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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.

Andalusia c.1926
- LINDSAY, Lionel - Creator

Still life and interior 1959
- PROCTOR, Thea - Creator

The grain shed 1948
- CAMBRIDGE, Enid - Creator

The Riva, Venice c.1928
- LINDSAY, Lionel - Creator

Ornament: Triangle 1981
- PEACH, Dianne - Creator

Sculpture: Love's coronet 1922
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Fan 1981
- PEACH, Dianne - Creator

Dish c.1988
- DALY, Greg - Creator

Figure: Melba c.1930s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Female figure 1932
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Milkmaid c.1920s
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Inkwells c.1915
- HARVEY, L.J. - Creator

Tea bowl 1989
- McKAY, Ian - Creator

Bowl c.1950s
- MEMMOTT, Harry - Creator

Nut bowl 1926
- IRVING, Alma - Creator

Plaque: Walter Jenner 1933
- HARVEY, Elvin B. - Creator

Siamese cat c.1960s
- SHILLAM, Kathleen - Creator

Crocheting hooks c.1880
- UNKNOWN - Creator

Tie plate 1991
- MERCER, Anne - Creator

Pelican sitting c.1954
- SHILLAM, Kathleen - Creator

Appalling Moment 1995
- HARRIS, Brent - Creator

Appalling Moment (Wig) 1995
- HARRIS, Brent - Creator

I'm no child 1973
- ALLEN, Davida - Creator

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