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

THE HERMANNSBURG SCHOOL

Albert Namatjira’s legacy

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

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

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

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

INFINITY & OBLITERATION

Yayoi Kusama