{"id":1015,"date":"2023-12-08T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s43415.p183.sites.pressdns.com\/?page_id=1015"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:22:44","slug":"past-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions-2\/past-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Exhibitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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\n \n Fantastic Forms\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

3 Oct – 7 Dec 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

A touring exhibition from the Bundanon Collection, in dialogue with new drawings, ceramics, sculptures and animation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Dirt Feeling\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

3 Oct – 7 Dec 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

Featuring ceramics works from the Curtin University Art Collection<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Everyday, Myths and Legends\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

3 Oct – 7 Dec 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

An exhibition of works from the Curtin University Art Collection that explore everyday mythmaking. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Mamang-miyel-ang Djinang \/\u00a0Seeing with the whale\u2019s eye\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

4 Jul – 31 Oct 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

An exhibition of illustrations from the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories mob from the South Coast of Western Australia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Nan Goldin: The ballad of sexual dependency\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

4 Jul – 14 Sep 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

This ground-breaking series of 126 brilliant colour photographs is touring to JCG exclusively within Western Australia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n James Tylor: Turrangka… in the shadows\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

4 Jul – 14 Sep 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

Kaurna artist James Tylor bridges historical and contemporary photographic process, sculpture and found objects as a language of intervention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Bridging to Next: Truth and Reclamation Exhibition\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

26 May – 6 Jun 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Alice Guiness: Burndud Ground\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

7 Feb – 17 Apr 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

A Perth Festival and Juluwarlu Art Group Commission featuring new works by Elder and senior artist Alice Guiness. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Mai Nguy\u1ec5n-Long: Doba Nation\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

7 Feb – 17 Apr 2025<\/p> <\/div>\n

Created for Perth Festival 2025, Mai Nguy\u1ec5n-Long’s large-scale installation Doba Nation features hand-formed clay sculptures that are arranged by the artist on site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Aida Tomescu: in the midst of happening\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

25 Oct – 15 Dec 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Paintings, drawings and prints by Aida Tomescu spanning the period 1987 \u2013 2015, as well as photographs and other ephemera representing the artist\u2019s studio practice. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n John Stringer Prize 10 Year Retrospective\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

25 Oct – 15 Dec 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

The John Stringer Prize celebrates 10 years in 2024 with a retrospective exhibition of past winners of the prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Brett Whiteley: Inside the Studio\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

25 Oct – 15 Dec 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

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 \u2018artist\u2019s world\u2019 through the art and life of one of the most admired and intensely creative figures of twentieth century Australia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n IOTA24 Codes in Parallel\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

2 Aug – 29 Sep 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Artists and artisans from First Nations Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Western Australia, exhibit new installations of crafted works for IOTA24<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Around the Fire\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

19 Jun – 8 Jul 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Featuring seven works by First Nations artists work from the Curtin University Art collection which responded to the NAIDOC Week 2024 theme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Postcards from Prison\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

17 May – 8 Jul 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Current and former incarcerated artists sharing their unique perspectives, emotions and talents through a diverse array of artworks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n N\u2019yettin-ngal Wagur – Yeye Wongie [Ancestors breath – Today talk]\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

9 May – 8 Jul 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Four new commissions by early-career Noongar artists responding to The Carrolup Collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n The Strelley Mob\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

9 May – 8 Jul 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Animation and historical archive tells stories of the Strelley Mob and the significance of the 1946 Pilbara Strike. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Solar Power\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

9 Feb – 14 Apr 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Robert Fielding: Kinara pulka irnyani palyanu. Tjintungku kampara utinu.\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

9 Feb – 14 Apr 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Revealing a complex, intertwined relationship with the spirit of the land through photography, print and video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Susan Flavell: Horn of the Moon – 13 Goddesses\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

9 Feb – 14 Apr 2024<\/p> <\/div>\n

Delving into realms of myth, objects, nature, and animals, Susan Flavell invites viewers to contemplate the mystical and otherworldly. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n John Stringer Prize 2023\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

3 Nov – 10 Dec 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

The John Stringer Prize was inaugurated by The Collectors Club in 2015 in celebration of the memory of one of Australia\u2019s most acclaimed art curators, the late John Stringer (1937\u20132007). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Little Treasures\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

3 Nov – 10 Dec 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

This exhibition favoured small objects from the Curtin University Art Collection to interrogate the concept of treasure. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Regional Arts Triennial: Open Borders\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

11 Aug – 8 Oct 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n A Decade of Carrolup\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

12 May – 9 Jul 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

In this exhibition we celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the landmark repatriation of the Carrolup child artist\u2019s drawings in The Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork from Colgate University, New York to Noongar Boodja in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n OCCURRENT AFFAIR\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

10 Feb – 16 Apr 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

A major exhibition featuring works by Meanjin\/Brisbane-established Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW. Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Aziz Hazara: Bow Echo\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

10 Feb – 16 Apr 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

A powerful work that speaks with searing simplicity of the ongoing horror that Afghanistan\u2019s population continues to endure. Presented as part of Perth Festival 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

10 Feb – 16 Apr 2023<\/p> <\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n John Stringer Prize 2022\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

7 Oct – 4 Dec 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

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3 Jun – 28 Aug 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Energaia: imagining energy futures\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

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28 Mar – 8 May 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Carrolup Coolingah Wirn: The Spirit of Carrolup Children\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

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11 Feb – 22 Dec 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

11 Feb – 8 May 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n

Presented as part of Perth Festival 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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\n \n Julie Dowling: Yagu Gurlbarl (Open Secret)\n <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

<\/svg><\/span>John Curtin Gallery<\/p>

11 Feb – 20 Mar 2022<\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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