Tandanya

The National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Inc., Australia’s oldest Aboriginal-owned and managed multi-arts centre, trades as Tandanya. In 2014, Tandanya celebrated 25 years of continuous operation since the Institute was incorporated under the South Australian Associations Act in 1989.

Tandanya sits on Kaurna (pron. Garna) land. The name is the Kaurna word for ‘place of the Red Kangaroo’. The Kaurna people are the traditional owners and custodians of the Adelaide Plains. Tandanya’s name reflects the organisation’s ongoing commitment to honour and respect the traditional owners and custodians for this country.

Tandanya is a visionary and vibrant place for all to experience contemporary and traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural expressions through the visual and performing arts. Tandanya’s operations are multi-faceted, also including community arts, auspicing of events and business portfolios such as venue hire and the Tandanya Gallery Shop.

Tandanya

253 Grenfell Street Adelaide SA 5000

08 8224 3200

www.tandanya.com.au

Mon - Fri 10am – 5pm
Sat 10am - 2:30pm

Tandanya

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

Speaking volumes: on our love affair with art books

The growing cultural interest in art books reflects the enduring power of the printed word. Jane O’Sullivan takes a closer look.

Jane O'Sullivan

A stitch in time

Radical Textiles, A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia, shows us how textiles evoke material memories while keeping the radical lineage of needle and thread alive.

Briony Downes

Ecological art can bring us closer to understanding nature. How does this look in the era of climate change?

Two exhibitions in Sydney are showcasing interdisciplinary research on climate change communicated in artistic ways.

Alexandra Crosby

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

Julie Gough on history’s many afterlives

In GHOSTLAND, her new exhibition at the ANU Art & Design Gallery, Julie Gough continues her lifelong inquiry into gaps and silences—while conjuring the apparitions that haunt Tasmania’s colonial past.

Briony Downes