Tarnanthi on Tour: Too Deadly to Travel Across Australia Through 2028

The Art Gallery of South Australia is sending its Tarnanthi exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on a national tour starting July 2026. Tarnanthi on Tour: Too Deadly features over 30 works from the past decade, many conceived for the festival and never seen outside Adelaide. The tour will visit six regional galleries across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia over two years. AGSA Director Jason Smith said the tour celebrates 10 years of Tarnanthi by taking First Nations stories on the road. South Australian Minister for the Arts Kyam Maher called Tarnanthi a mainstay of the state's cultural calendar; AGSA reports an audience of 2.2 million since 2015. The festival is in transition: longtime Artistic Director Nici Cumpston has departed to lead the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection in the US, and a recruitment process for her successor is underway. Highlights include John Prince Siddon's large-scale installation Australia: Mix it all up (2019), Tony Albert and Alair Pambegan's Frontier Wars Bone Fish Story Place (2014), and Reko Rennie's three-channel video OA_RR (2016-17). The first stop is Rockhampton Museum of Art in Queensland, running 25 July to 5 October 2026.