The Architecture of GOMA: A Building That Changed South Bank
When the Gallery of Modern Art opened on Kurilpa Point in December 2006, it did not merely house art — it reorganised how Brisbane understood the relationship between a public building, a river, and a city.
APT10: What the Asia Pacific Triennial Looks Like at Its Third Decade
The tenth Asia Pacific Triennial marked thirty years of a quietly radical proposition: that the world's most consequential contemporary art dialogue belongs to Brisbane.
Pacific Art at QAGOMA: Queensland's Connection to Its Near Neighbours
For more than three decades, QAGOMA has built the broadest collection of contemporary Pacific art in Australia — not as an act of curation alone, but of civic and geographic reckoning.
GOMA's Blockbusters: The International Exhibitions That Define Queensland's Cultural Calendar
Since opening in 2006, GOMA has built a model of civic exhibition-making that brings the world's art to Brisbane — not as cultural supplement, but as foundational public infrastructure.
Funding QAGOMA: Government Investment in Queensland's Visual Arts Institution
The Queensland Art Gallery has been a state responsibility since 1895. Understanding how government funds, structures, and sustains QAGOMA reveals something essential about Queensland's civic values.
Australian Art at QAGOMA: The National Story in the State Collection
From its 1895 founding in a Brisbane Town Hall room to a permanent South Bank home, QAGOMA's Australian art collection traces the full arc of a nation's self-understanding through paint, sculpture, and image.
The Asia Pacific Triennial: QAGOMA's Most Significant Contribution to World Art
Since 1993, Brisbane's Asia Pacific Triennial has stood as the only major exhibition series in the world dedicated exclusively to contemporary art from Asia, the Pacific and Australia — a civic and curatorial achievement of enduring global consequence.
First Nations Art at QAGOMA: Custodianship and Contemporary Expression
QAGOMA holds one of Australia's most significant collections of First Nations art — a living body of work that resists reduction, demands custodial care, and speaks across millennia.
GOMA: The Gallery That Changed What Contemporary Art Could Be in Australia
When GOMA opened in December 2006, it did more than add floor space — it reframed what a public gallery could ask of a city, and what a city could ask of contemporary art.
GOMA's Children's Art Centre: Making Visual Art Accessible From the Earliest Age
Inside GOMA, a dedicated centre has spent nearly two decades arguing that visual art belongs to children — not eventually, but from the very beginning of a life.
The Queensland State Art Collection: What the Gallery Holds and Why It Matters
The Queensland State Art Collection is more than an accumulation of objects. It is a civic document — 130 years of deliberate choices about what Queensland holds in common.
QAGOMA: Queensland's Twin Galleries and the State Art Collection
From a single room in Brisbane's Town Hall in 1895 to a dual-campus institution on the Maiwar River, QAGOMA holds Queensland's visual identity in trust for every generation.
QAG and GOMA: Why One Gallery Became Two and What Each Building Offers
How a single institution born in 1895 grew into two distinct buildings — and why the decision to split, rather than simply expand, changed what a public gallery could be.