This week we farewell Dr Campbell Gray, who is retiring as our Director after an 11-year tenure leading the Art Museum, and following a career dedicated to art and education.

We have two exciting internship opportunities available for UQ Museum Studies and Art History students.

We’re thrilled to announce that our upcoming “Oceanic Thinking” exhibition has been certified carbon neutral by Climate Active.

If you visit the Art Museum you might notice some of the staff wearing badges. UQ student and Art Museum Mediator Nikia Tester shares more about why the badges are an important tool for our Visitor Engagement team.

Our new accessibility guides are created to help all visitors get the most out of their Art Museum visit.

UQ Museum Studies student and Education Assistant Shane Pace shares his experiences supporting staff and students in the Collection Study Room, and how the Visual Thinking Strategies pedagogy can support student learning.

UQ Art History student and Kinnane Endowment Intern Adam Ford provides the first in a series of updates about our sustainability strategy and our progress towards carbon neutral certification.

Chloe Marston is working with the UQ Art Museum registrars to learn all aspects of their work and develop her skills as she prepares to join the industry.

Jacquie Chlanda has joined UQ Art Museum as our Education Manager, joining us from Griffith University where she taught art theory at the Queensland College of Art, and worked as the Manager of the new Creative Arts Research Institute. Before moving to Brisbane to do her PhD at UQ, Jacquie worked at the National Gallery of Australia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, and Australian Painting and Sculpture.

Curatorial Assistant Isabella Baker has been working with academic staff in Biological Sciences to teach visual thinking strategies to histology students. 

UQ Art Museum staff are sharing our cultural mediation practice with regional galleries in partnership with Museums and Galleries New South Wales. This post about a visit to Townsville was written by UQ Art Museum Mediator and UQ Student Raluca Ghebosu.

This small-scale wall relief by Simon Denny refers to global operations, entangled supply chains, and the changing relationship between humans and machines.

After completing a Kinnane Curatorial Internship at UQ Art Museum in February this year, Zali Matthews has joined the curatorial team again for a short while to assist with our latest exhibition, "Don’t Be Evil".

UQ Art Museum staff are sharing our cultural mediation practice with regional galleries in partnership with Museums and Galleries New South Wales. This post about a visit to Goulburn was written by UQ Art Museum Kinnane Endowment Intern Adam Ford.

UQ Art Museum Curator Anna Briers discusses our upcoming exhibition "Don't Be Evil".

This year’s NAIDOC Week theme, Heal Country, highlights the deep and ongoing connections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country, and argues for urgent “significant and lasting change”.

Digital Intimacies #7 now invites abstracts and ideas for sessions for an upcoming symposium. We welcome papers across disciplines and approaches that explore the entanglements between our intimate experiences, feelings, affects, bodies and digital media and technologies.

Bell’s installation is inspired by the first Aboriginal Tent Embassy that was pitched on the grounds of Canberra’s Parliament House in 1972.

Jenna Muir is studying a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History at UQ and is the 2021 Paula and Tony Kinnane Endowment Fund Curatorial Intern.

Hookey's work highlights the significance of Dundalli, an Aboriginal resistance fighter of the 1800s, presenting him in a pop-culture lens of heroes and villains. His defiance against the colony ultimately resulted in his public hanging in Brisbane in 1855.