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CONSERVATION
Lisa Reihana
/ New Zealand b.1964 /
in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
(stills, detail) 2015 / Four-channel HD video, 32 minutes (looped), 5:1 sound,
colour, ed. 2/5 / Purchased 2015 with funds from the Queensland Art Gallery |
Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Appeal and Paul and Susan Taylor
LISA REIHANA
IN PURSUIT OF VENUS [INFECTED]
2015
The QAGOMA Foundation’s Annual Appeal aimed
to acquire New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana’s major
video work
in
P
ursuit of Venus [infected]
2015,
now a touchstone for the Gallery’s growing Pacific
collection. Subsequent to its acquisition, the work
was selected to represent New Zealand
at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
John Ford Paterson
/ Scotland/Australia 1851–1912 /
Lake Catani,
Buffalo Mountains
1911, before, during and after conservation
treatment / Photographs: QAGOMA Conservation
The last known work of influential landscape painter John Ford Paterson has been
in the Gallery’s Collection since 1912 but severe paint cracking and a deteriorated
linen support meant it had never been displayed. Extensive conservation treatment
began in 2010. Removed from its stretcher and treated with the ‘Dutch method’ to
reduce the upward-lifting layers of cracked paint, the painting was double-lined with
a synthetic canvas, its cracks filled and losses in-painted. Revarnished, with a new
custom support, and returned to the restored original frame constructed
by renowned Melbourne framer John Thallon, the work was displayed —
possibly for the first time — in ‘The Founding Years’ (see page 21).
FOUNDATION APPEAL
PICTURE
REVIEW
2015
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REVIEW
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