Within the concrete and glass walls of architect Robin Gibson’s original Mayne Hall, Wilson Architects designed a dramatic timber-clad insertion.

Completed in 2005, it provides display space for Queensland’s second largest art collection and Australia’s first National Self Portrait Collection: The James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre.

The project realises the intentions of many of the university’s early masterplans to have an Art Gallery in a prominent location on campus.

Mayne Hall opened in 1973 and was named in recognition of the generosity of donors Dr James O’Neil Mayne and his sister Miss Mary Emelia Mayne.

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