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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.
![© Vincent Brown Estate Artwork Young Dorothy this artwork made of Sepia ink on paper, created in 1941-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/1989.047_001.jpg?itok=T5PAH2Yi)
Young Dorothy c.1943
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator
![© Peter Lyssiotis Artwork Vizby/ites this artwork made of Ten bound, numbered books and one bound, unnumbered book with colour illustrations, boxed, created in 2012-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-06/2018.392a-l_24-03.jpg?itok=75D04f35)
Vizby/ites 2012
- LYSSIOTIS, Peter - Creator
![© Victor Meertens/Copyright Agency Artwork Falchion this artwork made of Corrugated iron on wooden armature, created in 1988-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1989.117_005_0.jpg?itok=7hdrLJ8O)
Falchion 1988
- MEERTENS, Victor - Creator
![© Victor Meertens/Copyright Agency Artwork Delvig this artwork made of Corrugated iron on wooden armature, created in 1990-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1999.092_001.jpg?itok=mtkJtzGs)
Delvig 1990
- MEERTENS, Victor - Creator
![Artwork Bottle tree, Australia this artwork made of Engraving on paper, created in 1892-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/2014.019_001.jpg?itok=s4svOEj0)
Bottle tree, Australia 1892
- UNKNOWN - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Organic form this artwork made of Hot-worked opaque white, green, orange etc. coloured on cast glass stand, created in 1986-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1987.107a-b_24-03_0.jpg?itok=PRWhhYJG)
Organic form 1986
- WREFORD, Don - Creator
![© Inge King/Copyright Agency Artwork Sculpture maquette this artwork made of Steel, painted black, created in 1980-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1-1774_24_0.jpg?itok=zBTrOntw)
Sculpture maquette 1980
- KING, Inge - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Vase this artwork made of Stoneware, thrown with gold lustre glaze, created in 1982-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/4-0903_24-02_0.jpg?itok=kYqip13j)
Vase 1982
- HALFORD, Andrew - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Large platter this artwork made of Thrown grey bodied stoneware clay with light Shino style glaze, created in 1979-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1990.516_24-01_FS_0.jpg?itok=YowVIkNs)
Large platter 1979
- McKAY, Ian - Creator
![© Ian Fairweather/DACS/Copyright Agency Artwork Gethsemane this artwork made of Gouache on cardboard on board, created in 1958-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/2017.262_24_01_0.jpg?itok=V8JUL6WP)
Gethsemane 1958
- FAIRWEATHER, Ian - Creator
![© Bonita Ely Artwork Predator II this artwork made of Assemblage of gelatin silver photographs on paper, created in 1983-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1991.266_23-01.jpg?itok=j-iX3uew)
Predator II 1983
- ELY, Bonita - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Twin necked vase this artwork made of Hot-worked glass cased clear over mottled white enamelled soda glass of oviform shape with neck pinched to form two openings. Matt sandblasted finish, created in 1981-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1983.150_009.jpg?itok=MP33FCZL)
Twin necked vase 1981
- KING, Gerry - Creator
![Artwork Rotund lidded pot this artwork made of Earthenware, slip cast and incised with maiden hair fern motif beneath blue glaze, created in 1925-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/2017.161a-b_23_01.jpg?itok=yNJrByRy)
Rotund lidded pot c.1930
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator
![Artwork Vase this artwork made of Earthenware, hand built, two colour clays with carved motifs at shoulder and gold details with green glaze, created in 1920-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/2017.145_23_01.jpg?itok=NKROjIsn)
Vase c.1920s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator
![Artwork has not been digitised or not available due to pending copyright clearence, thus not currently available online](/sites/default/files/styles/large/filesqagoma/assets/image-pending.jpg?itok=SDhxQrcw)
Platter 1971
- TRAVIS, Peter - Creator
![© Estate of Reg Preston Artwork Platter this artwork made of Stoneware, slabbuilt with iron glaze and poured clear telspathic and copper glazes. Fired in a gas kiln to 1300oc, created in 1965-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/4-0480_24-01_FS_0.jpg?itok=irRHZWmt)
Platter c.1970
- PRESTON, Reg - Creator
![© Estate of Reg Preston Artwork Lidded jar this artwork made of Stoneware, thrown with felspathic iron glazes over wax resist decoration, created in 1981-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/4-0682.001-2_005_0.jpg?itok=4lLwQMaf)
Lidded jar 1981
- PRESTON, Reg - Creator
![© Nell Marlay Estate Artwork Coffeepot this artwork made of Hand-built swelling rectangular profile modelled with applied gumnuts and leaves, glazed red and green and the body glazed brown, created in 1936-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1990.453a-b_24-01_0.jpg?itok=oSa8BcmM)
Coffeepot 1936
- MARLAY, Nell - Creator