All Welcome
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2021.
Images courtesy Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art.
Photography: Katie Bennett, Chloe Callistemon, Merinda Campbell, Marc Grimwade, Joe Ruckli, and Lee Wilkes.
This was a collaborative work with QAGOMA’s Children’s Art Centre. It celebrates diversity and inclusion and the importance of collaboration and community. Children and their families could engage with these themes through installations, hands-on making, and interactive digital media. Children and families could continue the fun at home with activities and videos on the QAGOMA website. This work was part of Novak’s contribution to The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in 2021 at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).
All Welcome was commissioned for QAGOMA’s APT10 Kids with support from the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. All Welcome is in two parts: Our Space and Celebrate You.
Our Space
Our Space created a welcoming and safe space for children to express who they are and what makes them happy.
Celebrate You
Celebrate You is an interactive work where people can create their own flag from a library of shapes and colours. It was available onsite at QAGOMA through interactive touch screens and online through the QAGOMA website. When people completed their flag they could save and share this work to a world map showing a meta-view of all flags created to date worldwide.
