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Artwork, artist and exhibition stories

Learn more about your favourite artworks and artists from the QAGOMA Collection.

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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 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

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

BOSS DROVERS

Robert MacPherson

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

TOW ROW

Judy Watson

A film still from Danie Mellor's moving-image work Dark Star Waterfall, taken in Wooroonooran, showing a tropical landscape with waterfall in shades of pink, as seen through an infrared filter

DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

2025

An installation view of a bright abstract artwork.

DULKA WARNGIID - LAND OF ALL

2016

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

LA BELLE HOLLANDAISE

Pablo Picasso

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

SUBURBAN SUBLIME

2024–25

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

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

INFINITY & OBLITERATION

Yayoi Kusama

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 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

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

SEEDS AND SOVEREIGNTY

2024

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

WATER

2019–20

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