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Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism
16 October 2010 – 13 February 2011
Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery, QAG
Vida Lahey (1882–1968) is one of Queensland’s best loved artists
of the twentieth century. Her most famous painting, Monday
morning 1912, is in the grand narrative style taught at the National
Gallery School, Melbourne, and has become an icon for later
feminists. However, Lahey’s major contribution to art in Australia is
her handling of brilliant colour, particularly in her watercolours of
urban studies and floral still lifes that were exhibited throughout
Australia from the 1920s. This exhibition is largely drawn from
the Gallery’s own holdings, supplemented with works from other
Brisbane collections.
Vida Lahey / The new bridge 1931 / Purchased 1997 with funds from M.I.M. Holdings
Limited through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation
Unnerved:
The New Zealand Project
1 May – 4 July 2010, GoMA
The Gallery continues its series of exhibition
projects focusing on country-specific contemporary
collections with ‘Unnerved: The New Zealand Project’.
‘Unnerved’ draws on disquieting aspects within
New Zealand culture, hinted at through a range of
contemporary art works in the Gallery’s Collection.
An accompanying film program will screen at the
Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque. This exhibition
will travel to the National Gallery of Victoria in
late 2010.
Yvonne Todd (designer) / Victorian Tapestry Workshop (workshop) est.
1976 / Sue Batten (weaver) Amy Cornall (weaver) / Alice Bayke 2008 /
Commissioned 2006 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, and Gina Fairfax
through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation