Join curator Kimberley Moulton for this public lecture on Indigenous perspectives on curation in the third installment of the Great Ocean Speaker Series.

This Speaker Series responds to core teachings in Indigenous Art History in the Australia Pacific Region, inviting leading First Nations and Great Ocean artists and curators to campus to speak to diverse themes in contemporary practice.   

This Speaker Series has been developed in collaboration with Dominique Chen (Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Arts) as part of UQ Art Museum's ongoing work to engage artists, colleagues and students while the Museum relocates. Audiences are warmly invited to join students for these guest lectures, which will take place across campus in September and October 2026. 

12:30pm, Wednesday 23 September | Fryer Library 


 

Image: Kimberley Moulton. Image courtesy the speaker.

Dr Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman and an independent curator and writer. She is Senior Curator Exhibitions at RISING and recently held tenure as the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art for Tate, London (2023-2026). Kimberley was previously Senior Curator First Peoples Collection at Museums Victoria. Her recent exhibitions include the Tarrawarra Biennial: We Are Eagles (2025), On Country: Photography from Australia (Les Rencontres d'Arles France, co-curated, 2025), Emily Kam Kngwarray (Tate Modern, curatorial team, 2025), The Blak Infinite (co-curated, 2024) and Shadow Spirit (RISING, 2023). She has published extensively on contemporary Indigenous art, collections and curatorial practice. Kimberley works at the intersection of historical collections and contemporary art and her practice aims to extend what exhibitions, public art and research can be for First Peoples communities and artists globally. She holds a PhD in Curatorial Practice, Monash University and is an Emeritus Curator with Museums Victoria. In 2025 she was recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. 

 

About Great Ocean Speaker Series: Libby Harward, Jonathan Jones, Kimberley Moulton, Sana Balai and Jocelyn Flynn 

 

Photo: Joe Ruckli 

This Speaker Series responds to core teachings in Indigenous Art History in the Australia Pacific Region, inviting leading First Nations and Great Ocean artists and curators to campus to speak to diverse themes in contemporary practice.   

This Speaker Series has been developed in collaboration with Dominique Chen (Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Arts) as part of UQ Art Museum's ongoing work to engage artists, colleagues and students while the Museum relocates. Audiences are warmly invited to join students for these guest lectures, which will take place across campus in September and October 2026. 

12:30pm, Wednesday 9 September | Room 275 Global Change Institute  
Guest lecturer Libby Harward 
81% Urban: Urban Art Movements and Artist Collectives 

12:30pm, Wednesday 16 September | Viewpoint 
Guest lecturer Jonathan Jones 
Place & Space: Public and Site-Specific Art 

12:30pm, Wednesday 23 September | Fryer Library 
Guest lecturer Kimberley Moulton 
Indigenous Perspectives on Curation 

12:30pm, Wednesday 7 October | Viewpoint 
Guest lecturers Aunty Sana Balai & Jocelyn Flynn 
Pacific Art and Global Conversations