EXHIBITIONS 

2025
PICA - In Her Footsteps 7 February - 30 March 2025 Perth Festival
DAADA - Collective Grief 17 May - 19 July 2025

2024
City of Bayswater Art Awards (2023) Finalist
ArtSource - A Resting Mess. 15 -25 August 2024 10 Nights In Port - Fremantle
City of Melville Arts Awards (2024) Finalist

2023
City of Bayswater Art Awards (2023) Finalist
City of Stirling Art Awards (2023) Finalist 
City of Melville Arts Awards (2023) Finalist
City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award (2023) Open Award 
ROOKARI X CURTIN BFA COLLAB – One Five Zero (15th September) 
ArtSource - Little While, Curtin Graduate Collective (29-31 August) 
The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquire - Yapang Emerging Art Prize (2023) Finalist 
Kent Street Gallery - Human/Nature, Group Show (July 2023) 
Fremantle Arts Centre (Revealed 2023) 
Curtin University — 30x30 Fundraising Exhibition (May 2023) 
Curtin University — Under Pressure Graduate Print Collective (May 2023) 
Print Association WA — Contemporary Print Awards (2023) 
City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award — Finalist & Highly Commended

2022
Award, First Nations Art Category (2022) 
City of Bayswater Art Awards (2022) Finalist 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Curator – Revealed 2025

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

December 2024 – July 2025

- Curating the 2025 Revealed Exhibition at PICA, overseeing layout, artwork display, and the digital catalogue. Liaising with artists and art centres, issuing contracts, coordinating artwork delivery, and preparing works for installation. Managing catalogue content, design, and approvals. Organising the Opening Weekend, including artist previews, workshops, performances, and talks. Collaborating with AACHWA and PICA on public programs, educational resources, and event logistics while consulting key stakeholders on cultural considerations.

Curator – Noongar Residency Curator 2024 & 2025

Goolugatup | Heathcote

October 2024 – Present

- Curating the 2025 Revealed Exhibition at PICA, overseeing layout, artwork display, and the digital catalogue. Liaising with artists and art centres, issuing contracts, coordinating artwork delivery, and preparing works for installation. Managing catalogue content, design, and approvals. Organising the Opening Weekend, including artist previews, workshops, performances, and talks. Collaborating with AACHWA and PICA on public programs, educational resources, and event logistics while consulting key stakeholders on cultural considerations.

Artist & Creative Producer

Community Arts Network

October 2023 – Present

- Collaborated with CAN Creative Producer Natalie Scholtz and the City of Melville to facilitate Cultural Mapping workshops for the City of Melville Placenames Project). These workshops involved the Noongar community creating artworks in response to 16 decoded Place Names through sketching, clay-making, stamping, mapping, and recording oral stories.

- Creative Producer for the City of Bayswater Place Names Project July – December 2024

Assistant Curator of Indigenous Art

Art Gallery of WA

March 2022 – July 2024

- Support the Curator | Head of Indigenous Engagement to deliver internal State Art Collection acquisition targets and goals by researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and cultural material as directed.

- Assists with the management of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in the State Art Collection through research, cataloguing, interpretation, publication and display.

- Participates in the delivery of the Gallery’s annual exhibition and display program and implements designated projects that provide access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection locally and nationally.

Curatorial Assistant

Wesfarmers Arts

November 2021 – March 2022

- Assist the Wesfarmers Arts curator and executive team in completing programming and engaging the community for internal programs, such as NAIDOC Week and Reconciliation Week.

- Work on electronic and paper databases, updating artist files and records, artwork records, and labels.

- Assist the Wesfarmers executive team in rolling out First Nations programs and engagement.

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMING: All that Country Holds

Kimberley Aboriginal Art & Culture Alliance

Australian Embacy, Washington D.C

October 2025 – April 2026

Working with ten artists from Kira Kiro Artists, Mangkaja Arts, Mowanjum Arts, Waringarri Arts, Warlayirti Artists and Warmun Arts, to bring Kimberley artists to the international stage. Whilst honouring the diverse mediums and stories from these communities to question the identity of Aboriginal Art.

The Neighbour at the Gate

National Art School, Sydney

11 July – 18 October

Curated by Clothilde Bullen with Micheal Do and Zali Morgan, The Neighbour at the Gate explores colonisation, race, and identity between First Nations and Asian Australian communities. Featuring Dennis Golding, Jenna Lee, James Tylor, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, James Nguyen, and Jacky Cheng, the exhibition presents new and existing works examining cultural intersections and resistance. A National Art School project supported by the NSW Government’s Blockbusters Funding, it includes a publication, education framework, and public program.

 It’s Always Been Always

Fremantle Arts Centre

2 May – 3 August

It’s Always Been Always centres the voices of Blak women, celebrating their powerful connections to Country, Community, and Culture. Featuring works by Wendy Hubert (Yindjibarndi – Julwarlu Art Group), Harriette Bryant (Pitjantjatjara – Mimili Maku), Kaylene Whiskey (Yankunytjatjara – Iwantja Arts), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri and Irish), Yabini Kickett (Bibulmun/Noongar), and Amanda Bell (Badimia and Yued Noongar). This show amplifies the vital roles of Blak women as custodians, connectors, and community leaders. Through their art, these women share stories of resilience, kinship, and the unique ways they sustain and nurture their relationships with land, family, and identity.

Boola Moorditj Boordiya

Gallery 25, Edith Cowan University, Perth

June 2024 – August 2024

Boola Moorditj Boordiya (Many Strong Leaders) honours Noongar elders, leaders and ancestors who have been pivotal in shaping Noongar art into what it is today. Drawing from the ECU Art Collection, the exhibition is Gallery 25 and Kurongkurl Katitjin’s key program for the 2024 NAIDOC week, Keep The Fire Burning Blak, Loud and Proud.

N'yettin-ngal Wagur - Yeye Wongie

John Curtin Gallery

10 May – 7 July 2024

Curated and commissioned four Noongar artists – Brett Nannup, Lea Taylor, Tyrown Waigana, and Amanda Bell, to respond to the Herbert Mayer Collection of Carrolup Artwork through new and experimental ways and liaised with JCG’s key staff for the exhibition. In addition, secure additional funding through Wesfarmers Arts for artist fees and programming.

For Our Elders

City of Joondalup Collection

26 June – 29 July 2023

Designed and curated an exhibition drawing from the City of Joondalup collection at the Joondalup Library. Featuring WA Aboriginal artists, the exhibition was critical to The City’s NAIDOC programming. The exhibition's location allowed new audiences to experience Aboriginal art in a comfortable place they were familiar with.

Boodjar: Through the works of Meeyakba Shane Pickett

Art Gallery of Western Australia

11 March – 30 July 2023

Curated a small exhibition of Meeyakba Shane Pickett’s works on paper from the State Art Collection, the estate, and the Mossenson Gallery collection. Featuring a poetic response alongside the works from Dr Charmaine Papertalk Green (Wajarri/Badimaya/Wilunyu). Liased with the family, gallery, and poet to pull together the exhibition, which inspired audiences to respond to art through poetry.