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TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art | Exhibitions | Art Fair | Events 8-18 October 2015 | Exhibitions continue until 17 January 2016TRANSCRIPT
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FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL
AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER ART
EXHIBITIONS | ART FAIR | EVENTS
8–18 OCTOBER 2015
EXHIBITIONS CONTINUE UNTIL 17 JANUARY 2016
ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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INTRODUCTION
A world which imagines, creates and celebrates unique identities built on cultural understanding and generosity is a world we all aspire to live in: such is the vision enthusiastically expressed in TARNANTHI.
It is with great pride and pleasure that we invite artists and audiences to participate in this inaugural event, and we express our gratitude to the Kaurna people on whose lands we are celebrating.
The range and depth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic practice distinguishes Australia on the world stage, and at a time in our country’s political history when the mainstream art world seems easier to embrace than diverse cultural practice, we applaud the efforts of the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Government of South Australia and BHP Billiton in valuing and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to realise opportunities to share their stories.
We would like to acknowledge the important contribution of our fellow TARNANTHI Cultural Advisory Committee members Mandy Brown, Elaine Kite (proxy Matthew Moore), Hetti Perkins, David Miller (proxy Alison Milyika Carroll), Dr Lewis O’Brien, AO, Khatija Thomas, Simone Tur, Philip Watkins and Tracey Whiting, Chair of the Art Gallery Board.
By coming together, not just to witness and enjoy the extraordinary art of our artists and engage with a range of ideas, we are also fostering positive relationships across all our communities.
TARNANTHI speaks both for diversity and belonging, showcasing the integrity of contemporary artistic practice while acknowledging the continuation and evolution of the world’s oldest surviving culture.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists show us a worldview which continues to challenge and inspire us all. Through its lens they offer a gift to future generations and a treasure which all Australians can cherish.
KLYNTON WANGANEEN
LEE-ANN TJUNYPA BUCKSKIN
Co-Chairs, TARNANTHI Cultural Advisory Committee
TARNANTHI, the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, is a showcase and celebration of Indigenous culture in South Australia.
Presenting modern Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander works on a scale never before seen in South Australia, the festival features mostly new art across 22 venues and introduces hundreds of artists to large audiences.
Artists from the bush are exhibiting alongside their city colleagues, and together their works explore areas ranging from ancestral creation stories to responses to modern life.
South Australia is a gateway to our continent’s central desert region, so we are especially well placed to host a large and diverse festival of this kind.
Besides improving our understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life and placing a spotlight on emerging artists, TARNANTHI adds to South Australia’s international reputation as the Festival State.
TARNANTHI has something for everyone, and I am sure it will enrich Adelaide and leave a legacy that honours all Australians.
I look forward to seeing you at the exhibitions, the Art Fair and other events being held across the city from 8 October 2015.
HON JAY WEATHERILL MP
Premier of South Australia
We are delighted to announce our support of TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
We would like to recognise the commitment of the South Australian Government and the Art Gallery of South Australia to provide a platform for all South Australians to support contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, through the exhibitions across the city as well as the Art Fair at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute.
As a global resources company, many of our operations are located on or near lands traditionally owned by Indigenous peoples. Because of this, we are able to engage in meaningful and inclusive dialogue, celebrate diversity in culture, and enhance the long-term benefits our activities provide to local and regional communities.
TARNANTHI is a wonderful partnership which showcases the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture across Australia, and aligns with our approach to collaboration and support of Indigenous communities. We invite you to share the TARNANTHI experience with us here in Adelaide, and celebrate the coming together of many diverse groups of people, perspectives and cultures.
JACQUI MCGILL
Asset President BHP Billiton Olympic Dam
detail: Alair Pambegan, Wik-Mungkan people, Queensland Walkaln-aw (Bone Fish Story place) 1, 2014 ochre on canvas Image courtesy the artist
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WELCOMETarnanthi, pronounced tar-nan-dee, is a Kaurna word from the traditional owners of the Adelaide Plains. It means to come forth or appear – like the sun and the first emergence of light, or a seed sprouting. For many cultures, first light signifies new beginnings.
TARNANTHI’s vision has been to provide artists with the opportunity to create significant new work. We welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country to Adelaide to share their stories and their culture through their works of art.
The Art Gallery of South Australia will be showcasing its most ambitious exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art in its 134-year history, and this will be the heart of the TARNANTHI program. We are honoured to present TARNANTHI in partnership with BHP Billiton and supported by the Government of South Australia.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity for audiences to explore galleries across the city displaying works that celebrate the diversity of artistic practice across Australia today. We warmly welcome our artists, partners and audiences to the inaugural TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
NICI CUMPSTON
Artistic Director TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
NICK MITZEVICH
Director Art Gallery of South Australia
The Art Gallery of South Australia acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains and recognises that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today. The Gallery celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture and expresses its gratitude and respect to the artists who create these works. The Gallery also pays respect to the cultural authority of Aboriginal people visiting here from across Australia.
TARNANTHI is about bringing people together to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of work being created by contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country. With exhibitions at the Gallery and across the city, TARNANTHI will challenge and delight audiences.
NICI CUMPSTON
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CONTENTS
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Warning Members of Aboriginal communities are respectfully advised that some of the people mentioned in writing or depicted in photographs in the following pages have passed away. All such mentions and photographs in this publication are with permission.
Note to the reader Unless otherwise noted, all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words mentioned in the following pages are spelt as advised by the relevant cultural authority. Approval for the use of Tarnanthi and Panpa-panpalya has been granted by Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi.
01 INTRODUCTION
02 Welcome
04 TARNANTHI Launch
05 TARNANTHI Art Fair
06 Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie
09 TARNANTHI at the Gallery
17 PARTNER EXHIBITIONS
28 EVENTS
29 Panpa-panpalya
30 Events at the Gallery
34 Acknowledgements
35 Collaboration
37 Thank You
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The Art Gallery of South Australia in partnership with BHP Billiton and supported by the Government of South Australia invites you to the launch of TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Kicking off on the front steps of the Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace, TARNANTHI, the most significant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander festival ever seen in South Australia, will commence with a ceremonial welcome for artists and visitors alike.
With entertainment from 5.30pm, the Gallery will open its doors from 6pm until 9pm and invites audiences to be among the first to see this extraordinary festival. Presenting new works of art by contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia, TARNANTHI’s launch is an event not to be missed.
There will be music and a chance to meet visiting artists – this is a public event and everyone is welcome.
Thursday 8 October 2015 6 – 9pm Art Gallery of South Australia Free, all welcome
*Speeches will be outdoor and will proceed rain or shine. In the case of severe weather, please refer to www.tarnanthi.com.au for final arrangements.
TARNANTHI LAUNCH
BIG WEEKENDGet ready for a Big Weekend! With TARNANTHI exhibitions open across Adelaide, immerse yourself in contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art as you enjoy workshops, performances and special events at the Art Gallery of South Australia or at one of our partner venues.
Please check the TARNANTHI website closer to the event for more details.
Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 10am – 5pm at venues across Adelaide Free, all welcome
*Individual venue hours may vary
detail: Pepai Jangala Carroll, Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia Walungurru, 2014 synthetic polymer paint on canvas Courtesy the artist and Ernabella Arts and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne
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TARNANTHI ART FAIR More than 40 art centres from across Australia will be represented at the TARNANTHI Art Fair on the festival’s opening weekend at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. Festival-goers will have a rare opportunity to buy works of art priced from $50 to over $10,000 directly from artists and art centres. This is Adelaide’s first national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art fair. Practical workshops, including weaving workshops led by the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, will be part of the fun.
This event is co-programmed with the Festival of Architecture and Design.
Friday 9 October 5 – 9pm Saturday 10 October 10am – 6pm Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Free, all welcome253 Grenfell Street, Adelaide
PARTICIPATING ART CENTRES
Ananguku Arts & Culture SICAD program (representing independent SA artists)
APY Lands (SA) – Ernabella Arts – Iwantja Arts – Kaltjiti Arts and Crafts – Mimili Maku Arts – Ninuku Arts – Tjala Arts – Tjungu Palya
Baluk Arts (Vic)
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre (NT)
Bula’bula Arts (NT)
Erub Arts (TSI)
Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre (Qld)
Ikuntji Artists (NT)
Injalak Arts and Crafts (NT)
Kimberley Aboriginal Artists (WA) – Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency – Mowanjum Aboriginal Art & Culture Centre – Waringarri Aboriginal Arts – Warmun Art Centre
Maningrida Arts and Culture (NT)
Maruku Arts (NT)
Merrepen Arts Centre (NT)
Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra/Many Hands Art Centre (NT)
Pormpuraaw Art and Culture Centre (Qld)
Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (NT)
Tiwi Artists (NT) – Jilamara Arts and Crafts - Munupi Art Centre – Tiwi Design
Tjanpi Desert Weavers (SA/NT/WA)
Tjutjuna Arts, Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Culture Centre (SA)
Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu (NT)
Western Desert Mob (WA) – Kayili Artists – Minyma Kutjara Arts Project – Papulankutja Artists – Tjarlirli Artists – Warakurna Artists
Artist Mumu Mike Williams from Mimili Maku Arts, Mimili, South Australia Photograph John Montesi, 2015
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RIVERLAND:
YVONNE KOOLMATRIE
As a highlight exhibition within TARNANTHI at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie presents the 30-year career of this significant Ngarrindjeri artist. Koolmatrie’s elegant woven forms are created using the labour-intensive process of hand-harvesting river sedge from the banks of the Murray River. Embedded in the traditions of Ngarrindjeri culture and animated by her boundless imagination, Koolmatrie’s woven forms are the equilibrium of tradition and innovation.
The Riverland curatorial team comprises TARNANTHI Artistic Director Nici Cumpston, curator and writer Hetti Perkins, and artist and curator Jonathan Jones, with the exhibition developed in close consultation with Koolmatrie. All of these voices will be heard in the lavishly illustrated publication, edited by Genevieve O’Callaghan and including extensive interviews with the artist, essays by Hetti Perkins and John Kean and a personal account written by Koolmatrie’s son, Chris Koolmatrie.
Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie and TARNANTHI catalogues RRP: $34.95 each Gallery Members: Both publications for $50 Available online: www.tarnanthi.com.au
12 September – 10 January 2016 Art Gallery of South Australia Open daily 10am – 5pm
Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ngarrindjeri people, South Australia Shrimp scoop, 2015 spiny-headed sedge (Cyperus gymnocaulos) Acquisition through TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP Billiton 2015 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Courtesy the artist and Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney Photograph Jenni Carter
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This Festival celebrates the role that artists play in shaping our world. By encouraging emerging artists to make new work, supporting established artists to present to new audiences and honouring respected and established artists through the presentation of their work in new ways, TARNANTHI has kept a strong focus on artists.
NICK MITZEVICH, DIRECTOR
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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TARNANTHI AT THE GALLERY
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8 October 2015 – 17 January 2016 Art Gallery of South Australia Open daily 9am – 5pm Free, all welcome
FEATURED
Tony Albert
Desert Salon
Gladdy Kemarre
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Kulata Tjuta Project
Dinni Kunoth Kemarre
Josie Kunoth Petyarre
Karen Mills
Namatjira Collection
Mavis Ngallametta
Ngarra
Alair Pambegan
Reko Rennie
Brian Robinson
Yhonnie Scarce
Spinifex Arts Project
Tangentyere Artists
Warwick Thornton
Cornelia Tipuamantumirri
Delores Tipuamantumirri
James Tylor
Douglas Watkin
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
Raymond Zada
At the Art Gallery of South Australia visitors will experience the diversity of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. From far northern tropical Australia to the heart of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands and inner-city studios, the collective vision of the TARNANTHI exhibition delivers a comprehensive geography of ideas.
A cloud of glass lit from within will introduce audiences to TARNANTHI at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In her most ambitious installation to date, Yhonnie Scarce suspends more than 2000 individually blown glass bush yams in the shape of the nuclear bomb blasts conducted at Maralinga in the north of South Australia between 1953 and 1963.
Art and AFL meld in Dinni Kunoth Kemarre and Josie Kunoth Petyarre’s Bush Footy. Since 2006, the husband and wife ‘team Kunoth’ have been celebrating the role of Australian Football in Central Australian communities. Based on individual AFL players, Kemarre’s painted wooden sculptures express an eye for detail and a passion for the game, an enthusiasm shared by Petyarre, whose paintings of football ‘bush-style’, show community gatherings of players and extended families, trucks, and dogs against a rich field of red sand.
Gloria Pannka, Arrernte/Luritja people, Northern Territory Tjuritja (West MacDonnell Ranges), 2014 watercolour on paper Image courtesy the artist and Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra/Many Hands Art Centre
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Other exhibition highlights at the Art Gallery include new acquisitions by Aurukun artist Alair Pambegan, including his recent collaboration with Tony Albert titled Frontier Wars: Bone Fish Story Place. Albert will also exhibit his award-winning photographic series, We Can Be Heroes.
Also at the Gallery, the Desert Salon presents inventive approaches to subject matter while holding dear the beloved tradition of acrylic painting on canvas. Explosive seed Dreamings from Lajamanu, finely structured renditions of Country from Ernabella, collaborative dynamics from Tjala Arts and iconic forms from Iwantja are among this line-up of bush talent.
Celebrating contemporary Aboriginal art on a scale never before seen in South Australia, TARNANTHI also includes newly commissioned large-scale work by Reko Rennie, sculptural works by Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Brian Robinson’s Custodian of the Blooms, Douglas Watkin’s animation The Queen & I, daguerrotypes by James Tylor, Raymond Zada’s reinterpretation of Colonel William Light’s 1838 survey, held in the History SA collection, and new moving-image work by Warwick Thornton.
