TOWARDS JERICHO19 — 25 June
Carlton, Naarm
Curated by Georgia Mulholland and Samar Abedrabo

Towards Jericho is a group exhibition showcasing the work of 26 emerging and established artists from across the Levant and so-called Australia, whose practices engage in acts of solidarity with Palestine through visual, political, and cultural resistance.

Curated by Georgia Mulholland and Samar Abedrabo, the exhibition meditates on the notion of homeland—honouring ancestry, holding memory, and imagining the possibility of return.


Jericho—one of the world’s oldest cities—serves as both metaphor and anchor. For Palestinians, it represents the liminal space between exile and return: the final checkpoint before departure, and the first threshold upon coming home. 

Within diasporic and transnational contexts, Jericho becomes a site of longing—for rootedness, belonging, and the continuity of cultural memory.

All works are available through silent auction, with 100% of proceeds supporting crisis aid for a family in Gaza through the work of Made in Palestine.

Towards Jericho is a curatorial project grounded in care, cultural preservation, and creative defiance—an echo of return, even when return feels impossible.











ARTISTS




Mohammed Hadia (Biishoss)
Palestinian Artist, Bethlehem based 
@biishossZeinab Mahfoud
Lebanese Artist, Beirut-based 
@until.sunriseSamar Abedrabo
Palestinian Artist, Bethlehem-based
@samr.kndAmir Ashkar
Palestinian Writer
Mohammed Hadia (Biishoss) is fashion designer from Bethlehem. He is a sustainable Fashion designer focused on natural dye and eco printing.  Founder of Biishoss store & Stitching Palestine.Zeinab Mahfoud is a multidisciplinary creative, cultural curator, and community advocate whose work bridges art and activism. A third-generation migrant and first-generation Lebanese-Australian, Zeinab draws from her heritage to explore themes of displacement, resilience, and identity. 
Read moreSamar is a Palestinian artist working with tatreez—traditional Palestinian embroidery—as a form of cultural memory, resistance, and storytelling. In addition to creating her own works, she facilitates workshops that make tatreez accessible to new generations and broader communities. 
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Amir Ashkar is a Palestinian philosopher, winemaker and sommelier, activist, and cultural organiser based in the Galilee, 1948-Palestine. He is from the displaced village of Iqrit and currently pursuing a PhD in Nietzschean philosophy, with a focus on nihilism, resistance, and the existential crises of modernity. Read more






Yara Mahajna
Palestinian Artist
@yaraqmRasyiddin Faizal
Singaporean/Malaysia Artist, Naarm-based 
@m_rasyAmaani Janine Farida Alikhan
Pakistani Artist, London-based. 
@__amaani | @bis__ousAhmed Hmeedat
Palestinian Artist, Bethlehem-based 
@ahmedhmeedat
Yara Kassem Mahajena (b. 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist from Palestine. Her work explores trauma, with a recent focus on political trauma and its connection to animal resistance in Palestine. Read more Rasyiddin Faizal is a Southeast Asian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), whose work interweaves elements of street, documentary, and surrealist photography. A multidisciplinary creator, Faizal’s practice spans photography, filmmaking, music, and collaborative projects with playwrights and poets. Read moreAmaani Alikhan (b. 1996, Karachi) is a multidisciplinary artist based between Melbourne and London, working primarily with charcoal, oil, and illustration. Her practice explores the female figure in relation to personal and cultural landscapes, often unfolding through two central themes: figures and flowers. Read moreAhmed Hmeedat is an artist from Bethlehem, Palestine. He has founded the Palestinian Artists’ Consortium Website in 2024, the only online platform that promotes the work of the Palestinian artists and empower them to navigate the global art market. Read more






Sireen El Araj
Palestinian Artist, Ramallah-based
@sss_elarajJeriah Lau
Chinese-Indonesian Artist, Naarm-based 
@jeriahlauRowan Marsh-Croft
Naarm-based Artist
@foxroyaleGeorgia Mulholland
Australian Artist, Naarm and Bethlehem-based
@georgiaamulhollandSireen El Araj is a visual artist and researcher born in Tulkarem, Palestine. whose work navigates the psychological landscapes of war, memory, and identity. Read moreJeriah Lau is a Naarm-based designer, photographer, and illustrator whose practice explores themes of place, memory, resistance, and quiet observation. Read moreRowan is a Naarm-based photographer with a focus on documentary and street photography. Their recent series, captured in 2024, offers a glimpse into daily life across Jordan—highlighting the people, landscapes, and quiet moments that define the region. 
Read more Georgia Mulholland is a multidisciplinary artist, humanitarian aid worker, curator, and community organiser. Working across sound, photography, and moving image, her artistic practice traces themes of place, memory, and resistance through deeply site-responsive and politically engaged works. 
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3een bi 2eed عين بإيد
Palestinian Artist, Jericho and Jerusalem based
@3eenbi2eedSJ Sabbagh
Palestinian/Irish Artist, Naarm-based
@sj.sabbaghLuqman Latif
Syrian/Lebanese Artist, Naarm-based
@luqman.musicAlaa Abuhilal
Palestinian, Jerusalem-based
@alaa.archive1The artist is a photographer and multidisciplinary artist whose work reflects themes of space, memory, and identity. She engages with photography as both a documentary and conceptual medium, often intertwining personal and collective narratives. Her projects explore the intersections of place and emotion, using imagery to reveal unseen layers of experience. The artist has exhibited her work in various contexts and continues to develop artistic projects that bridge visual storytelling with community engagement.Sofia is a Palestinian/Irish illustrator and comic artist raised on stolen Wurundjeri Country. She is interested in ecological and community engaged anti-capitalist movements and stories therein. 

Her work appears in various campaign propaganda and journals such as Overland literary journal, Going Down Swinging, Tart Magazine, Samandal, JoCAT and more. Luqman creates in Visual Arts (Painter/ Muralist) and the Sonic world (DJ/ Producer). In Visual Arts he's created bodies of work for Solo Exhibitions at; Fly Little Bird Gallery, Unassigned Gallery, Fifty-Five Bar; as well as in Workshop Bar in CBD and creating a sound installation for a group exhibition for France Design Week (l'Atelier des granges, 2023)Alaa Abuhilal is a passionate artist who seeks to impact and influence others through both personal expression and creative talent. Her work is a reflection of life in a region shaped by conflict, offering a window into the emotional and psychological effects of this reality. 

Through her art, Alaa aims to tell the stories of those whose voices are often unheard, using visual language to speak where words may fall short.






Laura McGuire
Canadian Artist, Naarm-based
@laulynxSam Hayes
Australian Artist, Naarm-based
@samhayes.xyzAngelita Biscotti
Filipino-'Australian' Artist, Naarm-based
@angelita.biscottiFrances Cannon
Naarm-based Artist
@frances_cannonLaura McGuire is a Canadian, Naarm-based photographer specialising in portrait photography. She has been taking portraits for over 20 years, focusing on the importance  of human connection. Read more
Navigating the boundary between present and past, designer Sam Hayes crafts enigmatic, methodical works that blend bold maximalist visuals with otherworldly sculptures.
Read moreAngelita Biscotti (she/they) is a contemporary artist working with photography, experimental writing, post-club electronic music, autotheory and live performance. Read moreFrances Cannon (they/them) is a lesbian, multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Narrm. They have solid practices in many mediums including illustration, oil painting, jewellery smithing, ceramics and sculpture. Read more







Dominic Catacutan
Filipino-“Australian” Artist, Naarm-based
@sanashootsKeiran Molaeb
Lebanese Artist, Naarm-based
@keiranmolaebart Fanny Lila Ali Abdou
French Artist, Marseille-based
@fannyabdFrances Kondis
Greek Artist, Naarm-based
@franipani84Dom (he/she/they) is a lens-based media artist with interest in still life, portraiture, and documentary photography using analogue and digital formats. His work presents his subjects in ways that subvert norms around gender and ethnicity. Read moreKeiran Molaeb is a local Lebanese queer artist creating work exploring aspects of cultural, interpersonal & familial connection with the intent to tribute, uplift and engrain memory.
Read moreBorn and raised in Marseille, south of France. Fanny has always been flowing between her roots, especially Yemen and Algeria. Deep connected to the divine feminine she is exploring art though movement and minerality as something out of any linearity. Frances Kondis (she/her) is a photographer from Naarm who has been documenting the Pro Palestine movement over the last few months. She is a quiet force that advocates for not only preserving but celebrating and protecting human life and showcasing the resilience of her fellow Protest comrades to the world. 


CURATORS

Towards Jericho is co-curated from Naarm and Bethlehem, embodying the transnational scope of both the exhibition and the work of Made in Palestine. This collaborative curatorial approach integrates perspectives from within Palestine and the diaspora, facilitating a critical dialogue between artists situated in their homeland and those shaped by displacement.

 Georgia Mulholland

Georgia Mulholland is a curator, multidisciplinary artist, community organiser and humanitarian worker. Drawing on a background in design (BA) and Masters studies in International Humanitarian Law, her curatorial work centres on themes of resistance, memory, and identity within contexts of displacement and dispossesion.

Since 2019, Georgia has served as the Program Director of Made in Palestine, a non-profit organisation that provides direct support to Palestinian families. Through this work, she has curated public events and educational initiatives that foreground Palestinian voices and encourage cross-cultural solidarity.

Her curatorial practice is embedded in long-term collaborations, with a focus on creating spaces that foster critical dialogue, community care, and artistic exchange. She works across disciplines and geographies, bringing together artists, organisers, and storytellers whose work speaks to lived experience, political urgency, and cultural resilience.

Towards Jericho is the latest in a series of exhibitions curated by Georgia that foregrounds voices often silenced or erased. Bringing together visual works by artists from Palestine, the Levant, and the broader region, the exhibition reflects on identity, land, longing, and resistance across diasporic and local contexts.Samar Abedrabo

Samar Abedrabo is a Bethlehem-based cultural worker with experience managing both humanitarian and arts initiatives. She currently serves as the Palestine-based Project Manager for Made in Palestine, and as the Coordination and Administrative Assistant at Wonder Cabinet, where she supports the development of community-engaged cultural programming.

Her curatorial practice is rooted in care, cultural memory, and collective resistance. Drawing on her lived experience in Palestine, she views art as a vital space for connection, visibility, and storytelling within—and beyond—contexts of occupation. Samar’s work bridges logistical coordination with curatorial sensitivity, ensuring that artistic practices are supported by strong community ties and local knowledge.

Towards Jericho marks her first co-curation of an international exhibition. Alongside her curatorial role, she supports Arabic translation, artist liaison, and on-the-ground coordination, grounding the exhibition in relationships with Palestinian artists and communities.



TOWARDS
JERICHO


19 — 25 June
Changing Room Gallery
Carlton, Naarm


Exhibition & Silent Auction for Palestine
Raising funds for crisis aid in Gaza

Foreword by Amir Ashkar
Curated by Georgia Mulholland and Samar Abedrabo



Made in Palestine acknowledges the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as Traditional Owners of the land we work on, and recognise the shared struggles of Palestinians and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders under settler-colonial systems. We are committed to justice everywhere.