Melissa Miles, Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow from Monash University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, will present the 2016 Mayne Centre Lecture at UQ Art Museum later this month. We caught up with Melissa to get a taste for this year’s lecture – the story of Ichiro Kagiyama – a Japanese photographer … Continue reading
Holly Williams is the curator behind Creative Accounting – a touring exhibition set to open at UQ Art Museum on 12 November. We caught up with Holly to find out more about this intriguing meeting of contemporary art, money, aesthetics and perceived value, as well as her thoughts on finding a way into the curatorial … Continue reading
Eric Meredith is the editor at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and of its magazine, Artonview. He studied art and cultural theory at Griffith University, graduating with honours, before undertaking postgraduate studies in writing, editing and publishing at UQ. He’s been a designer and had a brief stint as a media analyst while … Continue reading
Australian Richard Bell and American Emory Douglas each established significant careers independently before entering into their artistic partnership. Continue reading
Sharne Wolff graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History in 2014 having already achieved a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (Political Economy & Government) from the University of Sydney. Most recently, she has embarked on a Masters of Research in the area of art and cultural studies at … Continue reading
UQ Art Museum Director Dr Campbell Gray shares his personal insights into the most generous gift that the arts at UQ have ever received. To ‘leave the world a bit better’ was one of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s measures of a successful life. Paula and Tony Kinnane certainly achieved this. They lived near the UQ campus … Continue reading
Donna McColm completed a double major in Art History and Honours at UQ before undertaking a Master of Philosophy (Art History and Theory) with The University of Sydney some years later. She spent almost 14 years at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, where she worked in a range of public programming, … Continue reading
