Historical Walkthrough with Dr Alice Neikirk

Join Dr Alice Neikirk from the University of Newcastle's School of Law and Justice for a guided walkthrough of The Lock-Up's historical spaces and past operation as Newcastle's former police station and lock up. This walkthrough will also reference themes related to our current exhibitions - Disclosure: Julie Gough and feral: Nicole Chaffey - which explore stories of local and familial First Nations imprisonment in Australia.

When: Saturday, 18 November, 2-3PM

This is a free event.

About Dr Alice Neikirk

Dr Alice Neikirk holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology from the Australian National University (ANU). She has extensive experience teaching in areas of criminology, sociology, anthropology, and history. She is currently a course coordinator and lecturer at the University of Newcastle's School of Law and Justice and previously taught at Fresno Pacific University as an Assistant Professor. She has created two educational videos on Victorian Era Incarceration and the Practice of Policing in relation to The Lock-Up, which can be viewed here.

About Disclosure: Julie Gough

Julie Gough is an artist, writer and a curator (First Peoples’ Art and Culture) at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Her art and research focuses on uncovering and re-presenting subsumed or conflicting histories. In Disclosure, Gough has employed film, installation, and archives to unearth submerged narratives which blend the The Lock-Up building's colonial past with local histories.

About feral: Nicole Chaffey

Nicole Chaffey is a Biripi woman, Newcastle based painter and ceramicist, whose creative practice has long been founded in family history, story and connecting to culture and Country. feral is about the coming to terms with the harsh and heartbreaking reality of inheritance. Chaffey will be presenting her familiar medium of abstract, representational landscapes as well as new ceramic works.

Cover Photo: Dr. Alice Neikirk, 'Victorian Era Incarceration', video still, June 2023.