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Contemporary Australian art

LABEL: 1989.141 SMART

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LABEL: 2011.056.001-020 THAIDAY

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LABEL: 2021.005.001-168 SMITH

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An artist stands before a sculpture of a nude creature carrying an elderly lady on its back.
PATRICIA PICCININI

Behind the scenes of ‘Curious Affection’

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A photograph taken from the bottom of a tunnel underground, with a red glow illuminating the mouth of the tunnel, where small figures stand.
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AIR: Wolfgang Sievers

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2016.001a-d MacPHERSON

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2021.673 2021.674 COOK

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2009.032 CAMPBELL

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An installation view of a large work composed of many smaller drawings and collages on a white gallery wall, with three seated visitors looking on.
BOSS DROVERS

MacPherson’s BOSS DROVERS

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TRANSPARENT: Queensland watercolourists

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An installation view of two life-like bear-people sharing a bed in the back of a caravan; the sculptures are made from silicone and here we see them up close, tenderly at rest.
PATRICIA PICCININI

Piccinini’s tender chimeras

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Stewart McFarlane's enigmatic images

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Martin Smith: Fix it up 2010

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EXPANDED LABEL: PAPAPETROU / ‘Wonderland’ series 2004

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A detail view of a perforated vinyl window treatment looking onto the QAG Sculpture Garden.
LIVING PATTERNS

Curating abstraction

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LABEL: 1999.006a- JONES

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LABEL: RYUI / VARIOUS

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Charles Blackman: The Blue Alice

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A black-and-white photograph of steam rising from towers at a factory.
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AIR: Max Dupain

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2021.125 DREW

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2008.392 CHEREL

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2018.155.001-006 PICCININI

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LABEL: 2016.426 MANGANO

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LABEL: 2023.057a-c DAWSON

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A black-and-white photo of a timber house, in front of which a person hangs washing on a Hill's Hoist-style washing line
BRISBANE IN PICTURES

SUBURBIA: A reorganised forest

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A black-and-white photograph of a miner, who is grinning and wearing a hat with a lamp on it. A mask is slung around his neck.
AIR

AIR: Charles Page

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EXPANDED LABEL: 2021.530 RAE

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LABEL: 2011.263 KELLY

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EXPANDED LABEL: 'Saved by science' series / COOPER

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EXPANDED LABEL: PAPAPETROU / ‘Haunted Country’ series 2006

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