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.
For Senior Curator and Acting Director, Peta Rake, this freedom offered the Museum an opportunity to think outside the box. She tells ArtsHub: ‘I was thinking firstly what it may mean to transition to a carbon neutral museum. And, at the same time, also thinking very much about the oceans and how we might look at how they were moving through this period and how we might best represent them.’
