Queer Readings of the QUT Art Collection

This pop-up exhibition presents a series of written responses to selected works from the QUT Art Collection. Multi-award-winning writers and QUT alumni—Jarad Bruinstroop, Rebecca Cheers, Anna Jacobson, and Rebecca Jessen—were invited to engage with artworks by artists Lincoln Austin, eX de Medici, Scott Redford, and Luke Roberts.

Drawing on their own lived experience and creative practice, each writer offers an interpretation that unveils new ways of both seeing and understanding the collection. These readings invite audiences to consider how diverse viewpoints can challenge, expand, and enrich our relationship with art and self.

Queer Readings

Artist Residency by Jarad Bruinstroop

Acanthus Variations by Rebecca Cheers

Solar System by Anna Jacobson

Two figures, emergent by Anna Jacobson

Paradise III by Rebecca Jessen

Queer Readings of the QUT Art Collection is presented by QUT Galleries and Museums and supported by the Equity and Diversity Grant Scheme, a pilot initiative to support projects that address equity and diversity whilst delivering substantial benefit to the QUT community. Thanks to QUT Pride Staff Network, QUT Ally Network, QUT Creative Writing, the artists and writers.

Image: Scott REDFORD Motorcycle emptiness I 2002, colour screenprint. QUT Art Collection. Purchased 2008.