Artist project development
Artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa creating Chicken and spinach risotto / Brisbane Australia (from 'Vegetable weapon' series), July 2005 | Photograph: Natasha Harth
The Queensland Art Gallery has established a reputation as a world leader in the development and presentation of contemporary art from the Asia Pacific region, particularly with its ‘Asia Pacific Triennial’ exhibitions.
Since its inception in 2002, the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art has supported a series of artists' visits and residencies linked specifically to the Gallery’s Asian and Pacific projects.
Past
Lee Mingwei
During 2008, Lee Mingwei made two visits to Brisbane relating to the installation and transformation of his major installation, Gernika in sand. This project was realised at the Gallery of Modern Art with support from the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art, Lin Ming-nang, Lin Chung-hsiang and Yang Hon-pon, National Culture and Arts Foundation (logo) and JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture (logo)
Documentation of the performance component of this project can be viewed:
Gernika in Sand
Lee Mingwei
Gernika in Sand 2008
Mixed media interactive installation and performance
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art
Collection: Yeh Rong Jai Culture and Art Foundation, Taiwan
DVD filmed and produced by Douglas Watkin, Double Wire Productions
© Double Wire Productions
APT5
During preparations for ‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT5), which opened on 2 December 2006, several artists visited the Queensland Art Gallery to progress their projects.
Over July and August 2005, the Gallery hosted Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa, who created new works in his ‘Vegetable weapons’ series, as well as curator Lu Jie from the Long March Project art initiative.
Beijing-based Chinese artist Ai Weiwei visited in August 2005, and again in June 2006, to discuss preparations for his site-specific work, Boomerang 2006 — a stunning chandelier for the Gallery’s Watermall.
Michael Stevenson, the New Zealand-born artist who lives and works in Berlin, followed in July to create an installation for APT5 that responds to the work of eminent Australian modernist painter, Ian Fairweather.
Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho spent seven weeks at the Gallery from October 2006, collaborating with Gallery staff and Brisbane secondary school students on two mural projects for APT5. The 14 x 18.5m mural It’s all about the Destiny! Isn’t it? 2006 is installed in GoMA's foyer, and the 6 x 5m mural What do you want? 2006 is at the entrance to the Children’s Art Centre in GoMA. Students from Shailer Park, Cleveland and Woodridge state high schools worked with the artist on the latter mural as part of a joint project between the Queensland Art Gallery and the Department of Education and the Arts.
The APT5 artists' visits were supported by the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art.
Nusra Latif Qureshi
Now living in Melbourne, Nusra Latif Qureshi was born and educated in Pakistan where she developed a love for the artistic discipline of painting miniatures.
During 2004, Qureshi visited Brisbane under the auspices of ACAPA to give a series of artist workshops and present a lecture on her practice. These events formed part of the public programs surrounding the Queensland Art Gallery’s exhibition, 'Miniatures'.
