Our Metro Mob
25 July - 28 September, 2008

As part of the 2008 South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA), Tandanya will once again be hosting Our Metro Mob; an exhibition showcasing a selection of Adelaide-based contemporary Australian Indigenous artists.

In 2008 Our Metro Mob will demonstrate examples of current developments in South Australian Metropolitan Indigenous art practices from many artists in different stages in their artistic careers. Works from Northern Territory born artists who now live homeless in Adelaide, to urban born and bred artists will be displayed. This broad cross section provides us with a fascinating mix of themes and inspirations including the environment, cultural heritage, urban development and traditional connections. Artists represented this year have been selected from submissions received.

Our Metro Mob will compliment the Adelaide Festival Centre's Our Mob 08 exhibition of works from remote and regional South Australian artists and Our Young Mob representing young South Australian Indigenous artists.

Kujurra Yarnti Wulkuman - Three Old Women
25 July - 28 September, 2008
Presented by Julalikari Arts, Tennant Creek

The Julalikari Arts Centre is located in 'the Pink Palace' at Tennant Creek, which was built by Mary Ward of Banka Banka Station as a hostel for stockmen and their families coming into town from out bush. It has also been used for a range of community purposes and in 1995 it become the Art and Craft Centre for local Aboriginal Women.

The Art Centre is a creative home to up to 27 women artists. They represent in artwork, language groups, age and experience a great expanse of traditional country in the Barkly Region and beyond. Kujurra Yarnti Wulkuman showcases the paintings of three of the oldest women currently working at the art centre; Flora Holt, Susan Nelson and Peggy Jones who is one of the best known of the Julalikari artists with her work featured in collections throughout the world.

Most of the artists working from the Barkly Region share an intense love for the flora and fauna, the landscape and for cultural activities and ceremonies, they represent these in their own individual ways through their artwork. The iconic shapes of bush tucker and birds featured in Peggy Jones's works are notable for their graphic appeal and boldness. Susan Nelson's paintings are naive representations of Ngappa (Water) Dreaming, bush tucker and activities of the region and Flora Holt presents vibrantly coloured interpretations of the flora and fauna and landscapes of the region.          

ReCoil - Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art
15 August - 19 October, 2008
An Artback NT touring exhibition

Curated by Margie West, together with Indigenous Curator Karen Mills, Recoil is a major touring exhibition which focuses on the medium of coiling and its importance in contemporary Australian fibre practice. The diverse works in the show highlight the fascinating history of coiling. Its rapid spread and diversification particularly in remote Aboriginal communities and the way in which it has become a powerful aid in linking Indigenous and other Australian women from opposite ends of the country, from South Australia, the desert regions of Western Australia and the Northern Territory to tropical Arnhem Land.

This exhibition showcases the weaving works of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian fibre artists from diverse cultural backgrounds who have significantly contributed to stimulating skill exchanges involving coiling.  It features many beautiful items which encompass the art of coiling including bags, baskets, mats, quirky sculptures and paintings and includes work from well-known South Australian weavers, Yvonne Koolmatrie from Berri and Niningka Lewis from Ernabella.