A Bag of Rice for a Saturday Child
16 May – 12 June, 2026
Natalie de Rozario
Step into a world where myth meets migration, grief meets resilience, and the stories of our elders continue to breathe through us.
A Bag of Rice for a Saturday Child, traces the tender, mythic, and sometimes mischievous stories that have helped shape the cultural identity of Burmese‑Australian artist, Natalie de Rozario.
Sparked by a childhood moment beside a Naga statue and a grandmother’s tale of ‘buying’ her Saturday‑born grandchild for a bag of rice, the work unravels how memory, ritual, and ancestral intention migrate across generations. Through charcoal drawings, paintings, installation, family archives, songs, oral histories, and heirlooms gathered across decades, the exhibition explores what survives, what transforms, and how belonging is often found in the spaces between.
Opening event Friday, 15 May | 6pm – 8pm
Exhibition runs until Friday, 12 June.
Gallery hours:
Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Saturday + Sunday, 10am – 2pm
About the artist
Natalie de Rozario is a visual artist whose work explores migration, matriarchy, myth, and memory. She’s been a finalist in the 2023 Lester Prize, Town of Claremont and City of Belmont Art Awards (2021), and the South Perth Emerging Artist Award (2019). She won the City of Canning Resident Art Award and City of Gosnells Works on Paper Award in 2022, as well as the Atwell Youth Award in 2010.
Natalie presented two solo exhibitions and exhibited in 15 group shows, including at the University of Canberra (2022), the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Moores Building Contemporary Art, Artsource, Nysiztor Studio, Council House, No More Blank Walls Street Art Festival (2021), and the Art Space Collective. Her work has been featured in CONTINUUM Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference program, and Hello Keanu! Publication, and is held in private collections across Western Australia.
An advocate for activism in the arts, Natalie has produced fundraising exhibitions for social and environmental causes, including Bukjeh Hakaya of Home (2025), Burma Aid at Paper Mountain (2021) and Phoenix Bushfire Relief at YMCA Gallery (2020). She has contributed to the arts community through roles at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Regional Arts WA, and Paper Mountain Gallery.
Burmese Diaspora Storytelling
Sunday, 7 June
12pm – 2.00pm
Join us as intergenerational storytellers explore migration, memory, and myth within the Burmese diaspora.
Held within A Bag of Rice for a Saturday Child, artists and community members will share personal stories, ancestral knowledge, and lived experiences across generations. Through conversation and reflection, the event will create space to connect, listen, and honour the stories that shape identity, belonging, and cultural continuity.
Storytellers include: Chaw Su Wai, Elizabeth Lewis, Christopher Lin, Alex Loo, Khin Myint, and Natalie de Rozario, with a DJ set from Gabby Loo inspired by her experiences of Burmese-Chinese diaspora.
Light refreshments included.
Free, all welcome
