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CONT EMPORARY AUSTRAL I AN ART
Scott Redford’s
Proposal for a Surfers Paradise
Public Sculpture/GC Cinemas
2006 first appeared
at the Queensland Art Gallery in the exhibition
‘Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn’ (2011).
What others may call kitsch, the Gold Coast artist
sees as embodying a complex history and identity;
and this work highlights the centrality of the movies
in modern mass culture. It is the third of Redford’s
‘Proposals’ to be acquired for the Collection,
a generous gift of Dr Michael and Eva Slancar.
Scott Redford
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Proposal foraSurfers
ParadisePublicSculpture/GCCinemas
2006 | Painted, laser-cut acrylic and
metal | 70 x 95 x 26cm (assembled,
overall) | Gift of Dr Michael and Eva
Slancar through the Queensland Art
Gallery Foundation 2013. Donated
through the Australian Government’s
Cultural Gifts Program
Australian multimedia artist Angelica Mesiti uses
performance as a means to express social ideas
physically and as a mode of storytelling. She has
developed a reputation in recent years for refined
videos that present detailed studies of human
subjects in heightened states of reverie or reflection.
Citizens Band
2012 is a moving video ensemble,
played in succession across four screens, showing
migrants performing a musical tradition from
their homeland.
Angelica Mesiti
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CitizensBand
(still)
2012 | Four-channel video installation:
HD video, 21:25 minutes, colour,
surround sound, 16:9, PAL | Purchased
2013. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery
of Modern Art Foundation Grant
