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Big Smart: curated reading list by Nicholas Currie

First Nations artist Nicholas Currie (Mulunjali and Kuku Yalanji) has guest curated Incinerator Gallery's current exhibition Big Smart, showing from 12 April–8 June 2025. Nicholas has also curated an exclusive reading list of titles available through Moonee Valley Libraries, which explores the diverse modes of pedagogy within, and from the understandings of, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Nicholas says his reading list is “curated from a personal love for these pieces of literature. The through line of the texts are that they have been pivotal to my understanding of contemporary Indigenous art and perspective.”

Nicholas Currie portrait Photography by Kyle Archie Knight (Crop)
Nicholas Currie. Photography by Kyle Archie Knight.

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#FlashbackFriday ⏳ A group reading session going on at a ball in Essendon in 1916. It seems that Essendon regularly held balls, usually thrown by the Mayor or Mayoress or by Citizens or Bachelors. A reading party is our kind of party though! 🤓📖🥳

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#FlashbackFriday ⏳ Mayor Eddy of Essendon. Upon rescinding his mayorship in 1909 he was farewelled from office by a "galaxy of beauty and brave men"; an evening that extended until 4am and was marred only by an unspecified "inappopriate tune" played by the pianist. 🎹🤔

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