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QUT Galleries + Museums encompasses the university’s three premier cultural facilities: Old Government House Museum, QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery. QUT Art Museum
One of Queensland’s premier visual art institutions, QUT Art Museum presents a diverse program of contemporary art exhibitions, as well as free public and education programs. Find out more: https://www.artmuseum.qut.edu

.au/

William Robinson Gallery
The William Robinson Gallery presents annual exhibitions on the work of this distinguished contemporary Australian artist and QUT alumnus. Find out more: https://www.wrgallery.qut.edu.au/

Old Government House
Once the colonial hub of Brisbane, where laws and deals were made, grand balls were held, and royalty stayed. Find out more: https://www.ogh.qut.edu.au

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✨ Public Forum | rhythm wRites ✨Join us for a public forum with influential First Nations artists and thinkers as part o...
08/06/2026

✨ Public Forum | rhythm wRites ✨

Join us for a public forum with influential First Nations artists and thinkers as part of 'Leah King‑Smith: rhythm wRites' on Friday 24 July at QUT Art Museum.

We’re proud to celebrate Dr Bianca Beetson AM, recognised today in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours, who will be in conversation with Dr Leah King‑Smith exploring how images reclaim and reshape Indigenous narratives.

📍 In person + online

🥗 Light lunch provided

👉 Register via link in bio

💻 Explore the full program on our website

🤗 All welcome!

Image: Dr Bianca Beetson. Photo: QUT.

[Image description: A headshot of a woman with long dark brown wavy hair smiling in a museum collection storage space.]

✨ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – LOOKOUT @ QUT Art Museum ✨LOOKOUT celebrates the research and creative projects of QUT student...
07/06/2026

✨ CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – LOOKOUT @ QUT Art Museum ✨

LOOKOUT celebrates the research and creative projects of QUT students—and applications are now open!

🎨 Artwork

🔬 Research projects

🧵 Design objects

💡 Or any creative work connected to your studies

Selected projects will be featured in the QUT Art Museum window box facing B Block, a unique space within the Gardens Point campus—visible to the public 24/7. Both completed works and conceptual proposals are welcome.

🌬️ Current featured work: 'Becoming: Accumulated gestures' by PhD Candidate, School of Creative Arts, Sharka Bosakova on now until 12 July.

A luminous documentation of a sustained, meditative encounter with rain, wind, and movement—where the body composes through observation and presence rather than control.

💍 Coming Soon

In the coming weeks, a selection of jewellery spanning 20 years by Sharka Bosakova—exploring materials from silver to natural and degradable forms, and processes from anvil to 3D technologies—will be available to purchase in our retail spaces at QUT Art Museum and Old Government House.

📣 Don’t miss your chance—apply to LOOKOUT and share your work with the wider community. Check out our website for application details and more info!

Image: Sharka BOSAKOVA Becoming: Accumulated gestures (detail) 2025 textile, acrylic, rainwater, wind, lightbox, mirror. Courtesy of the artist.

[Image description: A textile artwork with silver tones and darker gestural marks suspended above a lightbox with a mirror positioned beneath.]

“Rageful, desireful, artful, sorrowful, hauntful. A blaze of a book.” – Michelle de Kretser🔥 Join us for Texta, our art-...
04/06/2026

“Rageful, desireful, artful, sorrowful, hauntful. A blaze of a book.” – Michelle de Kretser

🔥 Join us for Texta, our art-driven book club, as we dive into The Rot by Evelyn Araluen—an unflinching, poetic reckoning with love, loss, and the chaos of our time. Raw, restless and unrelenting, this is a book that refuses to look away.
Presented alongside 'Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites', this edition explores how literature and art hold space for resistance, grief, and imagining other worlds.

💗About Texta
Not your average book club. Texta is for art lovers—using fiction to unpack the ideas, emotions and provocations of contemporary art. Expect rich, lively conversation led by Engagement Coordinator Renae Belton and University Librarian Nicole Clark.

📍 QUT Art Museum
📅 Tuesday 16 June
⏰ 4:30–6PM
🎟 Free (registrations via Humanitix)

All welcome.

The QUT Art Museum is temporarily closed as we prepare to unveil rhythm wRites, an immersive new exhibition led by Bigam...
03/06/2026

The QUT Art Museum is temporarily closed as we prepare to unveil rhythm wRites, an immersive new exhibition led by Bigambul artist Leah King-Smith and a new hang in our Collection Galleries.

Opening Tuesday 9 June, rhythm wRites explores rhythm, interconnection, spatiality and sound through a decolonising lens. The exhibition features powerful collaborative works with leading First Nations artists, musicians and writers — Robert Andrew (Yawuru), Nici Cumpston (Barkindji), Keely Eggmolesse (Gubbi Gubbi/Gooreng Gooreng) and Ellen van Neerven (Mununjali Yugambeh).

Across the galleries, audio‑visual installations weave together First Nations experiences, histories and intergenerational connections, creating a space that moves, listens and remembers.

