Long Way Home celebrates 21 years of Indigenous contribution to and achievement
at Flinders University. In that time over 260 Indigenous people have graduated and
there are currently nearly 200 students enrolled.
“Yunggorendi Centre for First Nations Higher Education and Research has developed
as an innovative leader in student support, teaching, research and community
engagement. The Centre continues to provide a ‘home’ for Indigenous students and
staff of Flinders University, positively influencing many people’s life journey” said
Simone Ulalka Tur, Director, Yunggorendi.
“There was little doubt that art would play its part in Yunggorendi’s twenty-first anniversary
celebrations. The idea for this exhibition took a familiar form: invite the University’s
Indigenous students and staff, and colleagues with a close relationship to the Centre, to
choose works from the rich resources of the Flinders University Art Museum, write about
them and share choice and response with others. The title Long Way Home grew out of
these deeply personal but collectively understood offerings. It embraces country, identity
and the myriad pathways that connect visions and voices to the pleasures of things made
and people who care” said Emeritus Professor Gus Worby, former Director, Yunggorendi.
Eighteen staff and students of the University, including curators Ali Gumillya Baker,
Natalie Wheeler and Jackie Wurm, have written for the fully illustrated catalogue in
response to works by artists from across the country, including Ian W Abdulla, Michael
Boiyool Anning, Nici Cumpston, Destiny Deacon, Julie Dowling, Jonathon Jones, Emily
Kame Kngwarreye, Kerry Giles Kurwingie, Kunyi June McInerney, Tracey Moffatt, Eubena
Nampitjinpa, Lin Onus, Shane Pickett, Wenten Rubuntja, Yhonnie Scarce, Darren Siwes,
Jacob Stengle, Ellen Trevorrow and HJ Wedge.
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