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How do artists transform pain and trauma into art, and how can research help bring these stories to light?
Join Professor Kit Messham-Muir as he shares the impact of the ‘Art of Peace’ exhibition, an outcome of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project in partnership with the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) and the National Trust of NSW.
Recently hosted at AGWA, the ‘Art of Peace’ exhibition featured nine artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste whose countries have spent three decades recovering from brutal conflict and genocide.
In this talk, Professor Messham-Muir will take us through the journey of research to exhibition, and explore how researchers from the humanities can drive impact through lived experiences and stories that resonate across borders.
If you can’t make it in person, you can join us online. Please note a link to stream the event will be sent to you via email closer to the date.
A light lunch will be provided.
Attend in person to earn a stamp and go in the draw to win a $100 Guild gift card. Refer to T&C’s for more information.
Date
Thursday 21 August 2025
Time
12.30pm – 12.45pm: Networking and lunch
12.45pm – 1.30pm: Formal proceedings
Location
Council Chamber
Building 100.103
Curtin University
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Or online
Presenters
Professor Kit Messham-Muir
Professor Kit Messham-Muir is the Director of Research and Creative Practice in Curtin University’s School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry.
He is a specialist in contemporary art and visual culture, his research focuses on the art and visual culture of conflict, terror, and political violence. Since the 1990s, he has critically engaged with affect and trauma theory, exploring topics such as contemporary war art, Holocaust museums, and the aesthetics of ‘culture war’. His books include Double War (2015), and with Uroš Čvoro, Images of War in Contemporary Art (2021) and The Trump Effect (2023), and The Politics of Artists in War Zones (2024) co-edited with Čvoro and Monika Lukowska-Appel).
Prof Messham-Muir is lead chief investigator of Art of Peace, leading an international team of academics on a major ARC Linkage Project, and has previously led the Art in Conflict ARC Linkage Project in partnership with the Australian War Memorial.
Rochelle Fleming
Rochelle Fleming is an experienced leader with a 20+ year career spanning academia, government and private industry, that extends across executive, business development, research development, strategic planning, operations, project management and strategic partnerships roles.
Before joining Curtin in October 2023, Rochelle held executive roles within the cybersecurity industry, partnering with multi-national organisations on developing cyber security solutions for critical infrastructure.
Throughout her career she has built a strong track record in developing and managing cross-sector, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary collaborative programs. Cultivating strong stakeholder engagement to connect diverse groups and manage complex relationships.
Her focus is innovation with impact, and helping to build strong, sustainable partnerships between organisations that will facilitate lasting research impact, that supports our communities, and industry.