Gallery of works


Members of Sandpit in the Sandstone attended the opening of the UQ Anthropology Museum’s latest exhibition: Anthropocene: Linking past and present to shape a better future.
Feb 20th – Dec 15, 2023
Senior Registrar & Museum Operations Coordinator Jane Willcock with Sandpit in the Sandstone team member, Dr Toni McPherson.  Paintings by Nora Walytjaka Holland.
Pic: P.Holliday
HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability Computational Skills Summer School, Gagidal Country/Sydney 7-8th Feb, 2023  
UQ researchers, Isabella Pearce and Dr Penny Holliday pic: ARDC / Renee Nowytarger 
ARDC Data Architect & Knowledge Graph Specialist, Dr Nicholas Car provided an overview of building a data system incorporating FAIR and CARE principles to the Sandpit in the Sandstone Working Party and collection managers, on Monday 20th February at UQ, St Lucia.
Pic: ARDC Anthony McKee.
Benjamin Graham and Cammie Westerman of UQ HASS Student Future at the BlakMarket
17 November, 2022
Opening of “Camps, Cottages and Homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland” exhibition at the Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland
8th August 2022.  
Pic: P.Holliday. 
The University of Queensland
Pic: P. Holliday 2022
Pic: S. Phillips 2022
Anthropocene: Linking past and present to shape a better future
Dragnet. Makers unrecorded. C: 1950
Palm Island, Cape York Region, Queensland.
Cane, plant fibre string, ochre
Model wooden and shell canoe. Makers unrecorded. Early 20th century
Wood, chambered nautilus shell, nutt putty
Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Island
Model wooden canoe c: 1991
Wood, paint, coconut leaf, Fiji
Pic: P. Holliday
The Sandpit team recently connected with UoM ARDC team networks in Melbourne and Sydney.
The inaugural symposium for the ARDC HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability was in Melbourne/Naarm on 2nd and 3rd of February 2023.
Dr Kristen Smith and Levi-Craig Murray. ARDC HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability, the University of Melbourne/Naarm, Feb 2023 pic: ARDC / Anthony McKee
Panel Discussion at Blak Market Event, Path to truth telling and healing. Hosted by Associate Professor Sandra Phillips with Dr Dylan Lino and Mr Eddie Synot.
17th November 2022
Dr David Pyle, Lecturer and Digital Initiatives Manager, QUT
Site Visit to ScanCave, QUT
October 13, 2022
Pic: P. Holliday. 
Opening of “Camps, Cottages and Homes: A brief history of Indigenous housing in Queensland” exhibition at the Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland
8th August 2022.  
Pic: P.Holliday. 
Bringing Data to life Symposium Powerhouse Museum. Meanjin Brisbane,
4th September 2022
Pic: ARDC/Marc Grimwade
Anthropocene: Linking past and present to shape a better future
Dunghutti Country Elder Uncle James ‘Gurri’ Dungay playing a gumleaf.
UQ Anthropology Museum. Pic: P. Holliday
Ms Sandra Silcot, ARDC HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability.
The University of Melbourne/Naarm,
Feb 2023 pic: ARDC / Anthony McKee
BlakMarket Event. St Lucia. Panel discussion. Path to truth telling and healing.
17th November 2022
Indigenous Knowledge Centre Network and State Library of QLD Staff Visit.
October 13th 2022
Pic: Fryer Library.
ARDC Information Symposium, led by Assoc. Professor Phillips, UQ,
27th May 2022
Pic: P. Holliday. 
Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland
Site visit, August 29, 2022
Pic: P. Holliday