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11 ARTLINES 4 | 2020 10 NEWS GOMA BISTRO Join us by the river this summer for shared feasts, local ales and river city views. OPEN DAILY 9.00AM – 3.00PM QAGOMA.QLD.GOV.AU/GOMABISTRO CHILDREN’S ART CENTRE ONLINE RESOURCES Quandamooka artist Elisa Jane (Leecee) Carmichael has created a new interactive, Adornments from nature , to mark this year’s NAIDOC Week in November, and it’s online for everyone to enjoy. The Children’s Art Centre has also recently updated its online programs for the under-fives: Art Starters helps parents and carers explore developmental milestones for babies up to 12 months; Art Play Date is a self-directed artwork-inspired program for kids aged one to three using movement, song and sensory play; and Art Explorers introduces games, music and making activities for three-to-five year-olds. All activities are free and available via qagoma.qld.gov.au/learn/kids. CONTEMPORARY PATRONS ACQUISITION PITCH Each year, the Contemporary Patrons — a passionate group of art enthusiasts who provide philanthropic support to the QAGOMA Foundation — gather to vote on which artwork their donations will support to enter the Gallery’s Collection. At this year’s acquisition pitch in September, curators from the Asian and Pacific, International and Australian Art teams delivered compelling proposals to members and their guests, followed by discussion and the vote. Justene William's large-scale installation The Vertigoats 2020 was declared the winning acquisition, successfully pitched by Ellie Buttrose, Curator, Contemporary Australian Art. The Vertigoats will be the first work by Justene Williams in the Collection. For more information about the Contemporary Patrons, please contact the Foundation on (07) 3840 7316. On Saturday 19 September, Director Chris Saines CNZM and exhibition curator Diane Moon celebrated the ‘Two Sisters ’ exhibition and accompanying publication at QAG with guest of honour Cathryn Mittelheuser AM and friends. CELEBRATING TWO SISTERS Chris Saines CNZM, Cathryn Mittelheuser AM and Diane Moon / Photograph: Katie Bennett NEW MURAL FOR QAG CAFE Martin Edge sees the world differently. His self-described Naive-style paintings reflect his own joyful vision of our busy world. Edge began painting in 2007 and has since exhibited in numerous solo and group shows and is represented in both state and national collections. Although Edge’s subject matter varies according to his travels, his favourite thing to paint is the city he calls home: Brisbane. When walking the familiar streets of his hometown, Edge always sees something new: ‘The busyness of the city is one of my favourite scenes to paint . . . It doesn’t matter how many times I have seen something, each time I look at it I always see it from a new perspective’. City Cats and iconic Brisbane buildings are featured in his showstopping mural at the QAG Cafe, commissioned with the generous support of Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson. Edge is represented by Anthea Polsen Art, Gold Coast, and Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney. His jute bags, made in collaboration with Autism Queensland, are available at the QAGOMA Store. Clockwise from top left Gloria Pannka / Western Arrernte/Luritja people / James Range 2008 / The Glenn Manser Collection. Gift of Glenn Manser through the QAGOMA Foundation 2016. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program; an Art Explorers screenshot; artist Martin Edge / Photograph: QAGOMA; and Director Chris Saines (right) announcing the winning pitch / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon Two Sisters – A Singular Vision: Celebrating the Gifts of Margaret and Cathryn Mittelheuser is available at the QAGOMA Store and online at qagoma.store. RRP $24.95 | Members $19.95 VALE GLORIA PANNKA 1949–2020 The Gallery acknowledges the recent passing of Gloria Pannka of the Western Arrernte and Luritja people, a Ntaria (Hermannsburg School) watercolour artist whose finely detailed paintings drew inspiration from her father, Claude Pannka, and grandfather, Albert Namatjira. Pannka’s father taught her to paint in the Hermannsburg style: with subtle pink and gold tones, she depicted the land west of Alice Springs, its ghost gums and rocky terrain, and captured the panoramic sweep of the Western MacDonnell Ranges. Her work appeared in the QAG exhibition ‘Namatjira to Now’ in 2008 and an exhibition of the same name at Parliament House, Canberra, in 2014. Gloria was a teacher and passed on her family’s tradition while travelling around Australia. She was also instrumental in the long-running and ultimately successful campaign to return the copyright in her grandfather’s artwork to the Namatjira family. QAGOMA is fortunate to hold nine paintings by Pannka, which were part of a collection of over 100 Arrernte landscape watercolours gifted to the Gallery by Glenn Manser in 2016. The artist’s first name is used here at the request of her family, via the Namatjira Legacy Trust.