Join us at the IMA for Essay Club 3. with Jocelyn Flynn. Together, we’ll discuss ‘Harvests: Great Ocean Curatorial Practice’, a chapter in Léuli Eshrāghi’s 2022 book Indigenous Aesthetics and Knowledges for Great Ocean Renaissances. This text reckons with colonial language and suggests frameworks for sovereignty in curatorial practice.

Flynn will discuss the influence of Eshrāghi’s text on her work as a curator at UQ Art Museum. We will ask: How does the text relate to curatorship in a Meanjin/Brisbane context? How do structures and values of European knowledge influence Queensland art spaces? And how can Indigenous futures be secured and strengthened by curatorial practice? After reflecting on the text, Flynn will discuss her career pathway.

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Reading group, meets salon, meets networking drinks. Join us at the IMA for Essay Club. Whether you’re a university student, emerging arts worker, artist, or someone who thinks critically about culture, there’s space at the table. Each session, our well-read friends from the neighbourhood will select a text that’s shaping their ideas, conversations, and approaches to contemporary art practice. We dig into the ideas together, with a focus on how global conversations might translate locally.

Essay Club hosts for 2026 include Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer (Institute of Modern Art), Holly Anderson (artist), Madeline Brewer (Institute of Modern Art), Elena Dias-Jayasinha (Museum of Brisbane), Holly Eddington (Milani Gallery), Jocelyn Flynn (UQ Art Museum), Tay Haggarty (Outer Space), Llewellyn Millhouse (Wreckers Artspace), and Holly Riding (State Library of Queensland).