Wear it Purple Day 2024

Celebrate UQ’s Wear it Purple Day with activations at UQ Art Museum on Friday August 30th, 2024!

This year's WIPD theme is ‘Your Passion, Your Pride’ and celebrates LGBTQIA+ people openly and visibly achieving their dreams in sport, science and more. On this day, UQ Art Museum is celebrating all day with activities on the Art Museum lawn and special activations in the UQ Art Museum. We’ll be hosting talks, artwork displays, creative activities and stalls that celebrate our diverse LGBTQIA+ community.

Past sessions

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 5:30pm–6:30pm

in Wear it Purple Day 2024

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 1:00pm–2:00pm

in Wear it Purple Day 2024

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.