Vale: Win Schubert

It was with deep sadness that the Gallery – and the greater Queensland arts community – said farewell to one of its greatest supporters and friends, Mrs Win Schubert AO, following her recent passing. Mrs Schubert was one of the most generous benefactors in the QAGOMA Foundation’s 37 year history. Her inspiring patronage – which spanned…

Vale: Leonard French, OBE, and Peter Travis, AM

Signwriter turned painter Leonard French (1928–2017) passed away in January, aged 88. French was an influential artist over a career that spanned six decades, including five years in the 1960s that he spent working on a 50-colour glass ceiling for the NGV’s Great Hall — the artist’s first time working in the medium and considered one of the world’s largest stained-glass ceilings, wrote…

Vale: Inge King

The Gallery is saddened by the recent passing of renowned German-born Australian sculptor Inge King in Melbourne on 24 April 2016. A pioneer of Australian contemporary sculpture, King moved to Australia in 1951 and was a founding member of the Centre Five group of sculptors who came to prominence in Melbourne in the 1960s and…

Vale: Bea Maddock

The Gallery acknowledges and is saddened by the recent passing of Beatrice (Bea) Maddock in Launceston, Tasmania on 9 April 2016. Maddock, one of Australia’s much loved and respected contemporary artists was awarded the Order of Australia in 1991. Between 1993 and 1998 Maddock created TERRA SPIRITUS … with a darker shade of pale, a…

Vale: Malick Sidibé

We remember the late photographer Malick Sidibé (1936–2016) with our previous post when the Gallery acquired a group of photographs taken soon after independence was declared in the north-west African country of Mali. Know Brisbane through the Collection / Hear artists tell their stories / Read about the Australian Collection / Subscribe to QAGOMA YouTube to go behind-the-scenes #QAGOMA