Annual Review 2016

SUGAR SPIN: YOU, ME, ART AND EVERYTHING 3 DECEMBER 2016 – 17 APRIL 2017 GALLERY OF MODERN ART The central walls of GOMA were crawling with Nervescape V 2016 by Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir. Exuberant, expansive and tactile, this specially commissioned installation is constructed frommassed bundles of multicoloured synthetic hair. Photograph: Brad Wagner The vibrant soundsuits of American artist Nick Cave’s HEARD 2012 were acquired with the support of Foundation Special Patron Win Schubert, ao , and brought to life by an army of talented local dancers in HEARD•Brisbane 2016. OPPOSITE PAGE Photograph: Joe Ruckli ‘Sugar Spin’ was a celebration but also a reflection on a time in which truth is spun and sugar-coated, and we are eager for one sugar hit after another. The centrepiece exhibition of GOMA’s tenth-anniversary celebrations, ‘Sugar Spin’ drew visitors through five distinctive thematic chapters — Sweetmelt, Blackwater, Soaring, Treasure and Cosmos — as it established a dramatic itinerary in GOMA's unique spaces, highlighting the Gallery’s expansive collection of contemporary works. ABOVE Kohei Nawa / PixCell-DoubleDeer#4 2010 / Purchased 2010 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Photograph: Joe Ruckli LEFT Olafur Elliasson / The cubic structural evolution project 2004 / Purchased 2005. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant / Photograph: Joe Ruckli 44 ▼  REVIEW 2016 REVIEW 2016 ▼ 45 GOMA TURNS 10 GOMA TURNS 10