Events and Programs
Guests at the annual Gallery Members party, GOMA / Photograph: Brad Wagner
Gallery Members enjoy access to curatorial insights into major exhibitions through talks, tours and events \ QAGOMA Photography
SPECIAL EVENTS
After-hours functions, artist-run workshops and curators' tours just for Members.
New Member evenings
5.30—7.00pm Friday 13 April and
4.00—5.30pm Saturday 26 May
GOMA Lounge Bar
Meet other new Members — enjoy a drink on arrival, accompanied by antipasto prepared by the QAGOMA Head Chef in the GOMA Lounge Bar, before hearing a brief overview of how you can make the most of your membership.
Bookings required / $20 QAGOMA Members (includes a drink on arrival and antipasto platters) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Friday 30 March (places are limited).
'Contemporary Australia: Women' artist-run workshops
In conjunction with 'Contemporary Australia: Women', Members are invited to attend workshops with two exhibiting artists.
PART 1 - Hiromi Tango
2.00pm Friday 13 & Sunday 15 April
Meet at the information desk, GOMA
PART 2 - Kirsty Bruce
2.00pm Sunday 27 May
Meet at the information desk, GOMA
Bookings required / $40 Members / $55 Members' guests (includes materials and refreshments) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Wednesday 4 April (places are limited).
'Contemporary Australia: Women' meet the artist
3.30pm Saturday 21 April
GOMA
During the opening weekend of 'Contemporary Australia: Women', Members will have the opportunity to meet exhibiting artist Rose Nolan and take part in an informal discussion about her work while enjoying light refreshments.
Bookings required / $15 Members / $25 Members' guests (includes refreshments) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Friday 30 March (places are limited).
Mother's Day shopping event
9.00am — 5.00pm Sunday 13 May
QAG & GOMA Stores
This Mother's Day, prepare to shop at the QAG and GOMA Stores with 20 per cent off everything, exclusively for QAGOMA Members. Shop the fantastic range of art books, exhibition catalogues, design merchandise, craft, jewellery and more at great prices. Present your Membership card to receive your discount. One day only, no further discounts apply.
'Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado' sneak peek
4.00pm Saturday 19 May
Meet at information desk, GOMA
Be the first to hear all about 'Portrait of Spain' before it opens in July, with an exhibition model viewing and insights into this major winter exhibition with David Burnett, Curator, International Art.
Bookings required / $15 Members / $25 Members' guests (includes materials and refreshments) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by Friday 4 May (places are limited).
PROGRAMS FOR MEMBERS
Talks, lectures, discussion groups and new Member welcome events
Getting to know the Gallery — for new Members
Enjoy an introductory tour of the Gallery to find out how to make the most of your membership.
3.00pm Friday 18 May
QAG Members Lounge
This autumn we invite our newest QAGOMA Members — as well as existing Members wanting a refresher — to meet other Members and find out more about the Gallery, its facilities and all that membership has to offer. Enjoy tea and coffee in the QAG Members Lounge before an informal tour of the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.
Bookings required / Free / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by the Friday prior to each tour (places are limited).
In situ — talks, tours, lectures and lunches at the Gallery
See exhibitions and displays — enjoy a Saturday tour and talk, or a Thursday in-Gallery talk followed by a sit-down lunch.
Thursday monthly lunch and lecture
Bookings required / $35 QAGOMA Members / $45 Members' guests (includes lunch and a glass of wine, followed by coffee and sweets) / Please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online to RSVP by the Friday prior to each program.
11.00am — 1.30pm Thursday 26 April
The Fairfax Gallery (Gallery 1.1), 1.2, 1.3, Children's Art Centre & GOMA Restaurant
'Contemporary Australia: Women' lunch, with lecture by Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, and Bree Richards, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Australian Art
11.00am — 1.30pm Thursday 24 May
Lecture Theatre, Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists' Gallery (Gallery 14), QAG & GOMA Restaurant
'Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters' lunch, with lecture by Glenn Cooke, Research Curator, Queensland Heritage
Saturday monthly tour and talk
No bookings required / Free
1.30pm Saturday 28 April
The Fairfax Gallery (Gallery 1.1), 1.2, 1.3, Children's Art Centre, GOMA
'Contemporary Australia: Women' talk by Julie Ewington, Curatorial Manager, Australian Art, and Bree Richards, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Australian Art
1.30pm Saturday 19 May
Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists' Gallery (Gallery 14), QAG
'Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters' talk by Glenn Cooke, Research Curator, Queensland Heritage
Autumn Book Club
Engage with themes explored in Gallery exhibitions through specially selected texts as part of the QAGOMA Members Book Club.
Thursday Book Club:
10.00am 31 May
Saturday Book Club:
2.00pm 26 May
QAG Members Lounge
'Contemporary Australia: Women' celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of work by contemporary Australian women artists, and this season's Book Club, like the exhibition, explores women's voices in Australia today. This autumn, we focus on three critically acclaimed novels by some of Australia's most exciting writers. The autumn reading list includes a powerful tale of a family growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania (Past the Shallows), the story of a woman's journey from Australia's east coast to far north in search of her father and her Aboriginal identity (Swallow the Air), and a narrative based on real individuals and events exploring the heroism hidden in unexpected places (All That I Am).
Special discount available at the QAGOMA Store, 20 per cent off all books on the Autumn Book Club reading list – exclusive to QAGOMA Members!
Autumn Book Club reading list:
March: Favel Parrett's Past the Shallows (2011)
April: Tara June Winch's Swallow the Air (2006)
May: Anna Funder's All That I Am (2011)
To register for the Autumn Book Club, please call (07) 3840 7278 or book online / $10 per meeting QAGOMA Members / $12 per meeting Members' guests (includes cake and tea/coffee) / RSVP required by the Friday of the week prior to each book club meeting (places are limited)
First look — new to the Collection
On selected Sundays, be one of the first to hear about the Gallery's new acquisitions.
11.30am Sunday 15 April
Philip Bacon Galleries (7, 8 & 9), QAG
Tarun Nagesh, Assistant Curator, Asian Art, discusses a recently acquired Nepalese painting, dating from the late nineteenth century.
