Opening weekend talk: Jasmine Togo-Brisby in conversation with Imelda Miller

Opening weekend talk: Jasmine Togo-Brisby in conversation with Imelda Miller | Saturday 16 March, 11am 

Jasmine Togo-Brisby will discuss her new installation Can you see us now? commissioned for Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery, in conversation with Imelda Miller, curator of Torres Strait Islander and Pacific Indigenous Studies at Queensland Museum. They will discuss the artist’s research and making processes, and the histories and communities activated by this work.

Free, no booking required.

Jasmine Togo-Brisby was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales in 1982 and is currently based in Brisbane. From 2018-2022 she lived in Wellington, where she completed an MFA at Massey University. Togo-Brisby has exhibited extensively across Aotearoa and Australia and made significant contributions to new dialogues in contemporary Pacific art in both countries. Her works have been exhibited by and collected by major institutions including Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, QAGOMA, Australian Museum and Art Gallery of New South Wales.