Image: Blaklash Intern Braelyn Rolfe-Chase. Photo: Joe Ruckli

From the Collection is a new creative program that features rotating displays of artworks from the UQ Art Collection.   

Join us for talks, artwork displays, creative activities and life drawing events in the Collection Study Room, a unique teaching and learning space in the heart of the UQ Art Museum.  

The current display From the Collection: Wira to Djara brings together creative practices that demonstrate the centrality of Kin, Country and Community, and the importance of relationality to First Nations knowledge systems and belongings. The featured artworks represent the concept of what it means to ‘return’ continually and across generations.

Drop in any time on Fridays from 1:30-3:00pm to incredible artworks by Rosella Namok, Judy Watson, Fiona Foley and more, and discuss the works with UQ Art Museum’s cultural mediation staff. This is not a tour or talk, but rather a self-guided experience with our team on hand to engage in conversation about the artwork. 

From the Collection is led by UQ Art Museum’s Blaklash Intern Braelyn Rolfe-Chase. This project is possible thanks to the generous support of Blaklash.

About the UQ Art Collection:  

The University of Queensland Art Collection is one of Queensland’s most significant. Developed over 70 years, featuring more than 4,400 works of art. The work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists is a key collecting area for the UQ Art Collection, which focuses on the acquisition of art that engages with new and diverse knowledges.  


 

A Love Letter to Country and Community: Returning and continuing through generations in Wira to Djara

8 November 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
Join us for an intimate exploration of Wira to Djara: an intern-lead research project by Braelyn Rolfe-Chase (Ngugi), Blaklash Curatorial Intern.
A group of students engage in a life-drawing session while looking at artworks

Drawing the UQ Art Collection: Self-Portraits

21 August 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Connect and unwind with a casual still-life drawing session, where responding to art, you will be inspired to consider how self-portraits can be used to express the multiple identities we all contain.   

Drawing the UQ Art Collection

25 July 2024 1:30pm3:00pm
Connect and unwind with a casual still-life drawing session in UQ Art Museum. Surrounded by art and various found objects, you will consider how identities and journeys are shaped through the objects around us and within.