Annual Review 2018

Ali Kazim / Untitled (storm series) (detail) 2018 / Pigments on mylar / 32 x 42cm / Purchased 2018 with funds from the Contemporary Patrons through the QAGOMA Foundation At the QAGOMA Foundation Annual Dinner , Dr Zara Stanhope, Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art talked with APT9 artists Donna Ong and Robert Zhao Renhui, and longstanding Gallery donor Cathryn Mittelheuser am was awarded the 2018 Gallery Medal / Photograph: Brad Wagner 33 2018 IN REVIEW ‘Robert MacPherson: Boss Drovers’ (QAG, 29 September 2018 – 24 February 2019) is a selection from the Queensland artist’s set of 2400 individual drawings, executed over 20 years, in the guise of his ten-year-old alter ego Robert Pene. ‘Boss Drovers’ catalogues the resilient spirit of the stockmen that worked Australia’s pastoral stock routes. Robert MacPherson / 1000 FROG POEMS: 1000 BOSS DROVERS (“YELLOW LEAF FALLING”) FOR H.S. (detail) 1996–2014 / Graphite, ink and stain / 2400 sheets / Purchased 2014 with funds from the QAGOMA Foundation, Paul and Susan Taylor, and Donald and Christine McDonald / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon The QAGOMA Foundation’s Contemporary Patrons group gathered to vote on an acquisition for their funds to support, selecting APT9 artist Ali Kazim’s striking monochromatic paintings of Pakistan.