Annual Review 2018

The artist takes visitors into The Grotto 2018 during the exhibition media preview / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon The Observer (installation view, detail) 2010 / Photograph: Brad Wagner ‘ Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection ’ was the most expansive solo exhibition to date for an Australian artist at QAGOMA. The artist’s fantastic creatures and other-worldly landscapes inhabited all of GOMA’s ground floor as Piccinini combined the recognisable with the unfamiliar in surprising and deeply affecting ways that speculated about the convergence of worlds. Unburdened by cultural assumptions, the works in ‘Curious Affection’ proposed new, more mutable laws of nature and elicited an overwhelming sense of empathy. Attracting over 100 000 visitors, the exhibition was complemented by an extensive film program, Up Late, GOMA Talks and a standalone Children’s Art Centre experience, ‘Patricia Piccinini: Curious Creatures’. PATRICIA PICCININI CURIOUS AFFECTION 24 MARCH – 5 AUGUST 2018 | GOMA The artist at the Official Opening with her children Roxy and Hector / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon