Opening Night – 'Rewriting Landscapes'

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 06:00 am to 08:00 am UTC+10:30

Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia, South Australia 5000 | Adelaide

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
Publisher/HostAdelaide Contemporary Experimental
Opening Night \u2013 'Rewriting Landscapes'
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Join us on Saturday 25 October to celebrate the opening of 'Rewriting Landscapes', as part of Tarnanthi.
Our bar will be stocked by our sponsors Alpha Box & Dice.⁠
⁠'Rewriting Landscapes' brings together leading contemporary Aboriginal artists who reclaim and reframe the genre of landscape through photography and video.⁠
⁠Exhibiting⁠
17 Oct – 12 Dec⁠
Opening Night⁠
Sat 25 Oct ⁠
4–6pm

Artists:
Troy-Anthony Baylis (Jawoyn)
Patrick William Carter (Noongar)
Dylan Crismani (Wiradjuri)
Adam-Troy Francis (Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, and Wirangu)
Libby Harward (Ngugi)
r e a (Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi)
Darren Siwes (Ngalkbun)
Curator: Danni Zuvela

About the Exhibition:
Rewriting Landscapes brings together leading contemporary Aboriginal artists who reclaim and reframe the genre of landscape through photography and video.
For much of Australia’s colonial history, the idea of “landscape” has been bound up with possession, extraction and the erasure of First Nations presence. Our visual traditions often reinforced the colonial gaze, which frames Country as empty, picturesque, and available for possession. This exhibition confronts those legacies of Country as backdrop or object, reimagining it as living, storied and sovereign.
The artists in Rewriting Landscapes use the camera to destabilise inherited ways of seeing, offering instead works that are at once deeply personal and political. Their images articulate connections to place that resist surface aesthetics, positioning Country as an active participant in narrative and identity. Ranging from conceptual and critical, to playful and experimental, and defiantly self-determined, these practices dismantle canonical representations while carving out new visual pathways rooted in cultural continuity.
Rather than a reaction to colonial landscape traditions, Rewriting Landscapes is an affirmation: of presence, of perspective, of ongoing cultural dynamism. It celebrates photography and video as contemporary tools for expressing ancestral knowledge, kinship, and lived experience, underscoring how First Nations artists continue to experiment while remaining grounded in Country.
Rewriting Landscapes offers a collective act of rewriting, reshaping and reimagining of visual language.

Image:
Libby Harward (Ngugi), 'WARIBUL WAYIRA (hungry waterways)’, 2020. Digital film 2.43sec. Location: Mulgumpin- Lake Carrurra. Courtesy of the artist

Support:
ACE is supported by the Australian Government through Create SA and Creative Australia.
Presented and supported by the Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.
Adam-Troy Francis is supported by City of Adelaide.
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Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia, South Australia 5000

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