NOW SHOWING
Boss Drovers
A Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Touring Exhibition
John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery
A touring exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson, one of Australia’s most highly regarded contemporary artists. The exhibition comprises approximately 200 drawings from the complete set of 2400 portraits that make up his largest ever work, Boss Drovers. Viewers will be encouraged to see this work as MacPherson’s lament for the disappearance of the specialised knowledge, language and history that these working people of the land carried with them. The immense ambition and scope of the project represents 20 years of thought and deliberation by the artist and reflects Australia’s diversity, history and complexity.
Works will be accompanied by a tailor-made digital interactive titled Drove Muster to encourage audience participation and engagement with the artist’s concepts and content. Visitors will be able to discover more about the ‘Boss Drover’ men and women by creating their own drover character using a selection of facial features and accessories drawn from Robert MacPherson’s major work, now in the QAGOMA Collection.
Exhibition Runs
Saturday 19 January – 2 March 2019
The John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery is proudly sponsored by
Murilla Hardware Supplies
Image Credit:
Macpherson Robert / Australia B.1937 / 1000 Frog Poems: 1000 Boss Drovers (‘Yellow Leaf Falling’) For H.S. (No. 1913) 1996 – 2014 / Graphite, ink and stain on paper / Purchased 2014 with funds from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation, Paul and Susan Taylor, and Donald and Christine McDonald / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery
On the Curved Wall
Mulga Bill’s Bicycle
Darling Downs Textile Art Group
Participating Artists: Gillian Knott, Sue Schmidt, Jenny Burgess, Sandra Tessmann, Noelle Hodges, Hilary Fogerty, Margie Creek, Elizabeth Schmidt, Robyn Anderson, Jan Scudamore and Kay Joyce
A collection of eleven panels created by members of the Darling Downs Textile Art Group illustrating Banjo Patterson’s famous verse Mulga Bill’s Bicycle.
Arranged in sequence, each panel brings a different set of lines to life, narrating through simple imagery to add momentum and dramatic effect. Using predominately textile fibre medium, various forms of fabric manipulation are showcased; including felting, fabric dyeing and painting, hand and machine embroidery, applique, fabric piecing, quilting, and drawing.
Artist’s creative design choices add individual flair to the collective effort, and draw attention to the diversity of techniques in textile art.
Image Credit:
Gillian Knott | Mulga Bill 2016 | Textiles | 80cm x 50cm
Photographer: Ann Alcock