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Read • Margaret Rarru Garrawurra creates timeless forms
Arnhem Land artist Margaret Rarru Garrawurra has won the prestigious National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for 2022 with a work featuring her … -
Read • Education Resource: ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)’
Discover more than 400 artworks by over 80 individuals, collectives and groups that capture the energy of new art being created in Asia, the Pacific … -
Read • Contemporary Art from the Asia Pacific Triennial travels beyond Queensland
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), is extremely pleased to have been invited to present an exhibition of works from ‘The 9th … -
Read • Women’s Wealth: A shared dream
Women’s Wealth is a collaboration between QAGOMA and three Buka women: co-curator Sana Balai and artists Taloi and Marilyn Havini. Inspiration for the … -
Read • Pannaphan Yodmanee’s installations are eruptions of materials
Pannaphan Yodmanee visited her local Buddhist temple often as a child, and it was here, at the age of ten, that she learnt to paint … -
Read • Jonathan Jones creates spectacular installations
Jonathan Jones’s untitled (giran) 2018 is reminiscent of a map of intersecting wind currents, evoking birds in flight; and knowledge, change and new ideas … -
Read • Munem Wasif creates magic realism
Munem Wasif’s intimate and mysterious encounters in photography and film are created through an unyielding attention to atmosphere, texture, rhythm and movement to capture … -
Read • Idas Losin’s paintings are notable for their fine brushwork
Idas Losin’s paintings are characterised by their fine brushwork and stark composition, typically foregrounding their subject matter on a flat, open pictorial plane. A … -
Read • Ayesha Sultana finds numerous ways to harness illusion
Ayesha Sultana’s graphite works meander between delicate drawings and austere minimalist sculptures. They are created through numerous applications of graphite, using sticks, powder and … -
Read • Enkhbold Togmidshiirev’s paintings incorporate a range of media
Enkhbold Togmidshiirev is a painter and performance and installation artist best known for his large-scale, monochromatic canvases executed in materials derived from his nomadic … -
Read • The beauty of Lola Greeno’s necklaces
Despite the ravages of colonisation, Palawa people have made necklaces of lustrous strings of pearlescent shells collected from the cool waters surrounding Lutruwita (Tasmania) and … -
Read • Hou I-Ting explores the role of women in the workforce
Hou I-Ting’s work consistently examines the way the human body is represented in images from distinct historical periods, and she is particularly interested … -
Read • Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: A spoken-word poet for resilience & hope
Known internationally for its history as a nuclear testing site, and home to one of America’s most advanced military bases, the Republic of the … -
Read • The mysteries of forgotten cities and atmospheric compositions
Ali Kazim creates highly crafted works that experiment with painterly techniques to create atmospheric, dream-like qualities. In precise detail, Kazim captures the stillness of … -
Read • Each shark-tooth sword by Chris Charteris is a ‘one-off’ creation
Chris Charteris’s elegantly crafted swords, commissioned for ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) are made from a variety of natural and … -
Read • Mao Ishikawa: Photographs from Okinawa
A unique selection of vintage photographs from the 1970s and ’80s by Mao Ishikawa document life in Okinawa in the years following the island’s … -
Read • Purple Reign
Gary Carsley’s recital Purple Reign is part of his ongoing series, ‘Selections from The Collection of The Museum of UnNatural History’. Through his enigmatic … -
Read • Some kind of island paradise
Australia has roughly 8000 islands within its maritime borders. While many are sites of difficult histories, they also maintain their unique identities through song, stories … -
Read • Moment in the sun: Painting in APT9
As QAGOMA’s flagship exhibition, the Asia Pacific Triennial is an internationally renowned event that is years in the planning and months in the making … -
Read • Rising Tides: The islands of Martha Atienza
Martha Atienza’s video work Our Islands 11°16’58.4″N 123°45’07.0″E 2017, installed at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) during …