Events and learning

Get to know some of the incredible artworks by First Nations artists that are displayed at UQ St Lucia.

This one-off live performance with Access Lab & Library shares the creative outcomes of a day-long workshop which brings participants together as a temporary, access focused collective to explore and experiment with the possibilities of inter-sensorial translation.

This workshop is for artists, arts workers, students, researchers and anyone interested in contemporary disability thinking and practice.

This masterclass develops on concepts Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will share in her public lecture on Thursday the 4th of June.

This lecture traces a curatorial autobiography that is also an intellectual one.

Join UQ Art Museum and Brisbane Portrait Prize to explore the stories behind fashionably dressed bodies in portraiture.

Beyond compliance level accommodations, access thinking signals a mode of relationality and a critical field of practice in contemporary art.

Come with Wet Feet, Leave with Wet Hair is the third in a series of multi-day gatherings convened around contemporary art and cultural work, First Nations knowledges and multi-disciplinary critical climate thinking.

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.