Bringing together art from different times and across cultures, QAGOMA’s Australian Art Collection captures 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, this display emphasises stories about Queensland and Brisbane from the region’s own perspective.

Major contemporary works by Helen Johnson, Daniel Boyd, Dale Harding, Alick Tipoti and Sonja Carmichael feature among celebrated and iconic pieces by Gordon Bennett, Arthur Boyd, Rupert Bunny, William Dobell, Ian Fairweather, Ethel Carrick Fox, R Godfrey Rivers, Sam Fullbrook, Vida Lahey, Sidney Nolan and many more.

To learn more about the exhibition, head to the QAGOMA website.
_{Image one: Australian Art Collection at Queensland Art Gallery with works by Lindy Lee and Richard Dunn / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA
Image two: Australian Art Collection at Queensland Art Gallery with works by James Cant, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Danila Vassilieff and Albert Tucker / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Image three: Australian Art Collection / Fiona Hall / Installation view of Australian set (from ‘Paradisus Terrestris Entitled’ series) 1998-99 / Purchased 2021. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Image four: Australian Art Collection at Queensland Art Gallery with works by Anne Wallace, Lindy Lee and Rover Thomas / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Image five: Australian Art Collection at Queensland Art Gallery with works by Tracey Moffatt, William Robinson and Sam Fullbrook / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA.
Image six: Australian Art Collection at Queensland Art Gallery with works by James Cant, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Danila Vassilieff and Albert Tucker / Photograph: Chloe Callistemon, QAGOMA.}