Media Alert - Exhibition Showcases Key Works Of Internationally Acclaimed Brisbane Artist

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8th May 2008, 02:48pm - Views: 732
Media Alert

Attention: News Editors & Chiefs of Staff

Exhibition Showcases Key Works of Internationally Acclaimed Brisbane Artist

WHAT: Media tour of the exhibition 'Gordon Bennett'

WHERE: Gallery 3.1, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank

WHEN: 11.00am-1.00pm tomorrow, Friday 9 May 2008
The exhibition continues at GoMA until 3 August 2008.

WHO: Kelly Gellatly, exhibition curator and Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery
Tony Ellwood, Director, Queensland Art Gallery

Tony Ellwood and the exhibition curator will also be available for interviews at other times. Please contact the Gallery to arrange a time.

* Gordon Bennett is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work challenges representations of Australian cultural identity for both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

* The comprehensive retrospective exhibition features more than 80 of Bennett's key works, from 1987 to the present. The works are complex and sometimes confronting.

* The exhibition has special significance for Queensland audiences; Bennett studied at the Queensland College of Art and continues to live in Brisbane.

PICTURE OPPORTUNITIES:

* Graphic, multi-layered paintings and contemporary sculpture exploring ideas about Australian cultural identity.

* Exhibition curator Kelly Gellatly and Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood with key works in the exhibition.

Media contact: Amelia Gundelach, 3840 7162 or 0404 994 985.

Media images: www.qag.qld.gov.au/about_us/media

Parking: [Drop-off Stanley Place, South Bank. Parking is available in the Queensland Art Gallery Car Park, enter via Cultural Centre Underpass]

'Gordon Bennett' is a National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition. It is supported by the Contemporary Touring Initiative through Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and state and territory governments.


SOURCE: Queensland Art Gallery









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