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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 Slumped dish this artwork made of Red, black, blue, pink and grey coloured canes of glass set in clear glass and slumped into an irregular arrow shape, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1985.048_24-02.jpg?itok=nS5DgkwG)
Slumped dish 1985
- MOWBRAY, Ian - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Bowl this artwork made of Stoneware, wheelthrown buff clay with altered rim and incised decoration. Blue shaded to olive green glaze, created in 1977-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/1992.078_24-01.jpg?itok=gUznCmAb)
Bowl c.1980
- BREEDEN, Kitty - 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)
Lampbase 1959
- DARLING, Mary - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Footed bowl with handles this artwork made of Earthenware, hand built with carved decoration and glazed blue/green, created in 1925-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-05/4-0920_24_01.jpg?itok=-Qazqz6R)
Footed bowl with handles 1925
- LAWRENCE, Mary - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Shallow bowl: Spirit well this artwork made of Stoneware, wheelthrown buff clay with crimson, black, ochre and blue underglaze colours, created in 1990-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/1992.077_24-02_0.jpg?itok=4-nmFz3j)
Shallow bowl: Spirit well 1990
- USHER, David - Creator
![© Peter Goss Artwork Shell form this artwork made of Hot-worked glass, blue, white and gold. Created in an ironbark wooden former or mould, created in 1985-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2022.189_24-02.jpg?itok=2SBDu5p_)
Shell form 1985
- GOSS, Peter - Creator
![© Anita Pate & Brian Hirst Artwork Amethyst bowl this artwork made of Hot-worked combed glass, created in 1982-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2014.084_24-01.jpg?itok=VO3OWDK_)
Amethyst bowl 1982
- HIRST, Brian - Collaborating artist
- GLEBE GLASS STUDIO - Studio
- PATE, Anita - Collaborating artist
![© QAGOMA Artwork Vase this artwork made of Earthenware, slab built dipped red slip and carved with a design of leaves and nuts. Light blue glaze, created in 1933-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/4-0928_24-01_0.jpg?itok=_oSj3tiv)
Vase 1933
- SHAW, Muriel - Creator
![Artwork Rock pool this artwork made of Earthenware, hand modelled with free-form lip and modelled with a frog and lizard at opposite ends, dragonfly and gum leaves. Mulberry glaze with brown details, created in 1921-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2017.109_24-01_0.jpg?itok=exYx08Fe)
Rock pool 1921
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator
![© Sandra Black/Copyright Agency Artwork Bowl this artwork made of Porcelain, thrown and pierced, created in 1984-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2021.408_24.jpg?itok=-lunzQAv)
Bowl 1984
- BLACK, Sandra - 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)
Oval dish c.1930s
- CASTLE-HARRIS, John - 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)
Bottle: Satyr c.1937
- PEDERSEN, Lilian - Creator
![© Joy Cochrane Artwork Hat this artwork made of Woven banana bark (rahullo), created in 2007-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2007.092_001.jpg?itok=mGledLNh)
Hat 2007
- COCHRANE, Joy - Creator
![© Ola Cohn Estate Artwork Polar bear this artwork made of Sandstone, created in 1937-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/1-0303_001.jpg?itok=XWLUN8iH)
Polar bear c.1942
- COHN, Ola - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Cylinder this artwork made of Hot-worked black glass cylinder with coloured and lustred glass trails, created in 1990-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/1991.229_24-01.jpg?itok=0-KsBna7)
Cylinder 1990
- SIMPSON, Chuck - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Telephone book cover this artwork made of Leather carved with a design of fish in the neo-renaissance manner. Edges bound leather, created in 1935-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/4-0939_001.jpg?itok=_2HdW6ng)
Telephone book cover c.1935-40
- McMASTER, Val - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Mug this artwork made of Earthenware, hand built and carved with a design of leaves and fruit, glazed purple/brown, created in 1940-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/4-0936_24-01.jpg?itok=GntDIcV3)
Mug 1940
- McMASTER, Val - Creator
![© QAGOMA Artwork Sphere: Tuz this artwork made of Hot-worked glass sphere, cased black over amber and sandblasted, created in 1989-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/1992.047_24-02.jpg?itok=ZIvcgkOz)
Sphere: Tuz 1989
- HANNING, Tony - Decorator
- MORRELL, Richard - Blower
![© QAGOMA Artwork Mad platter I this artwork made of Multicoloured glass mosiac (lime green, white, black, pale blue and orange/red) slumped on a white ground; silver details, created in 1987-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/1988.094_24-01.jpg?itok=BbU3g2QD)
Mad platter I 1987
- PORTNOY, Sallie - Creator
![Artwork Pen tray this artwork made of Earthenware, modelled with polar bear with fish on an ice flow, and two rectangular wells, in irregular rectangular base with green glaze, created in 1920-01-01](/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/2024-04/2017.114_24-01.jpg?itok=zxDSpzCg)
Pen tray 1920
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator