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Samstag Museum of Art, 55 North Terrace, Adelaide (2026)

28/08/2026

TOM / Earlier this year, Samstag had the pleasure of running a creative workshop for students planning to participate in this year’s Tournament of Minds. We had a great time making masks, placards and chants for students to stage their own Jemima Wyman-inspired mini protests 🎭🪧🎶

We were so impressed by what these students achieved in 2 hours and can’t wait to see the presentations of their Long Term Challenges this weekend!

The TOM SA State Finals are being held at Adelaide University, Adelaide City Campus West, on Sunday 30 August. To celebrate, Samstag will be open from 11 am to 4.30 pm on Sunday. Pop in to see the shows and make your own colourful collage to take home with you. See you on Sunday!

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21/08/2026

FINALE / Join us as we prepare to farewell Ida Sophia’s epic durational performance of 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮 🌹

We have watched the energy and intensity of this performance slowly build over the past two months and now it set to reach its ultimate crescendo.

The final performance will take place tomorrow: Saturday 22 August, 10 am to 5 pm.

Drop in during the day, turn up for the final moments, or stay the whole seven hours. Just make sure not to miss this powerful end to forty days of silent endurance.

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Ida Sophia, ‘Patience and Penitentia’, 2026. Installation view at Samstag Museum of Art. Photograph by Sia Duff.

18/08/2026

SOPHIA / Tomorrow, Ida Sophia will embark on the final week of her epic durational performance of 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮. Totalling 40 days and 280 hours, this powerful contemplation on the way that silence can be weaponised in personal relationships will come to an end on Saturday.

If you have not yet experienced this work, or would like one more opportunity to see Ida in the gallery, please join us between 10 am and 5 pm on either Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday of this week (19th to the 22nd of August).

Adelaide University University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) IDA SOPHIA SALA Festival

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Ida Sophia, ‘Patience and Penitentia’, 2026. Installation view at Samstag Museum of Art. Photography by Denis Smith. Courtesy the artist.

16/08/2026

WYMAN / In ‘Deepsurface fray rage’ (2018), Jemima Wyman draws on the concept of the quarter-shelter—a military textile design that functions as a convertible tent, cape, or blanket—to explore the relationship between textiles, protest and collective resistance.

The quarter-shelter was one of the first military garments to feature camouflage-inspired designs—both garment and pattern used to support the physical movement and protection of military personnel. Similar strategies have been employed by protesters for protection against surveillance and various forms of crowd control.

Wyman’s large-scale textile installation explores the relationship between tools of warfare and tools of resistance. However, rather than camouflage patterns, her textiles are embellished with painted and spray-painted symbols of civil unrest: handprints, bullet holes, and protest slogans. In her essay for the 𝗝𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 monograph, Dr Hanna Rose Shell writes:

“𝘽𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙖, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚, 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮. 𝙄𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩.”

‘Deep Surface’ is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.

𝗝𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 is on show at Samstag Museum of Art until Friday 18 September, 2026.

Samstag is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm.

Adelaide University University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) Jemima Wyman QUT Art Museum Katherine Dionysius

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1-7: Jemima Wyman, ‘Deepsurface fray rage’ (details), 2018, custom sewn shelter-quarter spray-painted with original metal buttons, painted photographs, metal armature, painted moving blankets, various painted fabric, 297 x 399 x 91 cm. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Tovaangar/Los Angeles.
8-9: Jemima Wyman, ‘Deep Surface’, 2026. Installation view at Samstag Museum of Art. Photography by Sia Duff.

07/08/2026

WYMAN / In her ‘Aggregate icon’ series, Jemima Wyman takes small fragments of photographs from her extensive archive of found protest documentation (thousands of digital photographs, sourced online, that document protests from around the world) and creates intricately patterned kaleidoscopic and mandala-like circular collages. Cut by hand, each fragment is carefully arranged into fractals — never-ending, repeat patterns — that are, in turn, rotated and repeated across the composition.

