Arts Industry Day: The Neighbour at the Gate Opening Weekend
Friday 11 July from 10am to 4:15pm
You are warmly invited to join us for an industry day, focused on artist talks and art making opportunities.
Hear directly from the guest curatorium and the featured artists in The Neighbour at the Gate exhibition, charts the entangled legacies of exclusion and resilience, drawing vital parallels between the past and present, memory and nationhood.
Create a ceramic work to add to James Nguyen’s participatory installation artwork Homeopathies_where new trees grow (2025), or make a fabric tassel inspired by Jacky Cheng’s work Imaginary Homelands (2025). Learn more about the shared histories and stories behind this immersive exhibition.
Schedule:
Artist Talk - Jenna Mayilema Lee: 10am – 10.30am
Artist Talk – James Nguyen: 10.45am – 11.15am
Artist Talk – Jacky Cheng: 11.30am – 12pm
Artist-led Demonstration – James Nguyen: 12.15pm – 12.45pm
Artist Talk – Dennis Golding: 2pm – 2.30pm
Artist-led Demonstration – Jacky Cheng: 3.15pm – 3.45pm
Artist Talk – Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson: 3.45pm – 4.15pm
Free admission, all welcome