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Spencer Finch is a contemporary American artist who
explores the elusive and poetic qualities of human
perception using a range of media including light
installations, paintings, photographs and videos.
This will be the artist’s first Australian exhibition and
will include major new works.
SPENCER
FINCH
28 February – 5 July 2009, GoMA and QAG
Spencer Finch / CIE 529/418 (Candlelight) 2007 / Installation view at Massachuetts
Museum of Contemporary Art, United States / Courtesy: The artist
‘Floating Life’ will highlight the importance of fibre within
Aboriginal culture and showcase the Queensland Art
Gallery's unique collection that celebrates fibre-based
art. The exhibition will include around 300 objects including
commissioned works by key artists, and important
works by both mature artists and emerging talents.
FlOATiNG liFE:
CONTEMPORARY
ABORIGINAL FIBRE ART
1 August – 11 October 2009, GoMA
Artist unknown / Galiwin’ku people / Ceremonial armband (dhuwa) 1996 / Bark fibre
string with red-winged parrot and red-collared lorikeet feathers / Purchased 2008
with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser, AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser, AM , through
the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871–1949) was an important practitioner
and teacher in the arts and crafts movement in Queensland
and a figure of national significance. Harvey was an
accomplished potter and woodcarver, as well as the inspiration
for the largest school of art pottery in Australia. This exhibition
celebrates the gift of an important collection of Harvey’s works,
from his grandsons, the Reverends David and Bruce Harvey
Noble of Houston, Texas.
lJ HARVEy
AND HIS TIMES
21 February – 14 June 2009, QAG
Pottery by LJ Harvey and some of his most prominent students from the
Queensland Art Gallery Collection.