Annual Review 2016

AUSTRALIAN ART ARTHUR BOYD 1920–99 Sleeping bride 1957–58 Oil and tempera on composition board / 91.5 x 122cm / Gift of Paul Taylor in memory of his parents Eric and Marion Taylor through the QAGOMA Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Arthur Boyd’s work reproduced with the permission of Bundanon Trust The 2016 Foundation Annual Dinner celebrated a major gift from Paul and Susan Taylor. The landmark work, from Arthur Boyd's 'Brides' series, was inspired by the artist's life-changing encounters with Aboriginal people during a trip to central Australia in the 1950s. Alongside Sidney Nolan’s ‘Ned Kelly’ paintings and Albert Tucker’s ‘Images of Modern Evil’, Boyd’s ‘Brides’ persist as one of the country’s most intriguing and immediately iconic series. Sleeping bride is one of the most significant individual works of Australian art ever gifted to the Collection. A young Hubert Pareroultja watched his father, Reuben, uncles Otto and Edwin, and Albert Namatjira — central figures in the Hermannsburg watercolour movement — as they painted. Pareroultja now paints many of the same locations they once did, and lives and works in the Western MacDonnell Ranges. Mt Gillen is part of an immense gift from Glenn Manser of 119 watercolours by descendants of the Hermannsburg School. INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN ART HUBERT PAREROULTJA ARRERNTE/LURITJA PEOPLE b.1974 Mt Gillen 2007 Watercolour on paperboard / 23 x 53cm / The Glenn Manser Collection. Gift of Glenn Manser through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / ©Hubert Pareroultja Bad dad 2013, Michael Zavros’s contemporary take on the myth of Narcissus, was inspired by Caravaggio’s famous version in Rome’s Barberini Collection, but also alludes to Jeff Koons and David Hockney. A move away from strict photorealism, and a refining of Zavros’s painterly technique, the Archibald Prize finalist joined the Collection thanks to the generous donations of Foundation members and the general public through the QAGOMA Foundation’s Annual Appeal. CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART MICHAEL ZAVROS b.1974 Bad dad 2013 Oil on canvas / 110 x 150cm / Purchased 2016 with funds raised through the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal The artist and his family at the Foundation Appeal launch / April 2016 / Photograph: Mark Sherwood COLLECTION 56 ▼  REVIEW 2016 REVIEW 2016 ▼ 57 COLLECTION COLLECTION