Biography
In the late 19th century, Queensland artists Isaac Walter Jenner and R. Godfrey Rivers successfully lobbied for the creation of a state art gallery, which opened as the Queensland National Art Gallery in 1895. It occupied a series of temporary premises prior to the opening of its permanent home at Brisbane's South Bank in 1982.
QAGOMA is home to more than 17 000 artworks from Australia and around the world, in every imaginable medium. It holds an internationally significant collection of contemporary Asian and Pacific art.
Shaped by its history and projecting into the future, the Collection is a record of the institution's past and an expression of its aspirations.
Each work that enters the Collection is considered for how it might contribute to conversations between works.
An intellectual adventure as well as a cultural record, the Collection is at the heart of the Gallery.
Published in; QAGOMA Website, https://www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/learn/collection, accessed 22/02/2017
