Teresa Gambaro (Brisbane, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last night, I had the great pleasure of hosting the second Officework in Canberra exhibition in my parliamentary offices here in Canberra. The theme of the current exhibition is Four Days in the Valley, which comes from the title works by Robert Moore, and the exhibition features works by four other artists all represented by the Heiser Gallery in Brisbane—Julie Fragar, Noel McKenna, Ian Smith and Bill Yaxley. The Officework in Canberra exhibition series is a collaboration between my office and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, which is located in the heart of my electorate.

To that end, I want to express my personal thanks to the IMA chair, Marie-Louise Theile, our wonderful new IMA co-directors, Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, the IMA general manager, Anna Zammit, and, of course, my parliamentary colleague Senator the Hon. George Brandis QC, Attorney-General and Minister for the Arts, who was gracious enough to make time in his busy schedule to open the exhibition last night. To Bruce Heiser, thank you so much for making the talents of your artists available for this exhibition. I also want to thank the many members of the diplomatic corps who were in attendance—it was my very great pleasure to host them and to shamelessly show off the talents of Queensland and Brisbane artists. Officework in Canberra's Four Days in the Valley exhibition will be open from now until 5 March 2015. I invite all members of the House and senators to visit my office for a viewing.