Joanne Currie Nalingu
Awards
Awards & Grants
2020 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize
2010 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2009 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Winner, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1996 Winner, Maroochydore Art Prize
1992 Winner, Maroochydore Art Prize
1992 Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland
2020 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2011 Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize
2010 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2009 Finalist, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Winner, The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
1996 Winner, Maroochydore Art Prize
1992 Winner, Maroochydore Art Prize
1992 Professional Development Grant, Arts Queensland
Exhibitions
2025 The Ancient Present, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane + USA
2024 Lifeblood, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2023 It Flows, Cooee Art Leven, Sydney
2023 River Marks, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 It Flows, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 River Marks, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 She Walks the Line (Part 2), FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Mina Mina Maranoa, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Blood River Black Water, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Blood River Black Water, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2010 Blood River, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Bondi Beach NSW
2009 Waterline, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Dark River Line, Museum of Brisbane
2007 Maranoa Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2003 - 04 Give 'em Currie, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
2000 The River, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Waterways, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Maranoa Country, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Joanne Currie, Griffith University, The Magazine Space, Brisbane
1993 Back to the Yumba, Mitchell Civic Centre
1993 Stories from the Mitchell Yumba, Mitchell Civic Centre & FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2024 Lifeblood, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2023 It Flows, Cooee Art Leven, Sydney
2023 River Marks, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 It Flows, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 River Marks, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 She Walks the Line (Part 2), FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Mina Mina Maranoa, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Blood River Black Water, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Blood River Black Water, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2010 Blood River, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Bondi Beach NSW
2009 Waterline, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2009 Dark River Line, Museum of Brisbane
2007 Maranoa Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2003 - 04 Give 'em Currie, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
2000 The River, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Waterways, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1998 Maranoa Country, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Joanne Currie, Griffith University, The Magazine Space, Brisbane
1993 Back to the Yumba, Mitchell Civic Centre
1993 Stories from the Mitchell Yumba, Mitchell Civic Centre & FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
Group Exhibitions
2025 QLD GALS Canberra Art Gallery, Canberra
2025 IGNITE: On Resistance, Identity & Place, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2025 Melbourne Art Fair (with Redbase Contemporary)
2024 Creek...River...Ocean, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2024 FLOW, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
2024 Land Holds Memory, FireWorks Gallery & Mitchell Fine Art
2024 Yellow Meadow, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Over Thirty, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Land Holds Memory, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2023 Morbid Curiosities, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Halfway House, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Veiled Histories: Joanne Currie Nalingu & Jennifer Herd, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2021 River Totem Revival: Ian Waldron & Joanne Currie Nalingu, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Twelve Artists, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Twelve Ways, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2020 Black & White 2020, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2019 Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Three Indigenous Women Painters, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2018 Small Mercies, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Welcome Two (Thompson Street), FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2017 60 X√30, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 In Context, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2015 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2014 QLD Gals, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2014 SOLID! Queensland Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture, Cairns Regional Art Gallery & CIAF
2014 Asia Contemporary Art Show, Conrad, Hong Kong
2014 Cross Over, Merricks House Art Gallery, Victoria
2014 The Long Hot Summer, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Centre, Gold Coast
2013 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2013 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards
2012 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2012 River Days, Gympie Regional Gallery
2012 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (with FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane)
2012 Melbourne Art Fair (with FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane)
2012 Desert Winter Dreaming, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art Gallery
2011 Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
2011 The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2011 Eclectica Exhibition Series, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2010 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2010 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2010 Ripples on the Water: Lines in the Sand (with Kathleen Petyarre), Depot Gallery, Danks St, Sydney
2009 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2009 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2008 Xmas Show, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Blue: A Group Exhibition, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2008 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Anzac Artists 2008, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Homage to the Square, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Three Large Rooms, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Two Way: Artists & Mentors, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 The Light and the Dark III, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 SMOKE: Campfire Group and Other Commissioned Works, FireWorks Gallery & Despard Gallery
2005 SHOOSH! The History of the Campfire Group, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2005 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2004 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2004 Out of Country, QIAMEA, Washington DC & Virginia, USA
2003 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards Touring Exhibition
2003 Queensland Indigenous Artists, Grosse Kunstausstellung, Museum Kunst Palast, Germany
2002 Six Coats of Black, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2002 CHOGM Campfire Group Exhibition, Hyatt Hotel, Coolum
2002 Lines II, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Urban Blackness, Noosa Regional Gallery
2002 Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi and Campfire Group: Tribute Collection, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Queensland Features, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2001 Art of Place, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
2001 Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Landmarks, DAR Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
1999 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
1999 The Road to Cherbourg (with Campfire Group), Global Arts Link, Ipswich
1999 Powerful Medicine, DAR Festival / Papunya Cultural Exchange
1999 Big Smoke, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
1998 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
1998 Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1997 Skin and Division: Michael Eather and Friends, Brisbane City Gallery
