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Magazine article
Fairy Tales at QAGOMA: how we revived these stories with new myths, new media and new quirks
The Conversation
11/12/2023
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Abstract
Fairy Tales, the latest exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), gives off the pleasurable hum of remix culture, artists riffing on a core theme in numerous ways.
Overseen by the gallery’s cinematheque curator Amanda Slack-Smith, Fairy Tales focuses on how artists, designers and filmmakers have taken inspiration from fantasy motifs, adapting the fairy tale vocabulary of extremes (light and dark, good and evil, rich and poor) to their own artistic needs.
Based in handed-down oral traditions, fairy tales share characteristics with all manner of fables, folk stories and mythological narratives throughout the world.
These stories, which were initially rarely intended for children (yet featured them as central characters in easy-to-understand plots), made their way into print from the 17th century.
Details
- Title
- Fairy Tales at QAGOMA: how we revived these stories with new myths, new media and new quirks
- Creators
- Wes Hill - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Publication Details
- The Conversation
- Publisher
- The Conversation Media Group Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991013180412402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Creative Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article