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A detail view of a collage work appearing as a kaleidoscopic circle of hand-cut photographs

LIVING PATTERNS

2023–24

An oil painting of icebergs under a brightly lit night sky with a full moon showing through the clouds.

ISAAC WALTER JENNER

2023–24

A colourful abstract artwork by First Nations artist Naomi Hobson, painted using traditional techniques.

GONE FISHING

2023–24

A photograph of two women so alike they must be sisters (in actuality, both are portrayed by the artist); each has a bob haircut and fur-collared jacket, with the woman on the right looking more 'dressed up'.

LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN

2023

Cross-hatching etched into rubber from tyres by Ngaymil artist Gunybi Ganambarr

TRANSITIONS

2022–23

A photograph of someone kayaking under a red post-bushfire sky.

AIR

2022–23

A photograph of a man sitting on a chair in his artist's studio, surrounded by works in progress, supplies and furniture.

JOE FURLONGER: HORIZONS

2022–23

A bright and colourful collage comprising neon corals and geometric shapes on a background that uses optical illusion to seem to recede a long way.

APT10

2021–22

A still photograph of a masculine-appearing person making a splash in dark, almost black water (DETAIL)

WATER

2019–20

A view of shields installed on plinths in a gallery space, with a set of a shield and sword visible on a white wall in the background.

I, OBJECT

2019–21

A photograph of a woman wearing a blue blouse and holding fruit against a yellow background. We only see from her nose to her elbows, and red fruit juice runs from her mouth.

APT9

2018–19

A still photograph taken at night in a fun fair; the artist is costumed as a red caterpillar-like bug with a very long body and tail.

APT8

2015–16

A photograph of a rural road in Japan, with a house seen at left and fields either side.

WE CAN MAKE ANOTHER FUTURE

2014–15

A man painted yellow, from head to toe, walks the streets of Brisbane, carrying a heart.

LOOKING BACK AT THE APT

1993–2023

A detail view of a watercolour landscape depicting the bright colours of Central Australia.

THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

Albert Namatjira’s legacy

Works installed for '150 Years', QAG, September 2013 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘150 Years: Queensland Photography’

Jun 2009 - Oct 2009

Kenneth Macqueen / Australia NSW 1897 - 1960 / Harvesting scene (detail) c.1956 / Watercolour over pencil on wove paper / Purchased 1956 / Collection: QAGOMA / © QAGOMA / A watercolour landscape depicting rolling fields in shades of green and yellow, with hills in the background shadowed by clouds.

‘Watercolour in Queensland’

Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

Bill Henson / Australia VIC b.1955 / Untitled #143 (detail) 1985–86 / Type C photograph on paper / Gift of an anonymous donor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Bill Henson

‘Suburban Sublime’

Aug 2024 - Aug 2025

A view of Patricia Piccinini’s The Bond 2016 (Courtesy: The artist) installed within The Field (Planting) 2018 for ‘Curious Affection’, GOMA, March 2018 / © Patricia Piccinini / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection

Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

A view of ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’, featuring walama 2000 (Courtesy: The artist, Milani Gallery and UAP Brisbane) installed on the QAG Watermall, with moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram 2022 at back left, QAG, 14 March 2024 / © Judy Watson / Photograph: C Callistemon

‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’

Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

Iris van Herpen / Netherlands b.1984 / Morphogenesis dress, from the ‘Sensory Seas’ collection 2020 / Lasercut screenprinting mesh, duchesse stain, lasercut Plexiglas / Collaborator: Philip Beesley / Collection: Iris van Herpen / Photograph: David Ụzọchukwu / © David Ụzọchukwu

‘Iris van Herpen’

Jun 2024 - Oct 2024

A detail view of a hand-coloured photograph of a family having a picnic

SUBURBAN SUBLIME

2024–25

David Griggs’s Frog boy's dissertation into a new karaoke cult 2008, installed for ‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’, March 2023 / Purchased 2008 with funds from the Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund and with the assistance of the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation / © Courtesy of the artist, Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane and Station Gallery Melbourne / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Lies, Magicians and Blind Faith’

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

Rebecca Baumann's Untitled Cascade 2012, installed for 'Everyday Magic', September 2013 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Rebecca Baumann

‘Everyday Magic’

Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

Charles Blackman's Suite I 1960 / Purchased 1988 with funds from the Russell Cuppaidge Bequest as a memorial to Russell Cuppaidge CBE / © Charles Blackman/Copyright Agency

