Tag: 2025 Tarnanthi Festival
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Adelaide Film Festival review: Journey Home, David Gulpilil
In November 2021, Yolŋu man and lauded actor David Gulpilil died of a lung cancer that had plagued him for four long years. Unable to travel to his birthplace Gupulul in Arnhem Land while still alive, he stayed in Murray Bridge, South Australia, to have the medical support he needed, but his dying wish was…
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Tarnanthi revisits ‘monumental’ works and rising stars in 10-year celebration
Over the past ten years Tarnanthi Festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art has established itself as one of the state’s most significant arts events, featuring several important exhibitions across the state with the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) at the centre. This year’s flagship exhibition at AGSA, titled Too Deadly, Ten Years…
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‘We’ve had these relationships for hundreds of years’: Two Blood weaves ancestral history into essential Australian storytelling
Leafing through fragmentary records from the 1800s, an image of Jasmin Sheppard’s great grandparents began to emerge: a Tagalaka woman and a Chinese migrant seeking gold in Northern Queensland. This discovery would inform the story of Two Blood, a work that sees Sheppard tie explosive physicality with unwavering truth-telling of First Nations stories, national identity,…
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‘We went on this dig together’: Historical tightrope act to reclaim the Colleano Heart
Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the names and images of, and references to, deceased persons. The Colleano Heart is the kind of documentary that makes you want to re-watch it straightaway. Filled with emotion, mystery, adventure and a timeline spanning colonisation to the present day, it’s a…
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Tarnanthi Festival 2025: Celebrating 10 years
At this year’s 10th-anniversary Tarnanthi Festival, you can experience a diverse profusion of leading-edge works of art from across Australia, presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia, throughout Adelaide and around South Australia. Don’t miss the opening weekend celebrating contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Festival highlights Tarnanthi Launch Join the excitement on…
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‘As a child, I believed in magic’: Damien Shen’s ode to joy, childhood, and card tricks
“I’ve been leaning into this concept of childhood joy since the pandemic and Voice referendum, focusing on things that get me into the studio with a sense of excitement,” Damien Shen tells InReview. In his latest body of work, My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club, Damien Shen draws inspiration from a childhood fascination with…