The University of Queensland (UQ) Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Mare Amoris (Sea of Love) is the third in a larger series, defined as a thematic research arc, called Blue Assembly. The previous contributions in 2022, entitled Oceanic Thinking, were two separate exhibitions, one after the other across the year, representing different artists but with the same theme.
Directly reflecting on the watery spaces of our world, artists were asked to explore the perspectives of past and present while speculating on what a future lived in partnership with the oceans may look like. Mare Amoris takes a more personal and individual standpoint, examining our individual cultural links to the oceans by allowing artists to give voice, language and form to their unique sense of storytelling, memories and knowledge.
