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Griffith University Art Museum

Locality: South Brisbane, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3735 3140

Address: 226 Grey Street 4101 South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum

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22.01.2022 Thanks to Vogue Living for the shout out on our current show 'Elizabeth Newman: Is that a 'No'?' ! Check out their other tops picks at Sydney Contemporary 2020 via the link, including work by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Senior Lecturer Julie Fragar

21.01.2022 If you missed last month’s symposium Provocations for Painters, we’re happy to advise that you can now listen online via our SoundCloud station! https://soundcloud.com/user-979653628 And head to our YouTube channel for an edited version of Angela Goddard and Ingrid Periz’s conversation on Robert MacPherson and his celebrated art practice. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNLrHVm474

21.01.2022 Check out the fabulous line up of speakers VAULT Magazine is bringing together to launch their bumper all-woman issue! Act One Looking Back 1-2pm Alison Kubler speaks to Griffith University Deputy Director of Engagement Dr. Sue Best; First Nations artist Judy Watson; Curatorial Manager, International Art, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow; artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Director of THE WALLS Gold Coast, and artist Rebecca Ross.... Act Two Looking Forward 2.15-3.15pm Alison Kubler speaks to Home of the Arts Gallery Director Tracey Cooper-Lavery; Griffith University Art Museum Director Angela Goddard; First Nations artist and academic Dr. Fiona Foley, and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University Fine Art Lecturer and artist Dr. Natalya Hughes.

20.01.2022 Join us this Thursday for a special In Conversation event with artist Luke Roberts, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the legendary figure Pope Alice!

19.01.2022 Congratulations to Queensland College of Art alumnus & current DVA candidate Mandy Quadrio, who is the new Hope St Studio Artist in Residence! The residency is supported by GUAM, QCA & ARIA Property Group https://news.griffith.edu.au//new-partnership-provides-st/ #MuseumFromHome... #GriffithUniversityArtMuseum #UAMA See more

19.01.2022 It's exactly 30 sleeps until Christmas, and we have the perfect gift for your art-loving friends and family members! Our fabulous new tote bag was made to celebrate our recent publication 'Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings' - they've been produced as a limited run, so they won't last long! To grab one, head to our online store here:... https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au//Griffith-University-A/ Peruse our range of art publications while you're there #gordonbennett #gordonbennettselectedwritings #griffithuniversityartmuseum #ChristmasIsComing

19.01.2022 In conjunction with the exhibition Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?, curator Naomi Evans invited the artists Paul Bai, Courtney Coombs and Kate Woodcroft to select and read aloud a text or excerpt from Newman’s writings. Their recordings are simply presented, yet each artist’s interest in abstraction and language emerges from the spoken texts to complicate ideas of originality, authenticity, and authorship. #elizabethnewman ... #isthatano #griffithuniversityartmuseum #uama See more

19.01.2022 Our new exhibition ‘Robert MacPherson: Nominal Gestures’ is now open! ‘Nominal Gestures’ brings together several works exploring MacPherson’s fascination with wordplay and modes of classification, particularly his deep interest in language, and how objects might be designated as art. Exhibition runs until 13 March 2021... Image: ‘Robert MacPherson: Nominal Gestures’ installation view, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, December 2020. Courtesy the artist and Yuill|Crowley, Sydney. Photo: Angela Goddard #RobertMacPherson #NominalGestures #GriffithUniversityArtMuseum #UAMA

18.01.2022 Visitor update: Griffith University Art Museum is currently closed due to the Greater Brisbane lockdown and Easter break. We’ll reopen Tuesday 6 April with our new exhibition’Rebecca Belmore: Turbulent Water’

17.01.2022 In today's The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: The results of University Art Museums Australia (UAMA)'s survey report (2017-19) are in, and it's official... Australia's University Art Museums are cultural powerhouses, responsible for approximately 30% of art collections in the small-to-medium public art galleries sector. ... Stay tuned for more from UAMA's newly announced Chair, our Director Angela Goddard! #UAMA #griffithuniversityartmuseum