In their diversity of media, these works will be complemented by paintings in ochre by Tiwi artists Cornelia and Delores Tipuamantumirri, Darwin-based Karen Mills and Aurukun painter Mavis Ngallametta, new acrylic paintings on canvas by Spinifex Arts Project and ‘portraits of Country’ by Alice Springs-based Tangentyere Artists.
Also at the Art Gallery will be recent works on paper and larrakitj by Yolngu artist Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, and a tribute to Ngarra from Derby in the Western Desert through a selection of his work on canvas and paper. Finally, the Namatjira Collection presents, with innovation and beauty, skirts and corresponding watercolours painted in the tradition of Albert Namatjira by his descendants. This collection will enchant art and fashion lovers alike.
The TARNANTHI exhibition publication maps the breadth and depth of the exhibitions held across and beyond the city of Adelaide, including those held at the Art Gallery of South Australia. This beautifully illustrated publication combines works of art from the exhibitions, photographs of artists working on Country, in art centres and in their studios and insightful essays by esteemed authors from across Australia.
TARNANTHI and Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie catalogues RRP: $34.95 each Gallery Members: Both publications for $50 Available online: www.tarnanthi.com.au
Dinni Kunoth Kemarre, Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory Fremantle Docker #3 synthetic polymer paint on Bean Tree (E. vespertilio) Image courtesy the artist, Mossenson Galleries, Marc Gooch and Janet Pierce
Opposite detail: Spinifex Arts Project, women’s collaborative by Estelle Hogan, Myrtle Pennington, Betty Kennedy, Ngalpingka Simms, Lois Pennington, Lorraine Davies, Veronica Brown, Yarangka Thomas, Kanta Donnegan and Tjaruwa Woods Pitjantjatjara people, Western Australia Kuru Ala, 2015 synthetic polymer paint on linen Courtesy the artists and Spinifex Arts Project Photograph Amanda Dent
Spinifex Arts Project, women collaborating on Kuru Ala, Ilkurlka, 2015 Photograph Stephen Oxenbury
The Way of the Ngangkari by Warwick Thornton is a co-commissioned work between the Adelaide Film Festival and TARNANTHI.
A snap shot of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic practice that proves diversity is the only unifying theme.
NICI CUMPSTON
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KULATA TJUTA
PROJECT
Led by senior artist Willy Kaika Burton, the Kulata Tjuta Project started in Amata community, South Australia, and now involves men from the seven art centres on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. This ongoing cultural maintenance project shares the skills of spear-making across generations, with the resulting installation incorporating film, sound and live performance. Senior men, including Adrian Intjalki, David Franks, Keith Stevens and Mike Williams, have enlisted the support of young men from the lands, and have collaborated with Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones in the creation of their vision for Kulata Tjuta. This latest work, which will be shared during TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, explores the relationship Anangu have with Country and was dedicated by the senior men to those who have begun the fight to keep their communities open and stay on Country.
For further information www.tarnanthi.com.au
Detail of Kulata Spears project, Mimili Maku Arts, Mimili, South Australia Photograph John Montesi, 2015
Opposite detail: Makinti Napanangka Pintupi people, Northern Territory/Western Australia Two travelling women at Lupulnga, 2009 synthetic polymer paint on linen Courtesy the artist and Papunya Tula Artists
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Josie Kunoth Petyarre Anmatyerre people, Northern Territory Football Alice Springs, 2014 synthetic polymer paint on linen Image courtesy the artist and Mossenson Galleries
Opposite detail: Yhonnie Scarce, Kokatha/Nukunu people, South Australia Blown glass yams, 2015 Photograph Anna Fenech Harris, 2015
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detail: Marita Sambono Ngan’gikurrunggurr people, Northern Territory Fog Dreaming hand screen printed on fabric Courtesy the artist and Merrepen Arts
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OUR MOB 2015: ART BY SOUTH AUSTRALIAN
ABORIGINAL ARTISTS
10 Oct – 6 Dec Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace Gallery and Festival Theatre foyer King William Road, Adelaide Sat 10 Oct 10am – 4pm Sun 11 Oct – Sun 18 Oct, 11am – 4pm 21 Oct – 6 Dec, Wed – Sun 11am – 4pm Festival Theatre foyer hours Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm and performance times
OUR MOB
PORT AUGUSTA
5 Sep – 3 Oct Port Augusta Culture Centre – Yarta Purtli 6 Beauchamp Lane, Port Augusta Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm Sat 10am – 1pm ‘Market Day’ Sun 20 Sep 9.30am – 12pm
Access Disability access
Presenting Partners
Our Mob is presented by Adelaide Festival Centre in partnership with Country Arts SA and Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation.
In celebrating ten years, Our Mob 2015 features a regional exhibition in partnership with Port Augusta City Council at Port Augusta Culture Centre – Yarta Purtli and is included in TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
OUR MOB
PARTNER EXHIBITIONS
Imuna Kenta, Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia Kamula Munu Anangu Kutjara, raffia, acrylic yarn, wire Image courtesy Tjanpi Desert Weavers
10 – 12 Oct, 11am – 4pm Artspace GalleryRay Coulthard, Adnyamathanha Elder: Master Carver
10 Oct – 6 Dec Artspace Gallery and Festival Theatre foyerOur Mob Our Young Mob Our Mob Contemporary – Old & New: Unbroken Threads of Ngarrindjeri Traditions Anna Dowling: Ripple Effect
Access Disability access via Festival Theatre lift, Amphitheatre ramp to Artspace Gallery and footbridge via Station Road
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The world is not
a foreign land
Timothy Cook, Djambawa Marawili, Ngarra, Rusty Peters, Freda Warlapinni and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
An Ian Potter Museum of Art and NETS Victoria touring exhibition Curator Quentin Sprague
Spanning three geographically and culturally diverse regions from Northern Australia – the Tiwi Islands, the Kimberley and north-eastern Arnhem Land – The world is not a foreign land examines the way in which ‘Indigenous contemporary art’ is conceived today. Striking and stylistically distinct, the works of the six artists unveil intricate and sometimes unexpected relationships across apparent geographical or linguistic categories. The formal arrangements ask audiences to consider the ways art objects operate beyond the contemporary art space.
26 Sep – 29 Nov Flinders University City Gallery State Library of South Australia North Terrace, Adelaide Tue – Fri 11am – 4pm Sat – Sun 12 – 4pm
Access Disabled access, toilets, lifts
Roma Butler, Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia Kapi Ungkupayi, synthetic polymer paint on canvas Courtesy the artist and Minyma Kutjara Arts Project
KAPI UNGKUPAYI /
HE GAVE US WATER
Roma Peterman Butler, Ivy Laidlaw, Jennifer Mitchell, Tjawina Roberts and Tjayanka Woods
Curators Mary Knights and Claire Wildish
The artsists have created an immersive installation in the SASA Gallery that reveals the strength of their culture and connection to Country. In January 2013 while out bush gathering punu (wood used for carving) the Toyota that they were travelling in ran out of petrol. Stranded in the desert for five days they drew on traditional knowledge to find food and water. The experience echoed the Minyma Kutjara and Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Two Sister and Seven Sister Dreaming) that traverses their country. As well as recounting a contemporary tjukurpa, the artists have staged this exhibition as a protest against the threatened closure of remote communities in West Australia.
