Community

Beginning with the sunrise, Murmurations asks us to step outside our rhythms and into the temporalities of birds. Meeting the dawn chorus, we begin with an early morning “birdwatching” walk (with the offering to draw, listen, and commune with the birds on Yuggera and Turrbal Country).

During this workshop long term artistic collaborators Dominique Chen, Caitlin Franzmann and Libby Harward will lead a gentle, plant-oriented walk on Country at UQ St Lucia, responding to the histories of plants, clearing and planting at this site and opening space for conversation, attention and care. Participants will be invited into reflective observation and material, occasionally culinary, encounters with the plant life on campus.

Led by long-term collaborators Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Lleah Smith, Salty Dog follows salt through bodies, landscapes, memories and acts of disruption. Inspired by Bronwyn’s encounter with the mangroves at UQ St Lucia in 2023, the workshop explores salt as material, method and metaphor.

Dust of these domains (2023-ongoing) is a participatory walking and making workshop led by artist Bianca Hester. Developed from Hester’s reading-walking work, the workshop will explore the environmental and social forces embedded within the grounds of The University of Queensland St Lucia, on Yuggera and Turrbal Country.

Join us and hear from Quandamooka artist Elisa Jane Carmichael, Gunditjmara artist Dr Vicki Couzens, Gurindji/Malngin artist Leah Leaman, Gamilaraay/Wailwan and Biripi artist r e a and led by Pakana Curator Dr Zoe Rimmer for the first in a series of public conversations highlighting the embodiment, activation and renewed presence of First Nations languages.

Join Curator Kyle Weise in conversation with Dusk of Nations artists Fiona Foley, Archie Moore and Keemon Williams.

Get to know the museums on campus this Connect Week on a self-guided trail.