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.
Bottle 1962
- MOON, Milton - Creator
Bottle c.1977
- VASCHALDE, Jean-Jacques - Creator
Bottle form 1980
- ALEXANDER, Doug - Creator
Bottle vase 1987
- McKAY, Ian - Potter
- BURNING BUSH POTTERY - Studio pottery
Bouquet to yesterday 1975
- MATTHEWS, Nevil - Creator
Bowl 1995
- WIRDNAM, Nick - Creator
Bowl 1990
- HAMILTON, Greg - Creator
Bowl c.1988
- DALY, Greg - Creator
Bowl c.1988
- DALY, Greg - Creator
Bowl 1980
- SMITH, Penny - Creator
Bowl c.1960-70
- MEMMOTT, Harry - Creator
Bowl 1976
- RUSHFORTH, Peter - Creator
Bowl 1980
- ALEXANDER, Doug - Creator
Bowl c.1950-60
- BOYD, David - Potter
- BOYD, Hermia - Decorator
Bowl 1984
- McDOWELL, Lynne - Creator
Bowl 1995
- ELMS, Georgina - Creator
Bowl c.1920-25
- DEVEREUX, Bessie Elinore - Creator
Bowl c.1977
- PINJARRA POTTERY - Studio pottery
- McLENNAN, Lex - Thrower
Bowl 1995
- WOOD, Rick - Creator
Bowl 1926
- O'REILLY, Maud - Creator
Bowl 1936
- NOSWORTHY, Daisy - Creator
Bowl 1981
- BLACK, Sandra - Creator
Bowl
- BLAKEBROUGH, Les - Creator
Bowl 1992
- ELSEGOOD, John - Creator
Bowl c.2006
- COELHO, Kirsten - Creator
Bowl 1993
- HIRST, Brian - Creator
Bowl 1924
- WILLIAMSON, Alma Gainford - Creator
Bowl 1988
- TAYLOR, Fiona - Creator
Bowl (Turkish bath) 1984
- HARTHOORN, Jane - Creator