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Read • Jenny Watson: Private views & rear visions
This year, the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal invites support for the acquisition of leading Australian artist Jenny Watson’s extraordinary Private views and rear visions 2021 … -
Read • Private Collectors, Public Benefactors: Ian & Judeen Airey
Benefactors of the Gallery for 25 years, Ian and Judeen Airey recently raised the Collection’s holdings created by Japan-based French artist Paul Jacoulet … -
Read • 2023 QAGOMA Foundation Appeal
The 2023 QAGOMA Foundation Appeal will this year support the acquisition of major works by Queensland Indigenous artists, beginning with Judy Watson, Teho Ropeyarn, and … -
Read • We’ve unlocked the Collection
QAGOMA’s campaign to ‘Unlock the Collection’ publicly launched in early 2021, with the goal of raising $5 million to increase digital access to the … -
Read • Where to with web3?
That’s a question for 2022 QAGOMA Digital Resident Jessie Hughes. In recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns have disrupted how audiences … -
Read • A legacy of works on paper
Gifts made to the Gallery through a Will have been central to the development of QAGOMA’s Collection. Since 2018, a generous bequest received from … -
Read • Unlocking the collection: Project digitise
As part of QAGOMA’s Collection Online project, the Gallery joins forces with Queensland University of Technology (QUT) for a new Digital Residency, writes Tonya … -
Read • Unlocking the Collection: A conversation with Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor has been a member of the Gallery’s Board of Trustees and Foundation Committee since 2017 and is currently Chair of the QAGOMA … -
Read • Unlocking the Collection: Making artworks discoverable
The QAGOMA Digital Transformation Initiative is a wide-reaching program that aims to position the Gallery as leader in digital content creation. Several years in … -
Read • Unlocking the Collection: 2021 Foundation Appeal
The 2021 QAGOMA Foundation Digital Appeal invites support for a transformative digitisation project that will unlock the doors to our storerooms and make the entire … -
Read • QAGOMA receives transformative bequest from Win Schubert
Some 125 years on from its establishment, QAGOMA has received the largest philanthropic gift in its history: a $35 million bequest from the late Win … -
Read • A Singular Vision: Supporting the Collection
Since around 1985, local arts, cultural and educational programs have benefited significantly from the unassuming and intelligent philanthropy of Margaret Mittelheuser AM (1931–2013) and … -
Read • QAGOMA Foundation: Integral to the story of our Collection
As the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) celebrates 125 years since its establishment on 29 March 2020, we look at the role … -
Read • Contemporary Patrons travel to the Honolulu Biennial
Members of the Gallery’s Contemporary Patrons group travelled to Hawai‘i recently to experience the second iteration of the Honolulu Biennial (HB19), a two … -
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 • Pannaphan Yodmanee draws on Buddhist cosmology to create her installations
Thai artist Pannaphan Yodmanee’s extraordinary work In the aftermath 2018, commissioned for ‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT9) was the subject … -
Read • An incredible story: Kumantje Jagamara and Imants Tillers
While Kumantje (Michael Nelson) Jagamara AM and Imants Tillers have worked on panel paintings collaboratively since 2001, creating 24 works, Metafisica Australe 2017 (illustrated) holds … -
Read • A meeting of minds: Kumantje Jagamara and Imants Tillers
Metafisica Australe 2017 (illustrated) is a rich, contemporary symbiosis of the personal, professional and cultural reflections of two great Australian artists. Metafisica Australe is a … -
Read • Kumantje Jagamara and Imants Tillers collaborate on ‘Metafisica Australe’
Warlpiri/Luritja artist Kumantje (Michael Nelson) Jagamara AM and Imants Tillers have collaborated on 24 artworks together since 2001, and the latest of these, the … -
Read • The power of a Collective and the power of a vote
Future Collective member Belinda Elderton reports on the art, the tough decisions, and the collective camaraderie of the group’s recent project pitch event At …