Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Art Gallery

Susanne KRIEMANN
b.1972 Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Susanne Kriemann investigates the uses of photography as a documentary and historiographic tool and has stated her
interest in how ‘photographs evoke imagination and mystery about the past’. She collects not only images but historical
documents, vintage photographs, books, old newspaper articles and artefacts as part of her expanded photographic
practice. Her photography records historical moments or sites and is often imbued with particular social and ideological
meanings.
Yayoi KUSAMA
b.1929 Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Kusama has worked as a painter, sculptor and environmental artist for the past 50 years. She moved to the United
States in 1957 where she lived and worked in New York before returning to Tokyo in 1973. Kusama has developed a
motif in her work known as the ‘infinity net’, which she explores through a variety of materials and forms. She traces this
motif to her early childhood experiences, in which she '. . . was often troubled by a thin silk-like greyish-coloured veil that
came to envelop [her] . . .' Kusama uses images of nets, dots, repeated patterns and mirrors as ways of understanding
and coming to terms with the vastness of life.
Gabriella and Silvana MANGANO
b.1972 Australia
Live and work in Melbourne, Australia
Gabriella and Silvana Mangano studied drawing separately at the Victorian College of the Arts, only later did they come
together to collaborate on the videos for which they are now well-known. Drawing remains integral to the twins’ work and
it often features in their videos. The moving image allows them to imply the drawn line in different ways too, effectively
drawing with their bodies or with props such as fabric, chairs or window shutters.
MANINGRIDA artists
Sally Garrimarra / b.1967 Australia, Ganalbingu people
Lorna Jin-Gubarangunyja / b.1952 Australia, Burarra people
Shirley Malgarrich / b.1947 Australia, Burarra people
Mary Nalmakarra / b.1942 Australia, Burarra people
Agnes Wilinggirra / b.1943 Australia, Burarra people
Pandanus fish traps are made by artists who live in and around Maningrida in north-central Arnhem Land. The
Maningrida Aboriginal community occupies an area of 10,000 square kilometres, with many outlying communities where
artists live. Since the first craft outlet was set up in 1967, the cultural diversity of the region has contributed to the artists’
reputation for innovative, vibrant bark paintings, wooden sculptures and fibre works, ambitious in both scale and vision.
LEE Mingwei
b.1964 Taiwan
Lives and works in San Francisco and New York, United States
Lee Mingwei creates works which forge a direct connection between the artist and audience. These connections are
established via creative projects where gestures of trust, dialogues with strangers, cultural exchanges and the
appreciation of others are foregrounded.