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Telephone | 08 8201 2695
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2025
Crosscurrents
A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition curated by Dr Belinda Howden, Crosscurrents presents newly commissioned works by Brad Darkson, Chris De Rosa, Honor Freeman, Michael Kutschbach, Sonya Rankine, and Mary-Jean Richardson.
Q1 2025 | News
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January 2025 | Media Release
Matthew Flinders | Fearless in life, love and tragedy
Presented by Flinders University in partnership with the History Trust of South Australia
Curated by FUMA Director Fiona Salmon and History Trust of South Australia Senior Curator Tony Kanellos with research undertaken by Flinders University Honorary Associate Professor Gillian Dooley.
2024
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September 2024 | Media release
Sovereign Acts | Love Praxis
Unbound Collective
This landmark exhibition celebrates 10 years of critical and creative work by the nationally acclaimed Unbound Collective, a group of First Nations women based on Kaurna Yarta whose shared praxis represents a rupturing and reimagining of colonial institutions, and radical endeavour to shape the world anew.
Q3 2024 | News
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July 2024 | Media release
The Guildhouse Collections Project: The Disquiet
Art against injustice: Exploring resistance and rebellion in The Disquiet. The exhibition showcases newly commissioned artworks by South Australian artists: Bin Bai, Stephanie Doddridge, Sue Kneebone, Olga Sankey and Truc Truong with works by Mandy Martin and Ann Newmarch from the FUMA collection.
Q2 2024 | News
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April 2024 | Media release
If you don't fight ... you lose: politics, posters and PAM
The graphic art of protest: If you don’t fight … you lose exhibition to showcase iconic prints and posters from Adelaide’s Progressive Art Movement (PAM)
Q1 2024 | News
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21 February 2024 | Media release
Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection
Drawn from Australia’s national museum of film, TV, videogames and digital culture – ACMI – the exhibition features five moving image artworks by acclaimed Australian artists: Zanny Begg, Deborah Kelly, Jason Phu, David Rosetzky and Kaylene Whiskey.
2023
Q4 2023 | News
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11 October 2023 | Media release
mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape
Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) and Maningrida Arts and Culture are thrilled to announce the launch of mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape in association with the Tarnanthi Festival.
Q3 2023 | News
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10 July 2023 | Media release
New Acquisitions / New Perspectives
Flinders University Museum of Art presents New Acquisitions / New Perspectives, an exhibition that celebrates First Nations works, new its the collection
Q2 2023 | News
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Q1 2023 | News
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3 March 2023 | Media release
Some Like it Hot
Flinders University Museum of Art presents Some Like it Hot, an exhibition that intersects sweat, sex, desire and discord in Darwin, Australia’s hottest and most remote capital city.
2022
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30 November 2022 | Media Release
FUMA wins prestigious arts prize at 2022 Ruby Awards
Taking centre stage at the 2022 Ruby Awards, FUMA won a prestigious award at South Australia’s premier arts ceremony, for outstanding work in presenting an exhibition in South Australia.
16 September 2022 | Media Release
Hayley Millar Baker, There we were all in one place
Flinders University Museum of Art presents There we were all in one place, an early career survey of cross-cultural artist Hayley Millar Baker.
September 2022 | News
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20 July 2022 | Media Release
After the Fall – an exploration of grief, faith, and end-times
Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) present new work by South Australian artists Elyas Alavi, Kate O’Boyle and Louise Haselton in After the Fall, inspired by the mythologies, subjects, and techniques of FUMA’s European print collection dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.
4 July 2022 | Media Release
Flinders University Museum of Art symposium address our dark data fears
Data plays a huge and ever-increasing role in our lives - but do you embrace data or fear its reach? FUMA, the Flinders University Museum of Art, and Flinders University’s Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts are presenting a symposium on broad creative assessment of data’s application and effects, to accompany its current exhibition that radically reimagines data’s meaning, impact and potential.
