Great and Small Kindred creatures in the Indigenous Australian Art Collection
Lindy Rontji, Arrernte people, Australia b.1962 / Mount Hermannsburg 2002 / Synthetic polymer paint on linen / 64.7 x 91.2cm / Purchased 2003 with funds from Margaret Mittelheuser AM through the QAG Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Lindy Rontji / View full image
When
21 Jun 2025 – 3 May 2027
Where
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 1 & 2
Admission
Free
About
Animals have played a central part in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and spiritual beliefs for over 60,000 years. Native fauna form an integral part of relationships with Country, in community and are a foundation of economies, identity and sustainability.
Over many millennia of co-existence animals have been central to survival as a food source, for First Nations people they are also absorbed into lore and culture as images of totemic power; and into the ancestral creation stories that link people, land and animals. ‘Great and small’ is a celebration of these connections.
Dickie Minyintiri, Australia b.c.1915 / Kanyalakutjina (Euro tracks) 2011 / Synthetic polymer paint on linen / 155 x 184cm / Purchased 2011 with funds from Ashby Utting through the QAG Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Dickie Minyintiri / View full image
Tommy Mitchell, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia 1943–2013 / Walu Rockhole Dreaming, Emu Heart, The Boy Who Turned Into Wind 2012 / Synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 101.6 x 121.9cm / The Glenn Manser Collection. Gift of Glenn Manser through the QAGOMA Foundation 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Tommy Mitchell/Copyright Agency / View full image
