Collection

Collection Highlights

An art museum’s collection is always growing and changing. Formed over time, shaped by its history and projecting into the future, a museum collection is both a record of the institution’s past and an expression of its aspirations.

At the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, we are continually adding works to the Collection that build on existing themes, groupings and strengths and, from time to time, suggest new directions for development. Each work that enters the Collection is considered in light of the Gallery’s existing holdings, and for how it might contribute to existing conversations between works or initiate new ones. For the most part, the Gallery’s regularly reviewed collecting policies direct the way the Collection is formed but occasionally an unexpected development — perhaps a gift or a suggestion about new artists or movements — will inspire substantial new research. An intellectual adventure as well as a cultural record, making the Collection is at the heart of the Gallery’s mission.

In Collection Highlights, you will find in-depth information on the Gallery’s acquisitions that registers this continual growth and development. We will be posting new research by Gallery curators and by scholars who have written on works acquired by the Gallery, so that we can bring lively and informed insights into the Gallery’s Collection to broad audiences.