“Winning these awards along with the industry peer recognition is a wonderful way to celebrate the efforts, creativity and passion the whole AM team have put into Unsettled,” McBride added.ĭirector and CEO, Australian Museum, Kim McKay AO, congratulated McBride and the AM team for their achievements. “Driven by the desire to present our stories, in our own voices, myself and co-curator, Dr Mariko Smith have spent the past three years developing, researching, consulting and checking the content for Unsettled.” I want to thank all the many community members who shared their knowledge and stories within Unsettled,” McBride said. “I am honoured to have won the Excellence by an Aboriginal curator award, which is decided by mob. The awards, given to NSW and ACT Museums and Galleries, were announced last night.Īppointed Director, First Nations in March, 2021, the IMaGInE awards caps of off an amazing few years for McBride, a Wailwan and Kooma woman. Named Winner for Exhibition Project, Large Museums, and also receiving the ACHAA Award for Excellence by an Aboriginal Curator, the IMAGinE awards recognised the breadth of curatorial research and the quality, scale and creativity of the Unsettled exhibition. The Australian Museum (AM) and Director, First Nations, Laura McBride were awarded two of the top prizes in the 2021 IMAGinE awards for the ground-breaking exhibition, Unsettled.
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