Exhibitions Open to the Public
Once Known
Opened for the first time at the Old Perth Boys’ School, Once Known, presents a selection of meticulous reproductions of the delicate and treasured artworks created by Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families and detained at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s.
Mamang-miyel-ang Djinang / Seeing with the whale’s eye
An exhibition of illustrations from the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories mob from the South Coast of Western Australia
Fantastic Forms
A touring exhibition from the Bundanon Collection, in dialogue with new drawings, ceramics, sculptures and animation.
Dirt Feeling
Featuring ceramics works from the Curtin University Art Collection
Everyday, Myths and Legends
An exhibition of works from the Curtin University Art Collection that explore everyday mythmaking.
Kattidj Nagãr [Peaceful Quiet Reflection]
Kattidj Nagãr features artworks and personal objects created by the children who were forcibly removed from their families and detained at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s
Upcoming Events
Twilight Hours at JCG
Open until 7pm, visit us for a twilight viewing at JCG
Dirt Feeling Curator Tour
Join us for a Curator Tour with ‘Dirt Feeling’ Curator, Lia McKnight
Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories: Lunchtime Storytelling Sessions
Join us for a Wirlomin Noongar Lunchtime Storytelling Session
Everyday Myths and Legends Curator Tour
Join us for a Curator Tour with ‘Everyday Myths and Legends’ Curator, Susanna Castleden
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Twilight hours are back! 🌝
Starting this Thursday 16 October, explore our Kambarang exhibitions after dark as you embrace the joy of artmaking and its connection to everyday life.
Take advantage of free parking from 4:30pm or make it a date and enjoy local eateries @curtin_exchange! 🥨
📍 John Curtin Gallery — Free, open to public
🗓️ Kambarang Twilight Hours | 10am - 7pm:
Thursday 16 October
Thursday 30 October
Thursday 27 November
📷 - Marnie Richardson
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt
@curtinbfagrads @curtinalumni @perthartweekend @curtinlifeaustralia
🔎 Artist in focus: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
Currently living on Bindjareb Nyungar country Abdul-Rahman Abdullah works primarily in sculpture and installation, exploring the intersections of identity, culture and the natural world. 🌎
Featured in Everyday, Myths and Legends, Abdul-Rahman’s Everything Is True (2012) is a monument to the idealised perceptions of childhood.
Exalting fact with the fervour of faith, this work celebrates the aspirations of a boyhood spent in the company of giant lizards, action figures and the endless hunt through lost civilisations. 🦎
Particularly through his sense of identity and cultural context, Abdul-Rahman’s work enacts intersectional understandings of shared worlds, exploring ideas of mythology, intercultural identity, diaspora, regional experiences and spirituality. ✨
Everything Is True was created by Abdul-Rahman in 2012 and exhibited in his graduation show that year. @curtinalumni
🔗 See Abdul-Rahman’s work up close at Everyday, Myths and Legends - Link in bio!
📷 - @marine__richardson
All works in Dirt Feeling and EML are courtesy of the Curtin University Art Collection. This exhibition is made possible through the support of The Navigators.
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionOpening
Thanks for joining us! 🥂
Our Kambarang exhibitions are now in full swing, Fantastic Forms, Dirt Feeling and Everyday, Myths and Legends embrace the joy of artmaking and its connection to everyday life.
Don`t worry, if you missed our opening event, all three exhibitions will be on display until December 7!
📷 - @marnie__richardson
🗓️ October 3 - December 7 | Mon to Fri 10am - 5pm and Sun 12pm - 4pm
📍 John Curtin Gallery: Free, open to public
🔗 More information via link in bio!
Fantastic Forms is a Bundanon touring exhibition. This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
All works in Dirt Feeling and EML are courtesy of the Curtin University Art Collection. This exhibition is made possible through the support of The Navigators.
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionOpening
@lia_mcknight @susannacastleden @bundanontrust @curtinalumni @curtinbfagrads
🎨 Dirt Feeling Curator Tour
🗓️ Friday, October 17 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm
📍 John Curtin Gallery — Free, open to public
🔗 Registration required: Link in bio!