June 2022 | News
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26 April 2022 | Media Release
The art of data visualisation explored at Flinders University Museum of Art
Presented by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies features influential Australian and international artists and designers, including Lola Greeno, Tali Weinberg, Andrew Gall, Judy Watson, and Silvio Carta, among others. Through diverse materials and technologies their work explores data both critically and playfully, reflecting on what counts as data, and examining how it is harvested, applied and perceived.
March 2022 | News
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2021
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13 October 2021 | Media Release
Truth-telling exhibition sheds light on Indigenous women’s domestic servitude
Histories of domestic service inflicted upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls in White Australia are at the centre of a powerful new exhibition Sovereign Sisters: domestic work, presented at Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi Festival.
September 2021 | News
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2 August 2021 | Media Release
Exhibition with bite to honour Hanrahan’s legacy
30 years after the untimely extinguishing of one of South Australia’s brightest creative lights, an ambitious exhibition curated by the Flinders University Museum of Art will pay homage to the extraordinary life and work of uncompromising artist Barbara Hanrahan.
June 2021 | News
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27 April 2021 | Media Release
A love song through the looking glass
Flinders University Museum of Art is thrilled to present the work of two of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artists - Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce - in a new exhibition organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon (Birmingham, UK) with distinguished Arrernte and Kalkadoon curator Hetti Perkins.
22 March 2021 | Media Release
Ritual Nature Takes Out First Prize at Fringe
Flinders University Museum of Art and Guildhouse are pleased to announce that Ray Harris: Ritual Nature has been awarded The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe.
March 2021 | News
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28 January 2021 | Media Release
Ray Harris: Ritual Nature
Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art kick start 2021 with a new exhibition of evocative performance videos by South Australian artist Ray Harris, developed in response to The Collections Project
2020
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22 October 2020 | Media Release
Robyn Stacey breathes life into the inanimate and mundane
In an alluring and evocative travelling exhibition brought to Adelaide by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), audiences can experience the tantalising still life photographs of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Robyn Stacey.
September 2020 | News
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27 May 2020 | Media Release
A fresh look at Cook
In a compelling new exhibition Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) puts the complex and contested legacy of Captain Cook (1728-1779) under the lens – 250 years since his landing on Dharawal Country, on the southern headland of what is also now known as Botany Bay
April 2020 | News
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25 February 2020 | Media release
STELARC: Posthuman Bodies
Futuristic human forms: an exhibition where art and technology collide
2019
30 October 2019 | Media release
South Australian artist Ray Harris to examine Flinders University's rich collection of performance and installation art for Guildhouse Collections Project 2020.
15 November 2019 | Media release
Brave new wave hits Glenelg
Curated by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) and now on display at the Bay Discovery Centre, Brave new wave: desert women painters showcases the remarkable impact of Aboriginal women artists working in the Central and Western Desert regions.
24 October 2019 | Media release
New gallery in Adelaide's south opens with showcase of beauty from the red centre
A new gallery in Adelaide's south is bringing the treasures of a nationally acclaimed art movement to the community, launching today with an exhibition of breathtaking watercolours from the famed Hermannsburg School.
8 September 2019 | Media release
Jake Holmes - Writing the climate: A printmaker's response to the environmental crisis
Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present printmaker Jake Holmes' work as part of The Collections Project.
30 July 2019 | Media release
Cynthia Schwertsik - UTE-ilitarian
Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present UTE-ilitarian by Austrian born, Adelaide-based artist Cynthia Schwertsik as part of the 2019 SALA Festival.
2018
27 September 2018 | Media release
Gail Hocking - PERIPHERAL DISTURBANCE: wandering between worlds
Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present PERIPHERAL DISTURBANCE: wandering between worlds, by New Zealand born, Aldinga based artist Gail Hocking.
7 May 2018 | Media release
Head-to-Head: Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture
Flinders University Museum of Art farewells the City Gallery with major portraiture exhibition
16 February 2018 | Media release
New Alchemists
When life imitates science: the impact of technology on humanness
The social impact of technology and the different ways in which it permeates our consciousness is explored in a disarming new exhibition at the Flinders University City Gallery called New Alchemists.
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