It’s been a big week for Queensland College of Art lecturer Dr Rosemary Hawker.
She has spent the past five years curating a blockbuster exhibition of Gerhard Richter’s work, which has just opened at GOMA to rave reviews.
“It’s been a mammoth undertaking which started back in 2012.
“It is on a very large scale and there are works from multiple collections in Europe and the US.
“It’s logistically very difficult and expensive to transport the works, so it has been an enormous challenge.
“Some works are just too large to travel – you are limited to the size of the doors of the jumbo jet and people are nervous about sending works so far.”
Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is the first major exhibition of his work in Australia, after well-received shows at high profile galleries including MOMA in New York and the Tate Modern in London.
Gerhard Richter has been called the world’s greatest living