Stop(the)Gap is a major exhibition developed for the 2011 BigPond Adelaide Film
Festival in partnership with the Samstag Museum of Art. UniSA’s Brenda L Croft
brings together recent moving image works by renowned Indigenous artists from
Australia, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, Canada and the USA, to challenge global
preconceptions of contemporary international Indigenous expression. The Samstag
Museum of Art will premiere a new work by celebrated Aboriginal filmmaker Warwick
Thornton, commissioned through the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund.
Opens 24 February and continues until 21 April.
Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion
Curator and artist talk
Stop(the)Gap curator Brenda L Croft and Hetti Perkins (Chair) are joined by
international Indigenous curatorial advisors Kathleen Ash-Milby (USA), David Garneau
(Canada) and Megan Tamati-Quennell (Aotearoa/NZ) with participating artists
Genevieve Grieves, Alan Michelson, Lisa Reihana,r e a and Warwick Thornton
3.30pm, Saturday, 26 February 2011
Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, City west campus
Free admission, all welcome
Rachael Elliott
Coordinator: Scholarships and Communication
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
University of South Australia
55 North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
T) 08 8302 0869
F) 08 8302 0866
M) 0438 872 483
unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion media release “ Read (PDF file, 155kb)
Stop(the)Gap catalogue “ Read (PDF file, 988kb)
Stop(the)Gap education resource (PDF file, 1.5mb)
