Registrations open Friday 2 October 2026, 10am. Everyone is welcome but space is limited. Prompt registration is essential. 

Join us for Essay Club 9 with Holly Riding. We’ll discuss Sylvia Sadzinski’s article ‘Discomfort, Disruption, Disgust: Queer Feminist Curating and the Affective’, published in Gender<ed> Thoughts this year. Sadzinski considers how queer feminist curating operates through affect, emphasising discomfort, disruption, and disgust as politically productive forces.

Holly Riding is an exhibition designer and curator who navigates the interplay of exhibition design and spatial planning, inclusion and engagement. They have worked with Australian museums and received industry awards for their exhibitions. Together we’ll discuss the Sylvia Sadzinski’s analysis and Riding’s work.

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).