16.01.2022 Our Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Professor Mario Pinto, drew our attention this week to 2020 Physics Nobel Prize winner, Roger Penrose. Penrose advanced the theory that black hole formation is part of the general theory of relativity. BUT Penrose is a renowned figure in many fields, including neuroscience, with his theory of a possible role of microtubules in consciousness about the geometrically impossible "Penrose staircase", conceived by him and his father, whic...h in turn inspired certain famous drawings by M. C. Escher. It's yet another reminder of the fascinating relationship between science and art! #artandscience #griffithuniversityartmuseum #robertpenrose #nobelprize #mcescher

15.01.2022 On this day in 1980, the inimitable Pope Alice made her debut at Spring Hill Gallery, Brisbane! 'Pope Alice Presents Luke Roberts' was the first opportunity audiences had to witness the spectacle of Her Divine Holiness Pope Alice, who was Guest of Honour at Roberts’s exhibition opening and appeared at various locations around Brisbane to mark the occasion, including King George Square. To acknowledge this amazing milestone, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (QCA...) alum Luke Roberts will be joined in conversation with Dr Laini Burton, Senior Lecturer and Higher Degree Research Convenor at QCA, to discuss Pope Alice’s evolution over the last 40 years, as well as our recent digitisation project to preserve Roberts’s enormous catalogue of early video works and performance documentation. Join us Thursday 8 October at 3pm for this free online event, with audience questions welcomed after the discussion. Image supplied by Luke Roberts. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery Brisbane. #MuseumFromHome #PopeAlicePresents

15.01.2022 Join our Director, Angela Goddard, tomorrow at 10.30am for Session 3 of Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s virtual short course on Australian art! ‘SESSION 3: Paths to the Contemporary’ will delve into the development of contemporary art, and how the past keeps recurring in the present. Along the way, she’ll discuss the central western desert painting movement, colour field painting and lyrical abstraction, as well as portraiture (how could she not in this Archibald Prize week!) Following her wander through the Australian art collection hang at QAGOMA, Angela will be joined by guest artist Callum McGrath to discuss his practice.

15.01.2022 A brand new #PandemicPerformance to get you through the midweek malaise, by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University alum Michael Candy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjU1SUWCh4 #museumfromhome ... #uama #griffithuniversityartmuseum #qcaalumni See more

14.01.2022 Did you hear? Our Director Angela Goddard has been appointed Chair of University Art Museums Australia (UAMA)! #uama

14.01.2022 In today's The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age: The results of University Art Museums Australia (UAMA)'s survey report (2017-19) are in, and it's official... Australia's University Art Museums are cultural powerhouses, responsible for approximately 30% of art collections in the small-to-medium public art galleries sector. ... Stay tuned for more from UAMA's newly announced Chair, our Director Angela Goddard! #UAMA #griffithuniversityartmuseum

13.01.2022 Did you hear? Our Director Angela Goddard has been appointed Chair of University Art Museums Australia (UAMA)! #uama

12.01.2022 Our Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Professor Mario Pinto, drew our attention this week to 2020 Physics Nobel Prize winner, Roger Penrose. Penrose advanced the theory that black hole formation is part of the general theory of relativity. BUT Penrose is a renowned figure in many fields, including neuroscience, with his theory of a possible role of microtubules in consciousness about the geometrically impossible "Penrose staircase", conceived by him and his father, whic...h in turn inspired certain famous drawings by M. C. Escher. It's yet another reminder of the fascinating relationship between science and art! #artandscience #griffithuniversityartmuseum #robertpenrose #nobelprize #mcescher

11.01.2022 Elizabeth Newman occupies a singular place in Australian contemporary art. Her use of familiar materials, presented in a minimalist way, is inflected with a brand of anti-authoritarianism that is both confounding and enjoyable. Across painting, sculpture and installation Newman utilises a kind of shock-value: one is presented with something so spartan, of such apparent simplicity, that habitual ‘reading’ will not work. Extreme simplicity cuts to the heart. It can also be stu...nning, in the sense that one might be struck dumb, or stupefied, and Newman’s work can offer a weird sensation of logical flailing. Is all this ludicrous or profound? Is that it? Naomi Evans, ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’, exhibition catalogue, Griffith University Art Museum, 2020. ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’ continues until 21 November 2020. Image: ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’ Installation view, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane 2020. Courtesy the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, and Neon Parc, Melbourne. Photo: Carl Warner #ElizabethNewman #IsthataNo #GriffithUniversityArtMuseum

