Mel O’Callaghan, Centre of the Centre 2019, digital still, courtesy the artist and Kronenberg Mais Wright, Sydney; Galerie Allen, Paris; Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon

A major exhibition by Paris-based Australian artist Mel O’Callaghan, will open at UQ Art Museum on 22 February 2020.

20 December 2019
By dating the sediment rather than the fossils themselves, the archaeologists could pinpoint the fossils' age.

Ninety years after Dutch geologists excavated human fossils in central Java, scientists finally have pinpointed the fossils' age at around 120,000 years.

19 December 2019
Commissions and projects by artists and collectives on the theme of ‘union’ will be presented at The University of Queensland Art Museum

A series of major exhibitions, commissions and projects by artists and collectives on the theme of ‘union’ will be presented at The University of Queensland Art Museum throughout 2020.

18 December 2019

A University of Queensland graduate and advocate for social justice has been named a 2020 Australia-at-large Rhodes Scholar.

17 December 2019

Being part of The University of Queensland’s successful mooting team was the first step towards a potential career at the bar for Arts/Law Valedictorian Mia Williams.

13 December 2019

The University of Queensland welcomes a new Associate Dean (Indigenous Engagement) next month – a first for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

4 December 2019

A four-part ABC Radio National series on the end of the Cold War will feature an international relations expert from The University of Queensland.

11 October 2019
Graphic image - a pair of hands holds a globe

A free online University of Queensland course aimed at community development workers has received a United Nations accolade.

10 October 2019
An initiative to reduce barriers for people with a disability travelling to and from The University of Queensland has been launched

An initiative to reduce barriers for people with a disability travelling to and from The University of Queensland has been launched by Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner Ben Gauntlett.

4 October 2019

The role of archaeology and museums in recording and interpreting the past during the British Mandate for Palestine is the subject of a new exhibition at The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum.

23 September 2019
Artist Elizabeth Willing with some of the wallpapers in the exhibition

A new University of Queensland Art Museum exhibition will explore how visual design, touch, taste and smell can shape our most poignant and powerful memories.

29 August 2019
(L-R) Filmmaker Mark Jones, curator Marion Vasseur Raluy, UQ palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury and artist Angelika Markul, surrounded by dinosaur tracks on Roebuck Bay. Credit: Damian Kelly.

An award-winning French video artist and sculptor has teamed up with a University of Queensland

21 August 2019
Orchestra on stage for previous performance of Eumeralla

Australia’s first major symphonic and choral work based on the resistance wars will make its way to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre as part of The University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor's Concert Series this October.

6 August 2019
Dark Learning 2015 (detail)

A mesmerising, seven-channel video installation by Western Australian artist Jacobus Capone will have its Queensland premiere at The University of Queensland Art Museum from 26 July.

18 July 2019
An informal settlement in India

Attempts to redevelop informal settlements with apartment buildings could cause more harm than good in developing regions, according to a University of Queensland PhD architecture student.

8 July 2019

Award-winning journalist and free speech advocate Peter Greste is set to feature in a “realistic and comedic dramatisation of the darker side of academia”.

4 July 2019

Contemporary fibre-based artwork highlighting deep spiritual connections to Country and materiality will feature in a new exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum opening on 26 July.

2 July 2019
Art work visible in reflection of windows at UQ Art Museum

Spanning 24 metres across The University of Queensland Art Museum’s glass façade, a striking new artwork by Elizabeth Willing has been unveiled today.

7 June 2019
Isabella Baker (left) and Emma McLean (right)

Behind-the-scenes art secrets will be revealed when The University of Queensland Art Museum launches Workshop.

21 May 2019
A Guidance Through Time

The wait to see the stunning triptych, A Guidance Through Time created by Quandamooka artists Casey Coolwell and Kyra Mancktelow for The University of Queensland Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is finally over after a series of unveiling events.

20 May 2019