‘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