Tuesday 8 September | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
General: $17:50, Friends of the Gallery: $13,
Students: Free (Student ID's required on attendance)

What might it mean to restore the spirit?

We are honoured to welcome Kimberley Moulton, a Yorta Yorta curator and writer whose work is reshaping how museums and cultural institutions honour First Peoples’ knowledge and relationships. With over 15 years of curatorial experience at Melbourne Museum Moulton helped guide the institution toward centring Indigenous ways of knowing. She has also worked as an independent curator over the last 17 years and now serves as Adjunct Curator, Indigenous Art at Tate Modern and Senior Curator for Melbourne’s RISING festival, carrying forward a practice woven from kinship, care and responsibility. 

Moulton’s curatorial approach is anchored in regeneration, disruption and restoration. Through community-led rematriation, on-Country activation, intervention of colonial presences and collaborative approaches to collection care and exhibition making, her practice works at the axis of cultural knowledge, collections and contemporary art. Her work emerges from long-term relationships, challenging western art histories, her personal cultural connections and an ongoing commitment to honouring the living presence of Ancestors, objects and stories. 

For audiences in Aotearoa, and Taranaki in particular, Moulton’s visit invites reflection on how we might collectively care for the cultural, spiritual and material worlds held within our institutions and communities and she will share her research that engages with her curatorial practice of what she calls 'restoring the spirit' of collections and place. Her perspective will resonate with artists, curators, educators and community practitioners engaged in grounded, relational and culturally-held practice. 


Dr Kimberley Moulton is a Yorta Yorta woman from Australia and a curator and writer. She is currently the Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate Modern London and Senior Curator Exhibitions at RISING, the Melbourne international arts festival. She has a PhD in curatorial practice from Monash University Melbourne and is a Curator Emeritus at Museums Victoria.

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Welcome to the 2026 Monica Brewster Evening Speaker Series — a year shaped by visionaries who remind us that dreaming is both a personal act and a collective experience.

This year, we’re thinking about visionary dreams not as distant ideals, but as layered conversations: shaped by place, ancestry, lived experience, and the work of imagining otherwise.
 
Each speaker brings a distinct perspective on what emerges when communities, artists, thinkers, and leaders choose to dream with clarity, courage, and care. Maria Lind invites us to consider what it means to ‘dig where we stand’ and to understand creative practice through the ground it grows from; Tusiata Avia shows us how truth-telling, poetry, and performance can unsettle power and carve space for vulnerability; Toeolesulusulu Damon Salesa opens a window onto the Moana as a site of deep history and visionary future-making; Vince Ropitini demonstrates how design guided by mātauranga Māori can carry ancestral narratives into global contexts and Leki Jackson-Bourke with the Lalaga Youth Ambassadors reveal how rangatahi dreams can reshape regional, cultural, and artistic imaginaries.

Across the series, audiences are invited to consider how dreaming can be relational, grounded, and deeply local — as well as expansive enough to hold global entanglements.  

As we gather for conversations that illuminate what becomes possible when we listen to where we stand, and to one another - Join us!