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For all news and media enquiries, please contact FUMA via email or phone:

Telephone | 08 8201 2695
Email | museum@flinders.edu.au

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2023

Q1 2023 | News

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3 March 2023 | Media release

Some Like it Hot

Flinders University Museum of Art presents Some Like it Hot, an exhibition that intersects sweat, sex, desire and discord in Darwin, Australia’s hottest and most remote capital city.

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2022

December 2022 | News

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30 November 2022 | Media Release

FUMA wins prestigious arts prize at 2022 Ruby Awards

Taking centre stage at the 2022 Ruby Awards, FUMA won a prestigious award at South Australia’s premier arts ceremony, for outstanding work in presenting an exhibition in South Australia.

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16 September 2022 | Media Release

Hayley Millar Baker, There we were all in one place

Flinders University Museum of Art presents There we were all in one place, an early career survey of cross-cultural artist Hayley Millar Baker.

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September 2022 | News

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20 July 2022 | Media Release

After the Fall – an exploration of grief, faith, and end-times

Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) present new work by South Australian artists Elyas Alavi, Kate O’Boyle and Louise Haselton in After the Fall, inspired by the mythologies, subjects, and techniques of FUMA’s European print collection dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

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4 July 2022 | Media Release

Flinders University Museum of Art symposium address our dark data fears

Data plays a huge and ever-increasing role in our lives - but do you embrace data or fear its reach? FUMA, the Flinders University Museum of Art, and Flinders University’s Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts are presenting a symposium on broad creative assessment of data’s application and effects, to accompany its current exhibition that radically reimagines data’s meaning, impact and potential.

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June 2022 | News

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26 April 2022 | Media Release

The art of data visualisation explored at Flinders University Museum of Art

Presented by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies features influential Australian and international artists and designers, including Lola Greeno, Tali Weinberg, Andrew Gall, Judy Watson, and Silvio Carta, among others. Through diverse materials and technologies their work explores data both critically and playfully, reflecting on what counts as data, and examining how it is harvested, applied and perceived.

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March 2022 | News

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2021

December 2021 | News

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13 October 2021 | Media Release

Truth-telling exhibition sheds light on Indigenous women’s domestic servitude

Histories of domestic service inflicted upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls in White Australia are at the centre of a powerful new exhibition Sovereign Sisters: domestic work, presented at Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) for the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi Festival.

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September 2021 | News

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2 August 2021 | Media Release

Exhibition with bite to honour Hanrahan’s legacy

30 years after the untimely extinguishing of one of South Australia’s brightest creative lights, an ambitious exhibition curated by the Flinders University Museum of Art will pay homage to the extraordinary life and work of uncompromising artist Barbara Hanrahan.

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June 2021 | News

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27 April 2021 | Media Release

A love song through the looking glass

Flinders University Museum of Art is thrilled to present the work of two of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary Indigenous artists - Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce - in a new exhibition organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon (Birmingham, UK) with distinguished Arrernte and Kalkadoon curator Hetti Perkins.

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22 March 2021 | Media Release

Ritual Nature Takes Out First Prize at Fringe

Flinders University Museum of Art and Guildhouse are pleased to announce that Ray Harris: Ritual Nature has been awarded The Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art at the 2021 Adelaide Fringe.

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March 2021 | News

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28 January 2021 | Media Release

Ray Harris: Ritual Nature

Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art kick start 2021 with a new exhibition of evocative performance videos by South Australian artist Ray Harris, developed in response to The Collections Project

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2020

December 2020 | News

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22 October 2020 | Media Release

Robyn Stacey breathes life into the inanimate and mundane

In an alluring and evocative travelling exhibition brought to Adelaide by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA), audiences can experience the tantalising still life photographs of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Robyn Stacey.

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September 2020 | News

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June 2020 | News

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27 May 2020 | Media Release

A fresh look at Cook

In a compelling new exhibition Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) puts the complex and contested legacy of Captain Cook (1728-1779) under the lens – 250 years since his landing on Dharawal Country, on the southern headland of what is also now known as Botany Bay

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April 2020 | News

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25 February 2020 | Media release

STELARC: Posthuman Bodies

Futuristic human forms: an exhibition where art and technology collide

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2019

30 October 2019 | Media release

South Australian artist Ray Harris to examine Flinders University's rich collection of performance and installation art for Guildhouse Collections Project 2020.

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15 November 2019 | Media release

Brave new wave hits Glenelg

Curated by Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) and now on display at the Bay Discovery Centre, Brave new wave: desert women painters showcases the remarkable impact of Aboriginal women artists working in the Central and Western Desert regions.

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24 October 2019 | Media release

New gallery in Adelaide's south opens with showcase of beauty from the red centre

A new gallery in Adelaide's south is bringing the treasures of a nationally acclaimed art movement to the community, launching today with an exhibition of breathtaking watercolours from the famed Hermannsburg School.

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8 September 2019 | Media release

Jake Holmes - Writing the climate: A printmaker's response to the environmental crisis

Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present printmaker Jake Holmes' work as part of The Collections Project.

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30 July 2019 | Media release

Cynthia Schwertsik - UTE-ilitarian

Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present UTE-ilitarian by Austrian born, Adelaide-based artist Cynthia Schwertsik as part of the 2019 SALA Festival.

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2018

27 September 2018 | Media release

Gail Hocking - PERIPHERAL DISTURBANCE: wandering between worlds

Guildhouse and Flinders University Museum of Art are delighted to present PERIPHERAL DISTURBANCE: wandering between worlds, by New Zealand born, Aldinga based artist Gail Hocking.

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7 May 2018 | Media release

Head-to-Head: Shifting perspectives in Australian portraiture

Flinders University Museum of Art farewells the City Gallery with major portraiture exhibition

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16 February 2018 | Media release

New Alchemists
When life imitates science: the impact of technology on humanness

The social impact of technology and the different ways in which it permeates our consciousness is explored in a disarming new exhibition at the Flinders University City Gallery called New Alchemists.

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