A treasure trove of First Nations art

Paintings, textiles, ceramics, jewellery, homewares and other works from around 50 Indigenous art centres across Australia will be for sale at the Tarnanthi Art Fair in Adelaide this weekend.

Tarnanthi Art Fair to go ahead at Lot Fourteen

The Art Gallery of South Australia reopens today and has announced it will go ahead with the annual Tarnanthi Art Fair as an in-person event from December 4-6 at Lot Fourteen on North Terrace.

Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands, featuring works by Sonja and Elisa-Jane Carmichael. Photo: Saul Steed

Tarnanthi 2020 celebrates culture and creativity across generations

From beautiful blue-hued cyanotype works to elaborate woven sculptures and quirky photographic portraits, the 2020 Tarnanthi exhibition is a celebration of First Nations’ creativity, cultural knowledge and storytelling shared across generations.

“You can see something and it can look really beautiful, but what’s the underlying story?”

Artist and recent OAM recipient Nici Cumpston’s journey to becoming a curator at the Art Gallery of SA included many roles – one of which involved processing crime scene photos.

Tarnanthi communicates across cultures and continents

Art is an international language, and SA’s Tarnanthi festival is helping increase appreciation of the vitality and creativity of Indigenous culture not just in Australia but among global audiences, writes artistic director Nici Cumpston.