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A free public gallery presenting a diverse range of contemporary art exhibitions

A free public gallery presenting a diverse range of exhibitions focusing attention on contemporary art practices and their historical contexts.

25/06/2026

Our donor board has a new look! Positioned right at the front entrance to Griffith University Art Museum, our donor board is a chance for us to publicly acknowledge the many generous donors that have supported us over the years.

As the end of financial year fast approaches, we hope you consider supporting us once again! Your donation directly supports the development, exhibition and care of artists and their works. All donations, big or small, make an impact.

To donate visit the link in our bio, or for a conversation about your support, bequest or donation of artwork via the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, contact our Acting Director Carrie McCarthy.

Donations of $50 or more are acknowledged in our Valued Donor’s program.

22/06/2026

FREE GUIDED TOURS!

Did you know that throughout the year our team run free exhibition tours?

Join us for a guided tour of ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ to learn more about the stories and research behind the exhibition, and delve into the artist’s life and key artworks.

Our first tour is this Thursday, 1pm with exhibition co-curator Carrie McCarthy!
Please RSVP via the link in our bio.

Image: Image: ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’, opening event, 4 June 2026, Griffith University Art Museum. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Faith Zbruk

19/06/2026

‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ includes several of the renowned photojournalist’s iconic war photographs, but also focuses on his work from the 1980s-2000s when Page returned regularly to the locations of his past assignments to highlight the people and places left victim to manmade disasters and emphasise the futility of war.

The images taken during this time are some of the most compelling and empathetic of Page’s career.

‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ is free to visit and on show Mon-Sat, 11am-4pm, until 1 August.

18/06/2026

New to our Moving Image & Sound Portal!

Accompanying the exhibition 'Tim Page: the very edge of the brightest light' and curated by our Acting Collections Manager Sharna Barker, '(re)collecting & (re)viewing moments' brings together four artists from the Griffith University Art Collection’s Moving Image and Sound Archive who address themes of war, peace, memory, and the aftermath through documentary and experimental approaches to film making.

Here the artists offer a compelling lens to perceive fragmentary and precarious experiences, and the navigation of power that shapes our perceptions of places and events. Each of the works highlight gaps and the unattainable through strategies that confront, disorientate, and play on the emotions and empathy of audiences.

List of Works/Image stills:
1. Barbara Campbell, 'Watching the Apocalypse', 1994, single channel video, 7mins. Griffith University Art Collection. Purchased with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, 1997

2. Jackie Farkas, 'The Illustrated Auschwitz', 1992, video, 12.16mins
Griffith University Art Collection. Purchased with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, 1997

3. Geoffrey Weary, 'the Eye of the Model', 1993-4, video, digital betacam, 6.4mins
Griffith University Art Collection. Gift of the artist, 1994

4. Paul Winkler, 'Neurosis', 1970, 16mm film/digital betacam, 9mins. Griffith University Art Collection. Purchased with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, 1997

15/06/2026

As Dr Miriam Deprez describes in her exhibition essay, the works in ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’, “challenge how we engage with the forever wars and genocides today”, highlighting that the practice of bearing witness is unfinished.

The image ‘Women Voting’, taken in 2009 in Herat, Afghanistan, invites consideration of the precarity of the right to vote, something easily taken for granted in the West.

Page writes, “In 2009 I was working for the United Nations in Afghanistan during the UN-sponsored elections which the Taliban tried to hijack by threatening retribution to anyone with purple dye on their finger – a sign that they had voted. Afghani women rallied their sisters and turned out in force.” T.P.

Image 1: 'Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light', installation view, Griffith University Art Museum, 2026. Photo: Carl Warner

Image 2: ‘Women Voting’, 2009, Herat, Afghanistan, digital print on Hahnemuhle paper. Image courtesy of the Estate of the artist

12/06/2026

Thanks to each and every one of you who supported Griffith University Art Museum this financial year!

Your generosity directly contributed to our success over the last 12 months, including our 50th anniversary exhibition Collecting the Future and award-winning city-wide takeover Craig & Karl: Double Vision, the first Queensland presentation of Aotearoa New Zealand designer Catherine Griffiths and, just last week, a huge double opening celebration for Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light and JP Willis: Love is in the air!

We've also worked with 6 amazing QCAD students through our credited Internship program; facilitated symposiums, workshops and public lectures; and recently introduced our new Pep Talks, where we invite some of QCAD's outstanding alumni to chat with current students and early career artists, to share their journey and offer advice for their professional development.

We couldn't do all this without your ongoing support!

As the end of the financial year approaches, we hope you consider supporting our work once again. All donations, big or small, make an impact. These are some of the ways your support contributes:
• $50 covers materials for an archival holder for an object in the Collection
• $300 supports an artist talk, like our new Pep Talks series
• $1000 provides vital funds for a 12-week student internship placement
• $5000 subsidises exhibitions and publications, allowing us to commission more artists and writers for inclusion in our program.
To donate visit the link in our bio, or for a conversation about your support, bequest or donation of artwork via the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, contact our Acting Director Carrie McCarthy.

