Small Figures
CHELSEA-DERBY, England c.1769-75 / Figurine: Goatherd c.1769-75 / Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilt details / 18.2 x 8.2 x 6.5cm / Gift of Harold and Agnes Richardson 1982 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / View full image
When
20 Sep 2023 – 3 Aug 2025
Where
Queensland Art Gallery, Pelican Lounge
Admission
Free
About
The Collection Online team have been busy photographing thousands of artworks as part of QAGOMA’s Digital Transformation Initiative. This makes the Collection available and accessible to people everywhere, in detail never seen before. With dedicated conservators, registrars, technologists and photographers, the project has provided the resources to delve deep into Collection Storage to uncover and care for artworks not displayed in decades. This exhibition represents a small sample of our teams’ favourite finds – the weird and whimsical, the cute and curious.
We gratefully acknowledge the hundreds of donors who generously supported the QAGOMA Foundation’s ‘Unlock the Collection’ campaign to digitise the Collection and make artworks more accessible and discoverable online including this diverse range of artworks, from small figures to small frogs.
These are some of the artworks we have recently prepared for photography, and just some of the works which made us smile.
Midge Johansen, Australia b.1950 / Sculpture: Housebound 1982 / Stoneware, modelled and carved in the form of a tortoise with an elaborate house on its back / 36.1 x 24.5 x 29cm / Purchased 1982 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © QAGOMA / View full image
Stephen Killick, Australia b.1947 / Small figure making and recording History 1991 / Wood, paint, metal and plastic / 124 x 73 x 42cm / Purchased 1992. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Stephen Killick/Copyright Agency / View full image
LJ Harvey, Australia 1871-1949 / Vase 1928 / Earthenware, slip-cast body and decorated in the double scraffito technique with rust and ochre clays with four panels of butterflies and alamandas / 11 x 6.5cm (diam) / Gift of friends and students of LJ Harvey 1938 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
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CHELSEA-DERBY, England c.1769-75 / Figurine: Goatherd c.1769-75 / Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilt details / 18.2 x 8.2 x 6.5cm / Gift of Harold and Agnes Richardson 1982 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / View full image
