“Artist talk”
Nicholas Currie
13 July → 13 July 2024

Join artist Nicholas Currie as he discusses his new work in Stranger than fiction with his Dad, Rodney Currie.

Saturday 13 July, 1pm

Nicholas’ work across painting and installation explores themes of Indigeneity, emotional responses and community values.

For Stranger than fiction, Nicholas has created a door adorned with personal artefacts; a pair of thongs, a shirt, a cap, and a (lucky) horseshoe. Almost cartoon-like in the looseness of its creation and the precision of its wit, Spot the difference (door) is a reminder that our experience of the world is through the lens of our privilege.

Nicholas' family have embedded generational histories in Collingwood. He says, "my uncle was a student at Collingwood technical school, now Collingwood Yards, and from the window of West Space, you can see the flats my Nan, Dad, Aunty and Uncle lived in before moving to the Fitzroy flats. I don't want these histories to be forgotten."

Presented for NAIDOC Week 2024 and Bla(c)k Together Month — a small, independent collective celebrating collective Bla(c)kness localised here in Naarm/Melbourne.