Prado Up Late at the Queensland Art Gallery

The Queensland Art Gallery is open Up Late on Saturday nights during 'Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado'.











If you haven't seen the fantastic 'Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado' yet, now is your chance! Catch up with friends for a fun Saturday night when the gallery is open from 5:30pm until 10pm. Take in the exhibition and join friends for a drink or bite to eat in the Spanish themed bars and cafes located in the immersive space La Sala del Prado.









La Sala del Prado features interactive spaces that reflect cutting edge contemporary Spanish design. The enticing range of experiences relating to the rich exhibition themes and artists in 'Portrait of Spain' includes fun multimedia interactives and drawing activities, as well as programs and events for all ages.















Inspired by Spanish still life painting, rich with fruits, spices and produce introduced to Spain during periods of travel to the new world in the fifteenth century. Take up coloured pencils to draw from the display or use one of the multimedia tablets in the space.









Entrance of the world of El Prado exhibition (no photos allowed beyond this point). This exhibition features over 100 masterpieces from one of the most revered collections of European painting in the world and tells the story of the evolution of painting in Spain over three and a half centuries. On display are masterpieces by leading painters of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera and Murillo.





Complete the evening with live music from a range of local, national and international performers, in the spectacular setting of the Gallery's Watermall.







Thanks Queensland Art Gallery. Cheers!

Jacaranda Lane

I fell in love with these trees on my very first spring in Brisbane.









During the months of October and November, the streets of Brisbane erupt in a vivid lilac fanfare as the Jacaranda trees go into full bloom!









It’s delicate trumpet shaped blossoms last for around two months at the height of the Australian Spring before carpeting the ground with a mass of colour – it is said that if one of those blossoms should fall on your head while you’re passing underneath, you will be rewarded by good fortune.





It's Latin name is Jacaranda mimosifolia, which is the most widely seen and admired tree of the Jacaranda family. It prefers a warm coastal climate and is prevalent as a centerpiece to gardens in Australia from Cairns to Melbourne, although it is not actually native to Australia but rather Brazil.

Girls day out

Over the past few days we have experienced the rise of temperature. So, we decided to take shelter at the coolest and most inspiring place in the city!!! Much deserved quality time together.











Politically motivated art gets an airing in GOMA exhibition Propaganda? The exhibition shifts from the most widely accepted definition of propaganda, which is that associated with totalitarian regimes – in this case the Socialist Realist-derived art of North Korea and cultural revolution-era China – to more contemporary takes on the idea. Work featured comes from artists such as the Luo Brothers, who show connections between traditional communist propaganda and the advertising culture of contemporary China, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who shows cola ads, communist posters and wild-style graffiti jostling for attention in the streets of Vietnam.











You could argue that propaganda is as old as language itself, particularly when words or images are associated with communicating the value of one form of social organisation or another.





National New Media Art Award 2012. The Award and exhibition showcase the work of leading Australian new media artists. The award-winning work will be acquired for the Queensland Art Gallery Collection.







Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders



Ross Manning



Leah Heiss



Robin Fox



Karen Casey



Paraphrasing Jason Silva's "I find inspiration to be the ultimate antidote to existential angst". Hopefully this short article will inspire the readers as much as the visit to the Arts inspired us.



Menlibayeva ‘Wrapping History’ 2010

Almagul Menlibayeva’s photography reflects on history, memory and landscape. Employing an aesthetic she calls ‘Romantic Punk Shamanism’, Menlibayeva delineates an imagined pre-Soviet, pre-Islamic realm incorporating a shamanistic freedom of the human body.





‘Flowers that Bloom at Midnight’ is a series of sculptures, each with its own exuberant colour scheme, on which Yayoi Kusama has been working since 2009.