Jasmin McNeill is a curator based in Toora, South Gippsland whose practice centres on developing contemporary art in regional Victoria through collaborative approaches that prioritise artist development, accessibility, and connection. She is particularly interested in environmental and socially engaged practices, often exploring themes of sustainability, place, and women’s perspectives in the context of regional life.Jasmin is an independent curator and is currently the Visual Arts Officer at Bass Coast Shire Council where she curates Berninneit Art Gallery and leads the annual public art program. Alongside this work, she is the co-founder of Toora Arts Network, a volunteer-run collective that supports and promotes artists through pop-up exhibitions, networking initiatives, and skills development opportunities.Her recent curatorial projects include Yawa (Long Journey) by Maree Clarke (2025), a major public art project with Bass Coast Shire Council, Toora ArtCubes pop-up residency program (2024-2026), as well as exhibitions including Hidden Ecology (Coal Creek, 2025), Of the Earth (Berninneit Art Gallery, 2025), Storied Country (Meeniyan Art Gallery, 2024), and Celebrating Gippsland Women (Meeniyan Art Gallery, 2023).Having lived and worked internationally, Jasmin brings a globally informed perspective to her locally embedded practice. She lives on and co-runs a small organic farm, grounding her curatorial approach in lived experiences of sustainability and connection to land.Jasmin acknowledges the Gunaikurnai as the Traditional Owners of the land where she lives and pays her respects to Elders past and present. These lands and waters have over 65,000 years of history, knowledge & culture tied to them. She recognises that sovereignty was never ceded.

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Bacchus
Fleet Wines, 2026 & Coal Creek Museum, 2026Role: Independant CuratorBacchus features works by four local artists, Fiona Blandford, Jan Learmonth, Sarah Parkes and Ellen Taylor, curated by Jasmin McNeill. For this exhibition, each artist has created new works in response to the winemaking process and surrounding landscape of Fleet Wines in Leongatha, as part of the South Gippsland Shire Council ArtCube residency program. Bacchus opens first at Fleet cellar door for three days from June 6th 2026, before travelling to Coal Creek in Korumburra for an extended winter showing until August 2026. The exhibition will be accompanied by a panel discussion on August 8th at Coal Creek, hearing from the artists alongside winery owners Justin and Lisa Jenkins.In this exhibition, each artist responds to Fleet in a distinct way, from the red earth where the grapes are grown, through fermentation, to ritual celebration, to the human condition and our relationship to cultivation. The works on display span wine painting, photography, flora installations, found object weavings and mixed media sculptures. The exhibition title, Bacchus, invokes Caravaggio’s 1596 painting of the god of wine, not the divine ideal but a figure marked by time, depicted with aging fruit, rouged cheeks and dirt beneath his nails. This image of wine - epitomising physicality, earth and decay - is a fitting symbol for what the four artists bring to this exhibition. Where wine is often cast as a signifier of the divine and wealthy, this exhibition insists on its origins in labour, process and impermanence, giving new meaning to Fleet’s preoccupation with “capturing those fleeting moments”.

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Yawa (Long Journey) by Maree Clarke
Berninneit, 2025Role: Curator, Bass Coast Shire CouncilCommissioned by Bass Coast Shire Council, Yawa (Long Journey) by Maree Clarke is a major public artwork permanently displayed in the Grand Hall of Berninneit cultural centre on Phillip Island. Yawa (Long Journey) consists of thirty Murrini glass panels, shaped and suspended to form a stunning glass canoe overhead. Patination on the glass captures the microscopic elements of the river reed and reflects the play of light and colour of the wetlands and ocean that surround Millowl, Phillip Island. The canoe references the long connection to waterways and history of travel to the island by First Nations people.
Over 300 community members contributed to the creation of these patterns in glass, during public workshops led by Maree Clarke and three generations of her family, Kerri Clarke, Wade Mahoney, Mitch Mahoney, Molly Mahoney and baby Yarran Clarke-Mahoney, in January and February 2025. The panels created in these community workshops were then sent to Canberra where they were fused and fabricated into their final form by Canberra Glassworks.Shortlisted for First Nations Project of the Year, 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Award by AMAGA Vic and PGAV.

