Our Projects

Continuing our collaboration with contemporary artist Birrunga Wiradyuri, MMOA recently hosted a group of First Nations artists under a Cultural Creative Development Program. This arts-business project, working in conjunction with the Wayne Weaver Foundation, was supported by the Queensland Community Fund, (now called Queensland Gives).

Both Wayne Weaver and Birrunga have stressed the significance of telling and interpreting the stories within Gil Jamieson’s work. Both Birrunga and Wayne have a particular interest in Jamieson’s depictions of where he walked and worked within the aftermath where attempts were made to erase the First Nations people and their stories from the same landscape in which Gil lived.

With some renovation of the MMOA building, funded by the Queensland Gambling Community Benefit Fund, the museum will reopen in March 2024. In tandem with the on-going care and curation of the Jamieson Collection, MMOA intends to program exhibitions of other artists and other works, both historical and contemporary.