Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1993-94

CURATOR l - - L & S U P P O R T S E RV I C E S PROGRAM P o p l e , R o d n e y The critically acclaimed installation A u s t r a l i a b . 1 9 5 2 A book from the sky 1987-91 by P a s t e l w i t h be!! 1993 New Wave Chinese artist Xu Bing is outstanding among this group - ' of donated works Noteworthy among the L Q contemporary Australian drawings acquired was Figures on red 1992 a group of twenty images by Jon Cattapan, and Peter Kennedy's Blackboards with pendulum 1992 V Representative images by Rodney Pople, Marion Borgelt and Julie Irving were also purchased. Under the Contemporary Art Acquisition Program, a large scale collage by Melbourne artist Elizabeth Gower was another important addition to the Collection. Recent Australian prints focussing on a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander images ( ION, P ' J ' l - j were purchased to mark the I International Year for the World's ¼ Indigenous People. In addition, two fine examples of Tiwi art using natural ochres on paper, Pamajini (Armbands) 1993 by Jean Baptist tN Apuatimi and ParliniJilamara (Old design) 1993 by Kitty Kantilla, were presented by the Queensland Art Gallery Society. Acquisitions of Australian photography included characteristic images by senior photographer Wolfgang Sievers as well as works by Robyn Stacey, Christine Barry, Peter Lyssiotis and Charles Page. International acquisitions were highlighted by the purchase of three trial proof impressions of etchings and a linocut by Henri Matisse. A suite of twelve documentary photographs by A r t i s t J o e Felber a n d his Gaftery 1 4 New Zealander Anne Noble In the installation 'Lineareading: A n Audio- presence of angels - photographs Visual Installation b y J o e Felber'. of the contemplative life' series 31