Reconciliation Action Plan

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Reconciliation Action Plan 51 RELATIONSHIPS One of QAGOMA’s key strategic objectives is to connect people with the enduring power of art and ideas. This includes offering exceptional visitor experiences, encouraging lifelong learning, and engaging with diverse audiences in Queensland’s regional, remote and outer metropolitan communities. Building strong relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities and celebrating the state’s diversity and its artistic and cultural contributions are integral to achieving this objective. QAGOMA will approach these relationships as two-way learning opportunities, allowing for enriching engagement with the Collection and creating programs that highlight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices and encourage deeper understanding of First Australian values and knowledge systems. Launched during National Reconciliation Week 2021, a new series of tours led by First Australian storytellers and creatives launched at QAGOMA. Titled Art & This Place, the free monthly tours highlight artworks from the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian Art collection and explore the complex stories of history, culture and place they tell. The tours are a partnership with Blaklash Creative, whose involvement is supported through a Growing Indigenous Tourism in Queensland initiative through the Queensland Government Department of State Development, Tourism and Innovation. Opposite: QAGOMA Curator Katina Davidson leads a tour of works in the Indigenous Australian Art collection, GOMA, featuring Wik-Mungkan artist Alair Pambegan 's Kalben 2016-17 (Purchased 2017. QAGOMA Foundation) / Photograph: Joe Ruckli / Artwork © Alair Pambegan, courtesy of the Wik & Kugu Arts Centre, Aurukun Tracey Moffatt / First jobs, pineapple cannery 1978 (from 'First jobs' series) 2008 / Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM through the QAGOMA Foundation 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Tracey Moffatt