Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 1995-96

I N T E R N A T I O N A L PROGRAMS region, several works from Indonesia and The Philippines were acquired. These included works on paper by Indonesian artists Hers Dono and FX Harsono, both of whom were represented in the First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary A r t in 1993; and Setiawan Sabana, an Indonesian artist who uses hand-made paper and pulp to create works celebrating the beauty of the landscape. A work by the Philippine muralist collective Sanggawa was acquired. Painted fabric murals or banners have been used for political or social commentary in The Philippines since the nationalist and anti- colonialist rallies of the T 1960s, and Sanggawas Palo-sebo 1995 continues this tradition in a satirical depiction of well-known and readily recognisable figures from contem- porary Philippine life. Also acquired was a photographic tryptich, Blinded by the light 1991, by Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura, a participating artist in the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial. The Gallery also pur- chased a work by Richard Killeen, one of New Zealand's foremost contemporary art prac- titioners. His work, Mickey of bllladu/la 1995, comprises thirty-two cut-outs of painted aluminium which can be \\. hung in any configuration. It relates to the of Mickey of UHaduH a nineteenth-century Aboriginal artist whose drawings of fishing and shipping, as well as ceremonial drawings, are considered one of the most significant bodies of work by Australian Aborigines of the period. Mickey of Ulladulla's work has only recently been written into the narrative of Australian art history, and it is this 'discovery' that fascinates Killeen. Twenty-five spaces 1995, by contemporary British sculptor Rachel Whiteread, comprises twenty-five blocks of resin cast from the spaces beneath a chair. This work builds on the Gallery's small but important collection of contemporary British art, which includes Richard Long's Ring of stones 1982 and Gilbert and George's Leaners 1989.