Our Mob 2010

Held during the 2010 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival, this year’s exhibition features over 100 works of art by different South Australian Indigenous artists from all around the state, including the Anangu /Pitjantjatjara /Yankunytjatjara Lands in the state’s remote North, as well as Ceduna, Port Pirie, Yorke Peninsula, Murray Bridge, Pt Augusta, the Riverland, Mt Gambier, the Coorong, Oodnadatta and more.

Featuring an impressive range of works including paintings, drawings, sculptures, woven fibre objects, textile garments and ceramics, Our Mob demonstrates the diversity and vitality of the Indigenous art of South Australia.

A significant guest piece in this year’s exhibition is a traditional bark canoe carved by prominent Ngarrindjeri Elder Major Sumner, cut down from a red gum in Kalangadoo in the state’s South East. The process revisits cultural traditions of his people from a century ago.

A new and exciting feature of this year’s Our Mob exhibition is the inaugural Adelaide Festival Centre’s South Australian Indigenous Acquisitive Art Award. One work from Our Mob 2010 will be selected for the award, presenting the artist with $5000 prize money and the opportunity to raise their professional profile in a national context. The Adelaide Festival Centre will acquire the winning work, which will help to grow the Adelaide Festival Centre Indigenous Art Collection which was established in 2002.