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Read • Inquiring minds: Conserving a Collection
The QAGOMA Foundation assists with Gallery conservation activities such as supporting complex treatments, technical art history studies, innovative research and analysis that frequently leads to … -
Read • We use art to question what we know
Telling the Story of Australian Art in new and innovative ways Swedish-born artist Oscar Friström’s Duramboi 1893 depicts James Davis, a young convict … -
Read • From this island, we look out across the sea
Telling the Story of Australian Art Your reimagined Australian Collection brings together art from different times and across cultures. After 120 years of building … -
Read • Sidney Nolan’s Mrs Fraser is a spectacular colonial narrative
Sidney Nolan’s painting Mrs Fraser is a captivating story. In 1947 Nolan spent an extended period in Queensland, including several weeks in Brisbane and … -
Read • Sidney Nolan’s Platypus Bay, Fraser Island is a dreamlike landscape
Sidney Nolan’s Platypus Bay, Fraser Island 1947 (illustrated) is an important work from this series, one of the works from Nolan’s 1948 exhibition …