‘Courage and Beauty: The James C Sourris AM Collection’ presents heady themes and concepts: the illusion of perspective and the transcendent picture plane; the burdens of oppression; a growing plurality in society and the possibility of more complex identities; the potential for colour and materials to make symbolic allusions to place and to inspire emotional…
We’re struck by the monumental scale and startling realism of Ron Mueck’s In bed 2005 (illustrated), then — almost voyeuristically — we are compelled to move closer to inspect the detailed texture of the figure’s hair, her translucent skin, and almost pulsing veins. Stepping back, her apprehensive facial expression and seemingly vulnerable state of being…
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The 18-piece band — Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra — is the musical accompaniment to the lyrical Slovakian documentary Lines 2021 on Sunday 26 March in our next ‘City Symphony’ Live Music & Film series. Get tickets to City Symphony Live Music & Film series While the City Symphony film movement began in the 1920s, this…
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When you next visit the Queensland Art Gallery, spend some time at the QAG Cafe and introduce yourself to the delicious food-inspired characters in Visaya Hoffie’s imaginative site-specific mural The mysterious menagerie — a cast of characters involved in their own food adventures. As you walk in, an adorable puppy finds itself amidst the spilled…
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Nearly three metres long and two across — and gilded entirely in gold leaf — the imposing frame for George Romney’s 1771 painting, Mrs Yates as the Tragic Muse, Melpomene (illustrated) is a time capsule of framing fashions, repairs and interventions. QAGOMA is presently the only gallery in Australia with a framing studio where experts both restore and make…
Long fascinated by the air, Argentinian-born, Berlin-based artist Tomás Saraceno has created a major new commission — a mesmerising suspended installation — Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms 2022 (illustrated). You can experience Saraceno’s constellation of 15 floating mirrored spheres in the central atrium at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Brisbane during…
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