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Peopled: Contemporary
Art from the Collection
13 June – 25 October 2009, GoMA
New acquisitions were profiled in ‘Peopled:
Contemporary Art from the Collection’, a
display reflecting how artists and audiences
continue to be fascinated by the human form.
Paintings, sculptures, videos and installations
were featured, including Ron Mueck’s
monumental sculpture In bed 2005, Julian
Opie’s People walking. Coloured 2008, Beat
Streuli’s video Broadway/Prince Street 04-01 I
2001-02, and a work by Australian artist David
Griggs, Frog boy’s dissertation into a new
karaoke cult 2008.
Painted with the collaboration of commercial
billboard painters in the Philippines, Griggs’s
work celebrates the figurative traditions of that
country. It was purchased with assistance from
the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation. ‘Peopled’
also included a group of paintings and videos
by artists from India, Thailand, the United
Kingdom and Australia.
The Julian Opie work (pictured left) was
purchased for the Collection with funds from
the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation through the
Queensland Art Gallery Foundation.
David Griggs / Frog boy’s dissertation into a new karaoke cult 2008 /
Synthetic polymer paint on sewn canvas, metal infrastructure and wood
with DVD projection / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland
Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund and with the assistance
of the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation
Julian Opie / People walking.
Coloured 2008 / Light-emitting-
diode (LED) (Barco), wall
mounted, ed. of 1 / Purchased
2009 with funds from the Tim
Fairfax Family Foundation
through the Queensland Art
Gallery Foundation / Image
courtesy: The artist and Lisson
Gallery, London