MCA Online Collection
– Artists and works

MCA Online Collection features a selection of works from the last 20 years of collecting contemporary Australian art.
We encourage you to browse these highlights to hear from, and learn more about, the artists who made these works.
We will frequently add more works, so please check in again.

George Drahm (Uncle George) from fantasies of the good 2004

Dom-ino Colour Separation 2002

Mountains, Valleys, Caves 2005

Empathy Chart 2009

Second hand political 1995

Split Fountain 2009
Vernon Ah Kee James Angus Hany Armanious

Inherent Vice 2005

Automated Colour Field 2011

Uz vs Them 2006

Worth Exploring? 2002

Untitled 2005

Particle paradise (nuclear family) 1989
John Barbour Rebecca Baumann Richard Bell Stephen Birch Brian Blanchflower

We Call them Pirates Out Here 2006

Balls 2009

Metaphysical Drawing sc/101/2005 2005

Untitled sc/ab/102/2001 2001

incident - Ambivalence 1991

Portrait of Bungaree (4 prints) 1991
Daniel Boyd Charles Sofo Sophie Coombs Aleks Danko Juan Davila

Sentimental history of Australian art 1982

Forced into images 2001

Untitled 1995

Badtjala Woman (two sets of beads) 1994

Bliss 2006

The door was open... 2006
Juan Davila (cont.) Destiny Deacon Mikala Dwyer Fiona Foley Nicholas Folland

Goat Odyssey 2006

White Australia 2006

Piece to Walk Around 1981

Tiger Tiger 1987

A Long Time Between Drinks 2005

Carbon Copy (assimilate) 1998
Hayden Fowler Rosalie Gascoigne Simryn Gill

Caress (Lemain Deluxe 850 TR) 2008

Apologies 1 - 6 2007

Storm Sequence 2000

Untitled (dismay, displace, disperse, dispirit, display, dismiss) 1989

Aske 2007

Give a dog a bone 1996
Simryn Gill (cont.) Shaun Gladwell Gordon Bennett Matthew Griffin Fiona Hall

Dog 2005

Sounds 1-6 1. Writing a word using a Letraset 2. Sharpening my pencil 3. Writing number... 2006

Neon Light Installations 1970

The Gallery A Years 1970

Untitled (Drawing for Neon Light Installations) 1970

Untitled (Awelye) [#62-1195] 1995
Patrick Hartigan Peter Kennedy Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Untitled (body painting series) 1996

Serpentine 1999

T.T. 2004

bulletproofglass #1 2002

Opera House Steps, March 2006

White/black (Arago) 1975
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (cont.) Ildiko Kovacs Rosemary Laing Jess MacNeil Robert MacPherson

eXoecoaXis 2005

Nawarramulmul (Shooting star spirit) 1988

The European 2009

You are on Aboriginal land 1984

Bliss 2006

Something More #1 1989
Nick Mangan John Mawurndjul Laith McGregor Marie McMahon Troy Melville Tracey Moffatt

The Neddy Project 2004

Colour green 2007

The Folly 2008

Prayers of a Mother 1999

Mutatis Mutandis 2005

Saturday Nights 2007
TV (Tim) Moore James Morrison Arlo Mountford Kate Murphy Dorota Mytych James Newitt

Untitled (it's kept together by moving all around) 2006

Hanging glow bulb 2009

Enola 2004

Sunrise #3 2005

Camel Gap 2004

You are on Aboriginal land 1984
Nigel Milsom Michelle Nikou Susan Norrie Robert Owen Paddy Bedford Redback Graphix

360 Degree Self-Portrait 2009

Naqshbandi Greenacre engagement 2011

Its feet were tied, with a silken thread of my own hands weaving 2010

Untitled (What If I Drive?) 2009

Adaptable (dark peach/red oxide) 2008

Adaptable (mint/golden green) 2008
Julie Rrap Khaled Sabsabi Sangeeta Sandrasegar Tim Silver Gemma Smith

Self portrait looking down a survey cut, proposed site of Gordon below Franklin Dam, Ta... 1982

Caravan 2008

Black Hammerhead Shark Eastern Island Dari Warrior Headdress 2009

White Aborigines 1983

Shellworked slippers 2008

The lover circles his own heart 1993
David Stephenson Ricky Swallow Ken Thaiday Imants Tillers Esme Timbery Hossein Valamanesh

Crutch Dance 2011

Brain Scapes 2006
Justene Williams Simon Yates

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are respectfully advised that this website contains the names and images of deceased persons, which may cause distress.