EXHIBITIONS
Sovereign sisters: domestic work
11 October 2021 – 8 April 2022
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
Under assimilation policies that spanned colonial contact to the mid-20th century, sovereign Aboriginal women and girls were exploited as a labour force. Disconnected from family and Country they served in white households and institutions as nannies, cooks, cleaners and wet nurses – often underpaid or not paid at all. Featuring historical and contemporary work Sovereign sisters speaks to this collective experience shedding light on narratives that are at the forefront of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s struggle for equality, recognition and justice.
A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition presented in association with Tarnanthi Festival and Vitalstatistix.
Artists: Paola Balla, Destiny Deacon, Julie Dowling, D Harding, Natalie Harkin, Leah King-Smith, Tracey Moffatt, Clinton Naina, r e a, Yhonnie Scarce, Ellen Trevorrow and Unbound Collective.
Curators: Ali Gumillya Baker with Madeline Reece
Unbound Collective, Shadow play, 2020, HD video still, © the artists
EXHIBITIONS
The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies
26 April – 8 July 2022
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future. Audiences are engaged in critical, playful and agentic reflections on data and creative technologies and are empowered to examine some of the most pressing issues of our times – climate change, location data and data legacies. In an era of data intensification, bringing these works together facilitates critical conversations about data and inclusivity and highlights data’s potential applications in our everyday lives.
Artists and Designers: Robert Andrew, Silvio Carta, Countess.Report, Andrew Gall, Lola Greeno, Geoff Hinchcliffe & Mitchell Whitelaw, Interaction Research Studio, Jenna Lee, Joana Moll, Patrick Pound, Aidan Rowlingson, Judy Watson, Warraba Weatherall and Tali Weinberg.
Curators: Angela Goddard, Griffith University Art Museum; Katherine Moline, UNSW School of Art & Design; Amanda Hayman & Troy Casey, Blaklash Creative; and Beck Davis, ANU School of Art & Design
Image: Robert Andrew, Presence (detail), 2021, Video, silent, 27 mins, looped, Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
EXHIBITIONS
The Guildhouse Collections Project: After the Fall
25 July – 16 September 2022
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
South Australian artists Elyas Alavi, Kate O’Boyle and Louise Haselton present new bodies of work inspired by the mythologies, subjects, and techniques of FUMA’s European print collection dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
New works in sculpture, painting, video, and printmaking, are shown alongside more than 60 historical prints including woodcuts from the 15th century Nuremberg Chronicle, and impressions by European masters Francisco Goya, Käthe Kollwitz, William Blake, John Martin, Agostino Carracci and Albrecht Dürer.
Taking its cue from the biblical Fall, where Adam and Eve are banished from the Garden of Eden, the exhibition reflects on themes of grief, faith, and end-times, and considers how artists respond to crises from the renaissance to contemporary times.
A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition presented in partnership with Guildhouse and supported by Arts South Australia
Artists: Elyas Alavi, Kate O’Boyle and Louise Haselton
Curator: Alice Clanachan
Image: John Martin (1789-1854), Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise (detail) from Illustrations to Paradise Lost, published by Septimus Prowett, 1827, mezzotint and etching, ink on paper, 13.8 x 20.7 cm (image), Collection of Flinders University Museum of Art 182.
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EXHIBITIONS
There we were all in one place
4 October – 16 December 2022
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
From 2016 to 2019 Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara) produced five photographic series. Made almost exclusively in black and white, the photographs use historical re-appropriation and citation, in tandem with digital editing and archival research, to consider human experiences of time, memory and place. There we were all in one place brings these bodies of work together for the first time to consider the ways in which the artist harnesses photography and storytelling to re-author history and assert the authority of memory and experience across generations. Millar Baker’s layered photographic assemblages affirm Aboriginal experience and culture within the Australian Imaginary to form a complex narrative of place, family, identity and survival.
Artist: Hayley Millar Baker
A UTS Gallery & Art Collection touring exhibition.
Image: Hayley Millar Baker, I’m The Captain Now, Untitled 8, 2016, inkjet on cotton rag, 20 x 20 cm (each). Courtesy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
ON TOUR
Bee-stung lips: Barbara Hanrahan
works on paper 1960 - 1991
Nautilus Art Centre Port Lincoln | 12 August – 24 September 2022
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery Murray Bridge | 21 January - 19 March 2023
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery Port Pirie | 31 March – 21 May 2023
Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery Naracoorte | 2 June – 16 July 2023
Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre Mt Gambier | 8 September – 19 November 2023
Signal Point Gallery Goolwa | 1 December 2023 - 11 February 2024
Featuring 74 works Bee-stung Lips exemplifies Hanrahan’s mastery and innovation across the print medium including woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, lithographs, etchings and drypoint, and celebrates her singular and uncompromising practice.
Curator: Nic Brown
This exhibition is touring with the support of Country Arts SA
Image: Barbara Hanrahan, Dog of darkness (detail), 1978, hand–coloured etching with plate–tone, colour inks on paper, 35.5 x 25.3 cm, Private collection, Adelaide, © the Estate of the artist, courtesy Susan Sideris 2020
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