Page 5 - Annual Review 2008
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It's all about art and people
2009 selected highlights . . . the year ahead
Left: Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, Julie Ewington speaking during the opening weekend
of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ exhibition. Foreground: Emily Floyd /
Permaculture
crossed with feminist science fiction
2008. Photograph: Natasha Harth
Previous pages – Top row: Michael Leunig with his work
Song
2008 at an artist’s talk during
the opening weekend of ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, November 2008. Children
making ‘paper sculptures’ in Yo Picasso Kids at the Children’s Art Centre. Queensland Art
Gallery Foundation members view ‘Mountain and Streams: Chinese Paintings from the NGV
Asian Collection’, March 2008. Mr Henry Bartlett,
CMG
,
OBE
and guest at the opening of the
‘War: The Prints of Otto Dix’ exhibition, November 2008. Opening night guests view works in
‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’. Scene from ‘Picasso & his collection’ exhibition.
Middle row: Visitors view art work in the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall — Walangkura
Napanangka’s
Untitled (Tjintjintjin)
2006 (left) and George Tjungurrayi’s
Untitled
(Mamultjulkulnga)
2007. Visitors view ‘War: The Prints of Otto Dix’, November 2008. Installation
view of the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall. (Foreground: George Baldessin’s
Three pears
1975, © George Baldessin 1975. Licensed by Viscopy, Sydney. Background: Joan Miro’s
Monument
cast 1970.) Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter perform at the opening of the ‘Xstrata
Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award 2008’ exhibition, July 2008.
Bottom row: A visitor photographs Tony Albert’s
Sorry
2008 in ‘Contemporary Australia:
Optimism’. Angela Goddard, Curator of Australian Art to 1970, presents a talk for Gallery
Members on ‘Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective’, June 2008. Robert Forster performs during
the opening weekend of the ‘Andy Warhol’ exhibition. Tom Sokolowski, Director, The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, at the ‘Andy Warhol’ opening.
The High / Perpetual Xmas, No
Abstractions
2008 by Scott Redford received financial assistance through Arts Queensland
from art+place, the Queensland Government’s Public Art Fund. Visitors look closely at Ron
Mueck’s
In bed
2005.
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