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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

‘Plenty’

Jun 2023 - Jan 2024

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

A detail view of a carved wooden figure.

A CEREMONIAL FIGURE

The Embrey Sculpture Project

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

THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

Albert Namatjira’s legacy

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

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

FRAME | WORK

Conserving historical frames

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

OUTDOORS AT QAGOMA

Explore public art

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

QUEENSLAND PHOTOGRAPHY

QAGOMA Collection

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

PATRICIA PICCININI

2018

An installation view of a bright abstract artwork.

DULKA WARNGIID – LAND OF ALL

2016

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

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

INFINITY & OBLITERATION

Yayoi Kusama