Registrations open 10am, Friday 28 August 2026. Everyone is welcome but space is limited—prompt registration is essential.
Join us for Essay Club 8 with Holly Eddington. Together we’ll discuss a section from Lucy Lippard’s book Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, a famous experimental publication—arranged as a chronological timeline filled with press releases, essays, interviews, and notes—that echoes the decentralised nature of the art it describes. Lippard described Six Years as more of ‘a curatorial project than a book’. Eddington will consider how Lippard might have approximated an expanded responsibility of the arts worker across several fronts including new modes of exhibition making, a redefined role of the arts writer, and a distinctly gendered form of cultural labour.
Eddington is an independent curator and writer, currently working at Milani Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. She specialises in experimental and off-site exhibition making. Recent curatorial projects include House of Dust, TCB Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne, 2026; A Narrow Strip Along a Steep Edge, Fort Lytton National Park, Meanjin/Brisbane, 2025; and Total Loss, Wreckers Art Space, Meanjin/Brisbane, 2026.
Join us for drinks and a chat. The essay will be emailed upon registration.
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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 arts 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), Amanda Bennetts (artist), Madeline Brewer (Institute of Modern Art), Elena Dias-Jayasinha (Queensland Art Gallery), Holly Eddington (Milani Gallery), Jocelyn Flynn (UQ Art Museum), Tay Haggarty (Outer Space), Llewellyn Millhouse (Wreckers Artspace), and Holly Riding (State Library of Queensland).
