Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)

Gallery in Brisbane Art Precinct Queensland Australia

http://www.qag.qld.gov.au

The Queensland Art Gallery is Queensland’s premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. The Gallery’s driving philosophy is to connect art and people.

The Gallery was established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery. Throughout its early history the Gallery was housed in a series of temporary premises, and did not have a permanent home until the opening of its current architecturally acclaimed building on Brisbane’s south bank in 1982.

Since opening, the Gallery’s Collection, exhibitions, audiences and programs have grown in size, complexity and diversity. To cater for the community’s future needs, during the 1990s the Gallery embarked on extensive research and wide consultation, resulting in the concept of a second building.

The Gallery of Modern Art, which opened in December 2006, complements the Queensland Art Gallery building. Situated at Kurilpa Point only 150 metres from the Queensland Art Gallery building, the Gallery of Modern Art focuses on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) photo

Address
Stanley Place
Brisbane Precinct
South Bank Queensland
4101
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 3686, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101
Australia

Opening Hours
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Price
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Wheelchair Access

No

Email

Phone
07 3840 7303

Threads: Contemporary Textiles & the Social Fabric

Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams

Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox

Lloyd Rees: Life and Light

21st CENTURY: ART IN THE FIRST DECADE

Scott Redford: Introducing Reinhardt Dammn

Born in Germany in 1877, Hans Heysen emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia with his family at the age of seven and became a popular national figure during his seventy year career. This timely exhibition will be the first comprehensive survey of Sir Hans Heysen’s work, since the Gallery’s own centenary retrospective of 1977.

A survey of the Brisbane-based, internationally acclaimed fashion house Easton Pearson, which this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary. The exhibition will explore the designers’ eclectic sources of inspiration and the edgy glamour, exquisitely embellished fabrics and vibrant colours that have made them one of Australia’s most successful design teams.

This exhibition will highlight the distinguished career of the late Ron Hurley as one of the early leaders of the urban political movement in Aboriginal art.

‘Floating Life’ highlights the importance of fibre within Aboriginal culture and the commitment of the Queensland Art Gallery to developing a unique collection of more than 300 objects. Included are commissioned pieces by key artists as well as acquisitions from established and emerging talents.

A visionary and often eclectic search for artistic and spiritual connections between cultures and countries is at the core of Tim Johnson’s art. This major survey exhibition will range from Johnson’s light performances, films and artist books of the early 1970s to his mature collaborative paintings.

The Queensland Art Gallery will be the only venue in the world to show the exhibition ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met’, featuring more than 70 impressionist and realist paintings from The Metropolitan’s collection of American paintings and sculpture.

American Impressionism and Realism

Breaking Boundaries includes a number of new and proposed acquisitions by Brook Andrew, Alick Tipoti, Butcher Cherel Janangoo, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Fiona Foley, Vernon Ah Kee, Gunybi Ganambarr and Sally Gabori among others. Additionally, this display features many works by Queensland Indigenous artists, recognising their achievements in the 150th anniversary of their home state.

Breaking Boundaries

‘The China Project’ is a three-part display that considers unique points of view on contemporary Chinese art in its richest and most engaging forms.

The China Project

Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871–1949) was an important practitioner and teacher in the arts and crafts movement in Queensland and a figure of national significance. Harvey was an accomplished potter and woodcarver, as well as the inspiration of the largest school of art pottery in Australia.

LJ Harvey and His Times

American artist Spencer Finch explores the peculiarities of human perception. He brings a poetic sensibility and a rigorous scientific approach to a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography and installation.

This magnificent work is a fine example of Anish Kapoor’s practice as one of the most significant sculptors of our time. Kapoor’s work draws on metaphysical theory and ideas of the sublime, while his use of colour emphasises the sensory in his sculpture. His spectacular and extraordinary works engage the viewer both physically and psychologically with their large scale and saturated colours.

The annual exhibition recognises and promotes outstanding achievements by art students from state and non-state secondary schools throughout Queensland, including regional and remote communities. A selection of 40 works including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and new media will be on display.

Creative Generation

‘Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial’ is the inaugural exhibition in a series by the National Gallery of Australia celebrating contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

Culture Warriors