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Always was, always will be.

Galleries are open 12–5pm. Our exhibitions are always free.

John Nargoodah, Kaye Warrie, Michelle Adams, Rekeshia Goodwin

Revealed Artists Floor Talks

Revealed Artists Floor Talks

On Saturday 18 April, we celebrate the opening of our second season for 2026 with a Weekends at PICA program focused on platforming and celebrating First Nations art and culture through a series of floortalks, artist-led workshops and more!  

Deepen your connection to the Revealed: New and Emerging WA Aboriginal Artists exhibition and join guest curator Zali Morgan in conversation with invited Revealed artists as they discuss their creative practices and stories behind their work.  
 
Held in PICA’s Central Galleries, this roaming talk will follow artists through the exhibition as each speak in conversation with their artwork.  

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About the artists

John Nargoodah was born in Noonkanbah, near the creek. I wasn’t born in hospital. I grew up in Nookanbah, we used to walk with our old people, my dad who grew me up would walk from station to station looking for work in fencing or yard building; no motor cars in those old days. We would walk to one station and if there was no jobs we had to walk to another station. It was at Mangkaja Arts that John learnt about printmaking, taking to it easily with his carving experience and attention to detail. John has created a number of limited edition etching and lino prints with Basil Hall Editions and Australian Print Workshop. He has taken to the new medium of scratching tin. John has previously exhibited in the Mangkaja Arts Print exhibitions. Alongside collaborator Trent Jansen, John has received a design award for their bespoke furniture using found metal and leather. Recently, John has begun painting on canvas, bull skulls and cow hide.

Kaye Warrie is a Yindjibarndi woman living in Cheeditha Community near Roebourne in Western Australia’s Pilbara. Kaye has been painting since the early 2000s. Before the Cheeditha Art Group was established, she worked with other artists’ cooperatives, including Roebourne Art Group (RAG). With RAG, Kaye exhibited in the Cossack Art Award, Colours of our Country and Ngurra Nyingu. Kaye is now establishing an independent art career. While continuing her painting, Kaye is also exploring other mediums, finding new ways to keep her stories and culture alive. Her artworks feature the Seven Sisters Dreamtime story (represented by the Pleiades star cluster), the land and the colours she sees in her Country. The Thurlawirdingbirding (Sturt Pea) often features in her work, drawing on the strong childhood memories of her mother giving the children the flowers to suck out the sweetness. Kaye’s mother used to take them out on Country, showing and telling the stories of the marks on the land. 

Michelle Lee Adams is an Yindjibarndi woman born in Roebourne in 1970, now based in Karratha. Initially beginning a law degree, Michelle shifted focus and has since worked across Australia in the creative arts, collaborating with communities, Elders and organisations such as Big hART. Most recently, she co-created Punkaliyarra, a major production developed with Yindjibarndi Elders and senior women, presented at the Sydney Opera House. Her transition into visual arts is a natural progression, deeply rooted in cultural and family ties. Michelle descends from the Sandy, Pat, and Andrews families—custodians of knowledge and Country—and draws inspiration from her late mother and her Gawarli (mother’s aunty), Allery Sandy, both respected artists born at Mount Florence Station (Yirranha). As an emerging visual artist, Michelle uses her practice to honour her ancestors, preserve cultural memory and speak to the ongoing impacts of colonialism through thoughtful, powerful creative expression.

Rekeshia Goodwin. My grandmother’s side is from Carnarvon and my grandfather’s side is from Meekatharra. My mum was born in Dampier and grew up all over the Pilbara. While she was pregnant with me, she was living in Nullagine and got to meet amazing Elders that helped her while she was there. My mum had me in Port Hedland but she returned to Nullagine for a little while I was a toddler but then she decided to come back to Hedland. My other grandfather taught me to use bright colours and to make my paintings my own style, I am honoured to be able to carry on my family name and show the love and passion my family has when it comes to painting and sharing our stories in our own way. 

Supporters

The Revealed 2026 exhibition is presented by PICA under the custodianship of the Aboriginal Art Centre Hub of Western Australia (AACHWA)—the peak advocacy and resource body for Aboriginal art centres in the state.