2017 Daphne Mayo Lecture
29th September, 5:30 - 7:30pm
UQ Art Museum
‘Arms on the Brain’: Virtual Reality and a New Era of Storytelling and Immersion Angela…
Public Forum: Ecstasy: Art, Literature, Religion, History
16th September, 9:00am - 1:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Public Forum: Ecstasy: Art, Literature, Religion, History 8:30 am – 1:00 pm Saturday 16 September…
Benjamin Crowley: Other People
20th September, 7:00 - 8:00pm
Metro Arts
Other People is a 30 minute single channel video by Benjamin Crowley consisting of appropriated…
In conversation: Artist-in-Residence
11th August, 5:30 - 6:00pm
Museum of Brisbane
We invite you to join Elysha Rei, Tess Maunder and Museum of Brisbane Director Renai…
Where To From Here? Panel Discussion
22nd August, 1:00 - 3:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Thinking about a career in the visual arts? Join SoFA for their annual discussion with…
Round Robin – Curating and Writing Indigenous Art
23rd August, 6:00 - 7:30pm
UQ Art Museum
Round Robin – Curating and Writing Indigenous Art: Tokenism, Pluralism and other Perspectives. How have…
The Politics of Art in the Public Realm
8th August, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Wandering Cooks
In a democratic society, should everyone get along? The third and final lecture in a…
CoUNTess in Conversation: Naomi Blacklock & Courtney Pedersen
10th August, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
CoUNTess has been presenting data on gender representation in the Australian contemporary visual arts sector…
Public Lecture: Austen in the Age of Trump
27th July, 6:00 - 7:30pm
University Drive
Spencer Jackson Postdoctoral Research Fellow UQ Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of…
Artist Talk: Masato Takasaka
6th June, 11:30am
Griffith University Art Gallery
For ten years, artist and musician Masato Takasaka’s unique art practice has been propelled by…
Artist Talk + Honey Tasting
17th June, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Spiro Grace Art Rooms
Spiro | Grace Art Rooms will host a honey tasting and artist talk with Franz…
The Artist as Facilitator
16th May, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Wandering Cooks
‘The Swiss Army Knife of Contemporary Art: The Artist as Facilitator’ The ‘Facilitator’ is curious…
Contemporary Curating: The Gig Economy
11th May, 6:15 - 8:15pm
QUT Art Museum
A public forum presented by NAVA, QCA Griffith University and QUT Art Museum, supported by…
In Colour, Lecture: Palettes and Periodicity
25th May, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
This is a talk about the relational qualities of colours. Colours as palettes—those marauding squads…
Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Chapter 2
3rd May, 5:30 - 8:00pm
Griffith University Art Gallery
Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art, Chapter 2 Launch. In conversation: Beth…
Presenting Maralinga: How are artists addressing nuclear history
26th April, 6:00 - 7:45pm
UQ Art Museum
Mumu Mike Williams’s protest paintings, which confront Australia’s devastating history of British nuclear testing at…
Panel Discussion: Emotional geography, memory and the personal
15th March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Join artists and academics Marian Drew and Ross Gibson, musician and academic Dolly MacKinnon and…
In Colour, debate
9th March, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Institute of Modern Art
Our 2017 lecture series In Colour looks at the often-neglected topic of colour in contemporary…
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
7th March, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Wandering Cooks
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The Value of Temporary Art in Public Space…
The Colours of Space and Time
23rd March, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Queensland Museum & Sciencentre
Perhaps the most famous Japanese work of art, Katsushika Hokusai’s landscape print ‘The Great Wave…
Directors Tour: Ebb Rains
25th March, 2:00 - 3:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
IMA Co-Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh will give a tour of our current exhibition,…
Memory as an Artistic Resource: Debra Phillips & Angela Goddard
11th March, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Griffith University Art Gallery
Sydney-based artist Debra Phillips’ practice focuses on how systems of knowledge influence our understanding of…
Portrait of an Artist with Fiona Foley
17th March, 6:30 - 7:30pm
State Library of Queensland
Come along for a fascinating evening with Queensland Indigenous contemporary artist Fiona Foley as part…
Artist Talk: Tapestry Design Prize for Architects
24th March, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Artisan
Artisan is hosting a series of architectural discussions in celebration of the 2016 Tapestry Design…
GOMA Talks: Guilty pleasure
9th March, 6:30 - 7:30pm
Gallery of Modern Art
The lively evening discussion program GOMA Talks returns during ‘Sugar Spin’ for a discussion on…
Painting as Unforgetting: Clare Milledge and Archie Moore
7th March, 5:30pm
Griffith University Art Gallery
Join artists Clare Milledge (Sydney) and Archie Moore (Brisbane) as they discuss their work in…
In-conversation with Janet Laurence
18th February, 2:00pm
QUT Art Museum
Janet Laurence is one of Australia’s most celebrated artists. Her evocative and lyrical works often…
IMA Talk, Dieter Roelstraete
13th December, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Turn! Turn! Turn! Reconsidering Art as Historiography In this lecture, co-presented with Monash University Museum…
American Artist - Nick Cave in Conversation
13th November, 2:00 - 3:00pm
GOMA, Cinema A
Join artist Nick Cave in conversation with Geraldine Barlow, Curatorial Manager, International Art, QAGOMA, in…
Reparative Aesthetics Launch
19th November, 3:00 - 4:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography (Bloomsbury 2016) is the latest book by Susan…
The Collector: Conal Coad
9th November, 6:00pm
Griffith Uni Art Gallery
Join renowned opera singer Conal Coad to hear insights into the art collection of him…
Subtropical Urbanity
14th October, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Living Edge
Presented by Architecture Australia in partnership with Living Edge, AA Roundtable is a free public…
George Gittoes: Blood Mystic Book Launch & Talk
22nd October, 2:00pm
GOMA Cinema A
Equal parts artist and warrior, George is famous for waging war on war with art,…
The Artist As Quarry - Tirdad Zolghadr
8th November, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Artists are always falling prey to something or other. Censorship, curators, bad lighting, jet lag,…
Walking And Listening In The Contemporary Art Gallery
2nd November, 6:00 - 7:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Ambling through the art gallery we are continually aware of our surrounds and by association…
Artist Talk: the churchie national emerging art prize
5th November, 2:00 - 3:00pm
QUT Art Museum
Join Brisbane-based artists and finalists from this year’s The churchie national emerging art prize as they…



































