About My Research
Indigenous-led International Intercultural Exchange, Storytelling, and Immersive Technologies
What I’m Exploring
My research explores how curatorial practice can be reshaped through Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. I am particularly interested in how exhibitions can move beyond Western frameworks of display to become spaces that are relational, immersive, and guided by community.
At the centre of this work is decolonising curatorial practice, challenging who holds authority in telling stories, and rethinking how Indigenous arts, cultures, and knowledge are represented within institutional spaces. This involves shifting away from extractive or interpretive models toward approaches that are led by Indigenous voices, cultural protocols, and lived experience.
Equally important is my focus on Indigenous storytelling as methodology. Story is not simply content, it is a way of knowing, sharing, and relating. Through practices such as yarning, sharing circles, on-Country listening, and collaborative artmaking, storytelling becomes both the process and the outcome. These approaches guide how I work with artists and communities, and how immersive exhibitions are created as layered, living narrative spaces.
Why This Work Matters
This research is grounded in the need to rethink how Indigenous stories are shared, experienced, and understood.
Too often, Indigenous arts and cultures have been presented through external lenses that separate stories from the people, places, and relationships they belong to. My work seeks to reframe representation, creating spaces where stories remain connected to Country, community, and cultural knowledge systems.
At its core, this research is also about shifting power. By centring Indigenous-led approaches to curating and storytelling, it supports the authority of artists and communities to guide how their stories are told and experienced. This is not only about inclusion, but about transformation, creating new models of practice that privilege relationship, reciprocity, and responsibility.
Through intercultural exchange and collaborative practice, this work also opens up pathways for deeper understanding across cultures, where storytelling becomes a shared space for listening, reflection, and connection.
Key Research Questions
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How can Indigenous storytelling practices guide immersive exhibition design and curatorial approaches?
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What does it mean to decolonise curatorial practice in contemporary exhibition spaces?
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How can Indigenous-led frameworks support more ethical and relational ways of representing arts, cultures, and stories?
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How can curators working within non-Indigenous institutions engage meaningfully with Indigenous methodologies and approaches?
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How can intercultural exchange between Indigenous communities shape new forms of collaborative storytelling and exhibition-making?