As a painter and former art director for international film productions, Tim Ellis deploys the techniques, tools and mediums used for scenic art to make large paintings. In composing a work, his painter’s eye selects one fleeting moment to become a canvas. Ellis’ works are executed with bright, fluid brush-strokes, and with a cinematic...
People’s persistent interest in the self-image is explored in a new exhibition of work from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Collection. Drawing from QAGOMA’s Australian, Indigenous Australian, Asia Pacific and International collections, Looking Out, Looking In highlights richly diverse approaches to a timeless artistic genre, the complex and fascinating...
This is an extraordinary exhibition of quilts made by military men from their army or naval uniforms. They were made by soldiers, sailors and regimental tailors using richly dyed, felted wools – the military fabrics of the past three-hundred years. They reveal service in the Prussian, Napoleonic, and Crimean wars, and in British India. But...
Dance masks and headdresses are unique in the each of the five island clusters of the Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula, with varied styles, materiality, complexity, purpose, and meaning. Performing with these objects and singing the songs that accompany them during dance is a way of honouring and embodying land, sea and sky....
