Teacher’s preview of nginha – here and now: new art and ideas

MAMA invites teachers from Albury Wodonga to an artist panel discussion and private preview of our upcoming exhibitions* that will run across Term 1 & 2 in 2026.

Featuring local and nationally based female artists, the new commissions include carved sculpture, painting, textiles, metal and text - mediums that explore personal, cultural, and social narratives and complexities.

Moderated by Alex Papasavvas (Creative Arts Curriculum Advisor 7–12, NSW Department of Education), the discussion will explore each artist's practice through a teaching and learning lens. Although primarily an opportunity for educators working in Creative Arts, the discussion will offer valuable insights, ideas and inspiration for teachers working in other subjects across early learning, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Following the panel, guests are invited to network with peers, chat to MAMA staff and enjoy the Museum in a relaxed, student-free setting!

Guests will enjoy a free drink on arrival. Please register your place.

About the exhibition program nginha: here and now presents four new, significant commissions by Australian artists Ruth Davys (Wiradjuri / Albury), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri / Sydney), Teelah George (Melbourne), Noriko Nakamura (Castlemaine) and Kirtika Kain (Sydney). While presented as individual projects and across different mediums, their exhibitions are linked by a strong sense of materiality and a commitment to working in large scale installation to explore personal, cultural and social narratives and complexities.

*The five shows are included in the 2026 VCE Art Making and Exhibiting exhibition list.

About the artists

Ruth Davys is a Wiradjuri woman who was raised in Uranquinty and is a senior member of the Albury Wiradjuri community. Davys is an educator, a storyteller, a connector in communities, and an artist.

Jazz Money draws on her work as a poet and writer to produce a floating Atrium installation, with words and forms that speak to the Milawa Bila / Murray River that flows through the local community.

Teelah George presents a highly detailed woven sculpture, incorporating metal and textile processes to explore the conceptual potential for thresholds between here and an immaterial place.

Japanese-born Noriko Nakamura continues her limestone carving practice to present a series of large-scale sculptures that explore the relationships between humans and the material world.

Kirtika Kain’s large-scale paintings use humble and unexpected materials to examine ideas of value, class and cultural histories and are embedded with personal and social narratives. Kaine works with copper, gold and iron filing, bitumen and pigments, as well was printmaking elements form these works that are monumental and rich in surface.