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Nancy Weir practicing on a dumb keyboard prior to her Australian Tour, 1951

Central foyer of the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, 1985

Queensland Performing Arts Centre

Over 200 images from the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) were launched on Picture Queensland in 2004. The images provide a glimpse of Queensland's artistic and theatrical life over the years.

The QPAC Museum houses a significant photographic record of artists and the performing arts in Queensland. Over 14,000 images are held in the form of prints, negatives and transparencies, covering circus, vaudeville, opera, drama, musical comedy and ballet from the earliest days of photography into the new millennium.

The Collection represents both amateur and professional performance and it includes images of many of Queensland's famous - Our Glad (Gladys Moncrieff), George Wallace both Senior and Junior, Olga Varona, and John MacCallum as well as more contemporary artists such as Geoffrey Rush, Geraldine Turner and Bille Brown.

The Queensland Theatre Company Collection contains prints from almost every production in that company's history and noted theatre photographers, Christopher Ellis, Ivan and Gloria Pierce, and Reina Irmer are well represented in the QPAC Museum Collection.

The QPAC Museum catalogue has been included in the Collections Australia Network searchable database [new window] of Australian museums.

QPAC was the first organisation to partner with the State Library of Queensland to contribute their images to Picture Queensland.

Reproduction permissions and copyright clearance must be sought from QPAC Museum.

Contact details:

Collections Manager
QPAC Museum
Cnr Grey and Melbourne Streets
PO Box 3567
South Brisbane Qld 4101

p: (07) 3840 7362
f: (07) 3840 7560
e: collections@qpac.com.au
w: QPAC Museum [new window]

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