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Hidden Ecology
Coal Creek Museum, 2025Role: Co-curator, Toora Arts NetworkHidden Ecology explores the layered beauty of Toora, a small town nestled on the edge of South Gippsland on the land of the Gunaikurnai people and home to an internationally significant wetland. The wetlands became internationally significant under the Ramsar Convention of 1975, highlighting its importance for conservation and biodiversity. Drawing inspiration from this significant site, the exhibiting artists visited the Toora Bird Hide where they became observers of the expansive wetlands, prolific birdlife and protected flora.This exhibition also comes together through printmaking. At the heart, is the Little Toora Press, reintroduced to the community through the Toora ArtCubes in 2024 where it was first purchased in 2001 for the once thriving Toora Village Community Arts Centre. The exhibiting artists were tasked to reflect on the ecology of Toora and the wetlands. Through a series of workshops, they came together to share knowledge and further learn the meticulous process of monoprinting guided by artist Sue Gilford.Featuring artists Wendy Davidson, Sue Gilford, Cameron Hayes, Gary Jackson, Lisa Kennedy, Kim McDonald, Deborah Read, Hilary Skelton, Ellen Taylor, Megan Williams and Page Williams. Curated by Sue Gilford, Jasmin McNeill and Ellen Taylor and the Toora Arts Network, established in 2024 in response to the community enthusiasm for more arts driven activities after the Toora ArtCubes project.

Of the Earth
Berninneit Art Gallery, 2025Role: Curator, Bass Coast Shire CouncilCelebrating the raw beauty of earth-made materials, Of the Earth features local artists Sue Gilford, Lucy Hersey, Paul Kolac, Olivia O’Connor and Ellen Taylor. Showcasing the aesthetic diversity of natural materials, this exhibition features homegrown gourds as natures pottery, earth pigment paintings, pottery crafted with locally sourced clay, carvings shaped from native woods and sculptural installations with wild plants. The artists are both inspired and dictated by nature, with the final form of their works inherently tied to the organic properties, textures, colours and shapes of their materials. This exhibition honours a collaborative and respectful relationship between art and the natural world through sustainable practices, celebrating our profound connection to earth.

ArtCubes
Toora, 2024, 2025-2026Role: Program ManagerThe ArtCubes are a temporary pop-up residency and exhibition program housed in converted shipping containers, designed by South Gippsland Shire Council to support local artists through short-term exhibition and residency space. The Toora iteration of the project aimed at providing professional development to local artists in the regional town of Toora, South Gippsland, Victoria. Presented by Toora Arts Network, a volunteer and community-driven collective that supports and promotes artists and art projects in and around the region. The Network aims to bring community together, through supporting professional development and funding and creating opportunities for exhibitions, workshops and events.

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Storied Country: Lisa Kennedy & Helen S. Tiernan
Meeniyan Art Gallery, 2024Role: Independent CuratorStoried Country celebrates artists Lisa Kennedy and Helen S. Tiernan living and working on Bunurong/Boon Wurrung and Gurnai Kurnai country, presented during NAIDOC Week 2024.The exhibition is a celebration of the layered narratives presented in both Kennedy and Tiernan's works while reflecting on the role of the language, shaping perception and influencing views on a shared past.

Celebrating Gippsland Women
Meeniyan Art Gallery, 2023Role: Independent CuratorTo celebrate International Women’s Day 2023, Meeniyan Art Gallery presents Helen Tiernan, Susan Purdy & Rosaline Atkins, and Catherine BlameyArtist in Conversation: Helen Tiernan, Susan Purdy & Catherine Blamey with Curator, Jasmin McNeill

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