QAGOMA COLLECTION: ‘Living Patterns’
Living Patterns: Contemporary Australian Abstraction
‘Living Patterns’ includes works from QAGOMA’s Australian Art collection, as well as works on loan. Find out more about these Collection works below, or explore the works on loan to the Gallery.

Emily Floyd’s Labour garden (detail) 2015 and Daniel Boyd’s Untitled (HNDFWMIAFN) 2017 installed for ‘Living Patterns’, QAG, October 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

Unwritten #1-5 2017
- AH KEE, Vernon - Creator

Untitled (HNDFWMIAFN) 2017
- BOYD, Daniel - Creator

Kulama 2012
- COOK, Timothy - Creator

Kulama 2012
- COOK, Timothy - Creator

Labour garden 2015
- FLOYD, Emily - Creator

Women's work (1912) 2017
- JOHNSON, Helen - Creator

Elliptical rain 2018
- LEE, Lindy - Creator

No up, no down, just is 2018
- LEE, Lindy - Creator

Quiescence 2018
- LEE, Lindy - Creator

Resting in a cloud of stars 2018
- LEE, Lindy - Creator

Installation view of ‘Living Patterns’, featuring works by (l–r) Lindy Lee, d harding (foreground) and Salote Tawale, QAG, September 2023 / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA

Milngurr 2018
- MARIKA, Dhuwarrwarr - Creator

Schein blossom (feueur) 2020
- NIESCHE, Jonny - Creator

Schein blossom (mond) 2020
- NIESCHE, Jonny - Creator

Schein blossom (sonnen) 2020
- NIESCHE, Jonny - Creator

Larrakitj 2017
- WANAMBI, Mr. W. - Creator

Buyku 2019
- WUNUNGMURRA, Djirrirra - Creator

Taree Mackenzie’s Pepper’s ghost, wind turners, blue and yellow 2018 installed for ‘Living Patterns’, with Jemima Wyman's Aggregate Icon (Kaleidoscopic Catchment) 2014 visible in the background, QAG, October 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / © The artists / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA