OUR MOB Aboriginal Art Exhibition Returns to Adelaide Festival Centre

The prestigious annual exhibition, OUR MOB: Art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists and its youth equivalent OUR YOUNG MOB, will return from 18 August to 7 October at Adelaide Festival Centre’s newly reopened Festival Theatre galleries.

This year’s awards include the $2,000 Trevor Nickolls Art Prize and the renowned $5,000 Don Dunstan Foundation OUR MOB Emerging Artist Prize.

Maude Parker – Birds and Butterflies – Trevor Nickolls OUR MOB Award Winner 2021

Since 2006, OUR MOB: Art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists has provided a platform for contemporary First Nations artists to share their stories, ideas and art with audiences. Presented by Adelaide Festival Centre, the annual exhibition showcases the diversity and depth of works created by First Nations artists across South Australia.

Adelaide Festival Centre CEO & Artistic Director Douglas Gautier AM: “Art is at the heart of many regional and remote communities, and we look forward to supporting South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists throughout OUR MOB this year.

Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present OUR MOB and we look forward to viewing this year’s entries from emerging and established artists.”

OUR MOB 2021 Emerging Artist winner Jay Milera: “As an artist creativity takes courage, inhale possibilities, exhale creativity. Great art is done by a series of small art brought together from life’s experiences.

Winning the 2021 Don Dunstan Foundation Emerging Artist Award was a dream come true. It was a major achievement in my art career, and I encourage artists to reach for the stars, believe in yourself – the world is your painting!”

Jay Milera – Don Dunstan Foundation OUR MOB Emerging Artist Prize 2021 – Photo by Ben Searcy

Complementing OUR MOB is the return of storytelling events OUR WORDS and OUR STORIES.

Adelaide Festival Centre gratefully acknowledges ongoing partnerships with Ku Arts; SICAD; Country Arts SA; The Don Dunstan Foundation; TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art; and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture centre managers and coordinators across South Australia.