Art & Life

now showing: 7 October–22 November 2009

OPENING: Sunday 11 October, 2.00 pm by
John Massy, Arts Consultant

CURATOR: Peter Hudson

Experience the works of local, well respected artist and tutor Brian Allison, b1942–2007.

“The inspiration for my work comes from the Australian landscape with its ever-changing light and moods. Old buildings, boats and people in their environmental situations interest me. Texture, colour and depth of tone excites me.” Brian Allison, 2007

Brian Allison, Detail, Waiting for Rain, watercolour on paper,
456 x 647 mm, 2005.

Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific
Artists on Tour

SHOWING: 25 November 2009–17 January 2010
OPENING: Friday 27 November, 6.30pm

Photographic and moving image art works from the Queensland Art Gallery’s Asia Pacific Collection including leading contemporary artists, Ai Weiwei (China), Rashid Rana (Pakistan), Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan), Qin Ga (China), Stephen Page (Australia), and Sima Urale (Samoa/New Zealand).

Qin Ga, The miniature long march (detail) 2002–05, Type C photograph, ed. 2/5 23 sheets: 77.5 x 5cm (each). Purchased 2007. The Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.

The Promised Land: The art of Lawrence Daws

SHOWING: 20 January–7 March 2010

Lawrence Daws has enjoyed a long and successful career as a painter and printmaker. This major touring exhibition celebrates his unique place in Australia’s art history and features work over six extraordinary decades from the country’s leading private and public collections.

Lawrence Daws, The Cage 11/40, 2005, digital mixed media print, 139.0 x 153.0 cm, Tweed River Art Gallery.

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