The Tarnanthi 2025 catalogue celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Art Gallery of Australia's acclaimed Tarnanthi Festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.
Throughout its 328 pages, full-colour images capture the material splendor and diversity of works presented at the 2025 Tarnanthi Festival, held at AGSA and dozens of partner exhibitions across Adelaide and around South Australia.
The publication perfectly represents the unique nature of the 2025 Tarnanthi Festival as being part retrospective, part showcase for up-to-the-minute contemporary art. The first half of the book gathers the essence of the anniversary exhibition Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi, with insightful essays by fifteen leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander academics, curators and writers reflecting on many of the major works that have featured in a decade of Tarnanthi exhibitions since 2015. The second half includes some thirty essays from artists, curators and art experts, which describe and illuminate each new artistic project in the 2025 statewide festival.
Handsomely bound as a hardcover edition, this richly illustrated and deeply informative publication is a must-have for lovers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. It is both a memento of and tribute to ten years of one of Australia's foremost First Nations cultural events.