Discover the sensual, tactile world of clay in Dirt Feeling with curator Lia McKnight, as she shares insights into the exhibition’s themes, collection highlights, and the enduring significance of ceramics in art and culture.
Don’t miss this opportunity to experience Dirt Feeling more deeply and hear directly from its curator.
@lia_mcknight @perthartweekend @australianceramicstriennale
📸 Photo by Marnie Richardson
#JohnCurtinGallery #CuratorTour #FantasticForms #PerthArt #GalleryEvent
✨ Open now ✨
Fantastic Forms, Dirt Feeling and Everyday, Myths and Legends!
➡️ All three exhibitions are open until December 7.
Explore John Curtin Gallery this Kambarang season and embrace the joy of artmaking and its connection to everyday life.
🗓️ October 3 - December 7 | Mon to Fri 10am - 5pm and Sun 12pm - 4pm
📍 John Curtin Gallery: Free, open to public
🔗 More information via link in bio!
Fantastic Forms is a Bundanon touring exhibition. This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
All works in Dirt Feeling and EML are courtesy of the Curtin University Art Collection. This exhibition is made possible through the support of The Navigators.
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionOpening
@lia_mcknight @susannacastleden @bundanon_trust @curtinalumni @curtinbfagrads @perthartweekend @australianceramicstriennial
🎨 Fantastic Forms Curator Tour!
Don’t miss this chance to dive deeper into Fantastic Forms and hear directly from one of its curators.
🗓️ Friday, October 3 | 2:00pm – 3:00pm
📍John Curtin Gallery: Free, open to public
🔗 Registration required: Link in bio!
Colourful, swaying forms — join us for an exciting curator tour with Sophie O’Brien (Head of Curatorial and Learning at Bundanon, and co-curator of Fantastic Forms) as she shares insights into the exhibition’s vision, selection and storytelling.
@australianceramicstriennale @curtinbfagrads @bundanontrust
Fantastic Forms is a Bundanon touring exhibition. This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
Photo: Zan Wimberley.
#JohnCurtinGallery #CuratorTour #FantasticForms #PerthArt #GalleryEvent
Join us this Thursday October 2 for the opening night of three new exhibitions! 🙌
🎨 Fantastic Forms: A celebration of endless imagination (on tour from @bundanontrust).
🎨 Dirt Feeling: Exploring the sensual qualities of clay with works by 70+ artists (curated by @lia_mcknight ).
🎨 Everyday, Myths and Legends: @curtinalumni share stories from real and imagined worlds (curated by @susannacastleden ).
📅 Thursday October 2
🕕 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Free event, open to the public
📍 John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University
✨Join us for an evening of art, ideas and celebration, we’d love to see you there!
🔗 Link in bio to RSVP / event details
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt#ExhibitionOpening
Open from October 3 ✨ Embrace the joy of artmaking and its connection to everyday life with three new exhibitions.
🎨 Fantastic Forms, Dirt Feeling & Everyday, Myths and Legends.
✨ Fantastic Forms — a celebration of endless imagination (on tour from @bundanontrust).
✨ Dirt Feeling — attune to the sensual qulaities of clay with a showcase of over 70 artists (curated by @lia_mcknight).
✨ Everyday, Myths and Legends — Curtin alumni exposé into stories, experiences, and insights into imagined and real worlds. (curated by @susannacastleden).
🔗 Link in bio!
Fantastic Froms is a Bundanon touring exhibition. This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
All works in Dirt Feeling and EML are courtesy of the Curtin University Art Collection. This exhibition is made possible through the support of The Navigators.
@curtinalumni @curtinlifeaustralia @curtinbfagrads
#JohnCurtinGallery #PerthArt #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionOpening
We want you 🫵 to come see us 139 St Georges Terrace!
Not only is it Perth`s oldest educational landmark (Old Perth Boys` School), it`s currently home to Once Known, a Carrolup Centre for Truth-telling exhibition presented by the John Curtin Gallery!
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see the extraordinary reproductions of the fragile artworks created by children forcibly taken from their families and detained at the Carrolup Native Settlement in the 1940s.
⏰ Open 11am - 4pm. Closed Wednesdays and Weekends.
🎟️ Free entry, open to the public.
