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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

A monochrome painting of a bark slab hut, with two colonial-era men standing either side of its doorway, an Aboriginal woman peering out from the dark interior, and an Aboriginal man, possibly a tracker or guide, pointing to a rainbow in the distance

DANIE MELLOR: MARRU | THE UNSEEN VISIBLE

LIST OF WORKS: Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 black-and-white photograph of an Australian Indigenous man wearing a boomerang-shaped 'king plate' around his neck, along with a t-shirt and vest

A CEREMONIAL FIGURE

Fred Embrey: Songman, sculptor, leader

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 detail view of an abstract work with purple and yellow tones.

SEEDS AND SOVEREIGNTY

INTRO: ‘Seeds and Sovereignty’

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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

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

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

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

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

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

PATRICIA PICCININI

2018

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

‘Gone Fishing’

May 2023 - Jan 2024