That '80s Show

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Tony Clark, Sacro-idyllic landscape, 1987. Oil on canvas. Gift of Doug Hall under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme, 1997, QUT Art Collection.

24 January to 30 March

The 1980s are marked by various phenomena: pastel, Gordon Gekko greed, big and bad hair, brand-naming on attire, Post-Modernism, the list continues. But what were artists doing?

Some commentators suggest that PoMo introspection was the flavour of the day. Many artists, though, were more concerned with the processes of making art, rather than philosophical underpinnings. Such artists were working in fields that fed PoMo but weren't necessarily part of it: the political, the figurative and the abstract.

That '80s Show features holdings from the QUT Art Collection, and follows the 2002 exhibition The Seventies and Australian Painting: A Dialogue of Styles.

Curated by Gordon Craig
Presented by QUT Art Museum

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