Nice To Meet You: Freja Carmichael

Co-presented by Adelaide Contemporary Experimental and Guildhouse.

Hear from independent curator, Freja Carmichael – a Ngugi woman belonging to the people of Quandamooka, Moreton Bay.

Over the past decade she has worked alongside First Nations artists and communities as an independent curator on exhibitions, programming, collection research and writing. Freja’s work is focused on Indigenous fibre and weaving practices and creating sites of sharing and intercultural exchanges through collaborative curatorial approaches. Freja recently co-curated the National 4: Australian Art Now, Carriageworks (2023) and other curatorial projects have included national touring exhibition long water: fibre stories (2020-22), Institute of Modern Art, Weaving the Way (2019), The University of Queensland Art Museum and co-curator of The Commute, 2018, the Institute of Modern Art. Freja was an inaugural participant of the National Gallery of Australia’s Wesfarmers Indigenous Arts Leadership Program in 2010 and is a member of the Kluge- Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Advisory Council and Northsite Contemporary Art Gallery Board. Freja is currently a PhD candidate with The University of Queensland and works intergenerationally with her family on Quandamooka weaving practices.

We are happy to book an Auslan interpreter if needed – please reach out to grace@ace.gallery if you would like to make a request (two weeks notice required).

Feature Image: Freja Carmichael. Courtesy the artist.