Donations of $50 or more are acknowledged in our Valued Donor’s program.

Griffith University is endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a deductible gift recipient (DGR). Donations to Griffith of $2 or more may be tax deductible in Australia.

10/06/2026

What a celebration!

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us for last week’s double opening of ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ at GUAM and ‘JP Willis: Love is in the air’ at !

It was wonderful to welcome so many of you through these two very different but very timely exhibitions, and hear from past GUAM Director Simon Wright, who shared his memories of working with Tim Page OAM over many years.

Stay tuned for more information on some forthcoming public programming to be announced soon!

‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ is on at Griffith University Art Museum from 1 June-1 August 2026.

‘JP Willis: Love is in the air’ is at QCAD Galleries from 2 June-4 July 2026.

Images:
‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’, opening event, Griffith University Art Museum, 4 June 2026. Photos: Faith Zbruk

08/06/2026

Leonard Brown’s ‘(Brisbane Architecture)’ (1985); ‘Untitled’ (1986); ‘Learn to pronounce reality correctly’ (2008); and ‘The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide’ (2015) from the Griffith University Art Collection are currently on display in ‘Painting the celestial’ at Ipswich Art Gallery. The exhibition closes 14 June.

Curated by Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, ‘Painting the Celestial’ is the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Brown’s work to have been presented anywhere in Australia and traces the artist’s development for more than five decades, bringing together both his painted icons and abstract works to highlight his truly singular practice.
Leonard Brown was born in Brisbane in 1949 and has lived in Ipswich for the past 20 years. An alum of Griffith University’s Queensland College of Art & Design, he is considered of one of Australia’s most esteemed living artists.

IMAGES:
1. ‘Leonard Brown: Painting the Celestial’, installation view, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2026. Photo: Louis Lim
2. ‘Leonard Brown: Painting the Celestial’, opening event, Ipswich Art Gallery, 2026. Photo: Katie Bennett
3. Leonard Brown, ‘The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide’, 2015, oil on linen, 122 x 122cm. Photo: Carl Warner
4. Leonard Brown, ‘Brisbane Architecture’, 1985, oil stick on paper, 28 x 41cm. Photo: Carl Warner

05/06/2026

A big thank you to everyone who joined us last night for the opening event of ‘Tim Page: the very edge of the brightest light’! An extended thank you to our special guest Simon Wright for officially opening the exhibition and his heartfelt tribute to Tim Page.

In 2012, during Wright’s tenure as GUAM’s Director, Page donated a large portion of his archive to the Griffith University Art Collection to be used as an ongoing resource for students, staff and researchers. ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ comprises almost 70 works from this donation, as well as ephemera and objects on loan from Page’s long term partner Marianne Harris, to offer a new perspective on his oeuvre.

The exhibition captures just a glimpse of Page’s extensive practice which spanned over 50 years, highlighting Page’s instinctive understanding of the formal rules of photography as well as his commitment and continued advocacy for peace.

His images of rehabilitation centres seen in works as ‘ICRC Clinic, 1996’ demonstrates Page’s attention to war’s aftermath and – as described by Dr Mariam Deprez in her exhibition essay – “the slow labour of living with injury, displacement, and ongoing precarity.”

Image:
Tim Page, ICRC Clinic 1996, Battambang, Cambodia, C-type photograph. Griffith University Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by the artist, 2006. Image courtesy the estate of the artist.

“Meat Loeut, a mother of three who lost her leg in 1994, awaits a new prosthesis at the ICRC clinic in Battambang, western Cambodia.” T.P.

01/06/2026

NOW OPEN | ‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’.

‘Tim Page: The very edge of the brightest light’ comprises almost 70 works from the Griffith University Art Collection, as well as ephemera and objects on loan from Page’s estate, to offer a new perspective on his oeuvre.

Although regarded as one of the greatest war photographers of the 20th century, Page was a dedicated anti-war campaigner who used both his photography and writings to be a strong voice for peace.

Please join us for a special double opening night as we celebrate not only Tim Page OAM (1944-2022), but also his friend and collaborator JP Willis, whose exhibition ‘Love is in the air’ opens 2nd June in QCAD Gallery’s Webb Gallery.

We’ll be joined by special guest Simon Wright, Assistant Director, Learning and Public Engagement QAGOMA and past Director of GUAM, who will officially open the exhibition.

OPENING EVENT
When: Thursday 4 June, 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Where: Griffith University Art Museum, 226 Grey Street, South Bank QLD 4101
Cost: Free! RSVP:
https://events.humanitix.com/tim-page-the-very-edge-of-the-brightest-light

Images:
1/ Tim Page ‘Mafraq June’ 1967. C-type photograph, 50.8 x 76cm. Griffith University Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by the artist, 2006. Courtesy the estate of the artist.
2/ JP Willis ‘Flowers of Romance’ from the series ‘Flowers of Romance’. Image courtesy of the artist.

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