Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1991-92

C U R A T O R I A L & S U P P O R T S E R V I C E S PROGRAM M P E T Y A N E , C U R A T O R I A L sculpture. Several works were acquired from L y n d s a y Bird Australca h.c.1945 this exhibition, and for three of the four artists it Utnea 1991 C O N T E M P O R A R Y A U S T R A L I A N A R T marked the first acquisition of their work by the Synthetic polymer pains on canvas The highlight of the contemporary Australian Gallery. Included were Sharon Jewell's Cluster 150 x 250cm . . . acquisitions was Tympan 1977, a collaborative 1990-91, Giuseppe Romeo's Untitled 8 191 and S T A U N T O N , M a d o n n a Acc. 1992,057 Australia b.1938 Purchased 192 work by George Baldessin, Roger Kemp, Les Untitled /3 199/ and Bronwyn Oliver's Curlicue Assemblage with plank 1988 Kossatz, Mirka Mora and Andrew Sibley. Equally 1991. Robert Kinder, as a winner of the Prize, is Wood, folding chair and record cover important was a group of Aboriginal paintings now also represented in the Collection by the 152x179x13 S c m A c c . 1992.026 acquired to enhance the 'Balance' collection and significant work Harbouring thoughts likely to Purchased 1992 which geographically complements the existing disrupt the public order 1989-90. collection. The new places represented are Balgo 'Reference Points', a collaborative exhibition by (Ena Gimme), Utopia (Lyndsay Bird Mpetyane Curators, gave the opportunity to articulate - - $ - - . -'-=--_- - . . . ' and Gloria Tamerra Petyarre), Turkey Creek thematically acquisitions made during the (George Mung Mung) and the Torres Strait Islands previous twelve months. Themes chosen ( (Ken Thaiday). included dialogue with Asia and the Pacific, LI? , Other significant acquisitions not only reflect quotation/appropriation, raw culture, new 1 b M . . . . ' current artistic production and re.inforce the technology and collaboration/ interaction. & çyssio existing Collection, but also enable a more Gallery 14 projects curated were 'from homogenous view of Queensland's and Australia's Paradise work: An Installation by Rosemary Laing', artistic creation. They illustrate the diversity of constructed from industrially fabricated mixed conceptual position and modes of expression media. encountered in the Australian contemporary art scene. A U S T R A L I A N ART Several recent acquisitions have emphasised Important purchases were Edwin Tanner's Old the post-modernist device of 'quotation', such as racer of H. Opperman MHR 1960 and Garry Merilyn Fairskye's Liebschaft 1988. The acquisition Shead's Portrait of Richard Neville 1964-65. They of Juan Davila's Miss Sigmund 1981 and Wuthering continue the program begun in 1989-90 of Heights 1990 further demonstrates his stature expanding the holdings of 1960s works and make as an international artist. a significant contribution to the consciousness of The sculpture collection was increased through that decade's debate on forms of art and the acquisition of Alison Clouston's Pterodactyl car Australian identity. 1985 and Tim Jones's Levitating phenomenon 1990, Gifts included works by Robert juniper, Sybil both eye-catching as well as thought-provoking. Craig, Roy Parkinson and Harold Parker. The New installation and assemblage sculpture, in Juniper works, a gift from poetThomasShapcott, particular Aleks Danko's Day in day out (second were a commission in the early 1960s for the version) 191 and Madonna Staunton's Assemblage Australian Art and Letters series on Australian with plank 1988, are both challenging and artists and poets, and illustrate Shapcott's Twelve aesthetically rewarding. bagatelles. Noted Australian artist and patron 'Correspondences: The Andrew & Lilian Lina Bryans was the donor of a watercolour Pedersen Memorial Prizes for Drawing & Small sketch from the 1940s by fellow artist Sybil Craig. Sculpture' explored the artistic endeavours used Fourteen important Aboriginal bark paintings by contemporary artists to move beyond and nine gouaches collected during the 1948 traditional boundaries assigned to drawing and American-Australian Scientific Expedition to 32