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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.
![© QAGOMA Artwork Barns this artwork made of Oil on composition board, created in 1951-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/1-0736_001.jpg?itok=hFB3prhf)
Barns c.1956
- INSON, Graeme - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.16 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.438_001.jpg?itok=Gs7GA_Wf)
And government no.16 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.38 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.439_001.jpg?itok=p1-E6ngf)
And government no.38 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.13 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.437_001.jpg?itok=p32jRN7E)
And government no.13 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.12 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.436_001.jpg?itok=JP8ETeLc)
And government no.12 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.6 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.434_001.jpg?itok=62THYr9g)
And government no.6 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.9 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.435_001.jpg?itok=-NDEQdqX)
And government no.9 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.2 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.432_001.jpg?itok=kD3i1dUB)
And government no.2 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.3 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1993-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.433_001.jpg?itok=uNkleFC7)
And government no.3 1993-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork And government no.1 this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1994-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2010.431_001.jpg?itok=J7HTd5wQ)
And government no.1 1994-95
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Raafat Ishak Artwork Variations and corrections this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint with pencil on medium density fibreboard, created in 2004-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2008.359a-e_001_part%20a.jpg?itok=PyC1FIQ3)
Variations and corrections 2004
- ISHAK, Raafat - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled #76 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2023.047_24-01_0.jpg?itok=aPLQOkfn)
Untitled #76 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2021.279_24-01_0.jpg?itok=jw-vpxdc)
Untitled 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Patricia Piccinini Artwork The Field (Planting) this artwork made of ABS and PPE plastic, created in 2018-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/2020.226.001-200_GOMA_PatriciaPiccinini_installationview_20180329_nharth_007.jpg.jpg?itok=TziIIYLv)
The Field (Planting) 2018
- PICCININI, Patricia - Creator
![© Pro Hart Estate Artwork Men in landscape this artwork made of Oil on composition board, created in 1966-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/1-1144_23-01.jpg?itok=X5SrGt0B)
Men in landscape 1966
- HART, Pro - Creator
![Artwork Leisure this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1911-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-07/1-0143_24-01.jpg?itok=XHOu284h)
Leisure 1911
- MÜNTZ-ADAMS, Josephine - Creator
![© Patrick Collins Artwork Platter: Stage II this artwork made of Earthenware, slab-built terracotta clay with tin glaze and polychrome colours, created in 1995-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/1996.128_24_01.jpg?itok=QYLvohQp)
Platter: Stage II 1995
- COLLINS, Patrick - Creator
![© Noel McKenna/Copyright Agency Artwork Birds of Australia this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 2004-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2018.041_24_recto_01.jpg?itok=dqXDCI7i)
Birds of Australia 2004
- McKENNA, Noel - Creator
![© Lesley Dumbrell/Copyright Agency Artwork Strand this artwork made of Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, created in 1977-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2021.040_24_recto_01.jpg?itok=-4p1pLrC)
Strand 1977
- DUMBRELL, Lesley - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled #13 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2022.249_24-01.jpg?itok=1mj7iH93)
Untitled #13 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled #28 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2022.250_24-01.jpg?itok=krrTn6xj)
Untitled #28 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled #73 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2022.256_24-01.jpg?itok=0uEI3Dxt)
Untitled #73 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Bill Henson Artwork Untitled #143 this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper , created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2022.257_24-01.jpg?itok=kzXgF7H9)
Untitled #143 1985-86
- HENSON, Bill - Creator
![© Vincent Brown Estate Artwork Royal Exchange Hotel this artwork made of Oil on composition board, created in 1948-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/1-0446_002.jpg?itok=W9trotbt)
Royal Exchange Hotel 1948
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator
![© Vincent Brown Estate Artwork Toilet this artwork made of Lithograph on wove paper, created in 1940-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2-0574_001.jpg?itok=U0r3raFW)
Toilet 1940
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator