Publication Details 240mm x 170 mm, 32 pp text + 4 pp cover, saddle stitched. ISBN 978-1-922361-10-3
Author and/or Editor name/s Author: Angela Goddard. Copy editor: Evie Franzidis
Author and/or Editor bio/s Angela Goddard is a writer, curator and Director of Griffith University Art Museum, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland College of Art. She joined the University in 2015, and was previously Curator of Australian Art, QAGOMA. She is also Chair of University Art Museums Australia and a Board Member of SheiIa: A Foundation for Women in Visual Art.
Year of publication 2021
Publisher Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
Abstract Robert MacPherson was one of Australia’s most respected senior contemporary artists, and this was his final solo exhibition. Nominal Gestures explores MacPherson’s fascination with wordplay and modes of classification, and incorporates objects from the artist’s personal collection such as a collection of water divining tools used in the practice of dowsing or ‘water witching’ to locate groundwater. These are individually dedicated to figures from MacPherson’s personal history. Also included is “PELICAN DREAMING: 18 FROG POEMS, FOR GREG C.” 1984-2020, a major installation conceived by MacPherson in 1984 and realised at Griffith University Art Museum for the first time, and a series of paintings produced by the artist in the final years before his passing in late 2021.
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