Kickstart Showcase – Exhibition

Name: Kickstart Showcase – Exhibition
Start: 2025-09-05T12:00:00+1000
End: 2025-09-06T13:00:00+1000
Location: Next Wave (Brunswick Mechanics Institute)

Fri, 5 Sep, 12pm - 6pm AEST

Next Wave (Brunswick Mechanics Institute)

Brunswick VIC, Australia

Next Wave

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Event description

Featuring works from Next Wave's 2025 Kickstart artists: An.Other Collective (NSW/VIC), Ellamay Fitzgerald (QLD), Georgia Lucy (TAS), Jayda Wilson (SA), Jen Datu (WA), Rachel Morley (VIC), Rarriwuy Hick (NT) and Sophie Dumaresq (ACT).

Kickstart is Next Wave’s flagship program for early-career artists whose practices are shaped by community, experimentation and non-conventional knowledge.

Over 18 months, our Kickstart artists have been offered what’s so often missing: time, relationships, mentoring and the freedom to test, fail, play and dream in place, with and from their own contexts and communities.

These showings are not polished endings but rather vital moments to see artworks mid-flight – where ideas are stretched, tested and reshaped, where audiences play an active role in the exchange.

Exhibition times

Friday 5 September, 12pm–6pm
Saturday 6 September, 10am–1pm

Special events

Places at these events are limited. Please register via the links below to attend.

Friday 5 September

Ellamay Khongroj Fitzgerald, Outdoor Kitchen
12pm in the Studio

Jayda Wilson, [Un]Silenced
2pm in the Studio

Georgia Lucy, Gough and Margaret’s Bull Clip
3pm in the Theatre

Jen Datu and Colin Smith, THE MACHINE NEEDS A HEART
4pm–6.30pm in the Studio (multiple sessions)

Saturday 6 September

Jen Datu and Colin Smith, THE MACHINE NEEDS A HEART
10am–11am in the Studio (multiple sessions)

Rachel Morley, Art isn’t going to help this town (working title)
11am in the Theatre

Ellamay Fitzgerald, Outdoor Kitchen
12pm in the Studio

This event is part of a series of showings from Next Wave's 2024–25 Kickstart Program. The program supported seven individual artists and one collective to develop a project over 18 months, under the guidance of Next Wave and local mentors.

Accessibility

Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a step-free venue with accessible bathrooms.

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Next Wave is a leading not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting early-career artists working across multiple art forms. Next Wave plays a defining role in the Australian arts landscape by empowering and advocating for early-career and experimental artistic practice in Australia.

Through mentorships, creative developments, public programs, events, live performances and partnerships, Next Wave creates spaces for gathering and exchange, ambition and experimentation, and meaningful community connections.

Established in 1984 as a biennial Festival, Next Wave now runs a year-long program from our home at Brunswick Mechanics Institute, in Naarm/Melbourne. As Next Wave continues to evolve in response to the changing nature of artist and sector needs, its commitment to investing in and nurturing artists at the most critical stage of their career remains constant. Next Wave’s program enables artists and audiences to test ideas and push boundaries that embrace new perspectives, challenge our thinking and platform the next generation of cultural leaders.