Review 2015

ACQUISITIONS

ASIAN AND PACIFIC ART

REX WARRIMOU (SABÏO)

OUR CREATION (ÖMIE)

2014

A detailed visual creation story by the only male

barkcloth painter from the Ömie people of Papua

New Guinea, this last work in Warrimou’s series is

a complex and ambitious illustration of a continuous

thread, running from the creation of the world by

Uhöeggö’e the lizard to its population with plants,

animals, the seasons, fire and humans.

Rex Warrimou (Sabïo)

/ Ömie people, Papua New Guinea

b.c.1945 /

Our Creation (Ömie)

2014 / Natural pigments on

barkcloth / 66 x 131cm / Purchased 2015. Queensland Art

Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

UNKNOWN

NETSUKE

(ASHINAGA AND TENAGA)

19TH CENTURY

This group of netsuke — small, elaborately

carved pieces of ivory and wood — was once part of

the collection of art historian and critic Dr Gertrude

Langer, the bulk of which was bequeathed

to the gallery in 1985. With this further gift,

the group has been reunited.

Unknown

/ Japan /

Netsuke: (Ashinaga and Tenaga)

19th century /

Carved ivory / 5.8 x 2.9 x 2cm / Gift of John Riedel in memory

of Gertrude Langer through the Queensland Art Gallery |

Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2015

Aung Myint

/ Myanmar b.1946 /

Amazing

2012 /

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 117 x 86.6cm /

Purchased 2015. Queensland Art Gallery |

Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

AUNG MYINT

AMAZING

2012

Senior artist Aung Myint was part of the

movement to establish a contemporary

art platform in globally isolated Myanmar.

This painting’s calligraphic line evokes

Burmese script, but also reveals

a strong figurative presence.

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