Mini Flags: Workshop with Artist Kait James

Name: Mini Flags: Workshop with Artist Kait James
Start: 2026-07-04T11:00:00+1000
End: 2026-07-04T13:00:00+1000
Location: Tamworth Regional Gallery

Sat, 4 Jul, 11am - 1pm AEST

Tamworth Regional Gallery

Tamworth NSW, Australia

Tamworth Regional Gallery

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Mini Flags : Workshop with Kait James Inspired by her exhibition Red Flags

Free workshop for children and families

Saturday 4 July 11am - 1pm

Join Wadawurrung artist Kait James for a school holiday workshop inspired by her exhibition 'Kait James: Red Flags'.

Children aged 6+ and their adults are invited to join Wadawurrung artist Kait James for a mini flag making workshop inspired by her exhibition Kait James: Red Flags. Participants will create their own mini flag embellished with unique messages that they can take home.

Please note that children under 12 must be supervised by an adult at all times. Bookings are essential.

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.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body, and the Visions of Australia program, and has received development assistance from NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

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

Image: Artist: Kait James Photo: Madé Spencer-Castle. Courtesy the artist and Neon Parc.

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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.