In Conversation with artist Kait James and curator Aaron Bradbrook

Name: In Conversation with artist Kait James and curator Aaron Bradbrook
Start: 2026-07-03T16:00:00+1000
End: 2026-07-03T23:00:00+1000
Location: Tamworth Regional Gallery

Fri, 3 Jul, 4pm - 11pm AEST

Tamworth Regional Gallery

Tamworth NSW, Australia

Tamworth Regional Gallery

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Kait James: Red Flags

In Conversation with artist Kait James and Curator Aaron Bradbrook

Friday 3 July 4pm - 5pm

Join artist Kait James in conversation with curator Aaron Bradbrook in the gallery to hear about Kait James: Red Flags.

Kait James: Red Flags is Wadawurrung artist Kait James’ most ambitious solo exhibition to date. Since 2018, James has been carving out a unique visual language based in the reappropriation of racialised products. Colloquially identified as ‘Aboriginalia’, these mass-produced, commercial objects range from souvenir tea towels and pennant flags to children’s dolls and ceramic figurines. Primarily created from the 1950s through to the 1980s for consumption by non-Indigenous tourists, they depict culturally insensitive and racially stereotyped imagery, designs and motifs.

Kait James: Red Flags is a Warrnambool Art Gallery exhibition, curated by Aaron Bradbrook and touring nationally with NETS Victoria.

A message for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

This exhibition includes work, themes and images about the historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Viewer discretion is advised.

Sensitive Content Warning

This exhibition contains artworks that depict themes and images related to the historical and ongoing systemic racism and discrimination faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and may prompt strong emotional responses. It includes social and political critique from the artist’s perspective, and includes strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.

For further details regarding the content of the exhibition, please contact: Tamworth Regional Gallery on 67 67 5247 or email gallery@tamworth.nsw.gov.au

Where: Tamworth Regional Gallery, Gallery 2

When: Friday 3 July, 4pm

RSVP: Please contact the Gallery on (02) 6767 5247 or by email: gallery@tamworth.nsw.gov.au

The Tamworth Regional Gallery offers free and accessible parking - located behind the building, accessed via Peel or Hill St.

If you have any questions about this Artist Talk or any programming, please contact the friendly Gallery Staff.

Exhibition dates: 27 June – 16 August 2026, Tamworth Regional Gallery

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For over 100 years, Tamworth Regional Gallery has provided access to the arts in a regional centre. The Gallery first opened on 1 June 1919 as the Tamworth Art Salon and Art Library. It was established with a gift of 100 artworks and art reference books by the local artist and collector John Salvana ‘to encourage art in the country’.

. Salvana believed in providing an art gallery where young children and those with an interest might be encouraged to study art and to learn from viewing original works at first hand.

Education continues to be a key focus of the Gallery to this day. Tamworth Regional Gallery is ideally located in the heart of Tamworth’s CBD on Peel Street, close to shops, parking and the new riverside precinct.

The Gallery offers a rotating program of touring exhibitions of national significance, alongside curated exhibitions of works by regional artists and exhibitions from our permanent collection.

Every year, Tamworth Regional Gallery delivers a rich and varied series of workshops, lectures, artist talks, events and engaging public programs.

The Gallery houses purpose-built exhibition spaces, conservation collection storage, a retail shop, the Esther Halliday Studio and a research library, and is a fully accessible space. Tamworth Regional Gallery is the result of over 100 years of sustained support from our community, alongside forward planning and investment by Tamworth Regional Council.
Tamworth is a regional city that supports a surrounding area of towns and outlying villages. The Gallery, too, provides support for both regional and remote communities in outlying areas. We embrace our location in a diverse cultural landscape, and our responsibility to deliver to our public as part of a close community.

We aim to be inclusive, and to genuinely and actively engage with our communities. The Gallery seeks to foster, promote and enhance understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts through its permanent collection, temporary exhibitions and public programs.