Current Exhibitions
Contemporary Australia: Women
21 April – 22 July 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ is the second in the Gallery’s ‘Contemporary’ Australia triennial series — the most extensive regular presentation of contemporary Australian art in the country. Read more
Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850 — 1918 | Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
24 March — 24 June 2012 | QAG | Ticketed | Exclusive to Brisbane
‘Modern Woman: Daughters and Lovers 1850 — 1918 | Drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris’, an exhibition of drawings from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, by artists working in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, will be showing exclusively at the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG). Read more
Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design
3 March — 3 June 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
This annual exhibition showcases the outstanding achievements of senior visual art and design students from secondary schools throughout Queensland, including regional and remote communities. Read more
Phil Collins: the meaning of style
3 March — 3 June 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
Reflecting his own experiences growing up in northern England in the 1970s and 1980s, the works of Phil Collins often use the power of music, dancing and pop culture to explore social situations and transcend definitions of race, class, language and locality. Read more
Social Networking
3 March — 1 July 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
This exhibition shows how contemporary artists are exploring social contact with their subjects and audiences. Many are interested in historical events, but others look at the ways we perceive the world today and our place within it. Addressing themes including human rights, sustainability and cultural exchange, the works reflect on the ways that individuals shape, and are shaped by, their social networks. Read more
Across Country: Five Years of Indigenous Australian Art from the Collection
5 November 2011 - 21 October 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
‘Across Country’ celebrates the Indigenous Australian art collection development since GoMA’s opening, by highlighting major acquisitions. Read more
Lightness & Gravity: Contemporary Works from the Collection
3 March — 5 November 2012 | GOMA | Free admission
'Lightness & Gravity' showcases the Gallery’s contemporary collection in a series of thematic constellations. The display features a truly international selection of artists and a number of recent major acquisitions. The title points to a longstanding philosophical discussion of the fundamental character of life (and by extension art making) as weighty, meaningful and constrained by history, or as playful and arbitrary — and thereby free. Read more
Carl and Phillip McConnell: Queensland Studio Potters
17 March — 24 June 2012 | Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery, QAG | Free admission
Carl McConnell (1926–2003) was the most important potter in the post-World War Two generation in Queensland, introducing stoneware and porcelain firing to the state. His superb craftsmanship has been showcased in numerous exhibitions, which established his nationwide profile. Phillip McConnell (b.1947), Carl’s eldest son, followed in his father’s footsteps and established a career of equal significance. Read more
Collection Displays
QAG | Free admission
Visit the Australian, International and Asian Collections Read more