22 Sep – 23 Oct SASA Gallery Art, Architecture & Design, UniSA Kaurna Building, City West campus Cnr Fenn Place + Hindley Street, Adelaide Mon – Fri 11am – 5pm
Access Disability access, ramp off Hindley Street into entry, disability toilets Presenting Partner
Presenting Partners
BALNHDHURR: A
LASTING IMPRESSION
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka
Showcasing 20 years of the Yirrkala Print Space at Buku-Larrnggay Mulka in north east Arnhem Land.
The Yirrkala Print Space, begun in 1995, has produced over 700 editions by 135 artists and is an integral part of the art centre and community. Visit this exceptional exhibition to learn more about one of the few printing studios based in community dedicated to providing an environment to educate, engage and strengthen the vision of Yolngu through artistic skills development and exploration of non-traditional techniques. Young participants have begun to establish themselves as the next generation of Yolngu artists and the Print Space offers them an empowering and valuable practice as a foundation on which to develop.
24 Sep – 22 Oct Light Square Gallery Adelaide College of the Arts 39 Light Square, Adelaide Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Access All ability access to building, gallery and bathroom facilities. Access via ramp and elevator.
detail: Djuwakan (DJ) Marika, Yolngu people, Northern Territory Mari, 2012, screenprint Image courtesy the artist and Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
Presenting Partners
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Yolngu people, Northern Territory Mangutji #6 with square, 2010, natural pigments on bark Private collection, Melbourne Courtesy the artist and Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
The development, presentation, promotion and tour of this project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
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JEWELLERY HAS
ALWAYS BEEN HERE
Niningka Munkuri Lewis, Marissa Thompson and Anne Thompson, from Ernabella Arts, and Virginia Ngalaia Napanangka and Walter Jugadai Tjungurrayi, from Ikuntji Artists
Curator Emily McCulloch Childs
An exhibition of jewellery, small objects and films that investigates Anangu jewellery and other three-dimensional traditional and experimental design. It features works created in resin and silver from workshops undertaken on Country with Kate Rohde.
2 Oct – 28 Nov JamFactory GalleryTwo 19 Morphett Street, Adelaide Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm Sun 12 – 4pm
Access Access to ground floor, lift to other floors, external ramp to glass studio viewing platform, disability toilet on ground floor.
NEAR HORIZONS
Christina Gollan, Beaver Lennon, Damien Shen and Jacob Stengle
Curators Allison Russell and Mandy Paul
Presenting the work of four South Australian artists, Near Horizons shares an interest in stories of family and contemporary connections to Country. Located within the Migration Museum, this exhibition creates a dialogue about migration to South Australia and its impact on Aboriginal people.
3 Oct – 6 Dec Migration Museum 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm Sat, Sun + public holidays 1pm – 5pm Free. All Welcome
Access Accessible venue
detail: Beaver Lennon, Antikirinya/Mirning people, Ceduna, South Australia Painted Desert, 2011, synthetic polymer paint on polycotton University of South Australia Art Collection, image courtesy Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art Courtesy the artist and Tjutjuna Arts, Ceduna Aboriginal Arts and Culture Centre
Presenting Partners Presenting Partner
Virginia Ngalaia Napanangka Western Desert bangle series Courtesy the artist and Ikuntji Artists. Photo: Daniel Coutts
This Ernabella Arts project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. This Ikuntji Artists project has been assisted with support from Santos.
SHIMMER
Sebastian Arrow, Tamara Baillie, Maree Clarke, Dale Harding, Janet Fieldhouse, Nicole Foreshew, Grace Lillian Lee and Vicki West
Curators Margaret Hancock Davis and Coby Edgar
Shimmer is a collaborative project between JamFactory, the South Australian Museum and TARNANTHI. The project offers artists from across Australia the opportunity to undertake research within one of the South Australian Museum collections, working closely with the curators to explore contemporary forms of adornment.
Shimmer is showing at both JamFactory and the South Australian Museum.
2 Oct – 28 Nov JamFactory GalleryOne 19 Morphett Street, Adelaide Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm Sun 12 – 4pm
South Australian Museum North Terrace, Adelaide Daily 10am – 5pm
Access JamFactory: Access to ground floor, lift to other floors, disability toilet on ground floor SA Museum: Wheelchair accessible and service animals are freely admitted.
Presenting Partners
Artist Dale Harding views the South Australian Museum collection in preparation for Shimmer, a collaboration between the South Australian Museum and JamFactory for TARNANTHI
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BOUND & UNBOUND:
SOVEREIGN ACTS–ACT II
Ali Gumillya Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch, Natalie Harkin and Simone Ulalka Tur
Curator Ali Gumillya Baker
Incorporating performance, projection, politics and poetics, Bound and Unbound Act II is the sequel to the highly successful first act presented in Adelaide in 2014. Conceived and curated by Ali Gumillya Baker as an experimental, multi-stage and multi-site project, it reflects on knowledge production, ethical practice, activism, education and the visual and performing arts through intergenerational narratives.
Performance 1 8 Oct at 7.30pm Roaming performance, meet at AGSA Fish Gates
Performance 2 14 Oct at 7.30pm State Library of SA forecourt
Access The event will be outdoors on level ground.
Ali Gumillya Baker Faye Rosas Blanch, Unbound Sovereign Acts, 2015 Image courtesy the artist
Bound and Unbound Act II is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and TARNANTHI
Presenting Partner
DESART
PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Curated by art workers Robert Fielding (Mimili Maku Arts), Unrupa Rhonda Dick (Tjala Arts), Marisa Maher (Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra/Many Hands Art Centre), Rosina Ryder (Keringke ARTS), and Rhonda Plummer (Barkly Regional Arts)
The Desart Aboriginal Art Workers’ Program provides training, mentoring and skill development leading to employment opportunities for Aboriginal art workers in art centres across Central Australia. TARNANTHI provides an opportunity for the art workers to extend their practice and curate a selection of the photographs, created by themselves as well as other art workers, featured in the Desart Photography Prize over the past four years.
The exhibition will also feature a suite of exceptional prints created at a printmaking workshop held at Cicada Press in Sydney at the University of New South Wales. Participants include four of the Desart photography prize participants as well as two additional artists.
8 Oct – 1 Nov Institute Gallery and Ante Room State Library of South Australia Institute Building Cnr North Tce + Kintore Ave, Adelaide Daily 10am – 5pm
Access Access via ramp on western side of Institute Building. Access also via glass foyer entrance.
GROWING CULTURE
Sasha Grbich and Amy Pfitzner
Curated by Polly Dance, as part of Adelaide City Council’s Emerging Curator Program
Growing Culture brings together the practices of emerging Aboriginal photography artist Amy Pfitzner and Adelaide-based sound and installation artist Sasha Grbich in a curated exhibition housed in the 24/7 viewable gallery, Art Pod.
