Yaritji Tingila Young with Tjala Tjukurpa – Honey ant story, 2021, Amata, South Australia; photo Luke Byrne.
Throughout 2022, Tarnanthi is bringing major new works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art to audiences in Adelaide and delivering touring exhibitions in South Australia, nationally and internationally.
Tarnanthi 2022’s projects in Adelaide include Vincent Namatjira’s Going Out Bush, which brings his witty and subversive paintings to life on AGSA’s façade during July. Other projects in development will be announced soon.
Tarnanthi is also expanding its touring program with Kungka Kuṉpu (Strong Women). This exhibition of contemporary works by renowned women artists from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands tours eastern Australia from October until 2024, sharing bold art from Tarnanthi with new audiences.
It builds on current Tarnanthi tours: photographic works in Naomi Hobson: Adolescent Wonderland travelling regional South Australia, and the Kuḻaṯa Tjuṯa exhibition of vibrant Aṉangu works in Europe until late 2022.
14 – 17 Oct. 2022
In addition, the online Tarnanthi Art Fair returns in October, showcasing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art from across Australia to art lovers around the world. You can also join in creative workshops, hear from artists and learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture through the Tarnanthi Art Fair’s program of online events.
21, 22 & 23 Oct. 2022
Richard Bell – Embassy
Embassy by Richard Bell is inspired by the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the protest camp set up 50 years ago on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra.
This installation, exhibited on the Art Gallery of South Australia forecourt on North Terrace as part of Tarnanthi, AGSA’s acclaimed celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, features a three-day program of talks and film screenings. These include Broken English and No Tin Shack by Richard Bell and Alessandro Cavadini’s Tent Embassy documentary Ningla A-Na (1972), which will play on a loop in between the programmed talks.
Embassy at AGSA coincides with the world premiere of the highly anticipated You Can Go Now: Richard Bell, directed by award-winning filmmaker Larissa Behrendt AO, as part of the Adelaide Film Festival.
Embassy, which has been presented since 2013 nationwide and around the world, provides a critical platform to challenge preconceived ideas and stereotypes about Aboriginal people, art and culture. Critic Terry Smith has described Embassy as ‘dedicated to promoting Indigenous sovereignty on a worldwide basis’.
The talks at AGSA have been programmed by Richard Bell and Ngarrindjeri/Kaurna artist Dominic Guerrera, with the first session including Bell himself.
SOURCE: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.