📅 Leah King-Smith: rhythm wRites opens Tuesday 9 June
📍 QUT Art Museum
🖼 Collection Galleries opens 16 June

Image: Leah KING-SMITH, Shards #3 (2024), photographic and AI‑generated digital image. Courtesy of the artist.

[Image description: A three‑tiered 19th‑century petticoat fans outward, overlaid with blurred curved lines in golden yellow and cream tones.]

🧐COLLECTION FEATURE🧐In 'Eisen triptych 4', Natalya Hughes draws on imagery from the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, which trans...
31/05/2026

🧐COLLECTION FEATURE🧐

In 'Eisen triptych 4', Natalya Hughes draws on imagery from the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, which translates to "pictures of the floating world". Originating in the seventeenth century, these works often depicted courtesans, actors and scenes from Kabuki theatre. In 'Eisent triptych 4', Hughes has incorporated sections from two prints by ukiyo-o artist Keisai Eisen (1790-1848). Hughes’ process involves scanning and digitally manipulating her chosen images to create a blueprint for her canvas. The exposed parts of the female body are removed, leaving only their ornate costumes which hold the shape of the figure but now appear to be floating.

The removal of the figurative form draws viewers' attention to these absent women, and to the bodily folds and forms created solely by the fabric. Hughes’ restructured images invite us to reflect on the absent bodies and to imagine and rebuild their vanishing forms. In this way, the viewer plays a role in reinstating the presence of the lost figures in the painting.

Explore this image in person in the Z9 level 3 Foyer, at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus today.

Image: Natalya HUGHES Eisen Triptych 4 (detail) 2005, oil on canvas. QUT Art Collection. Purchased through the Betty Quelhurst Fund, 2006.

[Image description: A painted triptych (a set of three canvases) depicting three forms composed of richly patterned Japanese fabrics, floating against a soft green background.]

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for us to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and...
26/05/2026

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for us to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and explore how each of us can contribute to reconciliation in Australia.

At QUT Galleries and Museums we are committed to fostering reconciliation between non-Indigenous Australians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through embedding First Nations culture and perspectives into our programming.

Join us in acknowledging National Reconciliation Week 2026 and for the final days of 'Deep Surface' the first career survey of Los Angeles–based Australian artist and Palawa woman, Jemima Wyman.

The theme for National Reconciliation Week 2026 is All In, a call for all Australians to commit wholeheartedly to reconciliation every single day. From supporting our First Nations artists and storytellers, businesses, creatives and organisations to commiting to positive change and education not only this week, but every day of the year.

QUT Galleries and Museums will proudly tour 'Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface' to Tarntanya/Adelaide 26 June-18 September 2026 and to Gadigal/Sydney 22 January-25 April 2027. Don't miss these additional opportunities to see this exceptional survey of contemporary practice.

Image: Jemima Wyman. Photo: Louis Lim.

[Image description: A woman stands with her arms crossed looking directly ahead. Behind her is an art installation covering the height of the gallery wall with recurring patterns in blues, greens and whites.]

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface - This project has been assisted by the Nelson Meers Foundation, and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

21/05/2026

Final days!

🌸COLLECTION FEATURE🌸 Tracey Moffatt is a prolific and internationally celebrated artist, born in Magandjin/Brisbane. Wor...
17/05/2026

🌸COLLECTION FEATURE🌸

Tracey Moffatt is a prolific and internationally celebrated artist, born in Magandjin/Brisbane. Working across photography and film, her photographic work often has a strong narrative and filmic quality to it. In her Suburban Landscapes series, she presents 6 inconspicuous, black and white photographs of locations throughout suburban Brisbane, visually disrupted via oversized, emotionally charged text. The bright crayon lettering suggests a deeply personal, yet familiar set of memories tied to place.



Image: Tracey MOFFATT Suburban Landscape No. 1. Tossed Flower Petals 2013. digital print, hand coloured in water crayon. 81 x 99 cm. QUT Art Collection. Purchased 2015.

[Image description: A black and white print of a surburban street, overlaid with large brightly coloured capital letters spelling out, 'Tossed flower petals'.]

Let’s Talk About… William Robinson and the Environment 🌏🎨How can art help us rethink our relationship with the natural w...
10/05/2026

Let’s Talk About… William Robinson and the Environment 🌏🎨

How can art help us rethink our relationship with the natural world?

Join us for a thought‑provoking panel featuring The Hon. Justice Brian J Preston AO FRSN SC, Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW, and Dr Ayesha Tulloch, QUT Future Fellow and conservation decision scientist. Together, they’ll explore how art, storytelling and a sense of place can shape new ways of responding to the biodiversity and climate crises we face today.

🗓 Friday 29 May 2026
⏰ 12–1pm
📍 William Robinson Gallery, Old Government House
🎙 Moderated by Vanessa Van Ooyen, Director, QUT Galleries and Museums

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition 'William Robinson: Reflections'.

🔗 Bookings via link in bio

Image: William ROBINSON Tallanbanna with cloud front (detail) 2005, oil on canvas. QUT Art Collection. Gift of the artist under the Cultural Gifts Program, 2005.

[Image description: A glimmering creek bed in a rainforest surrounded by trees and a view out to the horizon of a bright blue sky with clouds.]

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