📷 - Marnie Richardson.
Proudly supported by: @bfplperth @lotterywest @inside_bhp @colgateuniversity and #navigators
The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork was generously donated for educational and research purposes by Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA.
#BridgingNowtoNext #OnceKnown #NAIDOC #OldPerthBoysSchool #exhibition #StolenGeneration #Carrolup #CarrolupCentreForTruthTelling #CarrolupCentre #CarrolupArt #FirstNations #AboriginalArt #Noongar #Nyungar #Indigenous #Aboriginal #Heritage #Identity #Belonging #Colonisation #CurtinUniversity #WesternAustralia #JohnCurtinGallery #ColgateUniversity #alwayswasalwayswillbe
That`s a wrap! 👏
Our production and collection teams have been hard at work deinstalling our Makuru exhibitions, Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency and James Tylor - Turrangka...in the shadows.
While we`re sad to see them go, we can`t wait to bring our next set of exhibitions to you on October 3. 👀
🔗 - Find out what`s coming via the link in our bio.
Thanks to @jamesptylor and @nationalgalleryaus for making Makuru at JCG special!
#NanGoldin #ArtAcrossAustralia #art #photography #firstnationsart #JamesTylor #Turrangkaintheshadows #johncurtingallery #photoraphy #curtinuniversity
Let`s take a final scroll through Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency ➡️
A gift to her community, made up of everything from artists and musicians, to actors and filmmakers, Goldin`s images were originally shown as slideshows in underground clubs, arranged into themes and performed with a soundtrack. 🪩
This ever-shifting, ever-evolving visual diary of her life would coalesce in time into The ballad of sexual dependency.
In 1985, the slideshow was shown at the Whitney Biennial and the following year the Aperture Foundation published The ballad as a photobook comprised of a selection of 126 images from the 700 or so that made up the slideshow. The National Gallery acquired the last set in the edition in October 2021 from Goldin’s personal collection.
Intensely saturated, glossy, almost impossibly seductive, the prints pulsate as the projected slides had, as if lit within. Goldin doesn’t see very well and perceives the world in hazy blocks of colour. Her use of blurry focus and veils of colour pull us in.
It’s as if the emotion has bled across the surface of the image. 📸
"It’s about trying to feel what another person is feeling. There’s a glass wall between people, and I want to break it." - Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency leaves John Curtin Gallery on Sunday September 14! 😢
🔗 Find out more via the link in our bio.
Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.
@nationalgalleryaus @curtinuniversity @curtinlifeaustralia @perthcentreforphotography
#NanGoldin #ArtAcrossAustralia #art #photography #johncurtingallery #curtinuniversity
Leaving this Sunday 14 September! 🤯
There`s less than one week left to see some truly amazing photography from Nan Goldin and James Tylor.
Come and celebrate the end of a successful Makuru season with us, and explore an expansive catalogue of images from Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency and James Tylor - Turrangka...in the shadows.
If you`ve already seen these exhibitions, let us know what you think down below ... or come and see them again 👀
The gallery will be closed from Monday 15 September to allow for the installation of our upcoming exhibitions on 2 October.
📷 - Ezra Alcantra
#NanGoldin #ArtAcrossAustralia #art #photography #firstnationsart #JamesTylor #Turrangkaintheshadows #johncurtingallery #photoraphy #curtinuniversity
Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.
James Tylor – Turrangka...In the shadows is a UNSW Galleries exhibition. This exhibition is made possible through the support of Lotterywest, Lendlease and The Navigators.
@jamesptylor @unswgalleries @nationalgalleryaus @curtinuniversity @curtinlifeaustralia @curtinbfagrads
Locations
John Curtin Gallery Curtin University
Building 200A Curtin University, Kent Street
Bentley, Western Australia 6102
Phone: 08 9266 4155
Open Mon to Fri 10:00 – 5:00pm and Sun 12:00 – 4:00pm
Once Known – A Carrolup Centre for Truth-telling exhibition
Presented at the Old Perth Boys’ School
Curtin 139 St Georges Terrace,
Perth, Western Australia 6000
11:00am – 4:00pm
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (closed Wednesdays and Weekends)
