
This selection of watercolours was originally
presented in the major retrospective of Kenneth
Macqueen’s work at the Queensland Art Gallery
in 2008.
The tour of 'Making it Modern: The Watercolours
of Kenneth Macqueen' is sponsored by Leighton
Contractors Pty Ltd.
@ Cairns Art Gallery