Australia's largest regional art gallery will open its doors on the Gold Coast this weekend, showcasing never-before-seen acquisitions from its $32 million collection.The new $60.5 million gallery overtakes The Art Gallery of Ballarat as the largest in regional Australia
"We've really put a line, literally, in the sand and said that we are now a place about art and culture," said Tracey Cooper-Lavery, director of the HOTA Gallery.Designs for the $60.5 million HOTA Gallery were first sought in 2013 to replace the original Gold Coast City Art Gallery, built in 1986.The $60.5 million HOTA Gallery in Surfers Paradise is now Australia's largest regional art gallery.
Ben Quilty's Sarah Island, Tasmania piece, acquired by the HOTA Collection in 2018, appears alongside other works in the HOTA Gallery."Those works have deserved this home for their entire lives and they just look so incredible in those exhibition spaces."The centrepiece of the HOTA Collection, The Rainforest by William Robinson, won the 1991 Wynne Prize — the landscape art equivalent of the Archibald Prize.
"In 1991, when inaugural director Fran Cummings looked to acquire the painting it was valued at $80,000." "We wouldn't be standing in this building and the design of this building because the architects have used this work; the painting has inspired the building."Forty-six per cent of the HOTA Collection is produced by female artists, a ratio unheard of in many collections.Gold Coast-based artist Lisa Sorbie Martin and her fibre-optic creation for Solid Gold: Artists in Paradise.
Contemporary Masters from New York: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, which includes the single largest collection of Andy Warhol pieces globally, will have its world premiere at HOTA Gallery in November — an Australian exclusive.
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