AQ034 Cultural Policy.qxd - Arts Queensland

Places, Collections and Traditions Continued
• Integrate public art in the Queensland
Parks and Wildlife Service’s Great
Walks of Queensland, a series of
walking tracks across the State, which
present and promote the natural and
cultural values of Queensland’s
national parks and state forests.
• Ensure the ongoing delivery of the two
per cent for public art Art Built-in
program.
Public art at the new Cairns Government Office Building: Wik Elder Arthur Pampegan Jnr with artwork,
Flying Fox Story Place, 2002. Photo Rae O'Connell.
• Deliver the Millennium Arts Project
including the development of the new
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art,
redeveloped State Library, an
Indigenous Cultural Centre, and
16 regional cultural facilities.
• Continue the repatriation program for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
cultural artefacts.
Enhancing Public Places
Engaging artists in the development of
public infrastructure, through support
for public art, is a mechanism by which
the Government’s investment in the arts
can improve the quality and
functionality of the built environment.
The Government Architect also plays an
important role in supporting and
enhancing cultural identity by providing
advice to the Government in relation to
the built environment, urban design
and heritage issues.
To enhance public places, the
Government will develop initiatives
including:
• Establish the position of Government
Curator, the first of its kind in the
Government, to assist departments to
manage their artwork asset collections
and manage existing collections of
artworks and newly commissioned
works under the Government’s public
art program, Art Built-in.
• Create sustainable opportunities for
the involvement of young people in
public art.
Hope
As tribal elders sit,
Their tribal thoughts tie their tongue.
We, the foreigners,
In this our land,
Know not
Where lies our future track.
No place forward,
None back.
Hearing their city tribes
Talk the foreign tongue,
They shuffle their tribal feet,
And wait,
And judge,
And soon, within their age-old eyes,
A light appears:
Yes, it was there,
Though but a pinhead size.
Frustrated still
They walk away,
With knowing smile
And gentle voice.
Now…
We hope…
For you have taught us
…hope…there is.
Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal
1990 Brisbane rock band
Custard formed, wins Australian
Academy of Music
encouragement award in 1991.
1990 Feral Arts established.
1990 Queensland Art 4.
Gallery launches the
Balance exhibition.
The first exhibition of
predominantly
Indigenous art to be
curated by the
Gallery.
1990 First independent
Indigenous artists cooperative
Campfire Group established in
Brisbane.
1990 First Queensland Writer’s
Train – journey of 800km
west from Brisbane.
1990 Graft ‘n’ Arts
established in Cairns.
1990 Hands on Art
established (formerly the
Childrens Activity Group).
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4. Photo courtesy Hands on Art.
1990 Ministers Awards for
Excellence in the Arts established.
1990 Playlab established.
1990 Queensland Indigenous
Committee for Visual Arts - an
independent association of
Statewide artists established.
1990 Queensland Writers
Centre established.
1991 Arts Law Centre of
Queensland established
offering financial and
accounting services to artists.
Extended to Cairns in 1996.
1991 Australian Association for
Dance Education (Queensland
Branch) established becomes
Ausdance in 1992.
1991 First Australia Festival of
Chamber Music, Townsville.
1991 James Blundell wins ARIA
Award for best country record
with Hand it Down.
1991 La Luna Theatre
Association Incorporated in
Townsville; becomes La Luna
Youth Arts (1994).
1991 Pacific Film and Television
Commission established.
1991 Poet and author David
Rowbotham receives Order of
Australia.
1991 Regional training
residencies introduced by QCAN
-CHARTS program.
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