Past Exhibitions
2026
A call and response across the ocean
Part of Perth Festival 2026, witness redefined histories through story, scent and song.
Our World in Photos
Bardi Jawi children aged 8-15 present their curation of Our World in Photos, produced through immersive, on-Country photovoice workshops in the very remote West Australian community of Ardyaloon. Their photographic stories explore what well-being means to them, through their own voices and vision, shaped by kinship, culture, Country and daily life.
2025
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.
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
Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency
This ground-breaking series of 126 brilliant colour photographs is touring to JCG exclusively within Western Australia.
James Tylor: Turrangka… in the shadows
Kaurna artist James Tylor bridges historical and contemporary photographic process, sculpture and found objects as a language of intervention.
Bridging to Next: Truth and Reclamation Exhibition
Third-year Curtin University Fine Art students have been invited to showcase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artist works within the Curtin University Art Collection that reflect this year’s Reconciliation theme, Bridging Now to Next
Alice Guiness: Burndud Ground
A Perth Festival and Juluwarlu Art Group Commission featuring new works by Elder and senior artist Alice Guiness.
Mai Nguyễn-Long: Doba Nation
Created for Perth Festival 2025, Mai Nguyễn-Long’s large-scale installation Doba Nation features hand-formed clay sculptures that are arranged by the artist on site.
2024
Aida Tomescu: in the midst of happening
Paintings, drawings and prints by Aida Tomescu spanning the period 1987 – 2015, as well as photographs and other ephemera representing the artist’s studio practice.
John Stringer Prize 10 Year Retrospective
The John Stringer Prize celebrates 10 years in 2024 with a retrospective exhibition of past winners of the prize.
Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio
Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio, on tour at John Curtin Gallery from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, offers a rare and intimate insight into the ‘artist’s world’ through the art and life of one of the most admired and intensely creative figures of twentieth century Australia
IOTA24 Codes in Parallel
Artists and artisans from First Nations Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Western Australia, exhibit new installations of crafted works for IOTA24
Around the Fire
Featuring seven works by First Nations artists work from the Curtin University Art collection which responded to the NAIDOC Week 2024 theme.
Postcards from Prison
Current and former incarcerated artists sharing their unique perspectives, emotions and talents through a diverse array of artworks.
N’yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie [Ancestors breath – Today talk]
Four new commissions by early-career Noongar artists responding to The Carrolup Collection.
The Strelley Mob
Animation and historical archive tells stories of the Strelley Mob and the significance of the 1946 Pilbara Strike.
Solar Power
This selection of works from the Collection observe solar phenomena, use light as a driver for artistic creation and consider that our relationship to this fiery cosmic object must be taken seriously, especially given the human causes of climate change here on Earth.
Robert Fielding: Kinara pulka irnyani palyanu. Tjintungku kampara utinu.
Revealing a complex, intertwined relationship with the spirit of the land through photography, print and video.
Susan Flavell: Horn of the Moon – 13 Goddesses
Delving into realms of myth, objects, nature, and animals, Susan Flavell invites viewers to contemplate the mystical and otherworldly.
2023
John Stringer Prize 2023
The John Stringer Prize was inaugurated by The Collectors Club in 2015 in celebration of the memory of one of Australia’s most acclaimed art curators, the late John Stringer (1937–2007).
Little Treasures
This exhibition favoured small objects from the Curtin University Art Collection to interrogate the concept of treasure.
Regional Arts Triennial: Open Borders
Since 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the presence of borders, and the fact that they can be closed and opened, has had innumerable impacts on our physical and psychological lives.
A Decade of Carrolup
In this exhibition we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the landmark repatriation of the Carrolup child artist’s drawings in The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork from Colgate University, New York to Noongar Boodja in 2013.
OCCURRENT AFFAIR
A major exhibition featuring works by Meanjin/Brisbane-established Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW. Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023.
Aziz Hazara: Bow Echo
A powerful work that speaks with searing simplicity of the ongoing horror that Afghanistan’s population continues to endure. Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023.
Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]
Weaving together visual, aural and performative forms of cultural representation from historical and contemporary sources, in Pursuit of Venus re-examines the European narrative of colonisation of the Pacific. Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023.