Both artists have a vested interest in and curiosity about the natural world around them. Their work draws our attention to the unexpected detail and strange beauty of the natural and cultural landscape that we walk daily. Details, changes and growth that could so easily pass us by are the focus of a series of sound, video and photography installations. Here, nature asserts itself in often mysterious, yet magical ways, that need to be seen to be believed.
8 Oct – 4 Dec Art Pod 25 Pirie Street, Adelaide Exhibition viewable 24/7
Access Disability access
Amy Pfitzner, Father (Family Culture), 2012 The Desart Photography Prize trophy, by Niningka Lewis, Ernabella Arts. Image courtesy Desart
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WARRIAPPENDI
LIGHTS UP THE
LANTERN
Students of Warriappendi Secondary School
In July and August 2015, students from Warriappendi Secondary School in Marleston participated in a series of guided workshops to create moving-image content for Adelaide’s iconic Rundle Lantern. The students learnt how to use computer animation to bring their artworks to life while developing skills in digital design using open source software. Warriappendi Lights Up The Lantern showcases their work.
8 Oct – 31 Jan 2016 Rundle Lantern Corner Rundle Street + Pulteney Street, Adelaide Sun – Thu, sunset – 12am Fri – Sat, sunset – 2am
Access The Rundle Lantern is an outdoor screen venue and is best viewed from the entrance to Rundle Mall or from the footpaths opposite the lantern on Rundle Street.
Rundle Lantern Photo: Steve Rendoulis
Presenting Partners
BITING THE AIR
Fiona Foley
Created on South Stradbroke Island with local Quandamooka woman Delvene Cockatoo Collins as her model and surrogate, and photographed by Foley’s long-time collaborative partner Carl Warner, Biting the Air presents new work alongside a selection of recent works.
While some of Foley’s earlier work has reflected on her personal life, Biting the Air is her most personally driven work to date.
9 Oct – 22 Nov Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia14 Porter Street, Parkside Tue – Fri 11am – 5pm Sat – Sun 1 – 5pm
AccessWheelchair accessible
Presenting Partner
detail: Fiona Foley, Badtjala people, Queensland School’s in, 2015, inkjet print Collection of the artist. Courtesy the artist, Andrew Baker Art Dealer and Niagara Galleries
NGANMARRA — THE
CONTAINER OF LIFE
Julie Djulibing Malibirr, Robyn Djunginy, Evonne Munuyngu, Mary Dhapalany and Frances Djulibing Daingangan
Curators Sara White, Ben Wallace and Tony Kanellos
Located within Adelaide Botanic Garden, Nganmarra offers an immersive installation of woven forms in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany. Nganmarra asks audiences to reflect on the cultural, economic and sacred values of the plant kingdom and highlights the extraordinary talents of senior women artists from Bula’bula Arts in Ramingining, north-east Arnhem Land.
8 Oct – 31 Jan 2016 Santos Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide Botanic Garden North Terrace, Adelaide Daily 10am – 4pm
Access Disability access
detail of installation view: Frances Djulibing Daingangan, Mary Dhapalany, Robyn Djunginy, Julie Djulibing Malibirr, Evonne Munuyngu Nganmarra – the container of life, 2015, gunga (Pandanus spiralis) and natural dyes Courtesy the artists and Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining Photo: Grant Hancock
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detail: Daniel Boyd, Kudjla/Gangalu people, Queensland A Darker Shade of Dark #1 – 4, 2012, HD video, 16:9 with sound, 4-channel video installation, duration 20 minutes. Sound: Ryan Grieve. Image courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Daniel Boyd, A Darker Shade of Dark #1 – 4 is a Samstag Museum of Art exhibition in association with the Adelaide Film Festival.
A DARKER SHADE
OF DARK #1–4
Daniel Boyd
A Darker Shade of Dark #1– 4 is a spectacularly immersive video installation and a compelling sensory experience not to be missed. Daniel Boyd is best known as a painter whose theme of inheritance concerns the stories that are lost when overtaken by dominant colonial histories. Boyd’s dots also function as a metaphor for the corrosive effect of time and memory. In A Darker Shade of Dark #1– 4, his subject has shifted to the exploratory world of astrophysics: dark matter, particle physics and indeterminate cosmologies. Using shimmering and shifting fields of animated dots, his four-channel, floor-to-ceiling video projection is mysterious and dreamlike.
9 Oct – 4 Dec Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art University of South Australia 55 North Terrace, Adelaide Tue – Fri 11am – 5pm Thu until 7pm, Sat 2 – 5pm
Access All public areas easily accessible by wheelchair
detail: Archie Moore, Kamilaroi people, New South Wales Les Eaux d’Amoore, 2014 Photo: Jessica Maurer, courtesy The Commercial Gallery, Sydney
Archie Moore, Les Eaux d’Amoore is a Samstag Museum of Art exhibition in association with the Adelaide Film Festival.
LES EAUX D’AMOORE
Archie Moore
In this elegant and unusual exhibition, Queensland-based artist Archie Moore has devised a highly original way to explore themes of Aboriginal dispossession and the colonial past. An artist of deceptively gentle method with a deeply acute personal intent, Moore has worked with a master perfumer to create a selection of beautifully presented ‘perfume portraits’ for Les Eaux d’Amoore. These olfactory offerings venture well beyond the repertoire of traditional perfumes; they evoke the artist’s recollection of the diverse smells of his childhood in south-east Queensland. For example ‘Presage’ is the aroma of graphite pencils and paper from his first day of school in an inhospitable white-dominated society; ‘Sapphistication’, a combination of Brut 33 and rum, is the smell of his sophisticated aunties.
9 Oct – 4 Dec Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art University of South Australia 55 North Terrace, Adelaide Tue – Fri 11am to 5pm Thu until 7pm, Sat 2 – 5pm
Access All public areas easily accessible by wheelchair
Presenting Partners Presenting Partners
OVERSEER/OFFICER
Jason Wing
In Jason Wing’s new work, Overseer/Officer, Australia’s farming industry becomes a powerful metaphor for the dispossession, incarceration and genocide of Aboriginal people across Australia. Repurposing corroded farming detritus, Wing transforms seemingly harmless objects into the tools used to oppress, each delicately embellished with natural material and fibres. Recalling Australia’s horrific statistics around Aboriginal deaths in custody, Wing combines these brutal – yet beautiful – shackles with a compelling sound work that draws parallels between the Stockman, or Overseer, and the police force.
9 Oct – 22 Nov Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia14 Porter Street, Parkside Tue – Fri 11am – 5pm Sat – Sun 1 – 5pm
AccessWheelchair accessible
Presenting Partner
Jason Wing, Biripi people, New South Wales Overseer/Officer, 2015, mixed media Image courtesy the artist
PARTNER EXHIBITIONS
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ONE LOVE, ONE
FAMILY: BARNGARLA
STORIES OF RESILIENCE
Maureen Atkinson, Patricia Dare, Jeanne Miller, Colleen Taylor, Debra Anne Brown, Roger Miller, Linda Dare, Candace Taylor, Kendall McKenzie, Harry Dare Jnr, Dwaylene Brown and Heather Shearer
The One Love, One Family exhibition showcases the outcomes of the Barngarla: Stories of Resilience project delivered in 2014, which involved Barngarla people from Port Augusta, in particular the Dare family, in an innovative approach to narrative therapy and art making.
