Freja Carmichael

Freja Carmichael is a Ngugi woman from the Quandamooka people and is Curator at the University of Queensland Art Museum. Over the past decade, she has worked alongside First Peoples and communities on exhibitions, programming, collection research and documentation at art centres, regional galleries, cultural gatherings, contemporary art spaces and national and international institutions. Freja’s work is dedicated to centring First Peoples’ knowledges, creative practices and fibre traditions and to creating spaces for collaboration, intercultural exchanges and intergenerational sharing through curatorial approaches. Recent curatorial projects include to come together as water, UQ Art Museum (2025); co-curator of The National 4: Australian Art Now, Carriageworks (2023); the national touring exhibition long water: fibre stories (2020–22), Institute of Modern Art; and Weaving the Way (2019), UQ Art Museum. Freja is a member of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Advisory Council at the University of Virginia, United States and is currently a PhD candidate at UQ.