Craft

Camp Stove – 2026 First Peoples-led Exhibition

Curated by Kate ten Buuren, Taungurung artist and curator

First Nations

Event Details

Category

First Nations

Event Starts

Jul 4, 2026 11:00

Event Ends

Aug 29, 2026 16:00

Venue

Craft Victoria

Location

Watson Place, Melbourne

Artists: Gabi Briggs, Karla Dickens, ENOKi, Dennis Golding & Yangamini Collective

Camp Stove is the sixth iteration of Craft’s annual First Peoples-led Exhibition – an initiative to platform First Peoples’ curatorial practice within craft and design. The First Peoples-led Program was launched by Craft in 2020 to create nationally recognised curatorial pathways and to shift representation in the creative sector. 

‘Through the right set of eyes, something as commonplace as a portable camp stove can evoke a queer spirit. Queer Blakfullas experience life through a unique set of lenses and have developed strategies and techniques for surviving the spaces we find ourselves in. Camp Stove is an exhibition and program series on the craft of Queer Blak survivance.

By reimagining the possibilities of found objects, collected materials and the handmade, the artists in Camp Stove expand on themes of environmental action and justice, the importance of community spaces, resistance, and the magic of imagination.

Camp Stove fosters spaces designed for queer First Peoples and our extended communities – places for creative exchange, skills development and building inter-generational connections.’ – Kate ten Buuren, Curator

Image captions: installation views of Camp Stove curated by Kate ten Buuren. Fetaured artists: Karla Dickens, ENOKi, Gabi Briggs, Dennis Golding and Yangamini Collective.

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