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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.
Sculpture: Moon surface 1972
- TRAVIS, Peter - Creator
Sea form 1982
- MELIS, Stanislav - Creator
Seagulls c.1954
- HIGGS, Florence M - Creator
Seated nude with flower 1928
- PARKER, Harold - Creator
Secret game 1966
- MASON, John - Creator
Self portrait 1932
- MELDRUM, Max - Creator
Semn 1990
- TOMESCU, Aida - Creator
Serigraph no. 2 1963
- SALKAUSKAS, Henry - Creator
Serving tray 1930s
- NOBLE, Lily Ada - Creator
Set of three jugs 1993
- JAMES, John - Creator
Shadow box 1984
- PEACH, Dianne - Creator
Shags c.1950
- PALMER, Ethleen - Creator
Shallow bowl c.1961-62
- ENGLUND, Ivan - Creator
Shallow bowl c.1950
- HUGHAN, Harold - Creator
Shallow bowl 1965
- MOON, Milton - Creator
Shaman 1990
- KNOTTENBELT, Robert - Creator
Shell form no. 36 1984
- GOSS, Peter - Creator
Shibori distractions 1993
- ROGERS, Barbara - Creator
Shield maiden (‘Cycles through a Chinese landscape’ series) 2006
- LEE, Lindy - Artist
- SCOTT-MITCHELL, Robert - Photographer
Ship-o-hoy-boy 1974
- PATERSON, Jim - Creator
Shock Breakout (from ‘Mangamorphosis’ series) 2009-10
- FARRELL, Rose - Artist
- PARKIN, George - Artist
Sign to somewhere else 2001
- SMITH, Ian - Creator