Help Unlock the Collection

Future Collective and Foundation members touring Queensland Art Gallery's Collection Storage, October 2016 / Photograph: M Sherwood

Future Collective and Foundation members touring Queensland Art Gallery's Collection Storage, October 2016 / Photograph: M Sherwood / View full image

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Support the transformative digitisation project unlocking the doors to our storerooms and help make the entire QAGOMA Collection available online to audiences around the world.

QAGOMA is home to an internationally acclaimed collection of more than 20 000 artworks, but like many art museums across the globe, the Gallery can only display a fraction of its holdings at any time. This means that 90 per cent of our most important asset exists behind closed doors. Thanks to the support of our giving community, we are in the process of changing that.

  • Young collaborator Kieran Smythe-Jackson, from Warakurna in Western Australia, in ‘Tony Albert: We Can Be Heroes’, Children’s Art Centre, GOMA, June 2018 / Photograph: J Ruckli

    Young collaborator Kieran Smythe-Jackson, from Warakurna in Western Australia, in ‘Tony Albert: We Can Be Heroes’, Children’s Art Centre, GOMA, June 2018 / Photograph: J Ruckli / View full image

  • School students enjoy a rare glimpse inside GOMA’s restricted access Collection Storage area / Photograph: M Sherwood

    School students enjoy a rare glimpse inside GOMA’s restricted access Collection Storage area / Photograph: M Sherwood / View full image

  • Students taking a closer look at Grace Cossington Smith’s Church interior c.1941–42 during a tour of the Australian art collection, QAG, June 2018 / Purchased 2001 with funds raised through The Grace Cossington Smith Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Appeal / © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith / Photograph: C Callistemon © QAGOMA

    Students taking a closer look at Grace Cossington Smith’s Church interior c.1941–42 during a tour of the Australian art collection, QAG, June 2018 / Purchased 2001 with funds raised through The Grace Cossington Smith Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Appeal / © Estate of Grace Cossington Smith / Photograph: C Callistemon © QAGOMA / View full image

  • ‘Decoding the Cinematic Universe’ was an interactive display developed by QAGOMA in conjunction with the Queensland University of Technology for ‘Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe’. It enabled visitors to explore the attributes of their favourite characters and discover the complex connections between them, GOMA, May 2017 / Photograph: J Ruckli

    ‘Decoding the Cinematic Universe’ was an interactive display developed by QAGOMA in conjunction with the Queensland University of Technology for ‘Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe’. It enabled visitors to explore the attributes of their favourite characters and discover the complex connections between them, GOMA, May 2017 / Photograph: J Ruckli / View full image

Explore art, everywhere

The Gallery has now digitised more than 3000 artworks and built the framework for our new Collection Online platform. The site is evolving daily – take a look around for a taste of what’s in store.

At this crucial stage in the project, we need your support to revolutionise how our audiences discover and experience art. You can help ensure our new Collection Online is a place where artworks are brought to life with stories about artists, their communities and practices.

With your support, we can create interactive digital archives for major exhibitions and projects, including the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – the exhibition series that has made QAGOMA the leading institution for the contemporary art from this region – and collaborate with artists and digital designers to create immersive 3D experiences, like this one developed for Judy Watson’s iconic sculpture tow row 2016 at GOMA’s entrance.

Together, we can give people everywhere a closer look at the works we hold, alongside inspiring and thought-provoking digital resources.

Students participate in Gary Carsley’s interactive project ‘Purple Reign’, inspired by R Godfrey Rivers’s Under the Jacaranda 1903 (far left), during APT9 Kids, October 2018 / Photograph: C Callistemon

Students participate in Gary Carsley’s interactive project ‘Purple Reign’, inspired by R Godfrey Rivers’s Under the Jacaranda 1903 (far left), during APT9 Kids, October 2018 / Photograph: C Callistemon / View full image

While every major art museum is constrained in the number of works it can display at any point in time, digitisation can make an entire collection accessible to the online visitor, around the clock and around the world.

Chris Saines CNZM, QAGOMA Director

A visitor interacts with Judy Watson’s Tow Row 2016 via the immersive digital reality experience launched in September 2021 / Photograph: C Callistemon

A visitor interacts with Judy Watson’s Tow Row 2016 via the immersive digital reality experience launched in September 2021 / Photograph: C Callistemon / View full image

Help Unlock the Collection

Your support will help to make the entire QAGOMA Collection accessible to art lovers anywhere, at any time.

Donate today

Giving Categories

Digital Champion

$1 million+

Access Advocate

$500,000 – $999,999

Transformation Leader

$250,000 – $499,999

Community Patron

$100,000 – $249,999

Innovation Benefactor

$50,000 – $99,999

Research Commissioner

$25,000 – $49,999

Publishing Promoter

$10,000 – $24,999

Ambassador

$4,000 – $9,999

Amanda Pagliarino, Head of Conservation and Registration, leads a tour of the conservation lab at QAG, August 2018 / Photograph: C Callistemon

Amanda Pagliarino, Head of Conservation and Registration, leads a tour of the conservation lab at QAG, August 2018 / Photograph: C Callistemon / View full image

Contact us

To unlock the Collection and turn our vision into reality, QAGOMA is committed to raising $5 million.

Multiple and customisable opportunities to demonstrate your support are available to individuals, corporations and foundations, with commensurate levels of recognition.

For more information, please contact:

Dominique Jones

Philanthropy Manager