Art Walking Tour: First Nations Art on Campus

Join UQ Art Museum during NAIDOC Week 2025 for an art walking tour exploring some of the incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks in the UQ Art Collection.  

Hosted by UQ students from the UQ Art Museum team, this tour will explore this year’s NAIDOC Week (6 - 13 July) theme The Next Generation: Strength, Generation and Legacy, which champions honouring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture and resilience.  

You will visit and learn about artworks located across four locations on the St Lucia campus. All artworks are by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, including Brian Robinson, Michael Nelson Jagamara and Joanne Currie Nulingu. The tour will involve light to moderate walking, with portable stools and wheelchair accessible routes available throughout.  

Tours run for approximately 70 minutes. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visitors are advised that tour discussions and artworks may contain names of people who are deceased. In these circumstances families of the artists have granted permission for these works to be displayed and discussed at UQ St Lucia. 

Location 

Meet us on the lawn outside UQ Art Museum (11), in front of the window commission by Lockhart River artist Rosella Namok, Old Girls Yarning into the Night (2024). 

Accessibility

The route is wheelchair accessible, and stools are provided. If you have any questions regarding the tour or would prefer more information please contact us at artmuseum@uq.edu.au or 0457 276 954. 

The tour was developed by UQ Art Museum interns, just one of the many incredible projects they've been able to work on thanks to the support of Blaklash, the Ashby Utting Foundation, and an endowment to UQ Art Museum from Paula and Tony Kinnane.