Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report

initiatives and services / QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 05/06 33 THIS PAGE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials presented a mastering inpainting workshop at the Queensland Art Gallery on 2–5 and 9–12 August 2005. Presenter Mr Carrillo Gantner, AO , Chairman, Asialink, and President, The Myer Foundation, speaking at the Perspectives: Asia seminar, The Bridge: Asia Literacy in Australian Schools, on 23 February 2006. Visitors at the opening of ‘Queensland Live: Contemporary Art on Tour’ at the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum on 22 February 2006. OPPOSITE: John Pule Niue/New Zealand b.1962 Lagaki (To lift) (series) (details) 2000–05 Ink, oil stick, pencil and pastel on paper 15 sheets: 76.3 x 56.4cm (each comp., approx.) Purchased 2005. The Queensland Government’s Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF ASIA–PACIFIC ART The Gallery, through its Australian Centre of Asia–Pacific Art, and Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith Unversity, developed and presented a series of eight free public lectures during the year. Perspectives: Asia explored issues of contemporary culture, politics and society in the region, and speakers included Professor Michael Wesley, Director, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University; Doug Hall, AM , Director, Queensland Art Gallery; Dr Robert Glasser, CEO, Care Australia; Professor Sharon Bell, Pro Vice Chancellor, Equity and Community Partnerships, Griffith University; Professor Greg Fealy, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; Rendra, Indonesian poet and dramatist; Sean Dorney, Pacific correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Carrillo Gantner, AO , Chairman, Asialink, and President, The Myer Foundation; Associate Professor David Reeve, University of New South Wales; and the Right Honourable Sir Rabbie Namaliu, CSM , KCMG , MP , Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Papua New Guinea. PUBLICATIONS During the year the Gallery’s publishing unit produced a number of key publications for a range of exhibitions. The Gallery also continued to produce quality promotional materials and children’s publications, and relaunched Artlines magazine in August. Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls: A Japanese Screen Revealed , a 48-page hard- and soft-cover catalogue supported by the Gallery’s Australian Centre of Asia–Pacific Art, accompanied the exhibition of the same name. Richly illustrated with full-colour reproductions of works from the Gallery’s Collection and various Australian and overseas institutions, Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls profiled the pair of six-fold screens by the Japanese artist Unkoku To- eki (1591–1644) in the Gallery’s Collection. The iconography of these screens was interpreted against the backdrop of the dynamic and competitive political matrix of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan. Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls won first place for small exhibition catalogues at the 2006 Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA), which were hosted by the Gallery in May. The catalogue was also commended in the best designed catalogue or book category at the 2006 Australian Publishing Awards, hosted by the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and won an award of merit at the 2006 Queensland Design Awards, hosted by the Gallery in June. Barbara Heath: Jeweller to the Lost featured images of the jeweller–designer Heath’s life and work, and provided a unique insight into her approach to creating contemporary jewellery, ‘off the body’ sculptural objects, love tokens and large-scale installations. A 64-page catalogue, Barbara Heath explored the artist’s distinctive lexicon and highlighted the unique position Barbara Heath holds in Australian contemporary craft. Barbara Heath won an award of merit at the 2006 Queensland Design Awards, and was highly commended at the 2006 MAPDA Awards. With essays by Dr Ted Gott (National Gallery of Victoria) and Kathryn Weir (Queensland Art Gallery), Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong explored images of gorillas, wild beasts and monsters in art, film, science, literature and popular culture from the late nineteenth century to today. This 128-page book (also published as a special ‘animal fur’ edition) was illustrated with film stills from the famous big ape and monster movies, as well as posters, sculptures, paintings, prints and rare books. Kiss of the Beast was published in conjunction with the integrated exhibition and film program presented by the Gallery’s Australian