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The politics of persuasion
Kim Hung II, North Korea b. 1965 | Work team contest 2009 | Glass tessera tiles | Purchased 2009. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery I was admiring Kim Hung...
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Twentieth anniversary of APT: Detonating Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang, China b.1957 | Dragon or Rainbow Serpent: A myth glorified or feared 1996 | Spent gunpowder and Indian ink on Japanese paper | Nine drawings: 300 x 200cm (each) | Purchased 1996 |...
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Gimhongsok’s Canine Construction
Gimhongsok, South Korea b.1964 | Canine Construction 2009 | Resin, ed. 1/2 | Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery | Collection: Queensland Art Gallery Recently acquired for the Collection, Canine...
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Highlight: Takahiro Iwasaki ‘Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss)’
Takahiro Iwasaki, Japan b.1975 | Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010–12 | Japanese cypress, wire | The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2013 with funds from...
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Highlight: Tomoko Yoneda ‘Baseball Ground’
Tomoko Yoneda, Japan b.1965 / Baseball Ground — Formerly a Kamikaze base until the end of the Second World War, Chiran 2000 / C-type print / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian...
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Highlight: Daido Moriyama ‘Shinjuku’
Daido Moriyama, Japan b.1938 / Shinjuku (from ‘filmograph 6’ series) 2003, printed 2014 / Gelatin silver photograph, open edition / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art....
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We can make another future
Yasumasa Morimura, Japan b.1951 / Blinded by the light 1991/ Type C photograph with surface varnish / ed.3/3 / Purchased 1996 with proceeds from the Brisbane BMW Renaissance Ball through the Queensland...
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Yayoi Kusama’s ‘The obliteration room’
Yayoi Kusama, Japan b.1929 / The obliteration room (installation views) 2002 to present / Furniture, white paint, dot stickers / Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery,...
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We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989
Takashi Murakami, Japan b.1962 / And then, and then and then and then and then 1994 /Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation /Collection: Queensland Art...
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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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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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Tanin no jikan: The simple courtesy of respecting other people’s time
Vo An Khanh, Vietnam b.1936 / Mobile military medical clinic 8/1970 1970 / Archival inkjet pigment print on Crane silver rag paper / Purchased 2010 with funds raised through the Queensland Art Gallery...
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Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow
The Gallery presents an expansive survey of works by senior Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who seamlessly intergrates Pop, Surrealism, Minimalism and psychedelia. ‘Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a...
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Mao Ishikawa’s photographs from Okinawa
The Gallery welcomes into its Collection a unique selection of vintage photographs from the 1970s and ’80s by Mao Ishikawa. The images document life in Okinawa in the years following the island’s...
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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 in the depiction of women through different...
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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 culture, and improvised...
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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 Taiwanese artist of Truku and...
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Canine Construction: Visually striking and instantly likeable
South Korean artist Gimhongsok’s Canine Construction 2009 brings me a lot of joy. This is one of Gimhongsok’s proposals for public monuments, recognising that no-one ever seems to agree on public art....
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Ai Weiwei’s chandelier, and other errant objects
When you revisit the Queensland Art Gallery, and reacquaint yourself with your favourite works, you will notice Ai Weiwei’s Boomerang 2006 now installed in its original ‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial...
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The World Turns: A warm, witty outdoor sculpture
Michael Parekowhai is known for the use of wry humour and his skilful combination of popular culture, art, literature and history. If you haven’t already, visit his public sculpture The World Turns...
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