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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.

Teapot c.1980
- McCONNELL, Carl - Creator

Long necked vase 1936
- MARTIN, Ida - Creator

Dumbell shaped vase 1988
- McKAY, Ian - Creator

Lyre-bird vase 1934
- SINCLAIR, Henriette Jane - Creator

Vase 1927
- MACDONALD, Mary - Creator

Vase on stand 1932
- SINCLAIR, Henriette Jane - Creator

Covered jar 1933
- SMITH, Orma - Creator

Vase
- BRUCE, Charles C. - Creator

Vase 1982
- HALFORD, Andrew - Creator

Vase 1991
- PATE, Klytie - Creator

Vase 1991
- PATE, Klytie - Creator

Bird emerging 1946
- HINDER, Frank - Creator

Chooks and rooster 1947
- HINDER, Frank - Creator

City street 1946
- HINDER, Frank - Creator

(Household abstract) 2004
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

(Trio) 2000
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

(Shoeshine) 2000
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

(Red bather) 2000
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

Sebastian 2000
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

(Molitor bather) 2000
- CHRISTMANN, Jenny - Creator

(4 x 4) Stick to paint 1989
- FULLER, Helen - Creator

Lidded jar 1981
- PRESTON, Reg - Creator

Handled vase c.1950s
- LOWE, Allan - Creator

Vase
- ENGLUND, Ivan - Creator

Jug c.1955-59
- BOYD, David - Potter
- BOYD, Hermia - Decorator

Vase c.1957-58
- RUSHFORTH, Peter - Creator

Two figures c.1914-17
- REES, Lloyd - Creator