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Creative Generation
Excellence Awards in
Visual Art and Design
13 March – 17 May 2009, GoMA
The annual ‘Creative Generation
Excellence Awards in Visual Art and
Design’ exhibition recognises and
promotes outstanding achievements
by art students from both state
and non-state secondary schools
throughout Queensland, including
regional and remote communities.
A selection of 50 works, including
paintings, sculptures, works on paper
and new media were shown.
An initiative of the Department of Education,
Training and the Arts.
Organised by Education Queensland and
supported by the Queensland Government.
Top: ‘Creative Generation’ exhibiting artists and Brisbane State High School students Angelica Roache-
Wilson and Medina Mujic-Begovic at the exhibition’s opening with then Director-General
of the Department of Education, Training and the Arts, Rachel Hunter.
To celebrate National Youth Week 2009, selected artists from the ‘Creative Generation’ exhibition
presented talks on their work. Pictured here is Araminta Pearce (Toowoomba State High School).
Publishing
The Gallery’s publishing program combines
research and scholarship with beautiful design
and production, attracting a wide readership
to the books, exhibition catalogues, quarterly
magazine (
Artlines
), brochures and online
publications produced each year.
In 2009, the Gallery released three major
catalogues associated with key exhibitions.
The China Project
(312pp.), published in
March, profiles over 50 artists and includes
commissioned essays by writers such as Feng
Boyi, Thomas Berghuis, Nicholas Jose, Leng
Lin and Claire Roberts. In May, the Gallery
produced
American Impressionism and Realism:
A Landmark Exhibition from the Met
(340pp.)
in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, and Art Exhibitions Australia.
This richly illustrated volume includes a key text
by Dr H Barbara Weinberg, the Metropolitan’s
Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American
Paintings and Sculpture. In December,
The
6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art
(260pp.) was published, profiling each
individual artist, as well as the collaborative
artist projects, featured in the exhibition. The
publication also includes a CD — featuring 12
songs from the exhibition’s Pacific Reggae:
Roots Beyond the Reef project.
Other significant publications produced by the
Gallery included
Spencer Finch: As if the sea
should part and show a further sea
(56pp.),
Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
(168pp., a joint
publication with the Art Gallery of New South
Wales),
The View from Elsewhere
(96pp.;
published by Sherman Contemporary Art
Foundation in partnership with Queensland Art
Gallery),
Easton Pearson
(144pp.),
Floating Life:
Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art
(160pp.),
and
Nurreegoo: The Art and Life of Ron Hurley
1946–2002
(76pp.). The online publication
Paperskin: Barkcloth across the Pacific
–
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– was a joint
project of the Gallery, Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa and Queensland Museum, and
forms a valuable resource on this unique mode of
artistic and cultural expression in the Pacific.
The Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art (ACAPA)
supported the exhibition catalogues
The China Project
,
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
and
Paperskin: Barkcloth across the Pacific.
Above:
The China Project
catalogue, featuring an image spread of the
work
980810
1998 by Fang Lijun (Queensland Art Gallery Collection)
/ This catalogue was awarded Gold in the 2009 Queensland Printing
Industries Craftsmanship Awards.
Top right: Publications produced by the Gallery in 2009
