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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.

Games of the sun 1992
- GLEESON, James - Creator

Jar 1981
- MERCER, Anne - Creator

Vase 1992
- MONTE LUPO - Studio pottery
- USHER, David - Thrower
- McGREGOR, Lester - Decorator

Raku jar: Wind form 1989
- MINCHAM, Jeff - Creator

Vase 1982
- HALFORD, Andrew - Creator

Iggy Pop 1979
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator

Cat woman 1979
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator

Four Bands 1979
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator

Two punks 1979
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator

Punk 1979
- JOHNSON, Tim - Creator

Wall pocket: Night c.1940
- MARTIN, Ida - Creator

Interior with flowers c.1930
- GIBSON, Bessie - Creator

Portrait study c.1938
- GIBSON, Bessie - Creator

Vase: Reef 1995
- PANTANO, Chris - Creator

Two dresses c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Betty Grable c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Study of hands 1946
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Pin-up girl c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Gipsy dancer c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Pin-up girl in green c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Green dress c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Model in a green suit c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Black dress c.1945
- ROGGENKAMP, Joy - Creator

Vase: Voco 1991
- THOMPSON, Peter - Creator

Figure at a bar c.1944
- HESTER, Joy - Creator

House among the trees 1956
- HAWKINS, Weaver - Creator

Slab vase 1944
- HARVEY, Dorothy - Creator

Vase 1932
- DUNBAR, Frances - Creator

Vase c.1950s
- FEENEY, Mervyn - Creator