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Australian art
The work of Australian artists has been collected by the Queensland Art Gallery since its foundation in 1895. These works date from the colonial period onwards, with rich holdings of paintings and sculptures by Australian expatriate artists living in the United Kingdom and France at the turn of the twentieth century. The Australian art collection tracks developments in the modern movement of the 1950s and 1960s, including abstractions and assemblages and conceptual/post-object art of the late 1960s and 1970s.
The Contemporary Australian Art collection is rich in paintings, major installation, cross-media and moving image works which are central to contemporary art practice. The Collection includes an outstanding group of works by major Queensland artists.
See the Australian Collection display at QAG. The reconfigured spaces capture major historical moments from first contact to colonisation, and exploration to immigration. Bringing the Indigenous and contemporary Australian collections together with the Gallery’s historical holdings, the display emphasises stories about Queensland and Brisbane from the region’s own perspective.

Heads 1978
- BOOTH, Peter - Creator

Bowl: Printemps (Spring) 1991
- BOHM-PARR, Judy - Creator

Hat 2007
- BONIFACE, Wayne - Creator

Manaby 1992-93
- BLACKWELL, J. Andrew - Creator

Nachtmusik 1975
- BLACK, Stuart - Creator

Gustav 1974
- BLACK, Stuart - Creator

Vase: Time well VIII 1990
- BLACK, Sandra - Creator

Carved bowl 1984
- BLACK, Sandra - Creator

Bowl: Running flower 1997
- BLAKEBROUGH, Les - Creator

Sphere 1986
- BLAKEBROUGH, Les - Creator

Vase with lugs 1980
- BLAKEBROUGH, Les - Creator

Sphere 1982
- BLAKEBROUGH, Les - Creator

To the Ice 1991-92, issued 2014
- MADDOCK, Bea - Creator