QAGOMA | Intimately sized plaques by Warraba Weatherall allude to public memorials @QAGOMA_Australia | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Indigenous Australian objects and remains were removed from their resting places and collected by museums throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 'To know and possess' 2021, which adopts the commemorative trope of the bronze plaque, Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall highlights this history, and the debate that continues around repatriation, for contemporary audiences.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/warraba-weatherall-intimately-sized-plaques-allude-to-public-memorials/
FIND OUT MORE: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/tag/embodied-knowledge
QUEENSLAND ARTISTS: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/category/queensland-artists
‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ / Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Gallery) and the Watermall / 13 August 2022 to 22 January 2023
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Acknowledgment of Country
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Gallery stands in Brisbane. We pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present and, in the spirit of reconciliation, acknowledge the immense creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.
It is customary in many Indigenous communities not to mention the name or reproduce photographs of the deceased. All such mentions and photographs are with permission, however, care and discretion should be exercised.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2023
#EmbodiedKnowledgeQAG #QAGOMA #WarrabaWeatherall
Indigenous Australian objects and remains were removed from their resting places and collected by museums throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 'To know and possess' 2021, which adopts the commemorative trope of the bronze plaque, Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall highlights this history, and the debate that continues around repatriation, for contemporary audiences.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/warraba-weatherall-intimately-sized-plaques-allude-to-public-memorials/
FIND OUT MORE: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/tag/embodied-knowledge
QUEENSLAND ARTISTS: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/category/queensland-artists
‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ / Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Gallery) and the Watermall / 13 August 2022 to 22 January 2023
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Acknowledgment of Country
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Gallery stands in Brisbane. We pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present and, in the spirit of reconciliation, acknowledge the immense creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.
It is customary in many Indigenous communities not to mention the name or reproduce photographs of the deceased. All such mentions and photographs are with permission, however, care and discretion should be exercised.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2023
#EmbodiedKnowledgeQAG #QAGOMA #WarrabaWeatherall
