From urinals and Brillo boxes to ballerinas and Polar Bears, throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, artists have used everyday objects to challenge our perceptions of what art can be. Appropriation, a term used to describe when artists use pre-existing images or objects with minimal transformation in their artworks, is a strategy that…
Special collections in your art library are important to the development and maintenance of our cultural heritage. The QAGOMA Research Library’s special collections are a treasure-trove of unique and rare items that can inspire and enrich, support scholarship and engage artists, visitors, researchers and students. Collecting these items is often only possible through a creative…
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art stands and recognise the creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.