Page 40-41 - Annual Review 2009

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Regional programs
and services
The Gallery works with regional
galleries and other partners to engage
people all over Queensland in the
visual arts.
In 2009, five travelling exhibitions were on the
tour path around the state, bringing to regional
audiences art as diverse as the watercolours
of Australian modernist Kenneth Macqueen
(1897–1960), nineteenth- and twentieth-
century figurative sculpture in bronze,
work by Indigenous Australian artists from
Hermannsburg, and works from the Asian and
Pacific collections.
Public programs and special events were also
an important part of the Gallery’s regional
program. For the third consecutive year, a day
of free children’s activities was held, this year
in 30 venues across the state, as part of the
Gallery’s annual Summer Festival. This program
reached as far as Cloncurry and Emerald to
Thursday Island in the Torres Strait. Regional
audiences also converged online in February
to explore a new media work by Melbourne
artist Adam Nash, which was part of the 2008
‘Premier of Queensland’s National New Media
Art Award’. Two regional lecture tours were
presented in association with the exhibitions
‘American Impressionism and Realism: A
Landmark Exhibition from the Met’ and ‘150 Years:
Photography in Queensland from the Gallery’s
Collection’. The latter was the first in a three-year
Xstrata Coal Talking Queensland Art lecture
tour program.
Russell Storer, Curator, Contemporary Asian Art (top), and visitors (above) at the
opening of the travelling exhibition ‘Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour’ at
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville / Photographs: Andrew Rankin
Children and families enjoying the Kids: Contemporary Australia on Tour regional
program at Artspace Mackay, held as part of the annual Summer Festival in January /
Photograph: Tracey Heathwood, Artspace Mackay
Children at Hervey Bay participating in Olafur Eliasson’s The cubic
structural evolution project 2004 — one of the most popular regional
touring initiatives ever undertaken by the Gallery. The art work began
touring in late 2007 and completed its schedule of 12 regional Queensland
venues this year, attracting a total of 69 517 visitors / Photograph: Allison
Bateman.