The museum was established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery, and throughout its early history was housed in a series of temporary premises. In 1982, the gallery moved to a permanent location in the Queensland Art Gallery, designed by architect Robin Gibson.[3]
In 2006 the museum's second building, the Gallery of Modern Art, was opened, and was awarded the 2007 RAIA National Award for Public Architecture.[4]
Description
The art museum is colloquially known as QAGOMA.[5] It consists of
the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), which is the main building, and the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), situated 150 m (490 ft) away. Both are located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in South Bank in Brisbane.[6]
Curator Peter McKay was appointed to the curatorial team at QAGOMA in 2011, and on 8 August 2018 was appointed Curatorial Manager of Australian Art.[7][8]
Collections
QAGOMA holds a collection of more than 20,000 artworks from Australia and around the world, with an internationally significant collection of contemporary Asian and Pacific art. It has extensive collections of Asian, Oceanian, Australian and Indigenous Australian art.[citation needed]
Asia, Australia & Pacific
Asian Art
The gallery's historical Asian collection spans from the neolithic period through to the 20th century, and highlights the artistic developments influenced by social change, philosophy and technique. The department aims to show the importance of cultural exchange in the region and its continuing role in the development of Asia's decorative traditions, and helps to contextualise the contemporary Asian collection. The works range from painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metalware, lacquerware, photography and furniture.[9]
Some of the collections highlights include:
Asian Ceramic Traditions
Neolithic jars from Japan's Jōmon (3000–2000BCE) and Yayoi (400–300BCE) cultures and Kuan (storage jars) and an amphora from China's Neolithic Yangshao culture (3500–3000BCE)
Burial ware from the Tang dynasty (618–907), celadon from the Yuan (1279–1368) and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties, blue and white wares from the Kangxi period (1662–1722) and porcelain including imperial works from the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
Tsubo (lidless jars) from Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, dating from the Muromachi (1333–1573) and Azuchi–Momoyama (1573–1603) periods
QAGOMA's contemporary Asian art collection is among the most extensive of its kind in the world, with over one thousand works dating from the late 1960s to the present, documenting modern historical trends of social change and changing patterns of artistic production. The collection demonstrates the contributions of Asian artists to global contemporary art, and the influence of traditions, philosophies and techniques. The collection includes leading artists from all parts of Asia, as well as the Asian diaspora with strengths in contemporary Chinese art, contemporary Japanese art, contemporary Indian art and a major collection of Southeast Asian art. Some of the artists represented include Xu Bing, Atul Dodiya, Nam June Paik, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan and Ai Weiwei.
The Gallery's historical international art collection focuses on Western European and North American work, and spans from the early Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century. The collection has strengths in Northern Renaissance; British art from the late-18th to late-19th century, including Victorian and Edwardian painting; and modern European and American painting, sculpture, photography and prints from the late 19th century to the second half of the twentieth century. The majority of the over 2000 works in this area are Western European.[11]
The Battle of Magic, 1860 - Utagawa Yoshitsuya
Buddha, 2nd-3rd century CE - Unknown
Six-fold screen with nobleman's cart under a flowering cherry tree c.1650 - Unknown
Eleven-headed Avalokitesvara Late 18th century- (Nepal)
White porcelain baluster Late 18th-early 19th century (Qing dynasty) - (China)
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