Exhibitions
COMING SOON: IOTA24 Codes In Parallel
John Curtin Gallery
2 Aug - 29 Sep 2024
Artists and artisans from First Nations Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Western Australia, exhibit new installations of crafted works for IOTA24
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Events
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IOTA24 Codes in Parallel Artist Talks Day 1
John Curtin Gallery
2 Aug 2024 12:00pm-2:00pm
Please join us for Day 1 of artist talks and discussions as part of John Curtin Gallery's exhibition for IOTA24 Codes in Parallel
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IOTA24 Codes in Parallel Artist Talks Day 2
John Curtin Gallery
4 Aug 2024 1:30pm-4:00pm
Please join us for Day 2 artist talks and discussions as part of John Curtin Gallery's exhibition for IOTA24 Codes in Parallel
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Past Exhibitions
Postcards from Prison
John Curtin Gallery
17 May - 8 Jul 2024
Current and former incarcerated artists sharing their unique perspectives, emotions and talents through a diverse array of artworks.
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N’yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie [Ancestors breath – Today talk]
John Curtin Gallery
9 May - 8 Jul 2024
Four new commissions by early-career Noongar artists responding to The Carrolup Collection.
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The Strelley Mob
John Curtin Gallery
9 May - 8 Jul 2024
Animation and historical archive immerses us in Pilbara history and language.
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Around the Fire
John Curtin Gallery
19 Jun - 8 Jul 2024
Collections exhibition featuring seven works by First Nations artists, responding to the NAIDOC Week 2024 theme.
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Perth Festival 2024: Robert Fielding & Susan Flavell
John Curtin Gallery
9 Feb - 14 Apr 2024
John Curtin Gallery presents two exhibitions – one from Yankunytjatjara artist Robert Fielding and the other from Walyalup-based artist Susan Flavell.
![Robert Fielding, Graveyards In Between, 2017](https://www.curtin.edu.au/jcg/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/FieldingRobert_Graveyards.jpg)
Solar Power exhibition
John Curtin Gallery
9 Feb - 14 Apr 2024
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.
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John Stringer Prize 2023
John Curtin Gallery
3 Nov - 10 Dec 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).
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Regional Arts Triennial: Open Borders
John Curtin Gallery
11 Aug - 8 Oct 2023
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.
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A Decade of Carrolup
John Curtin Gallery
12 May - 9 Jul 2023
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 Nyungar Boodja in 2013.
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However vast the darkness…
John Curtin Gallery
10 Feb - 16 Apr 2023
In celebration of the John Curtin Gallery’s 25 year partnership with the Perth Festival, However vast the darkness… assembles a compelling group of works in deep reflection, as well as cogent protest, of the inequities suffered by peoples across the globe – many as a result of Empire building.
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Past Events
IOTA24 Codes in Parallel: Pangrok Sulap Printing Performance
Project Research Space
26 Jul 2024 2:30pm-4:00pm
Please join us at the Curtin Project Research Space for a woodcut printing performance with Malaysian collective Pangrok Sulap whose work is featured in IOTA24 Codes in Parallel.
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NAIDOC Week 2024: Curtin Library Public Art Tour
TL Robertson Curtin Library
11 Jul 2024 1:00pm-2:00pm
Curtin Library Public Art Tour focusing on First Nations artists for NAIDOC 2024.
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NAIDOC Week 2024: Story feeds the fire of art making – Talk with Rose Murray
John Curtin Gallery
8 Jul 2024 12:30pm-2:00pm
NAIDOC Week Talk with Rose Murray
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NAIDOC Week 2024: N’yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie [Ancestors breath – Today talk] Curator and Artists in Conversation
John Curtin Gallery
7 Jul 2024 12:30pm-2:00pm
N'yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie Curator Zali Morgan and artists in conversation.
![Curator Zali Morgan at John Curtin Gallery speaking to an audience.](https://www.curtin.edu.au/jcg/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EZ88324.jpg)
NAIDOC Week 2024: What are we worth now? (Panel Discussion)
John Curtin Gallery
5 Jul 2024 12:30pm-2:00pm
Panel Discussion with First Nations artists on post-referendum Australia.
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Lunchtime Lecture: Positivity, Power, Education and Art
John Curtin Gallery
29 May 2024 12:30pm-1:30pm
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Campus Public Art Tour with Mikaela Miller
John Curtin Gallery
28 May 2024 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Artist Talks – N’yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie [Ancestors Breath – Today Talk]
John Curtin Gallery
19 May 2024 12:30pm-2:30pm
![Curator Zali Morgan at John Curtin Gallery speaking to an audience.](https://www.curtin.edu.au/jcg/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EZ88324.jpg)
JCG Djeran Season — Exhibitions Opening Night
8 May 2024 6:00pm-8:00pm
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EOTW (END OF THE WORLD) AUCTION
John Curtin Gallery
14 Apr 2024 12:00pm-4:00pm
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Art & Value – Giving and Taking (Yarning Session)
John Curtin Gallery
12 Apr 2024 12:30pm-1:30pm
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The Brush and the Bow – Australian Baroque
John Curtin Gallery
11 Apr 2024 7:00pm-9:00pm
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