Touring Exhibition: JXSH MVIR Forever I Live
Koorie Heritage Trust is proud to present JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live, a touring exhibition supported by Creative Victoria’s ‘Touring Victoria’ initiative.
Originally presented by the KHT in the Birrarung Building, Fed Square, from 9 March – 14 July 2024, JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live is a retrospective exhibition of artworks by the late Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta and Barkindji artist Josh Muir (1991 – 2022).
The exhibition highlights the strength of Josh’s artistic practice and the important contribution he has made to First Peoples art and culture in South East Australia and contemporary art nationally and internationally. The works in the exhibition not only reflects Josh’s ongoing artistic legacy, but Josh himself immortalised through his art. They also showcase Josh’s love of family and community, and draw on a range of themes including cultural identity, the impacts and legacies of colonisation, mental health, addiction, personal loss and grief.
This exhibition has been proudly curated by the Koorie Heritage Trust with Josh’s mother, Justine Berg and partner, Shanaya Sheridan as co-curators.
Exhibition Venue Partners & Dates
- Art Gallery of Ballarat – 25 October 2024 to 2 February 2025
- Wyndham Art Gallery – late 2025
- More to be announced
Exhibition Catalogue and Merchandise
View JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live merchandise and catalogue at shopKHT
KHT is grateful to Exhibition and Publication Sponsors: Creative Victoria, Gordon Darling Foundation, City of Melbourne, the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory Body, the Australian Government Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support program, and ANZ.
Hero Image: Josh Muir, 'Skip To My Lou' (detail), 2015. Digital print on aluminium. Collection of Edward Lloyd. Page image: Josh Muir, 'Forever I Live', 2015. Digital print on aluminium, Private Collection.