Supporting a new vision for the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Royal Park


The Launceston Museum and Art Gallery Foundation supports the development of the fine and decorative art collections of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

The Foundation is the primary source of funds for the acquisition of works for these collections. Since 1985, through the generosity of our community and with the support of the Tasmanian Government, we have raised over $1.5 million with which we have acquired over 140 works to enhance the art collections of our Gallery.


A NEW VISION

With the vision and support of the Launceston City Council and the Tasmanian Government, there is an opportunity to create the city’s first dedicated public art gallery.

The QVMAG at Royal Park, restored to its Victorian splendour, will feature seven galleries dedicated to the display of fine and decorative arts and design. Our heritage collections will be set in galleries with 12-metre ceilings pierced to admit the changing light, with a mezzanine gallery reaching the height of the entire building. Spaces not seen since the 1960s will be reopened as galleries of striking beauty. Exhibitions drawn from the collections and touring shows will be housed in a new ‘white box’. Work from many different media such as installations, video and film will be included.


NEW OPPORTUNITIES
The Launceston Museum and Art Gallery Foundation is about to enter a new and exciting era to coincide with the redevelopment of the QVMAG at Royal Park which will re-open in 2010.

Funds are now sought to acquire further contemporary Tasmanian and Australian fine and decorative art to expand our significant modernist and colonial collections.

We invite you, through this new donation program, to assist us to create one of the great galleries of regional Australia and to help make it an institution of learning, inspiration and joy.

YOUR CONTRIBUTION

Donations can be made over one or more years (all contributions over $2 are tax deductible).

Visionary $100 000 +
Benefactors $50 000 - $99 999
Fellows $20 000 - $49 999
Associates $5 000 - $19 999
Builders $500 - $4 999
Community Supporters $2-$499










For bequests and donations of artworks please contact the Launceston Museum and Art Gallery Foundation.

PO Box 2076
LAUNCESTON TAS 7250

Tel: +61 (3) 6323 3777
Fax: +61 (3) 6323 3783
email: foundation@qvmag.tas.gov.au

John GLOVER
sketch from Glover’s 1818 Italian tour
Clouquaduck of Claudon of Marcia
pen & ink with traces of pencil on sketchbook page
Purchased by the Foundation 2002

Attributed to Augustus EARLE
Portrait of Mrs George William Evans (Lucy Parris Lempriere) about 1825
oil on paperboard on wood panel
Purchased by the Foundation 1988


Emma Von STIEGLITZ
Killymoon Tasmania, 1860
detail from album 1834–1868
pencil, ink, wash, watercolour
Purchased by the Foundation with assistance of the QVMAG Friends 2002


Frederick WILLIAMS
Murray Pass, Erith Island 1974
acrylic and gouache on paper
Purchased by the Foundation with funds from the
Ruth KomanBequest 2005
© Estate of Fred Williams
Licensed by Viscopy, 2009

John WOLSELEY
Clumner Bluff, Tasmania with snow spores
and pollen 1995
watercolour and pencil on paper
Purchased by the Foundation 1996
© John Wolseley

Bea MADDOCK
Bent red 1970
acrylic on canvas
Purchased by the Foundation 2003
© Bea Maddock

Ricky MAYNARD
Portrait of a Distant Land Series:
The Healing Garden 2005
1 of 4 x silver gelatin photographs
Purchased by the Foundation 2008
© Ricky Maynard
Licensed by Viscopy, 2009

Amelia BURROWS
Folding Screen, 1889
blackwood, canvas, oil paint, velvet
Purchased by the Foundation 2006