Exhibitions

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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; Andrew Gall; Interaction Research Studio; Lola Greeno; Geoff Hinchcliffe & Mitchell Whitelaw; 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}

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The Guildhouse Collections Project:  After the Fall 

25 July – 17 September 2022

FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park    

After the Fall features new work created in response to the Flinders University Museum of Art collection of European prints.  It is inspired by a 19^th century print by British artist John Martin (1789-1854) that illustrates the biblical story of Adam and Eve who were banished by God from the Garden of Eden for their transgressions, corrupting humanity and bringing sin to the world.   Engaging with the idea of the Fall though historical representations of chaos, depravity and civilisations in ruins, artists draw out connections in their practices to contemplate human and environmental challenges defining the 21^st century.

This project is a partnership between Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art and is 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 John Milton’s Illustrations to Paradise Lost, published by Septimus Prowett, 1827, mezzotint, etching and drypoint, ink on paper, 13.8 x 20.7 cm (plate), Collection of Flinders University Museum of Art 182.}

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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

Curator:  Stella Rosa McDonald

^{Image: Hayley Millar Baker, I’m The Captain Now, Untitled 2, 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

Signal Point Gallery Goolwa | 25 November 2022 – 8 January 2023

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

Bee-stung lips is a major survey exhibition of Barbara Hanrahan’s prolific 30-year printmaking career that was set in motion in 1960 and ended with her untimely death at the age of 52.  Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy, her works are fearlessly direct and unashamedly decorative in style.  The exhibition – comprising woodcuts, linotcuts, screenprints, lithographs, etchings and drypoint – considers overarching themes that emerge from the artist’s oeuvre and sheds light on her mastery and innovation of technique.

Curator:  Nic Brown

This exhibition is touring with the support of Country Arts SA

^{Image: Barbara Hanrahan, Flying mother, 1976, screenprint, coloured inks on paper, 76.7 x 57.6 cm, Collection of The Riddoch Arts + Cultural Centre, © the Estate of the artist, courtesy Susan Sideris 2020}