
International Art | Sculpture
Satyr with wineskin cast 19th century
after UNKNOWN ROMAN
International Art | Sculpture
Satyr with wineskin cast 19th century
after UNKNOWN ROMAN
International Art | Painting
The prodigal son c.1780-1840
UNKNOWN
International Art | Sculpture
Spinario cast late 19th century
after School of PASITELES
Asian Art | Print
Courtesans (reprint) unknown
after EISEN
Asian Art | Sculpture
Flying horse of Kansu cast 1973
after EASTERN HAN ARTIST
International Art | Sculpture
Bust of Niccolo da Uzzano unknown
after DONATELLO
International Art | Sculpture
Borghese warrior 19th century
after AGASIUS THE EPHESIAN
Pacific Art | Fibre
Jipai (mask) 2011
AFEX, Ben
International Art | Glass
Decanter c.1875-1900
AESTHETIC STYLE
International Art | Glass
Vase c.1880-1900
AESTHETIC STYLE
International Art | Glass
Vase c.1880-1900
AESTHETIC STYLE
Contemporary Australian Art | Installation
Blackboards with pendulums 1992
KENNEDY, Peter
International Art | Drawing
Design
ADAM, Sicander
International Art | Metalwork
Tea urn c.1770-1800
ADAM STYLE
International Art | Ceramic
Long necked vase c.1900-50
ACOMO PUEBLO
Pacific Art | Photograph
'Te Waiherehere', Koroniti, Wanganui River, 29 May 1986 1986, printed 1997
ABERHART, Laurence
Pacific Art | Photograph
Nature morte (silence), Savage Club, Wanganui, 20 February 1986 1986, printed 1999
ABERHART, Laurence
Pacific Art | Photograph
Angel over Whangape Harbour, Northland, 6 May 1982 1982, printed 1991
ABERHART, Laurence
Australian Art | Drawing
A memory of Gumeracha (study of flies) 1908
HEYSEN, Hans
Pacific Art | Print
The boxer 2009
ABEL, Patrik
Queensland artist Joe Furlonger came to national prominence in the late 1980s with a series of large-scale figurative paintings inspired by the beach and the sea. His method was highly physical, applying swathes of colour with vigorous sweeps of the brush. For his large figurative ‘fishermen’ and ‘bather’ paintings, Furlonger immersed himself in the styles and techniques of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European artists Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, learning from their example and adapting those lessons to his own purpose.
Joe Furlonger / Australia b.1952 / ‘Circus Paris-Berlin suite’ 2006, installed for ‘Joe Furlonger: Horizons’, QAG Gallery 14, September 2022 / Boxed set of 11 woodcuts, ed. 2 of 15 / Purchased 2022 with funds from the Bequest of James F Bowler through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Joe Furlonger / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA
What makes these figurative works unique is that, despite their monumental size, they carry a deep sensitivity: Furlonger has said that they evolved from his return to life drawing ‘to reinvest observation and realism into my painting’. Each figure powerfully inhabits its evocative beachscape, with the sea ever-present in the background.
In 1988, one of Furlonger’s three Bathers works of 1987 won the artist a prestigious Moët & Chandon Fellowship. As a Fellow, Furlonger, his wife and their infant son spent the following year based in the French township of Epernay, from where they travelled on to Italy, particularly Venice. This exposure to European art and culture profoundly affected the direction of Furlonger’s subsequent work, through which he has continued to find creative impetus in the figure and the landscape.
View of works installed for ‘Joe Furlonger: Horizons’, QAG Gallery 14, September 2022 (from left): 'Circus Paris-Berlin suite' 2006; Anzac Bridge 2001 (Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Collection: University of Queensland Art Museum); Study for Bribie Island Passage I 2010 (Acrylic-bound pigment on linen / Courtesy: The artist); Study for Bribie Island Passage II 2010 (Acrylic-bound pigment on linen / Private collection); and (foreground, from left) Little Splits 2006 (Bronze / Courtesy: The artist) and Circus cheetah 2006 (Bronze / Private collection) / © All works Joe Furlonger / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA
The works below, included in ‘Horizons’, are from the QAGOMA Collection. A full list of loaned works is also available.