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.
Brooch III 1980
- WEBB, Belinda - Creator
Brooch II 1980
- WEBB, Belinda - Creator
Brooch I 1980
- WEBB, Belinda - Creator
Pair of inkwells c.1880s
- BROWN, C.A. - Creator
Ornament: Sleeping baby 1981
- OLAH, Elizabeth - Creator
Shade c.1920-22
- URE SMITH, Sydney - Creator
Vance Palmer (c.1933) 1957
- COLAHAN, Colin - Creator
Free Festival 1976
- LITTLE, attrib. to Colin - Creator
North of Capricorn 1956-57
- READ, Arthur Evan - Creator
March against Bjelke c.1980
- UNKNOWN - Creator
(Portrait) c.1890
- NERLI, Girolamo - Creator
Black 1988
- HODGES, Christopher - Creator
The boat yard c.1947
- WARNER, R. Malcolm - Creator
Native banquet (from 'Hands on the Earth' series) 1990
- STANNARD, Chris - Collaborating artist
- WILDERNESS PRESERVATION SOCIETY - Collaborating artists
Black letter 1990
- HESTERMAN, Heather - Creator