Nexus Arts developed the arts-health project model with the Dulwich Centre Foundation, with artist Heather Shearer leading the art-making workshops. The project represents a successful model for community and personal healing, and the Barngarla people guided every step with sensitivity and grace, helping to develop an adaptable framework for future communities.
10 Oct – 13 Nov Nexus Arts Gallery Lion Arts Centre Cnr North Terrace + Morphett St, Adelaide Tue – Fri 9am – 5pm Thu 9am – 7pm
Access Access via courtyard ramp
PORT FESTIVAL
The City of Port Adelaide Enfield is partnering with TARNANTHI to showcase its local Aboriginal community as part of the Port Festival, 9 –10 October, which includes guided walking tours of public artworks, art projections, a ‘bark’ installation, public weaving workshops, and performances from Kurruru Youth Performing Arts and Bangarra’s Rekindling Youth Program. There is also a partnership with the Adelaide Film Festival and the 9:16 Showcase of Vertical Cinema. Further details can be found at the Port Festival website http://www.portenf.sa.gov.au/portfestival
Bark Art 8 – 18 Oct Artists: Donald Taylor and Robert Jessen Lipson Street/St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide
Port Projector 8 – 18 Oct After dark until lateArtists: Cedric Varcoe, Rama Kaltu-Kaltu Sampson, Imiyari Adamson, Yaritji Heffernan, Amari Tjalkuri, Karen Kulyuru, Nami Kulyuru, Daisybell Kulyuru, Nelly Patterson and Phyllis Edwards Outdoor projection Port Adelaide Enfield Council Chambers 62 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide
Weaving Workshops Sat 10 + Sun 11 Oct, 10am – 3pmYaritji Heffernan, Nelly Patterson, Karen Kulyuru and Amari Tjulkuri Better World Arts 144 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide Bookings essential 8240 3373
Rekindling Sat 10 Oct, 11.30amBangarra Dance Theatre and Kurruru Youth Performing Arts Black Diamond Square, Commercial Road, Port Adelaide
Public Art Walk Sun 11 Oct, 2.30pmWalking tour led by Margaret Brodie (descendant of Lartelare) and Jane Marr, Arts and Cultural Development Officer, City of Port Adelaide Enfield
Meet at the Port Adelaide Visitor Information Centre 66 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide Numbers are limited. Bookings essential. Contact Port Adelaide Visitor Information Centre on 8405 6560
9:16 Vertical Film Showcase Thu 22 Oct, 7pmCurated by Mike Retter, Chris Luscri, Adelaide Film Festival Flour Shed – Hart’s Mill Mundy Street, Port Adelaide
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Presenting Partners
Maureen Atkinson working on Loss, Separation as part of Barngarla art workshop. Photo: Tim Molineux
detail: Cedric Varcoe, Ngarrindjeri people, South Australia, Ngurunderi Peggeralin (Ngurunderi Dreaming), synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Image courtesy the artist and Better World Arts
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HANDHELD II
Christopher Burthurmarr Crebbin, Deborah Rankine, Sandra Saunders, Peter Sharrock and Karumapuli Jacob Stengle
Curators Eleanor Scicchitano and Coby Edgar
Five artists have been commissioned by Country Arts SA in partnership with TARNANTHI to create a new work designed to fit in a suitcase. Handheld II explores metaphors of travel, the transient world many artists live in and the potential for art to affect lives in country and regional as well as urban communities.
Handheld II launch will be at 3pm on Sunday 18 October 2015 at Prospect Gallery.
11 Oct – 1 Nov Prospect Gallery 1 Thomas Street, Nailsworth Mon closed, Tue 10.15am – 8.30pm Wed – Fri 10.15am – 6pm Sat 9am – 4pm, Sun 2 – 5pm
Access Prospect Gallery has disability access and toilets
MINA LAKAPAWA
Vicki West
Highly regarded Tasmanian artist Vicki West continues her deeply rooted cultural exploration through an immersive installation in Adelaide Central Gallery. Working with kalikina (bull kelp), West explores concepts of ecology, environment and cultural connection to Country. This extraordinary work will transport audiences through sound, light, projection and woven sculpture.
13 – 30 Oct Adelaide Central School of Art Glenside Cultural Precinct 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside (enter from 226 Fullarton Road) Mon, Thu – Fri 9am – 5pm Tue – Wed 9am – 7pm Sat 1 – 4pm
Access Adelaide Central Gallery has disability access and toilets
WHITE BRED
Amanda Radomi and Blak Douglas aka Adam Hill
White Bred is an exhibition that addresses the supposed notion of ‘lifestyle choices’ of Aboriginal peoples and the historic inevitability that has seen peoples become shamefully oppressed and forced to live on the breadline within a thriving non-Indigenous capitalist society.
Through the mediums of painting, video and installation, Koori artist Blak Douglas (aka Adam Hill) and Nunga artist Amanda Radomi respond directly to the overt ignorance demonstrated by Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s remark pertaining to Aboriginal peoples that ‘It is not the job of the taxpayer to subsidise lifestyle choices’.
10 – 31 Oct Fontanelle Gallery and Studios 26 Sixth Street, Bowden Wed – Sun 12pm – 5pm
Access Disability access at the rear of building off Fifth Street (gallery attendants will assist)
Presenting Partner
detail: Vicki West, Trawlwoolway people, Tasmania plamtenner/gathering, 2013, bull kelp, kangaroo skin, wallaby skins, tea-tree, string. Installation view, string theory: Focus on contemporary Australian art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2013 Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Photo: Alex Davies
Blak Douglas aka Adam Hill, Dhungatti people, New South Wales Zealot, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on canvas Image courtesy the artist
Debra Rankine arriving at Camp Coorong with Handheld suitcase Photo: Jelina Haines
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TARNANTHI TEXTILES
Ananguku Arts (APY Lands), Babbarra Designs, Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Erub Arts, Injalak Arts and Crafts Association, Mardbalk Arts and Crafts Centre, Merrepen Arts, Nagula Jarndu Designs, Papulankutja Artists, Tiwi Designs and Wadeye Palngun Wurnangat
Curated by Nici Cumpston and Tandanya
This dynamic exhibition will be a rare opportunity for audiences to experience in one location the diversity of styles and highly skilled textile work currently being created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists throughout Australia.
17 Oct – 5 Dec Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Kaurna Country 253 Grenfell Street, Adelaide Mon – Sat 9am – 4pm Sat 17 + Sun 18 Oct 9am – 4pm
Access All ability access and bathroom facilities available within the Gallery
STONE TAPE THEORY
Sarah-Jane Norman
Curators Emma Webb and Steve Mayhew
Sarah-Jane Norman’s Stone Tape Theory has been commissioned by Performance & Art Development Agency for their first public program, Near and Far, a series of artworks and talks exploring ideas of distance, presence and communication. It is an exciting addition to the TARNANTHI program.
