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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 ‘Air’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at GOMA, Brisbane, Australia, 26 November 2022 – 23 April 2023. © Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2022 This work is copyright and all rights are reserved. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced or communicated to the public in any form or by any process 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. National Library of Australia Cataloguing- in-Publication entry A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia. 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. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by the authors and QAGOMA. All artworks in this publication are copyright the artist or their estate, unless otherwise noted. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. All reasonable efforts have been made to obtain permissions from the holders of copyright and reproduction rights of all images and credit them accurately in this publication. In cases where this has not been possible, owners are invited to notify the publisher. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the digital files of the original works. Typeset in Archer and Paralucent. Image colour adjustment by Colour Chiefs, Brisbane. Printed by Cornerstone Press, Brisbane. ISBN 9781925922127 Distribution Thames & Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd 11 Central Boulevard Portside Business Park Port Melbourne Victoria 3207 T: +61 3 9646 7788 E: enquiries@thaust.com.au W: thamesandhudsonaustralia.com Printed locally on PEFC ® Certified paper, which ensures that at least 70% of wood fibre is from PEFC-certified forests and meets or exceeds PEFC’s Sustainability Benchmark requirements. Cover Jonathan Jones Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi peoples Australia b.1978 with Dr Uncle Stan Grant Snr AM Wiradjuri people Australia b.1940 (untitled) giran (detail) 2018 Bindu-gaany (freshwater mussel shell), gabudha (rush), gawurra (feathers), marrung dinawan (emu egg), walung (stone), wambuwung dhabal (kangaroo bone), wayu (string), wiiny (wood), 48-channel soundscape Sound design: Luke Mynott, Sonar Sound Installed dimensions variable Purchased 2018 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA Back cover Dora Budor Croatia b.1984 Origin I (A Stag Drinking) 2019 Custom environmental chamber (reactive electronic system, compressor, valves, 3D-printed elements, aluminium, acrylic, LED light, glass, wood, paint), organic and synthetic pigments, diatomaceous earth, FX dust, felt, ed. 3/3 152 x 160 x 86cm Purchased 2021. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Photograph: Merinda Campbell, QAGOMA (pp.2–3) Yhonnie Scarce / Cloud Chamber 2020 (installation view, ‘Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce’, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Vic. 2020) / Image courtesy: Yhonnie Scarce and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne / Photograph: Andrew Curtis (pp.10–11) Lee Mingwei / Bodhi Tree Project 2006 / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon, QAGOMA