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Twenty-first Century
4 December 2010 – 27 February 2011, GoMA
‘Twenty-first Century’ is a major exhibition drawing on the
Queensland Art Gallery’s extensive holdings of recent contemporary
art. Exclusively comprising works executed between 2000 to 2010,
the exhibition will explore the social, political and artistic landscape
of the twenty-first century. It will reflect the significant development
of the Gallery’s contemporary collections over the past decade.
The exhibition will survey the expanded international field for
contemporary art production, pointing to the inter-generational and
cross-cultural influences that have helped shape the art of our time.
It will include works by artists from Europe, Africa, the Pacific, Asia,
Australia and North, Central and South America.
Candice Breitz / King (a portrait of Michael Jackson) 2005 / Purchased 2008 with funds from Tim
Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Image courtesy: Galleria Francesca
Kaufmann, Milan
PRESENTING SPONSOR FOUNDING SUPPORTER
Scott Redford
November 2010 – March 2011, QAG
Scott Redford is a leading mid-career
artist from Queensland, whose work over
several decades has been grounded in an
intelligent and passionate investigation of
the visual culture of the Australian east
coast, and especially the Gold Coast. This
exhibition will feature work produced since
the mid 1990s, focusing on images and
ideas relating to the surf beach as an iconic
Australian cultural site.
Scott Redford / Surf painting/Modernist house 2000 / Purchased
2001. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant