The world is not a foreign land, the current exhibition at Flinders University City Gallery, will have its official launch on Wednesday, 14 October.

The Ian Potter Museum of Art and NETS Victoria touring exhibition is presented in Adelaide by Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM) as part of South Australia’s inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art – TARNANTHI.
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Comprising work by Timothy Cook, Djambawa Marawili, Ngarra, Rusty Peters, Freda Warlapinni and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, The world is not a foreign land crosses three geographically and culturally distinct regions — the Tiwi Islands, the Kimberley, and North-eastern Arnhem Land. Each artist presents different and sometimes striking perspectives on what constitutes Indigenous contemporary art.

Artists in the exhibition employ a number of approaches that illuminate the vibrancy and diversity of current practice including small scale fibre-tipped pen drawings, large format acrylic painting on canvas and barks executed in natural pigment.

Described by Flinders Art Museum Director Fiona Salmon as a “powerful, scholarly and timely contribution to current thinking on Indigenous art”, the exhibition is already open to the public and runs until November 29.