Queensland Art Gallery Annual report 1999-2000

Landscape The Ellis Gift 22 Mar. - 28 May 2000 10 Mar. - 15 May 2000 This exhibition presented a selection of works from The This display featured eighteenth-century English Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary porcelain gifted to the Gallery by Mr and Mrs J W Ellis Asian Art. over a number of years. p.. 1999 Minister's Awards for Excellence in Art Dennis Oppenheim 18 Feb. - 3 Apr. 2000 10 M a r . - 2 6 June 2000 Organised by Education Queensland and hosted by the The sculpture Field guard from 'The power tool' series Queensland Art Gallery, the Minister's Awards recognise 1989 was accompanied by four large drawings and a outstanding art work by senior students from across video program, all gifted to the Gallery by The Queensland. Works displayed, selected from entries by Oppcnhcim Foundation, Nc\v York, in tIle I 990s. approximately 15 000 students, explored themes and concerns relevant to today's youth. Video Art: Bill Viola, Robert Cahen, Gary Hill 10 Mar. - 2 3 Oct. 2000 Portfolios: From the Queensland Art Gallery Collection Videos presented are from the Gallery's Collection, and 18 Feb. - 14 May 2000 were acquired in 1996 with a special allocation from the Portfolios focused on the versatility of the screenprint in Queensland Government celebrating the Gallery's expressing a range of contemporary art issues. It also Centenary 1895-1995, and acquired in 1999 with funds drew attention to the increasing popularity of offset from Mr James C. Sourris through the Queensland Art I printing for artists. All exhibits were acquisitions made Gallery Foundation. by the Gallery over the last five years. International Collection The Art of Inclusion: Recent Australian Photography 10 Mar. -continiJng . 4 M a r - 2 5 June 2000 - Works in this display include European art pre 1950 and This exhibition demonstrated the diversity of approaches European and American art post 1950. to contemporary photography, which emerged during the 1980s and 1990s. It was shown at the Gallery after Religion in Art its regional Queensland tour. 10 Mar. - continuing This presentation comprises early European religious Australian Collection paintings and prints from the Collection. 8 Mar. 2000 - continuing Themes include Colonial Period to 1920s, Australian Art Ilan Pasin This Is Our Way Torres Strait Art P c.1920-55, and Australian Art c.1955-75. 20 A p r . - 1 2 June 2000 .-..-. Organised by the Cairns Regional Gallery, this was a Jeffrey Smart - landmark exhibition exploring the historical and 10 Mar. - 2 1 May 2000 - contemporary art works of the Torres Strait Islander An Art Gallery of New South Wales Travelling people. The exhibition included over 80 works ranging Exhibition, 'Jeffrey Smart' was the first retrospective from rare nineteenth-century turtleshell masks to avant- exhibition of one of Australia's favourite artists. More garde conceptual art by urban-based a r t i s t s o f the 1990s. than 85 paintings were displayed, as well as preparatory sketches from the early 1940s to the present. The exhibition was very well received by press and visitors, and was the first pay-exhibition 'blockbuster' in Brisbane for a living Australian artist. lip Id