Sarah-Jane Norman is an Australian artist and writer of British and Indigenous Australian heritage with ties to both Wannarua and Wiradjuri Nations who is currently working between Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.
16 Oct – 20 Oct Queen’s Theatre Playhouse Lane, Adelaide Fri, Sat, Mon, Tue 5 – 11pm Sun 1 – 11pm
Access Venue is accessible
detail: Sarah-Jane Norman, Wiradjuri/Wannarua people, New South Wales Bone Library, 2011– present Image courtesy the artist. Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Stone Tape Theory has been commissioned as part of Near and Far, the inaugural project of new contemporary arts organisation Performance & Art Development Agency. This project is supported by Arts SA and Adelaide City Council.
Presenting Partner Presenting Partner
detail: Aaron McTaggart, Ngen’gi wurmirri people, Northern Territory Crocodile Skin, printed textile Image courtesy the artist and Merrepen Arts
detail of installation view: Frances Djulibing Daingangan, Mary Dhapalany, Robyn Djunginy, Julie Djulibing Malibirr and Evonne Munuyngu Nganmarra – the container of life, 2015 gunga (pandanus spiralis) and natural dyes Courtesy the artists and Bula’bula Arts, Ramingining Photograph Grant Hancock
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PANPA-PANPALYA “AN EXCHANGE AND SHARING OF IDEAS”
In the Kaurna language, panpa-panpalya describes a gathering held to exchange and share ideas.
Join leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators, academics, collectors and writers for this panpa-panpalya.
TARNANTHI presents an opportunity for artists from many nations to come together to share their stories and skills. We welcome people from across the country to this panpa-panpalya, once again on Kaurna Land.
Friday 9 October 10am – 1pm Radford Auditorium Art Gallery of South Australia Free, all welcome No bookings required but please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Visit the TARNANTHI website for more details: www.tarnanthi.com.au
When we held the panpa-panpalya we soon discovered that every nation had their own concepts and ways of thinking, and that by coming together we could exchange knowledge and gain a deeper understanding from each other.
UNCLE LEWIS O’BRIEN, KAURNA ELDER
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Artist Gordon Ingkatji from Ernabella Arts, Pukatja, South Australia Photograph John Montesi, 2015
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TARNANTHI EXHIBITION
ARTIST TALKS
Hear from the TARNANTHI artists exhibiting at the Art Gallery of South Australia as they bring the work to life.
Friday 9 – Sunday 11 October 11am and 2pm Art Gallery of South Australia Free entry, all welcome
Meet at the information deskNo bookings required but please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Visit the TARNANTHI website for more details www.tarnanthi.com.au
DEPARTURE:
TARNANTHI TWILIGHT
DEPARTURE-goers, get ready for the final event of 2015!
Guests will experience a twilight viewing of TARNANTHI with live entertainment, gourmet food and wine. This DEPARTURE is not to be missed.
Friday 13 November 6 – 10pm Art Gallery of South Australia
General Admission $60 / Members $45 Bookings and enquiries 8207 7035 Members’ tickets on sale 7 October General Admission tickets on sale 14 October
For details on DEPARTURE events and for ticket information: www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Events/departure.html
DEPARTURE is an 18+ event
EVENTS AT THE GALLERY
FIRST FRIDAYS
Make First Fridays at the Art Gallery of South Australia your first Friday destination.
Hear from artists, curators and special guests and enjoy live performances and the Gallery’s hospitality until 9pm.
First Fridays are a great way to catch up with friends and ease into the weekend as the Gallery’s doors stay open until 9pm on the first Friday of the month, thanks to the support of Santos and InDaily.
Friday 2 October, 5 – 9pmJoin us for this river-inspired evening. The sounds of local country and western music will set a swinging tempo when visitors experience the work and world of Ngarrindjeri weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie in Riverland.
Friday 6 November, 5 – 9pmThis First Friday draws its inspiration from the desert, specifically from the legacy of Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira, whose descendants are celebrated in the TARNANTHI display titled The Namatjira Collection.
Friday 4 December, 5 – 9pmHead to the coast on this First Friday as we celebrate the significance of the ocean for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Friday 1 January, 5 – 9pmWelcome in the Bran Nue Year and join us for the ultimate recovery party with a local Indigenous DJ and a screening of the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae.
Art Gallery of South Australia Free entry, all welcome
START
AT THE GALLERY
The Gallery’s START program has been encouraging South Australia’s youngest artists for six years, inspiring the creativity of tens of thousands of young art lovers at the monthly START days.
START at the Gallery is held on the first Sunday of each month and is suitable for children aged 5 to 10, with supervision required by a parent or carer. All materials are supplied. No bookings are necessary.
Sunday 4 October, 11am – 3pmRiver START
Sunday 1 November, 11am – 3pmDesert START
Sunday 6 December, 11am – 3pmCoast START
Sunday 3 January 2016, 11am – 3pm New Story START
Art Gallery of South AustraliaFree entry, all welcome
No bookings required but please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Visit the TARNANTHI website for more details www.tarnanthi.com.au
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
PROGRAM
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s School Holiday Programs offer fun and dynamic opportunities for children to explore their creativity in response to works of art in TARNANTHI.
Monday 4 – Wednesday 6 January 2016 11am – 4pm 13 – 18 years
Monday 11 – Friday 15 January 201610am 5 – 12 years 11.30am 5 – 8 years 1pm 9 – 12 years
Art Gallery of South AustraliaCosts vary Bookings essential. Call 8207 7005 or email [email protected]
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Parkside Primary School Year 4 and 5 students viewing the HEARTLAND exhibition, July 2013 Featured work of art: Amata-Tjala Arts, Ngura Tjuta, 2013 synthetic polymer paint on linen
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LEARNING AT THE
GALLERY PROGRAM
TARNANTHI offers a valuable learning opportunity for all ages and provides insight into contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
For TARNANTHI, Learning at the Gallery has developed comprehensive inquiry-based teaching and learning programs for F-12 students and teachers that:
- align with various Australian Curriculum Learning Areas, with a particular focus on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures cross-curriculum priority
- support Stage 1 and 2 SACE (and interstate equivalents)
- support the Teaching for Effective Learning (TEFL) framework
- provide tertiary English as a Second Language (ESL) and new arrivals program learning opportunities.
Resources are available online for students, teachers, parents and careers who want to learn more about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture.
For further information visit tarnanthi.com.au
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EVENTS
PILBILI
Hampstead Primary School students with Major Sumner and Yvonne Koolmatrie
Pilbili is a collaboration between Hampstead Primary School, Carclew and TARNANTHI.
Students aged between 8 and 12 years will have a special opportunity to explore Ngarrindjeri culture and art practices through the sophisticated works of renowned weaver Yvonne Koolmatrie.
