Tarnanthi

Tune into artist talks from the Tarnanthi 2023 opening weekend. Line up includes Vincent Namatjira, Timo Hogan and Denise Brady. 🎧 Listen now: pulse.ly/m4lq03y2bg 📸 Sam Roberts

All the way from Port Pirie, Regional Tarnanthi's Saltbush Country is opening in Adelaide this week! Saltbush Country 16 Nov 2023 – 22 Mar 2024 📍Hawke Centre’s Kerry Packer Civic Gallery Free entry

Following her success at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Colleen Raven Strangways' exhibition UV Songlines: Illuminating ancestral roots is opening next week at FELTspace. UV Songlines: Illuminating ancestral roots 15 Nov – 16 Dec 2023 📍FELTspace Free entry

GROUNDswell is Australian Dance Theatre’s new choreographic development program, providing exceptional First Nations choreographers with opportunities to further their practice and develop new work. GROUNDswell Sat 21 Oct 2023, 4pm 📍The Odeon Book now: pulse.ly/c831x9j39j

To think that Timo Hogan paints a picture is not to see the bigger picture. For him, the story is written in the landscape. Timo Hogan: Kumpilpa Ngaranyi – Unseen 20 – 27 Oct 2023 📍Light Square Gallery

Western Aranda artists at Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands art centre respond to the Museum of Economic Botany’s collection. __ Arrpmarnintja – Creation from the beginning 20 Oct 2023 – 18 Feb 2024 📍Museum of Economic Botany

Bunganditj Kala! Yankunytjatjara Wangka! Keeping Ancestral Voices Alive 20 Oct – 31 Mar 📍South Australian Museum This exhibition celebrates the efforts of two Aboriginal communities to preserve and revive South Australia’s unique and important Aboriginal language heritage.

For Sonya Rankine, weaving embodies cultural revival and forms an integral part of her identity as a Ngarrindjeri, Ngadjuri, Narungga and Wirangu artist. Spaces Between 18 Oct 2023 – 23 Jan 2024 📍Adelaide Railway Station, telephone booth displays, concourse north end

Ceremony remains central to the creative practice of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. See 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony at Samstag Museum of Art. 18 Oct – 11 Nov 2023

In Gulayí [Woven Vessel], Chantal Henley presents hand-woven, hand-printed garments and adornments that highlight the importance of retaining and reclaiming language, dance, song and design. __ Gulayí [Woven Vessel] 20 Oct 2023 – 19 Jan 2024 Mon – Fri 10am – 4pm 📍The Mill

Milpatjunanyi takes its name and curatorial impetus from the act of drawing. It has been curated by senior Aṉangu women to celebrate the commitment to and culture of drawing throughout the APY Lands of SA. __ Milpatjunanyi 12 Oct – 10 Nov 2023 📍APY Gallery Adelaide

What Matters to Me is an exhibition of First Nations children’s artworks celebrating their creativity, their ideas, their voice. __ What Matters to Me 16 Oct – 31 Jan 2024 📍Women’s and Children’s Hospital Blue Heart Gallery

Wandjina Country showcases the cultural storytelling of the talented Kira Kiro artists working from their art centre established at Kalumburu. __ 21 Oct – 3 Dec 📍Tineriba Tribal Gallery

See the best contemporary art from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across the continent at Tarnanthi. 20 Oct 2023 – 21 Jan 2024 📍at AGSA and across the city and state Free entry, all ages Find out more: pulse.ly/w7nlafk6qv 📽️

Rising Sun is a unique photographic and multimedia storytelling project that builds cultural maintenance with the Adnyamathanha nation. Rising Sun 16 – 28 Oct 📍Light Adelaide

The Kaurna Women’s Art Collective brings together Aboriginal women connected to Yartapuulti (Port Adelaide). Footprints 12 – 24 Oct 📍The Packing Shed, Harts Mill

Buy woven artworks, paintings and more from Top End based artists at the Tarnanthi Art Fair Tarnanthi Art Fair 2023 20-22 Oct, in person & online 📍Adelaide Entertainment Centre

Goyurr – Journey celebrates the journey of an art centre, a multi-generational group of artists and a community over the past three decades. Presented by SALON Art Projects in association with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre. 21 – 29 Oct (closed Tue) 📍praxis ARTSPACE

Cedric Varcoe is a Ramindjeri-Ngarrindjeri and Narangga artist who lives on Country. His work talks about Nurungeri, an important story for the Ngarrindjeri people. 14 Oct – 10 Dec 2023 Daily 10am – 5pm Free, all ages 📍Hahndorf Academy

mane djang karirra marks the sixtieth anniversary of Maningrida Arts & Culture (MAC), a community-based Aboriginal art centre in north central Arnhem Land. mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape 9 Oct – 15 Dec 📍Flinders University Museum of Art