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This major retrospective exhibition will focus on
Tim Johnson’s practice from the early 1970s.
It will explore the artist’s early conceptual work,
his engagement with Indigenous Australian art and
the iconography of Buddhist art, and will include
important recent painting.
Tim JOHNSON:
PAINTING IDEAS
20 June – 11 October 2009, GoMA
Tim Johnson / Collaborating artists: My Le Thi, Karma Phuntsok / After Mt Meru: White
tara, Shakyamuni, Mt Meru 1999 / Purchased 1999. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation /
Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
The exhibition is organised by the Art Gallery of New South
Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery. The exhibition is
supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through
Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and
the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian
Government and state and territory governments.
Ron Hurley (1946 – 2002) was born into
the Goreng Goreng and Mununjali peoples
of south-east Queensland. He led the
development of the urban Indigenous art
movement — with contemporaries such
as Trevor Nickolls and Lin Onus — with
specific reference to, and poignancy for,
south-east Queensland. This exhibition will
highlight the distinguished career of Ron
Hurley as one of the early leaders of the
urban political movement in Aboriginal art.
RON
HURLEY
15 August – 25 October 2009, GoMA
Ron Hurley / Bradman bowled Gilbert 1989 / Oil on canvas /
Purchased 1990 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery