Coming Up

Join us for the QATA 2025 AGM at the IMA Fortitude Valley. Directly after the AGM we have the pleasure of a gallery tour of Archie Moore’s exhibition Comic Paintings at the Institute of Modern Art. If you can’t be here in-person you will be able to join us on-line for the AGM.

At the AGM all executive positions will be declared vacant. We always love to see new faces and welcome our regulars. Be sure to nominate if you would like to be more involved through an official QATA position. Among other benefits of being involved in your professional association, it’s a fabulous way of capturing evidence for a Highly Accomplished or Lead Teacher application.

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Please note: You do not have to nominate for a position to attend the AGM.

Click here to download the 2025 QATA AGM Agenda and 2024 QATA AGM Minutes.

Please register your attendance for catering purposes as we’ll supply refreshments.

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Mona Ryder in her studio surrounded by various works, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Louis Lim.

Archie Moore ‘Archie in The Reminder’ 2005. Courtesy The Commercial, Sydney.

Archie Moore

Comic Paintings
18 January–30 March 2025

In 2005, aged thirty-four, Archie Moore undertook a residency for emerging First Nations artists organised by Campfire Group at FireWorks Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. He produced seven large, unstretched canvases that turned on his sharing his first name with the famous American comicbook character. The paintings emphasise the difference of his childhood experiences—experiencing bullying and abuse; poverty, shame, and low self-esteem—with those of the American white middle-class teen. After Moore won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale last year, it’s an interesting moment to look back at these ‘early works’. Thanks to The Commercial, Gadigal/Sydney.

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