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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.

Figure standing 1988
- MADDOCK, Bea - Artist
- RAWLING, Larry - Printer

Figure fleeing 1988
- MADDOCK, Bea - Artist
- RAWLING, Larry - Printer

The Cafe Balzac mural 1962
- BROWN, Mike - Artist (centre panel - b-c)
- LANCELEY, Colin - Artist (right panel - d)
- CROTHALL, Ross - Artist (left panel - a)

Copyright 1977-79
- TIPPING, Richard - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Untitled 2006
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Iridised sphere 1989
- HEANEY, Colin - Creator

POLAR BEARS 1978
- MacPHERSON, Robert - Creator

Winter sunshine, Paris
- PATTERSON, Ambrose - Creator

War and peace 1980
- BEATTIE, Ray - Creator

Mulberry tree growing 1940
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator

Backyard 1940
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator

Aurara's wedding 1940
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator
Figure with a kettle 1940
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator

Jolly interment c.1942
- BROWN, Vincent - Creator

Monumental archaic nose 1999
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Homios - the man 1999
- BROWN, Leonard - Creator

Nude Study 1971
- HODGKINSON, Frank - Creator