Art Exhibitions at QUT Art Museum

Sidney Nolan: A Poetic Vision

5 June to 17 August 2008

Sidney Nolan is widely acknowledged as Australia's most inventive and influential artist of the twentieth century.

Craft Revolution

5 June to 13 July 2008

Craft Revolution explores the idea that craft is radical and revolutionary, through an exhibition and online discussion.

Spirit Figures

3 July to 27 July 2008

This exhibition celebrates NAIDOC Week (6-13 July 2008) which commemorates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Kumamoto Artpolis: Architecture Through Communication

3 July to 27 July 2008

An exhibition that highlights the progressive works of key architects responsible for the birth of modern Japanese architecture.

Free exhibitions at the Creative Industries Precinct (Kelvin Grove)

Big Square Eye
19 July to 3 August 2008
Open Tues to Sun: 11am-5pm

Big Square Eye is the world premiere of a massive multimedia artwork that delves into the mind's eye of young people from the suburbs of Brisbane and throughout regional Queensland.

Free exhibitions at the Creative Industries Precinct (Kelvin Grove)

Gina Czarnecki's Contagion
19 July to 3 August

QUT and Brisbane Festival 2008 present the world premiere of Contagion.

Award winning UK-based artist Gina Czarnecki uses a hybrid of film, video and computer-generated imagery to create her unique and intriguing works, which are often informed by social, economic and political realities.

Free exhibitions at the Creative Industries Precinct (Kelvin Grove)

Cherbourg Time: Young Black and Deadly Art
7 to 16 August 2008

Ratartat has been going to Cherbourg since 2003, working with the children of the Cherbourg State School, and its broader community, to make artworks that tell yarns about Cherbourg.

Eugene Carchesio Explores The Collection

21 August to 26 October 2008

While an artist reveals something of themselves in their own practice, it is interesting to discover what they respond to in the work of other artists. QUT invited prominent Brisbane artist Eugene Carchesio to delve into the QUT Art Collection and select works of art with which held some personal resonance for him.

Free exhibitions at the Creative Industries Precinct (Kelvin Grove)

The Wishing Well Exhibition: Cultural Change in Post-war Australia
3 to 20 September 2008

The transformation of our society through post-war immigration from Europe is a defining twentieth-century story in the development of the Australia we know today. This exhibition captures the mood of the times immersing the viewer in archival images and sound.

William Robinson Collection

Throughout 2008

Arguably Australia's greatest living landscape painter, William Robinson's visionary compositions of Queensland's verdant rainforest have changed the way we perceive landscape and reinvigorated Australia's distinguished landscape-painting tradition.

Under the Influence: Art and Music

11 September to 16 November 2008

Music has a ubiquitous presence in our daily lives. From cinema to supermarket soundtracks just the hint of a few familiar notes can be a conduit to another time and place, stirring emotions and memories.

Replant: A New Generation of Botanical Art

30 October 2008 to 18 January 2009

Replant straddles the boundaries between science and art.

Cross Section: The Documentary Photography of Charles Page

20 November 2008 to 1 February 2009

Stunning black and white images of Antarctica, war zones, street photography, steam trains and a unique exposé of prison life are brought together in CROSS SECTION: the documentary photography of Charles Page.