1997 Engine: The Best of Campfire, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Brisbane vs Essendon, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Works on Paper, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1996 All Stock Must Go! (with Campfire Group), Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery
1996 Saltwater Freshwater Borewater (with Campfire Group), Regional Galleries Association of Queensland
1995 Seven Deadly Australians, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1995 That's Women All Over, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Blackness: Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1994 Political Posters, Brisbane City Gallery
1994 Place and Interface Touring Exhibition
1994 Knowing the Sensorium, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1993 Political Bedrooms, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Aboriginal Perceptions, Brisbane City Gallery
1993 Political Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Woorabinda Artists Conference, Campfire Consultancy
1993 Campfire Group Exhibitions, Spring Hill Baths, Brisbane
1993 A Different View Touring Exhibition
1993 Island (with Campfire Group), 9th Biennale of Sydney, Bond Store, Art Gallery of NSW
2025 IGNITE: On Resistance, Identity & Place, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2025 Melbourne Art Fair (with Redbase Contemporary)
2024 Creek...River...Ocean, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2024 FLOW, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
2024 Land Holds Memory, FireWorks Gallery & Mitchell Fine Art
2024 Yellow Meadow, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Over Thirty, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Land Holds Memory, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2023 Morbid Curiosities, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2023 Halfway House, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Veiled Histories: Joanne Currie Nalingu & Jennifer Herd, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2021 River Totem Revival: Ian Waldron & Joanne Currie Nalingu, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Twelve Artists, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Twelve Ways, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2020 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2020 Black & White 2020, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2019 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2019 Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Three Indigenous Women Painters, Despard Gallery, Hobart
2018 Small Mercies, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Welcome Two (Thompson Street), FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2017 60 X√30, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2017 In Context, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2015 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2014 QLD Gals, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Tattersall's Landscape Art Prize, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2014 SOLID! Queensland Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture, Cairns Regional Art Gallery & CIAF
2014 Asia Contemporary Art Show, Conrad, Hong Kong
2014 Cross Over, Merricks House Art Gallery, Victoria
2014 The Long Hot Summer, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Centre, Gold Coast
2013 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2013 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards
2012 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2012 River Days, Gympie Regional Gallery
2012 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (with FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane)
2012 Melbourne Art Fair (with FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane)
2012 Desert Winter Dreaming, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art Gallery
2011 Stan & Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize
2011 The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2011 Eclectica Exhibition Series, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2010 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2010 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2010 Ripples on the Water: Lines in the Sand (with Kathleen Petyarre), Depot Gallery, Danks St, Sydney
2009 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2009 Tattersall's Invitation Prize for Landscape, Tattersall's Club, Brisbane
2008 Xmas Show, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Blue: A Group Exhibition, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2008 Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2008 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2008 Anzac Artists 2008, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Homage to the Square, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Three Large Rooms, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Two Way: Artists & Mentors, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 The Light and the Dark III, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2005 SMOKE: Campfire Group and Other Commissioned Works, FireWorks Gallery & Despard Gallery
2005 SHOOSH! The History of the Campfire Group, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2005 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2004 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2004 Out of Country, QIAMEA, Washington DC & Virginia, USA
2003 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Awards Touring Exhibition
2003 Queensland Indigenous Artists, Grosse Kunstausstellung, Museum Kunst Palast, Germany
2002 Six Coats of Black, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2002 CHOGM Campfire Group Exhibition, Hyatt Hotel, Coolum
2002 Lines II, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2002 Urban Blackness, Noosa Regional Gallery
2002 Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi and Campfire Group: Tribute Collection, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Queensland Features, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2001 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
2001 Art of Place, National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition, Old Parliament House, Canberra
2001 Lines, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
2000 Landmarks, DAR Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse
1999 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
1999 The Road to Cherbourg (with Campfire Group), Global Arts Link, Ipswich
1999 Powerful Medicine, DAR Festival / Papunya Cultural Exchange
1999 Big Smoke, Coo - ee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
1998 Telstra: National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
1998 Art of Place, Old Parliament House, Canberra
1997 Skin and Division: Michael Eather and Friends, Brisbane City Gallery
1997 Engine: The Best of Campfire, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Brisbane vs Essendon, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1997 Works on Paper, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1996 All Stock Must Go! (with Campfire Group), Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery
1996 Saltwater Freshwater Borewater (with Campfire Group), Regional Galleries Association of Queensland
1995 Seven Deadly Australians, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1995 That's Women All Over, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Blackness: Blak City Culture, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1994 Political Posters, Brisbane City Gallery
1994 Place and Interface Touring Exhibition
1994 Knowing the Sensorium, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1993 Political Bedrooms, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Aboriginal Perceptions, Brisbane City Gallery
1993 Political Works, FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane
1993 Woorabinda Artists Conference, Campfire Consultancy
1993 Campfire Group Exhibitions, Spring Hill Baths, Brisbane
1993 A Different View Touring Exhibition
1993 Island (with Campfire Group), 9th Biennale of Sydney, Bond Store, Art Gallery of NSW
Collections
Artbank, Sydney
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
Brisbane Airport Corporation
Caloundra Regional Gallery
Department of Premier & Cabinet, Queensland
International Education Services, Brisbane
Mater Hospital, Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery | GOMA
Queensland Museum
Queensland Children's Hospital
QUT Art Museum
University of Queensland Art Museum
Rockhampton City Gallery
Private collections across Australia, Europe, the USA & UK
Bega Valley Regional Gallery
Brisbane Airport Corporation
Caloundra Regional Gallery
Department of Premier & Cabinet, Queensland
International Education Services, Brisbane
Mater Hospital, Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
National Gallery of Australia
Queensland Art Gallery | GOMA
Queensland Museum
Queensland Children's Hospital
QUT Art Museum
University of Queensland Art Museum
Rockhampton City Gallery
Private collections across Australia, Europe, the USA & UK
