An evening with artist and curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc and settler)

An evening with artist and curator Tania Willard (Secwépemc and settler)

  • 19 Mar 2026
  • 05:30pm - 07:30pm
  • FREE
  • Melbourne City
  • Kaleide Theatre (RMIT Building 8 Level 2, 360 Swanston St)
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Join us for a special evening with visiting Turtle Island (Canadian) artist and curator Tania Willard.

Tania Willard, photograph by Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy of the artist.

Join us for a special evening with visiting Turtle Island (Canadian) artist and curator Tania Willard who will present a keynote presentation for the Future Memorials program.


Tania Willard is a mixed Secwépemc Indigenous and settler artist and curator whose research intersects with land-based art practices. Her practice activates connection to land, culture, and family, centering art as an Indigenous resurgent act, through collaborative projects such as BUSH Gallery, and support of language revitalisation in her Secwépemc community.


Tania is an artist in this year's 25th Biennale of Sydney, a recipient of the 2025 Sobey Art Award and visiting RMIT University as a guest of Yoonggama research cohort and Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) research group. Tania's visit to Naarm (Melbourne) is supported by RMIT's 2025 City North Activation Challenge and the Australian Research Council (DE240100038).


Following the keynote, attendees are invited to view the artworks commissioned as part of Future Memorials: Truth-telling is a civic responsibility, a public art program that envisions a future Naarm (Melbourne) that embraces truth-telling and celebrates First Peoples' cultural resurgence through bold, innovative, public art in civic (stolen) spaces. Devised as part of RMIT University's City North Activation Challenge, over 18th and 19th of March 2026 RMIT's city campus in Naarm (Melbourne) will be activated by artists Brooke Wandin (Wurundjeri), Vicki Couzens (Keeray Woorroong Gunditjmara), Jody Haines (Palawa) and Amy Spiers (Settler).

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