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QAGOMA
FOUNDATION
With support from generous individuals and families and
Queensland Government, the QAGOMA Foundation raises
crucial funds to develop the Gallery’s Collection and present
major exhibitions and programs, and has enabled the acquisition
of more than 40 per cent of the Gallery’s Collection.
The Foundation is led by its President, Tim Fairfax,
ac
, and its
Patron is His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey,
ac
,
Governor of Queensland.
In its first year, the Foundation’s new Future Collective initiative
for younger benefactors attracted 30 members and supported
the acquisition of five striking works from Abdul Abdullah’s
‘Coming to terms’ series 2015, which appeared in APT8.
The second QAGOMA Medal was awarded to one of the most
outstanding patrons in the Gallery’s history, Win Schubert,
ao
.
The Foundation also awarded the inaugural Vida Lahey Memorial
Travelling Scholarship to Matthew Perkins, for his research into
the development of Australian video art.
PARTNER
PARTNER
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT /
Guests at the Foundation Christmas
Celebration view Anida Yoeu Ali’s
The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night
2015 / Commissioned for APT8.
The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer
Collection of Contemporary Asian
Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from
Michael Sidney Myer through the
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of
Modern Art Foundation / December
2015 / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon
QAGOMA Medal recipient Win
Schubert,
ao
, at the Annual Dinner /
October 2015 / Photograph: Joe Ruckli
His Excellency the Hon. Paul
de Jersey,
ac
, addresses the
Annual Dinner / October 2015 /
Photograph: Joe Ruckli
Curator of Contemporary
Australian Art Peter McKay
pitches Abdul Abudullah’s work
to the Future Collective for
acquisition / October 2015 /
Photograph: Chloë Callistemon
PREVIOUS PAGES FROM LEFT /
Senior Curator and Head of Australian
Cinémathèque José Da Silva leads a
Chairman’s Circle tour of ‘David Lynch:
Between Two Worlds’ / March 2015 /
Photograph: Mark Sherwood
Celestine Doyle, then Director, Asia
Pacific Council; Amelia Tang, Deputy
Director, Arts & Heritage, Singapore
Ministry of Culture, Community &
Youth; Thangamma Karthigesu,
Director, Culture Academy, National
Heritage Board; Rosa Daniel, Chief
Executive, Singapore National
Heritage Board; QAGOMA Director
Chris Saines,
cnzm
; His Excellency
Burhan Gafoor, Singapore High
Commissioner to Australia;
Prof Sue Street,
ao
; Benedict Tan,
First Secretary, Singapore High
Commission / September 2015 /
Photograph: Chloë Callistemon
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