Monica Brewster Evening September - Kimberley Moulton

TUE 9 SEPTEMBER

Kimberley Moulton

Join us for an evening with Yorta Yorta curator and writer Kimberley Moulton, curator of the 2025 TarraWarra Biennale and a powerful voice in reshaping how institutions honour Country, community and collections. With fifteen years of curatorial experience at Melbourne Museum, Moulton guided the institution to centre First Peoples ways of knowing. Now serving as Adjunct Curator, Indigenous Art at Tate Modern and Senior Curator of Melbourne’s RISING festival—and fresh from submitting her PhD at Monash University in April 2025—she brings a practice woven from ancestral wisdom and layered contemporary insights. 

Moulton’s methodology—anchored in regeneration, disruption and restoration—invites us to listen to the living voices held within objects. Through kinship-led rematriation, on-Country activations and community co-creation, she transforms collections and archives into spaces of healing and resurgence. Her approach upends colonial frameworks by centring ceremony, relationality and shared custodianship. This talk offers a pathway to reimagine museums as forests of memory: living archives that nurture cultural wellbeing, resist erasure, and co-author futures grounded in Country and community.

Come along and hear from Kimberley Moulton in conversation with Lleah Smith about what restoring the spirit of First Peoples really looks like in practice.