Lure of the Sun

Nov 2015 - Jan 2016

Feature image: Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori’s Dibirdibi Country 2008, installed for ‘Dulka warngiid: Land of All’, QAG, May 2016 / Purchased 2008 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda/Copyright Agency / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori

May 2016 - Aug 2016

Daphne Mayo’s Susannah (detail) 1946, cast 1995 photographed for ‘Let There Be Sculpture’, QAG, January 2012 / © Surf Lifesaving Foundation and The United Church in Australia Property Trust (Q.) / Photograph: R Fulton, QAGOMA

‘Daphne Mayo: Let There Be Sculpture’

Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

Michael Zavros’s Dad likes summer 2020, installed for ‘The Favourite’, GOMA, July 2016 / Private collection / © Michael Zavros / Photograph: K Bennett, QAGOMA

‘Michael Zavros: The Favourite’

Jun 2023 - Oct 2023

eX de Medici’s Red (Colony) 1999–2000 (Collection: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery) and Blue (Bower/Bauer) 1998–2000 (Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra), installed for ‘The Favourite’, GOMA, August 2023 / © eX de Medici / Photograph: C Baxter, QAGOMA

‘eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness’

Jun 2023 - Oct 2023

Oil paintings installed on a sage-green gallery wall, with two young visitors looking on.

‘Isaac Walter Jenner: A Feeling for Light’

Sep 2023 - Jan 2024

Shigeo Toya’s Woods III 1991–92, installed for ‘Inscriptions and Excavations’, GOMA, March 2024 / © Shigeo Toya / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘Woods III: Inscriptions and Excavations’

Mar 2024 - Jan 2025

William Yang’s Self portrait #5 2008, printed 2020, installed for installed for ‘Seeing and Being Seen’, QAG, April 2021 / Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © William Yang / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘William Yang: Seeing and Being Seen’

Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

‘Margaret Olley: A Generous Life’

Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

Jon Molvig / Australia NSW 19–1970 / Self portrait (detail) c.1960–61 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Otte Bartzis

‘Jon Molvig: Maverick’

Sep 2019 - Feb 2020

Works installed for ‘Balance 1990’, QAG, 1990 (scan from colour side, QAGOMA Library) / Photograph: Ray Fulton, QAGOMA

‘Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences’

Feb 1990 - Apr 1990

'Contemporary Australia: Women'

Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

Works by (l–r) Erbossyn Meldibekov and Zico Albaiquni, installed at QAG for ‘Errant Objects’ / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / © The artists / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Errant Objects’

Feb 2020 - Aug 2021

Tomás Saraceno b.1973 / Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms 2022 / Dimensions and installation variable / Purchased 2022 with funds from the Neilson Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Tomás Saraceno / GOMA, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Air’

Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

Detail view of a black-and-white photograph of a Brisbane suburb with a skateboarder in the foreground

BRISBANE IN PICTURES

River City snapshots

A sepia photo of a man standing in a sugar cane field

QUEENSLAND PHOTOGRAPHY

QAGOMA Collection

Works by Jenny Holzer, installed at GOMA for ‘A Kind of Library’, May 2023 / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘A Kind of Library’

May 2023 - Nov 2023

Works by Jeff Koons, Scott Redford and Damien Hirst installed for 'Multiple Choice', GOMA, July 2010 / Photograph: B Wagner, QAGOMA

‘Multiple Choice’

Jun 2010 - Oct 2010

Works installed for 'Ever Present', Gallery 6, QAG, September 2013 / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘Ever Present’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

APT6 visitors viewing Kohei Nawa's PixCell-Double Deer#4 2010

‘The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2009 - Apr 2010

Rosanna Raymond performs within ’sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023’, pictured here with works by Jaki-ed weavers, GOMA, August 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘sis: Pacific Art 1980–2023’

Aug 2023 - Sep 2024

APT7 Opening Weekend visitors view Takahiro Iwasaki's Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010–12

‘The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2012 - Apr 2013

Zhou Xiaohu / China b.1960 / Utopian theatre 2006 / 11-channel video and fired clay installation, 11 DVDs (1:00 minute each, colour, stereo), 11 television monitors, 10 sets of headphones / Purchased 2007. The Queensland Government's Gallery of Modern Art Acquisitions Fund / Collection: QAGOMA / © Zhou Xiaohu

‘The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2006 - May 2007

Artist Lee Ufan during installation of his work Relatum 2002 for APT 2002, QAG / © Lee Ufan / Photograph: QAGOMA

‘The 4th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Sep 2002 - Jan 2003

© Lee Wen

‘The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial’

Sep 1999 - Jan 2000

Cai Guo-Qiang’s Nine Dragon Wall (Drawing for Dragon or Rainbow Serpent: A Myth Glorified or Feared: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 28) 1996

‘The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial’

Sep 1996 - Jan 1997

An installation view of Shigeo Toya's Woods III 1991-2 installed for APT1 in 1993, with sculpted wooden tree-like structures arranged near the Watermall in QAG.

