'recompose' 2021, conversation, divination cards, interactive website. A part of Final Call exhibition, Mossy Log Garden, Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Gardens, Horizon Festival 2021. Photography: Timothy Birch

recompose, by Caitlin Franzmann | BLOCK PARTY performances

1 March 2025 10:15am14 June 2025 11:30am
Participatory art experience by artist Caitlin Franzmann.

recompose, by Caitlin Franzmann

8 April 2025 12:30pm14 June 2025 11:30am
Participatory art experience by artist Caitlin Franzmann
Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, and Scott Mitchell), Metabolic Scales 2022-2025, banded Iron, LED sign, moving image, sound, mild steel, installation view, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2025 (Detail). Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

Metabolic Scales: Online Reading Group

1 May 2025 12:30pm1:30pm
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.
Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, and Scott Mitchell), Metabolic Scales 2022-2025, banded Iron, LED sign, moving image, sound, mild steel, installation view, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2025 (Detail). Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

Metabolic Scales: Online Reading Group

15 May 2025 12:30pm1:30pm
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.
Open Spatial Workshop (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, and Scott Mitchell), Metabolic Scales 2022-2025, banded Iron, LED sign, moving image, sound, mild steel, installation view, These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature, The University of Queensland Art Museum, 2025 (Detail). Courtesy of the Artists. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

Metabolic Scales: Online Reading Group

29 May 2025 12:30pm1:30pm
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.

Performance: Alicia Frankovich 'Feather Star' 2025 | BLOCK PARTY performance

1 March 2025 3:00pm3:45pm
A choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich, a part of 'These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature'.
Uncovering manuscript collections in the Fryer Library teaching space. Photo by Andrew Yeo.

Fryer Library Talk: The Hidden Library

1 March 2025 2:00pm2:15pm
Learn about UQ's Fryer Library at an exclusive public opening as part of the UQ St Lucia Museums BLOCK PARTY
'These Entanglements' Artists Talks

'These Entanglements' Artists Talks

1 March 2025 1:30pm2:30pm
Join us to hear from These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature artists, Alicia Frankovich, Norton Fredericks, Caitlin Franzmann and UQ Art Museum curator Kyle Weise.
A close up of a larger work which features the silhouette of a plant. On the left you can see the bottom half of a leaf and as you follow the branch to the right you can see the shape of five diamond seed pods grouped together like petals on a flower.

Entangled Kin: Cyanotype Workshop with Norton Fredericks

1 March 2025 11:00am1:00pm
Join artist Norton Fredericks for a cyanotype workshop.

Tour: 'Wondrous Machines' at RD Milns Antiquities Museum

1 March 2025 11:00am2:30pm
Join the RD Milns Antiquities Museum for a free guided tour of the 'Wondrous Machines' exhibition.

Weaving Cultural Stories: Weaving Workshop with Ranu James at UQ Anthropology Musuem

1 March 2025 11:00am12:30pm
In conjunction with 'Stories through time: Living cultures, enduring connections', The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum presents a special workshop with cultural arts practitioner Ranu James during the UQ Arts BLOCK PARTY Saturday March 1, from 11am to 12.30pm.
BLOCK PARTY

BLOCK PARTY

1 March 2025 10:00am4:00pm
Explore some of UQ St Lucia's Museums for a FREE day community, art, workshops, performances, tours, learning, heritage, food and more!
Alicia Frankovich 'Rich in World, Poor in World' 2023

Performance: Alicia Frankovich 'Feather Star' 2025

28 February 2025 1:00pm1:45pm
A choreographic commission by Alicia Frankovich, a part of 'These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature'.
Visitors walking towards the UQ Art Museum

Museum Crawl 2025

18 February 2025 10:00am21 February 2025 4:00pm
Kickstart your O-Week. Discover UQ’s Museum experiences across the St Lucia campus!
Hoda Afshar Untitled #14, from the series In turn 2023 © Hoda Afshar, image courtesy the artist

Beyond Islandness: Experiments in Writing Relationally

27 November 2024 10:00am1:00pm
A public symposium and workshop for writers and thinkers exploring the concept of “islandness” and relational approaches to histories of art and visual culture. 

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.
Image credit: film still from Lani (2023). Courtesy DEMONS LAND.

