NSI Museum on Minjerribah

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30 May

Written By Studioplus

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iam: Ngali Dullan Exhibition & Guest Creatives: Delvene Cockatoo-Collins and Karen Thurecht

The Museum will once again open its doors with free admission during the 2026 Straddie Arts Trail. Visitors can explore our exhibitions, including the award-winning Ngali Dullan exhibition.

Ngali Dullan is a collaborative community project with Quandamooka artists facilitated by Megan Cope. The exhibition depicts historical stories as well as cultural and environmental knowledge. These are overlaid on maps of Country created by Megan Cope, offering visitors a layered, non-colonial perspective of Minjerribah.

The Museum will also have artworks from its permanent collection on display, including pieces by Raymond Moult-Spiers, and artwork by Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

The Museum shop will also be open, featuring works by many local artists available for sale, alongside our unique Minjerribah-themed books, merchandise, jams, and marmalades.

Delvene Cockatoo-Collins
This year’s resident artist, Delvene Cockatoo-Collins, will be based at NSIMM throughout the Arts Trail. Delvene Cockatoo-Collins is a Quandamooka artist based on Minjerribah ( North Stradbroke Island), Australia. Her multidisciplinary practice spans fashion, textiles, public art and design, grounded in the intergenerational transfer of cultural knowledge within her family.

Characterised by intricate, lace-like patterning inspired by traditional dillybag weaving, Cockatoo-Collins' work explores matrilineal connection and lived experience on Quandamooka Country. Her work has been exhibited nationally and includes major commissions alongside annual presentations at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair and Melbourne Fashion Festival with Mob in Fashion.

Delvene’s current projects include a 2026 residency with the Museum of Brisbane, and short listing for Indigenous Designer of the Year with National Indigenous Fashion Awards to be held in Darwin in August 2026.

Karen Thurecht
Writer Karen Thurecht will also be based at the Museum. Dr Karen Thurecht PhD is a medical anthropologist with a lifelong interest in cultural belief systems relating to health and medicine. She has taught cultural history at the University of Queensland and Griffith University Medical Schools, and supervised Masters and PhD students in Public Health across the country.

Karen writes a popular murder mystery series set in the 1880’s, called The Dr Hamish Hart Mysteries. There are currently six books published in the series, each set in a location around South-East Queensland. The first book in the series: Murder at the Dunwich Asylum is set in Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island, enabling readers to experience what the Island and the asylum felt like in 1884.