‘The First Asia Pacific Triennial’

Sep 1993 - Dec 1993

‘The Obliteration Room’

Dec 2014 - Apr 2015

Works by Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka and Takashi Murakami installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’ at GOMA, December 2014 / © The artists / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘We Can Make Another Future’

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

An installation view of many colourful earthenware pots on a white background.

SEEDS AND SOVEREIGNTY

2024

Feature image: Del Kathryn Barton / Australia b.1972 / Brendan Fletcher b.unknown / The Nightingale and the Rose (still) 2015 / Gift of Del Kathryn Barton through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Del Kathryn Barton / Image courtesy: The artist and RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney

‘Fairy Tales’

Dec 2023 - Apr 2024

Feature image: An installation view of ‘Fine Lines’, QAG, March 2022 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Fine Lines’

Sep 2021 - May 2022

Judi Elliott / Australia NSW b.1934 / Platter: ... of how things are 1988 / Slumped, multicoloured glass mosaic / Gift of the Queensland Art Gallery Society 1989 / © QAGOMA

‘Prism: Light, Colour, Form’

Jun 2024 - Oct 2024

Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed 2014, installed at GOMA for ‘Water’, December 2019 / Purchased 2021. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust / Collection: The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Water’

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020

An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Davida Allen's Mother swinging her baby 1989 / © Davida Allen and Vincent Namatjira's Albert and Vincent 2014 / © Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency, QAG, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Looking Out, Looking In’

Mar 2023 - Aug 2023

An installation view of ‘Seeds and Sovereignty’, including works by (l–r) Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Minnie Pwerle (© Minnie Pwerle) and Evelyn McGreen and (foreground) mats by Judy Baypungala, Bonny Burarngarra, Lorna Jin-Gubarangunyja and Shirley Malgarrich, March 2024 / © The artists/Copyright agency (unless noted) / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘Seeds and Sovereignty’

Mar 2024 - Sep 2024

Joe Furlonger / Australia b.1952 / 'Circus Paris-Berlin suite' 2006, installed for 'Joe Furlonger: Horizons', QAG Gallery 14, September 2022

‘Joe Furlonger: Horizons’

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

A view of Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr's Flying Fox Story Place 2002–03, installed at the entrance to 'My Country', GOMA, July 2013 / © Estate of the artist / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘My Country’

Jun 2013 - Oct 2013

A view of works installed for 'No. 1 Neighbour', QAG, October 2016 / © The artists / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘No. 1 Neighbour’

Oct 2016 - Jan 2017

Patrick Tjungurrayi / Pintupi/Kukatja people / Australia c.1940–2017 / Untitled (Ngaru) (detail) 2009 / Purchased 2020. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Estate of Patrick Tjungurrayi/Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency

‘North by North-West’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2024

Ai Weiwei’s Painted vases 2006 installed for ‘Change Generators’, GOMA, October 2021 / © Ai Weiwei / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Change Generators’

May 2021 - Oct 2021

A conservator wearing an apron, glasses and with loupes propped up on their head stands proudly in front of a damaged oil painting they are about to begin restoring.

BEHIND THE SCENES

Meet QAGOMA’s experts

'Travellers'

Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

'Sublime'

Aug 2014 - May 2015

Ross Manning’s Spectra XIII 2017, installed for ’Courage and Beauty’, GOMA, September 2021 / The James C. Sourris AM Collection. Gift of James C. Sourris AM through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Courage and Beauty’

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

Anne Noble / New Zealand b.1954 / Dead Bee Portrait #1 2015, printed 2018 / Pigment on archival paper / The Taylor Family Collection. Purchased 2019 with funds from Paul, Sue and Kate Taylor through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Anne Noble

‘Still Life Now’

Oct 2022 - Mar 2023

Irene Mbitjana Entata / Arrernte/Luritja people / Australia NT 1946–2014 / Albert and Rex painting (detail) 2003 / Purchased 2003. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Irene Mbitjana Entata

‘Namatjira to Now’

Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

‘Lightness and Gravity’

Mar 2012 - Oct 2012

Michael Parekowhai / Installation view of Jim McMurtry 2004 in GOMA’s Long Gallery for ‘Unnerved’, April 2010 / Courtesy: The artist and Michael Lett, Auckland / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Unnerved: The NZ Project’

May 2010 - Jul 2010

A still photo depicting a person standing before a stone palace-type building, wrapped in a long bolt of patterned fabric that spans the full length of the photo.

