This year, the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal provides the opportunity for generous supporters to come together to significantly enhance the Gallery’s Indigenous Australian art collection through the acquisition of major works by Queensland First Nations artists.

The first works to be acquired with your support will be Waanyi artist Judy Watson’s moreton bay rivers, australian temperature chart, freshwater mussels, net, spectrogram 2022; the collaborative work Carving Country 2019–21 by senior Maluyligal/Wuthathi/Dayak artist Brian Robinson and emerging Torres Strait Islander/Papua New Guinean artist Tamika Grant-Iramu; and Athumu paypa adthinhuunamu (my birth certificate) 2022 by Angkamuthi/Yadhaykana artist Teho Ropeyarn.

These exemplary works demonstrate the talent and strong cultural connections artists have and maintain across the state of Queensland, from Brisbane to the Cape to the Torres Strait. An impressive sense of scale immediately brings them together, but they are connected in far greater measure by the Queensland Indigenous histories, localities and landscapes they represent.

Your support of QAGOMA’s 2023 Foundation Appeal will enable the Gallery to increase the Collection’s holdings of significant works by Queensland First Nations artists.

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