Tarnanthi 2025
This October we’re heading south for not one, but three big Tarnanthi events in Tarntanya (Adelaide)!
Rurkuni - Gusting, Revving, Rushing Exhibition
27 September - 2 November 2025
Opening event - Wednesday 15/10/2025
Jam Factory Tarntanya / Adelaide
Using contemporary weaving techniques, the artists of Tjanpi Desert Weavers from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands have worked closely with JamFactory’s Head of Jewellery and Metal Studio Tom Golin to develop a new body of sculptural works inspired by the elements on Country. Tom has fabricated undulating metal frames on which the Tjanpi Desert Weavers have created new and experimental forms.
Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi Exhibition
17 October 2025 - 18 January 2026
Art Gallery of South Australia
A major new exhibition celebrates Tarnanthi’s first decade. Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi assembles more than 200 diverse works of outstanding contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art seen in previous Tarnanthi Festivals. The exhibition both revisits key Tarnanthi works acquired by AGSA and revitalises them with fresh insights and unique dialogues with other works and across the Gallery.
The exhibition features significant, memorable and favourite works, some of them conceived specifically for Tarnanthi. Several are monumental in their scale, others are immense in the cultural importance of the stories they tell. All reflect the creative vitality and adaptive genius of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
"We Aṉangu are like the trees, growing strong, and our children are the branches and the leaves … We made these trees together, working together. When we work together, we can do anything." - Artist statement for Tjanpi Punu
Alongside the exhibition, AGSA hosts artist and curator talks, guided tours, performances, film screenings, workshops and creative activities in The Studio. An award-winning Education program assists students and educators.
Tarnanthi Art Fair
17 - 18 October 2025
Union House, University of Adelaide
The ever-popular Tarnanthi Art Fair returns in October as an opportunity to learn about First Nations art and artists and to purchase great works of art. Works for sale include paintings, ceramics, sculpture, woven works, jewellery, textiles, clothes and homewares, created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists working independently or from art centres across the country.
All works are made and sold ethically, and every dollar from every purchase goes directly to the artists and their community-run art centres delivering important economic benefits to communities nationwide where art production is a vital source of income.
