Events and learning

Please join us for an intimate conversation between Adjunct Associate Professor Mary Graham, Dr Daniel McKinnon, and Gregory “Uncle Cheg” Egert centred on First Nations modalities of knowledge and learning.

Join us for an engaging evening of music with an Organ Recital by Christopher Wrench, as part of UQ’s Mayne Hall Organ Series.

Join us for a day of programs in celebration of the exhibitions to come together as water and NORTHERN WATERS. Hear from exhibiting artists, explore the free exhibitions, and enjoy some light refreshments.

Mittelheuser Great Ocean Scholar Aunty Sana Balai and Acting Curator Jocelyn Flynn discuss the significant role Elders hold in passing down knowledge to the next generation.

Join us for a day of free events and celebrations as we mark 50 years of Papua New Guinean independence. Explore artist Yuriyal Bridgeman’s large-scale installation SUNA (Middle Ground), enjoy food, talks and singsings, and catch up with family and friends on the UQ Art Museum lawn.

Marking the 50th Anniversary of Papua New Guinean Independence, please join us for a morning of discussion with researchers and other important thinkers on the history, culture and future of the country.

Be enveloped in Robert Curgenven's expansive and intricate layers of sound via the grand pipe organ at UQ Art Museum.

Inspired by Tony Albert's 'You Wreck Me Rosaries', we invite you to create your own beaded affirmations this Wear it Purple Day. With the artist's guidance, take what's important to you and turn it into a proud and fun-to-wear beaded accessory that shouts your hopes, desires and protests for the future.

Join us on Wear It Purple Day 2025 to hear from internationally renowned artist Tony Albert (he/him), whose practice explores representation, identity, history and politics from his perspective as a queer Girramay, Yidinji, and Kuku-Yalanji man.

Wear your best purple fit, show your support and connect with the community whilst enjoying art workshops, yoga, talks, stalls, games, and food trucks. 

What does it mean to listen with care — to each other, to images, to the unsayable?
How do stories shift when we tell them otherwise, together?

2025 Daphne Mayo Lecture is Hosted by the School of Communication and Arts and the University of Queensland Art Museum

Join us for Opening Night of our Semester 2 Exhibitions at UQ Art Museum!

To celebrate this year's NAIDOC theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision and Legacy, please join us for a conversation between Dr Jackie Huggins and Cheryl Leavy as they explore the nuances of truth telling through published and forthcoming work.

Join UQ Art Museum during NAIDOC Week 2025 for an art walking tour exploring some of the incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks in the UQ Art Collection. 

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

Join These Entanglements: Ecology after Nature artist Norton Fredericks for a cyanotype workshop. This workshop will explore the links between ecology, forever chemical and bodies, drawing on Norton's works 'Blood Test' 2024 and 'Contaminated' 2024-25.

Join us to hear from leading voices on emerging environmental contaminants: plastics, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and wastewater. Featuring Dr. Elvis Okoffo, Research Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), UQ; Associate Professor Leisa-Maree Toms, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT; and artist Norton Fredericks.

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

Step into an extraordinary dialogue between sound and visual art, a concert presented in partnership between the UQ School of Music and UQ Art Museum.

Join UQ Alumni for a walking art tour to see 8 artworks across 4 locations. All artworks are by First Nations artists from the UQ Art Collection, including Rosella Namok, Teresa Baker, Hector Burton, Lily Kelly Napangardi, Gloria Petyarre, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula and Nora Wompi Nungurrayi.

Join us for an online reading group led by Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). Across three sessions we will discuss key research texts that either inform or expand on the concerns of their work Metabolic Scales 2022-2025.

Participatory art experience by artist Caitlin Franzmann

A choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich, a part of 'These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature'.

Learn about UQ's Fryer Library at an exclusive public opening as part of the UQ St Lucia Museums BLOCK PARTY