‘I Can Spin Skies’

Aug 2023 - Jun 2024

Anniebell Marrngamarrnga’s Yawkyawk (Female water spirit) pregnant with twins 2007, installed for ‘Transitions’, GOMA, February 2023 / © Anniebell Marrngamarrnga/Copyright Agency / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Transitions’

Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

‘Gone Fishing’

May 2023 - Jan 2024

Feature image: Lara Favaretto’s Gummo IV 2012 in motion during ‘A World View’, GOMA, December 2016 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘A World View’

May 2016 - Apr 2017

Installation view of ‘Living Patterns’, featuring works by (l–r) Paul Bai, Timothy Cook, Tyza Hart and Jonny Niesche, Watermall, QAG, October 2023 / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

‘Living Patterns’

Sep 2023 - Feb 2024

A ceramic sculpture of a headless, armless figure on a green sofa. Liu Jianhua / China b.1962 / Obsessive memories (detail) 2000 / Porcelain, modelled and with overglaze colours, incised / Purchased 2004. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Jianhua Liu

‘Small Figures’

Sep 2023 - Aug 2025

‘Plenty’

Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

Paul Jacoulet / France 1896–1960 / Les perles (The pearls), Manchukuo (detail) 1950 / Purchased 2021 with funds from the Airey Family through the QAGOMA Foundation / © Paul Jacoulet/ADAGP/Copyright Agency

‘Birds of Passage’

Feb 2024 - Jan 2026

A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots. / Lee Paje / The Philippines b.1980 / The stories that weren’t told (detail) 2019 / Oil on copper mounted on wood / Purchased 2021 with funds from Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Lee Paje

‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

Zico Albaiquni / Indonesia b.1987 / When it shook, the earth stood still (After Pirous) (detail) 2018 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2018 with funds from Konfir Kabo through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Zico Albaiquini

‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

Vernon Ah Kee / Kuku Yalanji/Waanyi/Yidinyji/Guugu Yimithirr people / Australia QLD b.1967 / Tall Man (still) (detail) 2010 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / © Vernon Ah Kee

‘Welcome to Colour Television’

Aug 2020 - Apr 2021

A brightly coloured, large-scale mural.

‘A Third Language’

Feb 2023 - Sep 2023

Tommy Mitchell’s Walu Rockhole Dreaming, Emu Heart, The Boy Who Turned Into Wind 2012, installed for ‘Journey’, GOMA, September 2023 / © Tommy Mitchell/Copyright Agency / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA / A colourful painting installed on a gallery wall, with windows either side.

‘Journey’

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024

An installation view of a wood sculpture of a dog / Camp dog (Ku)

‘I, Object’

Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

A detail view of a carved wooden figure.

A CEREMONIAL FIGURE

The Embrey Sculpture Project

A man wearing latex gloves and magnifying loupes works on a gold-gilded frame in the QAG Framing Workshop.

FRAME | WORK

Conserving historical frames

An installation view of a bronze sculpture set on grass outside GOMA, depicting an upside-down elephant eye-to-eye with a water rat.

OUTDOORS AT QAGOMA

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An installation view of a work that fills a whole room; at the centre, a desk and empty chair have thousands of papers appearing to fly off of them in a spiral. Suspended around this scene is a web of black threads.

A QUESTION OF PERSPECTIVE

Chiharu Shiota

A detail view of an oil painting in which a trio of people in Edwardian dress sit under a jacaranda tree in full bloom.

UNDER THE JACARANDA

R Godfrey Rivers

A daylight view of a sculpture, taking the form of a fishnet cast in bronze, installed outside of GOMA

TOW ROW

Judy Watson

An installation view of a bright abstract artwork.

LAND OF ALL

Sally Gabori

Installation view of a large work composed of hundreds of smaller works on paper

BOSS DROVERS

Robert MacPherson

An installation view in which we see a nude by Picasso in between two bronze figures.

LA BELLE HOLLANDAISE

Pablo Picasso

A view of a caravan installed in a dark gallery space; it appears to be occupied by two sleeping figures.

PATRICIA PICCININI

2018

An installation that represents infinity, appearing to stretch into all directions like outer space.

INFINITY & OBLITERATION

Yayoi Kusama