Stephen Wiltshire draws Brisbane

At the State Library of Queensland to follow British architectural artist Stephen Wiltshire in his attempt to capture the river city on a 4 meter long panorama canvas.































Stephen began drawing at the State Library of Queensland on Saturday morning, after an early morning ride on the wheel at Southbank, and a late afternoon helicopter ride over Brisbane on Friday and finished the final part of the Panorama on Tuesday 29 November.



The image of Brisbane will join a collection of other iconic skylines Stephen has created in his career to date, and will be displayed at the State Library of Queensland for 6 months.



Time lapse photography of Stephen's artwork coming to life.



Ten News - Stephen's completes view of Brisbane on a giant canvas at the State Library of Queensland.

Dots of Self-Obliteration

"Theory of Self-Obliteration: By obliterating one’s individual self, one returns to the infinite universe" Yayoi Kusama

Kusama - world art(ist) from Krešo J. on Vimeo.

Kusama's Obliteration Room

At GoMA to explore Yayoi Kusama dots and loops. We will cover chairs, sofas, and entire rooms with colourful sticky paper dots!





Obliteration Room begins as a white room with white furniture. Over the period of the exhibition, it will become a sea of colour as visitors are issued with a sheet of coloured dots which we can stick wherever we fancy!!!!!













Now I’ve got spots in front of my eyes :)









Myself, Lucy, Michael and Joe doing a great job :)









Revisiting Look Now, See Forever.







A sneak peek into we miss you magic land! an immersive and vibrant environment created by Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz. Exhibition opens, Saturday the 26 November 2011.







A large-scale fantasy worlds coloured with a bright, often fluorescent palette, using cake-decorating tools, intricate layers of sugar, glitter, modeling clay and mirrors.

Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever at GoMA

Even saying Yayoi Kusama’s name makes me happy – try it, I swear it will do it for you too. On top of this we now get to see this highly esteemed and innovative artist’s happy, colourful work on display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art





‘Look Now, See Forever’ is immersed in style, with GOMA being taken over by Kusama’s dramatic sculptures and paintings, as well as film projection and installation. Her brilliant 80 year-old mind has created some of the most significant art in the last hundred years.







Kusama uses colour, pattern, form and space in a most interesting way, challenging the viewer to see the world completely differently. The artist herself sees the world in a different way – she suffers from severe OCD and 'depersonalisation syndrome' since she was a child. It's nicknamed the 'Alice in Wonderland Disease' because, like Alice, it makes the person feel like their body is dissolving, changing or even absent, and they constantly exist in a state where it is impossible to distinguish between reality and imagination. Dots are her major obsession, and art is her therapy.



Yayoi Kusama: Inside the studio. An in-conversation between Ms Yoriko Tsuruta, who has worked closely with the artist for many years, and Suhanya Raffel, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Collection Development.









Kusama: Princess of Polka Dots is a feature documentary work-in-progress about avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama. The paparazzi nicknamed her the Polka Dot Princess in the 1960s when she lived in New York City. At that time, she rivaled Andy Warhol for press attention. Now in her early 80s, Kusama is considered Japan’s greatest living artist.