Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Archive
Collection
The archive consists of an alphabetical sequence of artist files including exhibition catalogues and ephemera, news clippings, photographs and correspondence with artists, galleries and borrowing institutions regarding the purchase and loan of works. These were later added to by Louise Martin-Chew, (curator, arts writer and ex-editor of Art and Australia), James Baker's wife, in the course of her research); a chronological sequence of exhibition files covering the life of the gallery and documenting all the exhibitions held; videos containing artist works and exhibition footage. Includes the research of Louise Martin-Chew
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) was a private art museum run by James Baker from 1987 to 1990 at 164 Melbourne St, South Brisbane and from 1991 to 1994 at 8 Petrie Terrace. While the Museum had its own collection, exhibitions were curated regularly from works from other sources. Works from the collection were also lent to other institutions for exhibition. At the time, MOCA was a rare exhibitor of avant-garde art in Brisbane, and so was influential in making such works available to the Brisbane art community.
In copyright.