‘Courage and Beauty’
The James C. Sourris AM Collection
Sep 2022 -
Jun 2023
Celebrating the vision and generosity of Queensland art collector and philanthropist James C. Sourris AM, ’Courage and Beauty’ is dedicated to Mr Sourris’s gifts to the Gallery, with major works by contemporary Australian artists including Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Vivienne Binns, Jon Cattapan, Peter Cripps, Bonita Ely, d harding, Robert Hunter, Peter Kennedy, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ross Manning, Rosslynd Piggott and Judy Watson.
Surveying two decades of Sourris’s collecting, ’Courage and Beauty’ includes works from the QAGOMA Collection, as well as works on loan from the James C. Sourris AM Collection. Find out more about Collection works featured in ‘Courage and Beauty’ below, or explore the full exhibition catalogue.
’Courage and Beauty: The James C. Sourris AM Collection’ was on display in the Marica Sourris and James C. Sourris AM Galleries (3.3 and 3.4), GOMA, from 3 September 2022 to 18 June 2023.
Feature image: 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 QAGOMA Foundation 2023. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / © Ross Manning / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA
Collection artworks featured in ‘Courage and Beauty’
Lenny (Timer) Miller 2008
- AH KEE, Vernon - Creator
brutalities 2014
- AH KEE, Vernon - Creator
Organic Model F (Liquid) 1976
- ARKLEY, Howard - Creator
Bible for Dummies 2014
- BELL, Richard - Creator
Landscape painting 1988
- BENNETT, Gordon - Creator
Number nine 2005
- BENNETT, Gordon - Creator
Points of Transition 1984
- BINNS, Vivienne - Creator
Train home 1962
- BROWN, Mike - Creator
The bowl 2018
- CATTAPAN, Jon - Creator
Room (negative form) 1967
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Room (positive form) 1967
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Mirror studies 1970-76
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Mirror studies 1970-76
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Mirror studies 1970-76
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Mirror studies 1970-76
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
Display Culture 2002
- CRIPPS, Peter - Creator
We breathe together 2017
- HARDING, D - Creator
Bologna 1969
- JOHNSON, Michael - Creator
Sports Carnival 1972-74
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator
Spectra XIII 2017
- MANNING, Ross - Creator
Ambient painting #1 2018
- MANNING, Ross - Creator
Passing 2018
- MILANI, Lyndall - Creator
Untitled 2014
- NAPANGATI, Yukultji - Creator
Shoot point 1967
- PEART, John - Creator
Canine capers VII 1969-79
- ROONEY, Robert - Creator
House of breath no.3 2014
- SNOWBALL, Arryn - Creator
August 1966
- STAUNTON, Madonna - Creator
The Mooche 1968
- WATKINS, Dick - Creator
Untitled yellow-green 1970
- WIGHT, Normana - Creator