QAG SPOTLIGHTS WOMEN ARTISTS
QAG spotlights women artists - Australian Art Collector
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| Monika Tichacek, Transmission, 2011. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 150 x 125cm. Private collection. Courtesy: the artist and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne | ||||
| 13 February 2012 | Sally Smart, Ruby Williamson, Natalya Hughes, Louise Weaver and Hiromi Tango are among the 33 artists selected for the Queensland Art Gallery’s exhibition Contemporary Artists: Women. It is the second in the gallery’s Contemporary Australia series. (The first was Contemporary Australia: Optimism in 2008.) The exhibition includes both emerging and established artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. | ||||
| Women, which has been curated by QAG’s Julie Ewington, includes over 70 works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, installation, textiles, video and performance. “The exhibition will celebrate the way women artists have reshaped, and continue to shape, the landscape of art in this country,” says QAG director Tony Ellwood. “Contemporary Australia: Women will explore key themes such as performing femininity; the place of personal and intimate spheres such as sexuality, the body, motherhood and ageing; the return to everyday materials; and the ways some artists are redressing the canon of painting,” Ellwood says. The 33 selected artists are: | ||||
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