In the lead-up to TARNANTHI, Ngarrindjeri Elder Uncle Major Sumner will lead a series of workshops exploring Ngarrindjeri art, culture and heritage. The students will experience first hand the specialist weaving techniques while building an understanding of its practical use for fishing and gathering food.
The young students’ thoughts and perspectives will be translated to an audio guide for visitors to experience as part of Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie.
12 September – 10 January 2016 Art Gallery of South AustraliaNorth Terrace, Adelaide Daily 10am – 5pm
AccessWheelchair accessible
Presenting Partners Carclew and Hampstead Gardens Primary School
Yvonne Koolmatrie, Ngarrindjeri people, South Australia Sister baskets, 2015, spiny-headed sedge (Cyperus gymnocaulos) Acquisition through TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP Billiton 2015 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Courtesy the artist and Aboriginal & Pacific Art, Sydney Photograph Jenni Carter
Brian Robinson installing his work Custodian of the Blooms, 2014 Image courtesy of the artist and Mossenson Galleries
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EVENTS CROSSING TIME: HIGHLIGHTS
FROM THE ABORIGINAL AND
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COLLECTION
Crossing Time combines works created from the mid-twentieth century to today, and considers Aboriginal concepts of the past, present and future as interconnected. The display is shaped by the Gallery’s progressive acquisition history and features many of the Gallery’s earliest acquisitions, including Western Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira’s watercolour of ancient ancestral country, Illum-Baura (Haasts Bluff), Central Australia. Purchased by the Gallery in 1939 this was the first work by an Aboriginal artist to be purchased by a state art institution.
11 July – 31 January 2016 Art Gallery of South Australia, Gallery 7 Free, all welcome
detail: Mabel Juli, Gija people, Western Australia Garnkiny Ngarrangkarni Moon Dreaming, 2009, natural ochre and pigment on linen Gift of the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2009 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Courtesy the artist and Warmun Art Centre
Mary Katajuku Pan, Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia Ngangkari tjitji (Medicine child), 2010, raffia, minarri grass, wool South Australian Government Grant 2010 Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Courtesy the artist
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MAKING AND MEANING:
CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL AND
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER CRAFT
AND DESIGN
Coinciding with TARNANTHI, Making and Meaning presents highlights from the Gallery’s collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander craft and design.
The display includes the ceramics of husband-and-wife artists Pepai Jangala Carroll and Alison Milyika Carroll based at Ernabella Arts in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. The work of Hermannsburg potters Hayley Coulthard and Rona Rubuntja is dedicated to Australian football.
29 Aug – early 2016 Art Gallery of South Australia, Gallery 19A Free, all welcome
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GALLERY SHOP
Two fully illustrated publications will be available to commemorate TARNANTHI | Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
The TARNANTHI publication celebrates the festival and includes artists in the exhibition at the Gallery, as well as the partner exhibitions and performances being held across the city. Profiling artists from around Australia working across all artistic mediums, this will be a valuable and welcome resource.
Also included in TARNANTHI at the Gallery is the survey exhibition of internationally renowned South Australian Ngarrindjeri weaver, Riverland: Yvonne Koolmatrie. A catalogue to accompany the exhibition will feature captivating images and essays and includes an extensive interview with the artist.
Both publications, which have been produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia, will be available from the Gallery Shop from 8 October.
A range of merchandise and original works of art from artists and art centres featured in the Art Fair will be available for sale from the Gallery shop.
ART GALLERY FOOD + WINE
Experience Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture through cuisine at the Gallery café, Art Gallery Food + Wine. Our range of delicious dishes uses sustainable ingredients and local bush food for visitors to enjoy.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Collaboration is a guiding principle of TARNANTHI and one that lies at the heart of this inaugural city-wide festival. By inviting emerging and established artists to present new work, TARNANTHI celebrates the artist’s role in shaping our world.
We have worked closely with Adelaide’s cultural institutions to present the work of over 300 artists across multiple venues to local and national audiences, many of them new to Aboriginal art.
The support from principal partner BHP Billiton has been instrumental in this approach. TARNANTHI aligns with the company’s global approach to celebrating Aboriginal art and culture and supporting our communities through public-private partnerships.
The most important element of TARNANTHI lies in the creation of opportunities for the artists. Never before have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from South Australia, and across the country, been on display with such prominence across a capital city. Adelaide is ideally designed to enable organisations to come together and celebrate contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
We would like to thank our presenting and collaboration partners:
Adelaide Central School of Art
Adelaide City Council
Adelaide College of the Arts
Adelaide Fashion Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre
Adelaide Film Festival
Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
Australian Network for Art & Technology
Carclew
City of Port Adelaide Enfield – Port Festival
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Country Arts South Australia
Festival of Architecture and Design
Flinders University Art Museum & City Gallery
Fontanelle
Guildhouse
History SA – Migration Museum
JamFactory
Mildura Palimpsest Biennale (Arts Mildura Inc.)
Nexus Arts
Performance & Art Development Agency
Port Augusta Cultural Centre – Yarta Purtli
Prospect Gallery
SA Writers Centre – Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Writers Group
Santos Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden
SA Film Corporation
SASA Gallery, University of South Australia
South Australian Museum
State Library of South Australia
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research, Flinders University
COLLABORATION
Through collaboration we celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture.
JACQUI MCGILL, ASSET PRESIDENT
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The Yuta Project, 2012 Image courtesy the artists and Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre
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THANK YOU
Principal Partner BHP Billiton
Government of South Australia
Art Gallery Board Tracey Whiting (Chair) Susan Armitage Neil Balnaves, AO Anne Edwards, AO John Phillips Sue Tweddell Dick Whitington, QC Jane Yuile
TARNANTHI Cultural Advisory Committee
Co-Chairs Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin Klynton Wanganeen
Members Mandy Brown Elaine Kite (proxy Matthew Moore) Hetti Perkins David Miller (proxy Alison Milyika Carroll) Dr Lewis O’Brien, AO Khatija Thomas Simone Tur Philip Watkins Tracey WhitingEx-officio Jared Thomas, Nick Mitzevich, Nici Cumpston, Mimi Crowe and Angela FlynnExecutive Officer: Tracey Dall
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander National Peak BodiesIndigenous Art Code www.indigenousartcode.org
Indigenous Art Centre Alliance (IACA) www.iaca.com.au
Desart www.desart.com.au
Association of Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists (ANKAAA) www.ankaaa.org.au
Ananguku Arts www.anangukuarts.com.au
Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA (AACHWA) www.aachwa.com.au
TARNANTHI Art Fair
Creative input and brief development by Bluebottle
Ottoman design and construction by Scotty’s Upholstery
Additional Festival Support
Spinifex Arts Project artist, Ngalpingka Simms (Mrs Simms) Photograph Stephen Oxenbury
Art Fair Design by Skein
All information correct at the time of printing
Presented by Principal Partner
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Artist Peter Mungkuri from Iwantja Arts, Indulkana, South Australia, photograph John Montesi, 2015
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