58 59 ARTLINES 3 | 2025 WHAT’S ON Enhance your connection to the QAGOMA community by joining us at an on-site or online event this season. Above Inside Yayoi Kusama’s The Obliteration Room 2002-present, GOMA, January 2012 / Photograph: Mark Sherwood WONDERSTRUCK AFTER-HOURS VIEWING Friday 19 September | 5.30–8.30pm | GOMA Members and their guests are invited to join us for an exclusive after-hours viewing of ‘Wonderstruck’. Explore the exhibition at your own pace and enjoy pop-up talks throughout the night, offering fresh insights into selected works. Your ticket also includes one complimentary drink on arrival. $28 Members, $34 Members’ guests. Book online or call (07) 3840 7278. Free for Premium Members, email [email protected] to RSVP. Members can redeem their free ticket voucher to attend this event PHONE-FREE VIEWING Saturday 4 October | 8.30–10.00am | GOMA Free yourself from digital devices and immerse yourself in awe-inspiring works of art during this phone-free viewing of ‘Wonderstruck’. During this session, expand your experience by attending a 15-minute ‘Playful Eye’ workshop hosted by Dr Michael Garbutt. Free, bookings required. Full event details available online at qagoma.qld.gov.au THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: FAITH AND POPULAR CULTURE OPENING DAY CELEBRATION Saturday 20 September | 10.30am – 1.45pm | QAG Explore the influence of Indian artist Raja Ravi Varma at talks and tours featuring international and national experts. Plus, experience a dance performance inspired by the ‘God of Small Things’ exhibition. Free, no bookings required. Talks are Auslan-interpreted. Full event details available online at qagoma.qld.gov.au CONSERVATION TALK Thursday 16 October | 6.00pm | QAG Join QAGOMA conservators as they share insights into the major conservation project undertaken on artworks featured in ‘The God of Small Things: Faith and Popular Culture’. The exhibition will be open for viewing from 5.15pm, prior to the commencement of the talk. Free, bookings required as capacity is limited. Book online or contact the Members Office on (07) 3840 7278. These programs are supported by the Centre for Australia-India Relations. ARCHIE MOORE: KITH AND KIN OPENING DAY HIGHLIGHTS Saturday 27 September | 10.30am – 2.30pm | GOMA Hear from award-winning artist Archie Moore (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) and special guests in artist talks and discussions, on the opening day of ‘Archie Moore: kith and kin’ Free, no bookings required. Full event details available online at qagoma.qld.gov.au WHAT’S ON REWATCH If you’ve missed one of our recent lectures and would like to catch up at home, simply let us know which lecture you’d like to see — and we’ll send you the link! • The God of Small Things: Faith and Popular Culture • Wonderstruck • Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s MONTHLY LECTURES Delve deeper into QAGOMA exhibitions and displays at the monthly Members lecture. Bookings essential as capacity is limited. Free for Members and $10 Members’ guests. Book online, call (07) 3840 7278 or email [email protected] CONTRAPTIONS Wednesday 17 September | 11.00am | Cinema A, GOMA Join Rosie Hays, Associate Curator, Australian Cinémathèque, for a preview of the upcoming ‘Contraptions’ exhibition, which explores how artists use machines for play, experimentation, and hands-on engagement with ideas. While digital production dominates today’s world, many artists remain captivated by the mechanical and handmade nature of analogue contraptions. The selected works reflect on humanity’s relationship with technology, using whimsy and absurdity to conjure unexpected encounters that shift our perception of the world. From top Archie Moore, QAG, November 2021 / Photograph: Chloë Callistemon Rosie Hays, Associate Curator, Australian Cinémathèque, presenting the monthly Members lecture, GOMA, January 2025 / Photograph: Joe Ruckli SPECIAL OFFER Lecture attendees receive a special 20% discount voucher* for use at QAGOMA’s food and beverage outlets. *Terms and conditions apply. You must attend the Lecture in person to obtain your voucher. Voucher is valid for three months from date of issue. Above Visitors looking at Ron Mueck’s In bed 2005, GOMA, February 2023 / Photograph: Merinda Campbell KITH AND KIN + INSCRIBING A LIFE Wednesday 8 October | 11.00am | Cinema A, GOMA Join Ellie Buttrose, Acting Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, for a lecture exploring the exhibitions ‘Archie Moore: kith and kin’ and ‘Inscribing a Life’. Winner of the Golden Lion award for national representation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Archie Moore’s kith and kin, curated by Ellie Buttrose, traces the artist’s Kamilaroi and Bigambul relations over more than 65,000 years in a vast map of names in chalk on blackboard. On display for the first time since Venice, the installation honours ancestral connections and commemorates Indigenous lives lost in custody, highlighting enduring histories and systemic injustices. Complementing the display, ‘Inscribing a Life’ brings together works of art from across the QAGOMA Collection that register existence, histories and time through the act of mark-making. From the brute force of paint recorded on canvas, to the time commitment captured in intricate, repetitive forms, these works grapple with the vast scale and deep time of the universe. GREAT AND SMALL Wednesday 12 November | 11.00am | Cinema A, GOMA Hear from Sophia Sambono (Jingili people), Associate Curator, Indigenous Australian Art, as she shares insights into ‘Great and Small: Kindred Creatures in Indigenous Australian Art’. The exhibition celebrates the deep cultural, spiritual and ancestral connections between First Nations peoples and animals, which have shaped identity, survival and relationships with Country for tens of thousands of years.
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