Great Ocean Speaker Series | Place & Space: Public and Site-Specific Art with Jonathan Jones

Join artist Jonathan Jones for this public lecture on First Nations public and site-specific art in the second installment of the Great Ocean Speaker Series.

This Speaker Series responds to core teachings in Indigenous Art History in the Australia Pacific Region, inviting leading First Nations and Great Ocean artists and curators to campus to speak to diverse themes in contemporary practice.   

This Speaker Series has been developed in collaboration with Dominique Chen (Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Arts) as part of UQ Art Museum's ongoing work to engage artists, colleagues and students while the Museum relocates. Audiences are warmly invited to join students for these guest lectures, which will take place across campus in September and October 2026. 

12:30pm, Wednesday 16 September | Viewpoint Room (UQ Sport) (building 33)

Jonathan Jones is a Sydney-based artist and researcher of the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi Nations of southeast Australia. He works closely with community to create a range of projects that talk to both the historical and contemporary. His projects are grounded in research and work with local Aboriginal Elders and community members to tell local stories from the southeast region. Jonathan has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2019 he presented the curated exhibition Bunha-Bunhanga: Aboriginal Agriculture in the Southeast at Tarnanthi festival, Art Gallery of South Australia and Museum of Economic Botany. In early 2020 he created the site-specific ephemeral artwork untitled (maraong manaóuwi) at the Hyde Park Barracks, presented by Sydney Living Museums and Art & About Sydney. Jonathan received the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship in the field of visual arts in 2018. Jonathan is a researcher at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney. 

Image: Jonathan Jones. Photographer: Mark Pokorny