Cultural gifts program and artworks

Brisbane Girls Grammar School art collection holds more than 300 donated works including paintings, photography, sculptures and ceramics. Many of these have been created by professional artists who are past students, providing current students with access to engage with, and be inspired by, the work of renowned artists.

In 2018, past student and prominent artist, Elizabeth Cummings OAM (1932), gifted three works to the School. Still Life with Black Olives, an oil on canvas, is representative of Ms Cummings' energetic style and the vitality and colour for which she is renowned. Ms Cummings also gifted the School two prints of etchings, New Moon on the Warburton River and Western Country.

To celebrate her remarkable life, the sons of highly esteemed Australian artists, Judy Cassab AO CBE (1920-2015), also donated five paintings to the School's art collection in mid-2018. Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents, Ms Cassab emigrated to Australia with her husband in 1951 and soon established herself as a renowned portraitist. Ms Cassab was awarded two Archibald Prizes, for portraits of artists Stanislaus Rapotec and Margo Lewers. In 1969, she was made a Commander of the British Empire for her service to the visual arts and in 1988 an Officer of the Order of Australia.