The dazzling effect of Copper Archipelago's decorative ceiling appropriates a ship’s outer edge

Jasmine Togo-Brisby introduces 'Copper Archipelago' 2024, created as a site-specific architectural intervention for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial. A large boat-shaped structure, its surfaces recall the ornate ceilings eponymous with the Sydney-based Wunderlich family, famous in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for manufacturing pressed-metal ceilings. Wunderlich ceilings ar...

Behind-the-scenes/ Installing a 6-metre-long woodcut print for the Asia Pacific Triennial

QAGOMA Paper Conservator Kim Barrett takes us through the process of preparing the work for display at the Asia Pacific Triennial including the challenges and bespoke systems designed to support its unique size and material. KAAITEN: History, Memory, Identity 2024 is a breathtaking 6-metre-long woodcut print by Subas Tamang, a member of the TAMBA collective from Nepal and the surrounding region. Nep...

Time-lapse/ Kikik Kollektive paint a cacophony of narratives for their Asia Pacific Triennial mural

With their immense, collectively painted mural, Kikik Kollektive present a cacophony of narratives, symbols and characters, forming a bold visual representation of Iloilo that emphasises the stories that have created and shaped its land, people and history. For the Asia Pacific Triennial, Kikik Kollektive celebrates significant stories of Iloilo in a vast mural 'Tul-an sang aton kamal-aman...

Design Tracks/ Brisbane

'Design Tracks: Brisbane' is an annual 3-day residential program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students in Queensland. Hosted by QAGOMA Learning, the program offers students opportunities to work alongside established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creative mentors. ‘Design Tracks’ encourages participants to feel inspired by the Creative Industries and consider their own future career pathways. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of M...

Design Tracks/ A program for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students

‘Design Tracks’ is an annual multi-day residential program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students in Queensland. Hosted by QAGOMA Learning, the program offers students opportunities to work alongside established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creative mentors. Each year, the program runs in Cairns in May, and Brisbane in August, and is programmed around an annual theme which students...

Art that gives you hope/ Asia Pacific Triennial

Varunika Saraf employs a rigorous painterly technique and scrupulously creates or customises her own pigments. Her practice draws upon historical worldviews, mythologies and art histories to navigate today’s political and social situations, particularly examining contemporary realities of marginalisation, social injustice and proliferating violence. Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries feature in the eleve...

Art that takes a village/ Asia Pacific Triennial

Nestled by the edge of Tonga’s largest freshwater ecosystem, is Tu‘anuku village, Vava‘u - home of artist ‘Aunofo Havea Funaki and the Lepamahanga Women’s Group. Ruha Fifita, Curatorial Assistant, Pacific Art, takes us on a journey to Tonga to explore the making of this incredible 14-metre-long work by lead designer and creator, ‘Aunofo with members of the Lepamahanga Women’s Group and the broader village community. The inhab...

Design Tracks: Cairns

'Design Tracks Cairns' is an annual multi-day residential program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students from regional and remote Far North, and North Queensland. Hosted by QAGOMA Learning, the program offers students opportunities to work alongside established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creative mentors. ‘Design Tracks’ encourages participants to feel inspired by the Creative Industries and consider their own future career pathwa...

Watch as Kikik Kollektive paint their vast GOMA mural for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial

Amongst the bustle of streets, marketplaces and public settings of Iloilo on Panay Island, street-side murals by Kikik Kollektive can be found. The works are deeply engaged with local community and bring attention to social and environmental issues through a localised lens. Kikik use their large-scale murals to present these issues ‘as a means to preserve the past and be an active instigator in the...