Lunch & Lecture: 'Shirley Macnamara' Dyinala, Nganinya

Shirley Macnamara, Australia b.1949 / Wingreeguu (detail) 2012 / Spinifex (Triodia pungens), turpentine bush (Acacia lysiphloia), yellow ochre / 190 x 241 x 160cm / Commissioned for APT7. Purchased 2013. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / ┬® Shirley Macnamara and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne

Shirley Macnamara, Australia b.1949 / Wingreeguu (detail) 2012 / Spinifex (Triodia pungens), turpentine bush (Acacia lysiphloia), yellow ochre / 190 x 241 x 160cm / Commissioned for APT7. Purchased 2013. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / ┬® Shirley Macnamara and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne / View full image

When

11.00 am – 1.00 pm, Wed 27 Nov 2019
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Where

Queensland Art Gallery, Lecture Theatre & Gallery of Modern Art, GOMA Cafe

About

Delve deeper into┬áQAGOMA exhibitions and displays at our monthly lecture or tour, and then catch up with friends over a two-course lunch at the award-winning┬áGOMA Restaurant. Queensland artist Shirley Macnamara of the Indjalandji/Alyawarr people is an inspirational figure in Indigenous Australian art. Diane Moon (Curator, Indigenous Fibre Art) introduces this new exhibition, covering the full span of MacnamaraÔÇÖs practice from 1997 to the present and highlighting the artistÔÇÖs unique sculptural pieces, crafted from the spinifex plant and its runner roots. SOLD OUT $50 Members / $60 Members' guests / Call (07)┬á3840┬á7278 to go on waitlist Please note this is the new date for this event. It was originally advertised as Thu 17 Oct.