No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1956-2016

SUPPORTERS MAJOR PARTNER SUPPORTING PARTNER a Bit na Ta supported through the Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program 138 №1 NEIGHBOUR PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966–2016’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at QAG, Brisbane, Australia, 15 October 2016 – 29 January 2017. Curator: Ruth McDougall © Queensland Art Gallery, 2016 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Requests and inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by the authors and QAGOMA. Copyright in all artworks and images is held by the creators or their representatives, unless otherwise stated. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. Every endeavour has been made to obtain permissions from the copyright owners. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the digital files of the original works. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: No.1 Neighbour : art in Papua New Guinea 1966 - 2016 / Ruth McDougall. ISBN: 9781921503825 (hardback) Subjects: Queensland Art Gallery-- Exhibitions Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.)-- Exhibitions. Art--Papua New Guinea--Exhibitions Art, Papua New Guinean--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions Other Creators/Contributors: McDougall, Ruth. Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.) Dewey Number: 709.9530749431 Notes on the publication Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parentheses. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Typeset in Museo Slab and Cansiparane. Image colour adjustment and prepress by ColourChiefs, Brisbane. Printing by The Australian Book Connection, Hong Kong. COVER KWOMA ARTS Koromb (spirit house) (detail) 2012 TITLE PAGE Tolai people performing Kinavai (Arrival of the spirits) at the Ranguna beachfront, National Mask Festival, Kokopo, East New Britain, July 2011 / Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan PP.4–5 The active volcano Mount Tavurvur, Rabaul, East New Britain / Photograph: Ruth McDougall PP.6–7 Wendi Choulai’s performance of Egu Rami , the Roroipe mourning dance, APT2, QAG, September 1996 / Photograph: Richard Stringer PP.8–9 Arawe performers fromWest New Britain at the National Mask Festival, Kokopo, East New Britain, July 2011 / Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan PP.140–1 Baining haus boi, Kainagunan, East New Britain, 2011 / Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan PP.142–3 Rex Maukos painting the ironwood posts for Kwoma Arts’ Koromb (Spirit house) 2012, GOMA, November 2012 / Photograph: Mark Sherwood P.144 Vunapaka performers with a Tokatokoi headdress, National Mask Festival, Kokopo, East New Britain, July 2011 / Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan Goroka show, September 2014 / Photograph: Ruth McDougall