FUMA’s changing program of exhibitions showcase historical and contemporary works by Australian and international artists. We present thematic and solo exhibitions on the Bedford Park campus and in venues regionally and nationally, regularly featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and curators.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
19 February — 19 April 2024
An ACMI touring exhibition featuring Kaylene Whiskey, Jason Phu, Deborah Kelly, Zanny Begg and David Rosetzky
Showcasing five moving image artworks by Australian artists, this exhibition celebrates ACMI’s vibrant collecting and commissioning program.
Working in video offers artists the opportunity to use editing as their primary technique; mixing and matching elements from other films or their own work to tell new stories. By remixing or rearranging footage they build different rhythms and moods, create hilarious juxtapositions or shed new light on cultural cliches and presumed histories. The works in this exhibition all demonstrate an irrepressible desire to bring deep themes to the surface with humour and an incredible attention to detail.
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
Image: Kaylene Whiskey, Ngura Pukulpa – Happy Place, 2021, Courtesy Kaylene Whiskey and Iwantja Arts. Photo: Max Mackinnon.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
6 May — 5 July 2024
A FUMA exhibition featuring Robin Best, Robert Boynes, Jim Cane, Pamela Harris, Andrew Hill, Ann Newmarch, Mandy Martin, Christine McCarthy, Peter Mumford, Progressive Printers Alliance, curated by Catherine Speck and Jude Adams
Formed in Adelaide in 1974, PAM (Progressive Art Movement) grew out of the Flinders University Politics and Art course during a period of political volatility, student activism and industrial unrest. Spearheaded by radical thinkers Brian Medlin and Ann Newmarch, artists comprising PAM united with the aim of forging a politically-progressive culture rooted in local conditions and opposing US imperialism. The first comprehensive presentation of their work since 1977, this exhibition features iconic prints and posters whose hard-hitting agendas are communicated through uncompromising calls to action and striking graphics.
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
Image: Mandy Martin, Australian Independence, 1974, screenprint; ink on paper, 55.9 x 76.0 cm, Collection of Flinders University Museum of Art 5053, © the Estate of the artist
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
22 July — 13 September 2024
A FUMA exhibition presented in partnership with Guildhouse and supported by Arts South Australia. Featuring Bin Bai, Stephanie Doddridge, Sue Kneebone, Olga Sankey and Truc Truong, curated by Suzanne Close.
The Disquiet presents new work by five South Australian artists that reflects on the alternative cultural movements and political activism of the 1970s documented in FUMA’s Political Poster and Print collection. Informed by the agendas, motivations and artistic processes in the historical works, artists explore the relationship of their practices to the complex and urgent issues of the 21st century. New works may speak to ecological, social or cultural concerns to politically agitate, or alternatively, provide meditations on hope for the future. Together, they will offer a contemporary counterpoint to the succeeding FUMA exhibition ‘If you don’t fight … you lose’.
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
30 September 2024 — 11 April 2025
A FUMA exhibition featuring Unbound Collective: Ali Gumillya Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch, Natalie Harkin, Simone Ulalka Tur
This landmark survey celebrates ten years of critical and creative work generated by the nationally acclaimed Unbound Collective, whose shared praxis is a means to survive, rupture and reimagine relationships with institutions – like the Academy – in the wake of colonialism. Grounded in Indigenous methodologies of creative resistance, refusal, activism and sisterhood, the Collective's writings, performances and installations are a radical endeavour to shape the world anew. They ask: What ideas are we bound to historically, and what do we choose to collectively bind ourselves to into the future, and what are the ideas that can set us free?
FUMA Gallery I Social Sciences North Building I Bedford Park
Image: Unbound Collective, It's so Hip to be BLAK featuring Faye Rosas Blanch, 2014, still from
single channel digital video, duration 00:02:21 min, © the artists
Flinders University Museum of Art
Flinders University I Sturt Road I Bedford Park SA 5042
Located ground floor Social Sciences North building, Humanities Road adjacent carpark 5
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