Stolen Songline: Lani's Lament | A lecture and film screening with Honorary Professor Henrietta Marrie AM

17 October 2024 5:30pm8:00pm
Join us to hear from internationally regarded researcher and Yidinji Elder, the Honorary Professor Henrietta Marrie (UQ), as she shares the story of Lani Mulgrave Blair (1883-1900). Lani’s story traverses major themes in our shared history: stolen children, frontier wars, colonial displacement, and assimilation policies. He exists beyond his moment and reminds us of the crucial importance of historical enquiry and memory-making.

Dusk Of Nations: In Conversation with Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams

26 September 2024 5:30pm8:00pm
Join Curator Kyle Weise in conversation with Dusk of Nations artists Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams.
Left: Portait of Samuel Wagan Watson, courtesy of the Artist. Right: Ellen van Neervan, Photo by Anna Jacobson.

Samuel Wagan Watson in conversation with Ellen van Neerven: Celebrating the First Nations Classics series

19 September 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Join leading writers Samuel Wagan Watson and Ellen van Neerven for a conversation about Samuel’s 2004 volume of poetry 'Smoke Encrypted Whispers'.

Artist Talk: Remote Artist Award winner Colina Wymarra

10 September 2024 6:00pm7:00pm
Join artist Colina Wymarra in conversation with Peta Rake to discuss Wymarra's practice of storytelling through connection to Country in her multidisciplinary body of work.
Image: Courtesy of the artist

Seasonal Bloodlines: Artist Showcase by Colina Wymarra at The Atrium, UQ Brisbane City

9 September 2024 12:00pm16 September 2024 12:00pm
Explore ‘Remote Artist Award’ Winner Colina Wymarra artist showcase at The Atrium, UQ Brisbane City, from the 9th – 16th of September 2024.
William Yang, Life lines #21 -- William at Thornborough (2006) 2006/2009. Inkjet print on paper, edition 2/30. Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2010.

William Yang's Closet: UQ in the 1960s

30 August 2024 5:30pm6:30pm
As part of Wear it Purple Day 2024, join us for a conversation with renowned queer artist William Yang as he discusses the journey through his ‘closet’ as a young adult in the 1960s at The University of Queensland.
A group of people looking at a gallery hang displaying queer Australian art

Dr Cassandra Byrnes: I, myself, in the Borderlands

30 August 2024 1:00pm2:00pm
For UQ Art Museum’s celebration of Wear it Purple Day, Dr Cassandra Byrnes (she/her) will lead an afternoon talk in the Alumni Friends of UQ Collection Study Room focusing on gender and queer subjectivities, examining recent queer histories in Australia through works by Luke Roberts and TextaQueen.
Artwork "Shamindan and Ramsiyar – Manus Island" by Artist Hoda Afshar in UQ Art Museum exhibition Hoda Afsar: A curve is a broken line

Panel Discussion: How Do We Bear Witness?

29 August 2024 5:30pm8:00pm
As part of Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line, join us for a discussion on the politics of image-making.
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.   
Image: Portrait of curator Ellie Buttrose (left) and artist Archie Moore (right). Photo by Rhett Hammerton, Brisbane 2024.

kith and kin: In Conversation with Archie Moore, Ellie Buttrose and Grace Lucas-Pennington

27 July 2024 4:30pm7:00pm
In celebration of this historic moment, please join Ellie Buttrose (Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art) in conversation with artist Archie Moore and Bundjalung editor and poet Grace Lucas-Pennington. Together, they will discuss Moore’s exhibition kith and kin and the unparalleled experiences that led them to Venice; of community, kinship, and the infinite relations that connect us all. 
Still from "Bandar Band", 2020, Color, 1:1.85, 5.1, 75 mins.

Film Night: Bandar Band

25 July 2024 6:00pm8:00pm
Join us for a screening of films running alongside Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line. The selected films have influenced Hoda Afshar’s artistic practice that often blurs the lines between documentary and fiction.  

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.
Artwork, "Untitled #18" by artist Hoda Afshar in UQ Art Museum exhibition Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line

Opening Saturday: Hoda Afshar in conversation with Isobel Parker Philip

20 July 2024 11:00am12:00pm
Join artist Hoda Afshar in conversation with curator Isobel Parker Philip on the opening weekend of Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line. 
Hoda Afshar Crease 2014, from the series In the exodus, I love you more 2014–ongoing © Hoda Afshar, image courtesy the artist.

Opening Night: 'Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line'

19 July 2024 6:00pm9:00pm
Join us to celebrate the launch of UQ Art Museum’s latest exhibitions, including 'Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line'.

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