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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.

Pyramid plinth 1920s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Tall pedestal 1920s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Square pedestal 1920s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Cameo pendant 1930s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Brooch 1931
- HARVEY, L.J. - Potter
- PARTRIDGE, Stuart - Silversmith

Folder: (Kookaburra motif) 1934
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Rain forest, Tamborine 1953
- BUSH, Charles - Creator

Sculpture: Elsie c.1930s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Palm Beach, NSW 1949
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

(Landscape) 1940s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

(Beach scene with trees) c.1930
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Burragorang Valley 1945
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Sculpture: (Baby's head) 1935
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Sculpture: (Aboriginal head)
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Plaque: Norman Lindsay 1940
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Sculpture: Critique
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Pin tray c.1915
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Head of Christ 1946
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Inkwell 1920
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator