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

David ROSETZKY
b.1970 Australia
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
David Rosetzky works through a range of artistic modes, including contemporary design, fashion and portraiture, to
scrutinise aspects of the contemporary condition as it plays out through issues about identity, in personal relationships,
and through love and alienation. Rosetzky’s subjects often appear in chic minimal settings or among the latest designer
furniture, and they negotiate worlds that are familiar and intimate yet also oddly estranged.
Thomas RUFF
b.1958 Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Thomas Ruff is a leading figure in a generation of celebrated German photographers. Ruff believes that photographs
capture only surface appearances and convey a constructed reality, formed by the unconscious influence of images in
the mass media and other cultural sources. Reflecting on this condition, Ruff's works attempt to define what he calls the
'substratum' of photography, at which point images become bearers of information.
Edward RUSCHA
b.1937 United States
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Ruscha works with paint, printmaking and drawing. Since his first exhibition in Los Angeles in 1963, Ruscha has played
with text and image to explore the peculiarities of vernacular language, graphics and typography; in his hands, words
become forms and images become words. The graphic visual environment of Los Angeles and Southern California, with
its advertising hoardings and architecture of neon signage, provides Ruscha with ongoing source material.
Tony SCHWENSEN
b.1970 Australia/United States
Lives and works in Boston, United States
Tony Schwensen is one of Australia's foremost interdisciplinary artists and has made a long and distinguished series of
performance works, often examining the underside of cultural life and notions of artistic value.
Yinka SHONIBARE
b.1962 United Kingdom
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Born in London and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare refers to himself as a ‘postcolonial hybrid’. His work
comments on contemporary identity politics, cultural history, the legacy of colonialism and the structures of international
trade. He works in multiple disciplines, including painting, photography, assemblage, dance, literature and film.
SOUTHERN LADIES ANIMATION GROUP (SLAG)
est. 2001 Australia (Louise Craddock, Susan Earl, Sally Gross, Emma Kelly, Katherine Mew, Nicole McKinnon,
Elizabeth McLennan, Sharon Parker, Dell Stewart, Sophie Raymond, Yuki Wada, Justine Wallace, Diana Ward)
The Southern Ladies Animation Group (SLAG) was formed in Melbourne in 2001 as a collective to support women
working in animation. Comprising 13 members, the collective's first project was a music video for SLAG member Sophie
Raymond’s band ‘Sophie Raymond & the Fat Chops’. The SLAG members use a variety of animation techniques
including stop motion puppet animation, hand drawn line animation and computer animation.