09.01.2022 A few of the GUAM team checking out our past Intern Claudia Husband’s solo exhibition of print works inspired by Brisbane’s jacarandas! ‘Purple Rain’ at Logan Art Gallery #claudiahusband... #griffithuniversityartmuseum #qcaalumni #uama Logan Art Supporters page See more

08.01.2022 Collection in Focus: In 1987, the Grim Reaper sexual health campaign was launched Australia-wide. The adverts featured the image of a grim reaper bowling over innocent victims in a bowling alley, and spread images of fear and shame around sexual health and specifically HIV/AIDS. Whilst this campaign was very effective at spreading fear of HIV, it did nothing to empower people to make their own sexual health decisions, and take control of their own sexual health. The effect of... the campaign was an acknowledgement that HIV was in the community, and it was something to be feared. In response to these adverts, Aunty Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, who at the time worked as an Aboriginal Sexual Health Worker in Townsville, recognised that the Grim Reaper adverts did nothing to promote sexual health within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Her fear was that the current sexual health education did not reach Aboriginal and Torres Strait people at a cultural level, and therefore was not appropriate for her community. In 1987, Aunty Gracelyn and several colleagues began developing a sexual health resource which was culturally-based. The result was the creation of 'Condoman' and the message 'Don't Be Shame Be Game', which quickly became an iconic image for sexual health and the prevention of HIV/AIDS within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The posters were designed and printed by Redback Graphix, a poster-making and graphics workshop in Wollongong established by Michael Callaghan and Gregor Cullen in 1981, that specialised in producing posters, handbills, publications, pamphlets and banners aimed at raising community awareness of important social issues. In 2009, Condoman was relaunched by the late Brendan Leishman, a Health Promotion Officer at the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities and the 2Spirits Program at the Queensland AIDS Council, with the support of Queensland Health and the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC). Image: Redback Graphix (attributed) 'Condoman' 1987 Screenprint, 88 x 62.5cm Griffith University Art Collection. Donated by Tony Albert, 2020 #WorldAIDSDay #GriffithUniversityArtMuseum

07.01.2022 It’s the final week of our current exhibition ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’ If you haven't made it in yet, this is your friendly reminder not to miss out! For those who can't visit in person, the exhibition catalogue features full colour installation images and a new essay on Newman's practice by curator Naomi Evans. Check out our website for more details. When I make an art work I experience a ‘beginning moment’, a sort of mythical moment that presents what could b...e ‘the beginning of subjectivity’: the bifurcation of experience into something that can be represented, and something that cannot be represented, but nevertheless exists. Probably all my work is about this moment of conjunction in which language divides being. Elizabeth Newman in ‘Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?’ (Brisbane: Griffith University, 2020), p3. Photo: Carol Ha #griffithuniversityartmuseum #elizabethnewman #isthatano #uama Darren Knight Gallery Neon Parc

07.01.2022 Ask a Curator Day! 11am-4pm 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of #askacurator Day when museums around the world participate in a virtual Q&A on Twitter. Got a question for our Curator? Naomi Evans is standing by to share curatorial insights, and answer all those nagging questions or quandries you've been dying to ask! ... Get involved and submit questions below or on https://twitter.com/guartmuseum?lang=en https://www.instagram.com/griffithuniversityartmuseum/?hl=en #askacurator Add to Your Post

06.01.2022 "Overall, this exhibition has an elegance to it as a viewing experience. It is rigorous and respectful and yet it has a pace that allows contemplation. It seemingly washes over you as a viewer, entering every pore and setting deep in our conscious, and opening up thought." Huge thanks to Gina Fairley and ArtsHub for this stellar review of our new exhibition 'Rebecca Belmore: Turbulent Water'!

01.01.2022 Tomorrow, our colleagues at FUMA - Flinders University Museum of Art are hosting a virtual symposium in partnership with University of Tasmania (UTAS) Cultural Collections. Building on the exhibition of the same name presented by FUMA and in response to exhibitions on the same theme presented by UTAS ('Too Many Cooks' curated by Professor Greg Lehman and Rachael Rose) and QUT Art Museum ('Rite of Passage' curated by Shannon Brett), 'In the hold' symposium seeks to explore an...d interrogate Cook as an idea, and a myth that continues to grip the public imagination. The symposium will bring leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, curators, and academics into conversation to consider untold and alternative visions of Cook through film, performance, re-enactment, song, artwork, text and the archive. #uama #MuseumFromHome