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APT8 One Year Out: India, Nepal
Hauz Khas Complex, South Delhi India has remained a pivotal part of the history of the APT. April last year, I travelled to India with Maud Page, Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions during the...
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APT8 One Year Out: NZ, Hawai‘i, PNG, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia
Performance by Kivori Baurana group, 5th Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture, Port Moresby, July 2014 With performance in its various forms proposed as a major theme for APT8, I felt that the...
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APT8 One Year Out: Taiwan, Japan
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, October 2014 Though hampered by ambiguous diplomatic status with regard to mainland China, and somewhat overshadowed by the meteoric rise of Chinese art in international...
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APT8 One Year Out: Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar
The White Building, Phnom Penh, June 2014 In June 2014, QAGOMA Director Chris Saines and I embarked on a three-country tour of mainland South-East Asia, landing first in a hot and wet Phnom Penh. We...
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Vanuatu film screenings at GOMA to support Further Arts
Emyo Tinyo Dance and Music Festival 2014 Join us for a series of screenings which engage with the Ni Vanuatu dancers, villages and people that the Gallery have been working with over the past 18...
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Indonesian hits from APT7 to tour Queensland
Saputro (aka Hahan), Uji Handoko Eko, Indonesia b.1983 / The Journey 2011 /Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / ©...
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Highlight: Zurag paintings – Mongolia
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu / Path to wealth 2013 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2015 with funds from Ashby Utting through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation /...
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Artists from Asia and the Pacific take the international stage
Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Mongolia b.1979 / Path to wealth 2013 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Proposed for the Queensland Art Gallery Collection / Image courtesy the artist and 976 Art Gallery,...
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Highlight: Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller ‘Blood Generation’
Taloi Havini (artist) b.1981, Hakö (Haku) people, Nakas clan / Stuart Miller (photographer) b.1983 / Russel and the Panguna mine (from ‘Blood Generation’ series) 2009, printed 2014 / Digital print on...
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Highlight: Leang Seckon ‘Indochina’
Leang Seckon, Cambodia b.1974 / Indochina 2014 / Mixed media and collage on canvas / Purchased 2015. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / ©...
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APT8: Malaysia and Indonesia
Hamish Sawyer (centre, left) and José Da Silva (far left) meeting artists at Platform 3, Bandung, Indonesia, October 2014 / Image courtesy: José Da Silva In 2014, Hamish Sawyer travelled to Malaysia...
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APT8: United Arab Emirates and West Asia
Top: Soviet-era mosaic with graffiti, Tbilisi, Georgia / Bottom: A. Kasteev Art Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan / Images courtesy: Simon Wright In 2014 Ellie Buttrose and Simon Wright journeyed to the...
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Highlight: Edwin Roseno ‘Green hypermarket’ series
Edwin Roseno, Indonesia b.1979 / Premna microphylla (from ‘Green hypermarket’ series) 2011–12 / 150 digital prints on aluminium, ed.1/5 / Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery...
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Highlight: Parastou Forouhar
Parastou Forouhar, Iran/Germany b.1962 / (from ‘Persian for beginners’ series) 1997 / Edding calligraphy pen on paper / Purchased 2013. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art...
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Highlight: Shigeyuki Kihara
Shigeyuki Kihara, Samoa/New Zealand b.1975 / Mau Headquarters, Vaimoso 2013 / C-print, ed 4/5 / Purchased 2015 with funds from Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of...
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APT8: Philippines and Vietnam
José Da Silva and Hamish Sawyer at dinner with (l-r) Zoe Butt, Dinh Q Lê, Rich Streitmatter-Tran, and Chuong-Ðài Võ / Image courtesy: José Da Silva In 2014, Hamish Sawyer travelled to Vietnam and the...
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APT8: Asim Waqif
We started installing ‘All we leave behind are the memories’ today… follow us for more installation updates on ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art‘ (APT8) opening 21 November. Asim...
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APT8 insight
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian / Installation view of ‘Slice A Slanted Arc Into Dry Paper Sky’, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2015 / Images courtesy: The artists and Gallery Isabelle van...
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Highlight: Zhou Tao ‘Blue and Red’
Zhou Tao, China b.1976 / Blue and Red (still) 2014 / Single-channel HD video, 16:9, 24:25 mins, colour, sound, ed. 4/7 / Purchased 2015. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation /...
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APT8 | Brook Andrew
Brook Andrew’s ‘Intervening Time’ 2015 takes the form of an intervention into the Queensland Art Gallery’s Australian art collection. Referencing the chevron pattern that Wiradjuri people paint on...
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