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Last Updated: Friday, 20 June 2025 11:22

Published: Friday, 20 June 2025 11:22

Families and children in Goombungee and surrounding areas can experience exciting, free hands-on art-making activities when the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern (QAGOMA) presents Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour at Rosalie Gallery from Wednesday, June 25 until Sunday, July 13, 2025.

AGOMA Director Chris Saines said seven different artist-designed activities in Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour would connect young visitors and families in more than 180 communities throughout the state with ideas and cultures from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

“Since 1998, the Gallery has collaborated with more than 300 Australian and international contemporary artists to produce engaging interactive projects and activities for children and families,” Mr Saines said.

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour includes activities developed in collaboration with artists Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine), Etson Caminha (Timor Leste), Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar (Malaysia), Brett Graham (Aotearoa New Zealand), Okui Lala (Malaysia), Yim Maline (Cambodia) and Rithika Merchant (India).

Developed in collaboration with artist Dana Awartani, Unity within Multiplicity is an activity based on Zellij tile designs — a style of mosaic traditionally found in North African and Spanish architecture and created by arranging small pieces of coloured tile into geometric patterns. In this activity children can create repeating patterns using coloured pencils and geometric templates.

Monster of Wants, developed with Malaysian artist Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar, invites children to create a drawing of a monster that expresses the things they most desire, while A Dream for the Future, in collaboration with Cambodian artist Yim Maline, prompts them to make a drawing that reflects what they dream for the future.

Wakuwaku reflects artist Brett Graham’s use of traditional Māori patterns. He asks children to consider the natural environment where they live and to be inspired by it when designing their own pattern to apply to the surface of two custom template shapes.

Asia Pacific Triennial Kids and Asia Pacific Triennial Kids on Tour are supported by Principal Benefactor, the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation.

For more information visit www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/apt11

Rosalie Gallery at 89 Mocatta Street, Goombungee is open from 10.30am to 3.30pm Wednesday to Sunday and closed on Monday, Tuesday and public holidays. Entry is free.

Images:

1. Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar / Malaysia b.1980 / Monster of Wants (installation view, GOMA) 2024 / Paper, crayons, vinyl, MDF, paint / A collaboration between Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Commissioned for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation / © Harold ‘Egn’ Eswar / Photograph: J Ruckli © QAGOMA (top)

2. Brett Graham / Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui / Aotearoa New Zealand b.1967 / Wakuwaku (installation view, GOMA) 2024 / Paper templates, crayons, MDF, steel, paint / A collaboration between Brett Graham and the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Commissioned for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation / © Brett Graham / Photograph: J Ruckli © QAGOMA

3. Yim Maline / Cambodia b.1982 / Harmony (detail) 2024 / Watercolour on paper / Created for display as part of A Dream for the Future 2024, commissioned for Asia Pacific Triennial Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation / © Yim Maline (bottom)