Welcome Reception for Katina Davidson
Join us for a reception on Thursday September 5th from 5-7pm to welcome Kluge-Ruhe’s 2024-25 First Nations Curatorial Fellow Katina Davidson!
Celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition Our Unbroken Line: The Griffiths Family
Light refreshments will be provided.
Katina Davidson is joining us for the 2024-25 academic year. Davidson (Kullilli/Yuggera) is Curator of Indigenous Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. During her residency, Davidson will be fully integrated into the life of Kluge-Ruhe and the University of Virginia. She will curate an exhibition for the museum’s main galleries that focuses on paintings by Spinifex People from Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia, produced between 2001-2021. Davidson’s residency is supported by Creative Australia.
Davidson said, “I am very excited and humbled to be able to live and work on the lands of the Monacan Nation while developing an exhibition of artworks by the Tjuntjuntara community. I truly look forward to this two-way learning opportunity where I have the privilege of being immersed in the Kluge-Ruhe collection, while advocating for an exchange of knowledge between our two continents, particularly our diverse First Nations communities.”
Read the full press release announcing Katina Davidson’s residency HERE.
Images:
- Jan Griffiths, History Beneath the Beauty, 57 x 76 cm, natural ochre and pigments on paper.
- Katina Davidson, photograph by C.Callistemon, QAGOMA