Nur Shkembi

Nur Shkembi is a curator, writer and scholar of contemporary Islamic art. She has produced and curated over 150 events, exhibitions and community engagement projects. Shkembi was part of the core team that established the Islamic Museum of Australia, serving as the museum’s inaugural Art Director and Exhibitions Manager and founding Curator. As a museum curator, she brought artefacts together with traditional and contemporary art as a means for collective storytelling, to subvert stereotypes and as a platform for individual narratives. Nur engages her independent curatorial practice nationally, recent exhibitions include: Waqt al Tagheer (ACE Open) Khalas! (UNSW Galleries), The Inner Apartment (Nishi Gallery and National Museum of Australia), We Are All Affected (Fairfield City Museum and Peacock Gallery). Current and upcoming exhibitions include SOUL fury at Bendigo Art Gallery, and Destiny Disrupted (Granville Arts Centre, Sydney). Nur is also a founding member of eleven; a collective of contemporary Muslim Australian artists, curators and writers. Nur is currently undertaking a PhD in the Department of Art History at the University of Melbourne where she is investigating contemporary Islamic art through a Neo-orientalist and postcolonial lens. Nur is a Fellow of the Centre of Visual Arts (CoVA) at the University of Melbourne.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.