Nexus Arts

Nexus Arts fosters excellence in intercultural contemporary arts. Artist-focused and community-centred, they are the only contemporary arts organisation in South Australia with this explicit focus. The Nexus Gallery showcases emerging and established artists from diverse cultural backgrounds working across a range of mediums in a contemporary context.

Nexus Arts Gallery and Nexus Arts Venue are located in Adelaide’s Lion Arts Centre in the west end of the city.

Nexus Arts

Nexus Arts, North Terrace, Adelaide SA, Australia

08 8212 4276

nexusarts.org.au/visit-us/nexus-arts-gallery/

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From here to infinity with Yayoi Kusama

Ahead of the National Gallery of Victoria’s major retrospective on singular Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, we invited four artists to respond to the influence of Kusama on their own practice—and meditate on what her work means to them.

Art Guide Australia

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Falling Better with Patrick Pound

For Patrick Pound, whose new installation The Museum of Falling is on show now at the City Gallery, the arrangement of objects and images has long blurred the line between fact and fiction, jolting our perception in surprising and unusual ways.

Peter Hill

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Jonathan Jones on Country and kinship

bagan bariwariganyan: echoes of country, curated by Jonathan Jones and now showing at Bundanon, highlights a long history of Indigenous art on the New South Wales south coast, with works and installations from Jones, Aunty Julie Freeman, Aunty Cheryl Davison, and Mickey of Ulladulla.

Steve Dow

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Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Julie Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in the southern hemisphere, now showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, attempts to harness the urgency and energy of the Ethiopian-born New Yorker’s multilayered painting practice.

Courtney Kidd

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The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Josina Pumani’s electric ceramic work Maralinga—recently recognised at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards— deftly excavates a long-hidden past.

Jessica Alderton

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Archie Moore’s family ties

For Lardil and Yangkaal writer and curator Maya Hodge, Archie Moore’s presentation at this year’s Venice Biennale is a powerful symbol of reckoning—one that asks the world to bear witness to the long shadows of colonial violence and clears space for possibilities ahead.

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Suggested Reading

From here to infinity with Yayoi Kusama

Art Guide Australia

Falling Better with Patrick Pound

Peter Hill

Jonathan Jones on Country and kinship

Steve Dow

Julie Mehretu and the new contemporary

Courtney Kidd

The undeniable power of Josina Pumani’s Maralinga

Jessica Alderton

Archie Moore’s family ties

Maya Hodge

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