Annual Review 2018

MAY & JUNE Each year, the Gallery marks the Buddha Birth Day Festival with a special blessing ceremony on GOMA’s Bodhi Tree Terrace. The tree from artist Lee Mingwei’s Bodhi Tree Project 2006 has direct lineage to the original tree where the Buddha was said to have achieved enlightenment. Following the blessing ceremony, a traditional tea ceremony was led by a Tea Master from the Chung Tian Buddhist Temple. Photograph: Chloë Callistemon In her most recent installation ‘ In the Garden of Good and Evil ’ (5 May — 2 September 2018, QAG), renowned Brisbane artist Judith Wright continued her ongoing exploration of the imagined life of a lost child. A meditation on vulnerability, love and loss, it was enriched with an original contemporary sound piece that heightened its imagined world – a space where created characters indulge in revelry, with just a hint of nightmare. Right: QAGOMA Trustee Gina Fairfax, artist Judith Wright and QAGOMA Foundation President Tim Fairfax ac at the Official Opening / Above: Installation view / Photographs: Joe Ruckli