Through this laborious physical process, Wyman enacts political theorist Hannah Arendt’s concept of ‘going visiting’. Arendt proposes that moral judgement requires us to step outside of our individual understanding of the world in order to ‘visit’ the perspectives of others. By doing this, we come to a new, more informed, more expansive understanding. As curator Katherine Dionysius explains:

“…𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨’𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜,𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙒𝙮𝙢𝙖𝙣 ‘𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜’. 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨, 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙗𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.”
 ‘Deep Surface’ is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.  𝗝𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 is on show at Samstag Museum of Art until Friday 18 September 2026.  Adelaide University University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) Jemima Wyman QUT Art Museum Katherine Dionysius  📸
1. Jemima Wyman, ‘Deep Surface’, 2026. Installation view at Samstag Museum of Art. Photography by Sia Duff.
2. Jemima Wyman, ‘Aggregate icon (Rosetta RBW)’, 2017, hand-cut digital photographs, 200 cm diameter. Photograph by Jeff Mclane. Private collection.
3&4. Jemima Wyman, ‘Aggregate icon (Rosetta RBW), detail views, 2017.

05/08/2026

ARTIST TALK / Join us as we hear from artist Ida Sophia ahead of her finale performance of ‘Patience and Penitentia’. Sophia will discuss the inspiration behind her latest work, the rigours of durational performance, and the development of her practice.

ARTIST TALK: IDA SOPHIA /
Tuesday 18 August, 1pm
Samstag Museum of Art
Registrations encouraged
🔗 Link in bio.

PATIENCE AND PENITENTIA:
FINALE /
Saturday 22 August, 10am – 5pm
Samstag Museum of Art
Upstairs Gallery 2

Free entry. All welcome!

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Ida Sophia photographed in her studio by Joseph James Francis, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

31/07/2026

SOPHIA / Eliciting compassion through action, viewers of 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮 may receive a string of seven beads—a small gift, laden with symbolism:
🌹7 is a number symbolically tied to forgiveness in Christian tradition.
🌹The beads are crafted from rose petals, representing the traditional rosary—a Catholic instrument of prayer and penance.
🌹These rose petals were donated from the gardens of Adelaidean women who all share an intimate knowledge of the silent treatment—including women representing three generations of the artist’s own family.

Gardens, like families, require care and responsiveness, and the collaborative origins of this material foreground the small acts of reciprocity essential to release from weaponised silence.

𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮 is on show until 18 September, 2026.
Performance dates vary. Visit the Samstag website for ongoing updates. 🔗 Link in bio.

Adelaide University University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) IDA SOPHIA

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Ida Sophia, ‘Patience and Penitentia’, 2026. Installation views at Samstag Museum if Art. Photographs by Sia Duff.

28/07/2026

WYMAN / One of the earliest works in 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 is ‘Face body project’ (1997), which formed part of Wyman’s final undergraduate portfolio. Part of a larger series, this work is a photocopy of a black and white photograph of the artist’s own face. Encircling Wyman’s face is a series of curved black ink lines. With this early work, we already see two key facets of Wyman’s practice emerge — pattern and the interplay between interiority and exteriority.

“𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙨𝙮𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙢𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤-𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤-𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚. 𝙄 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.”

— Jemima Wyman, ‘Jemima Wyman: Psychedelic Protest,’ interview by Robert Leonard, Town Hall, 1 April (2024): 20.

‘Deep Surface’ is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.

𝗝𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 is on at Samstag Museum of Art Friday 26 June — Friday 18 September 2026

Adelaide University University Art Museums Australia (UAMA) Jemima Wyman QUT Art Museum Katherine Dionysius

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Jemima Wyman, ‘Face body project’, 1997, ink on photocopy, 42 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

24/07/2026

SOPHIA / Today we reached the halfway point of Ida Sophia’s durational performance: 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮 🥀

Thank you to everyone who has joined us over the past 20 performance days. Your connection to this work has made the endless laps of silence feel more of a gift than penance for the artist and her co-performers—Sarah Neville, OAKEY, Ashton Malcolm and Isobel Stolinski.

There are 20 more opportunities to experience this deeply moving work. Visit the Samstag website for weekly performance date updates. 🔗Link in bio.

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Ida Sophia, Patience and Penitentia,’ Samstag Museum of Art, 2026. Photograph by Sia Duff.

21/07/2026

LISTEN / ON ART Episode 41 | Jemima Wyman

Jemima Wyman (Palawa) is an LA-based artist and Samstag Scholar (2005). Over three decades, Wyman has explored collective organising, democracy and dissent through photographic collage, painting, performance, textiles and moving image. She joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲, a major survey exhibition devoted to her work now on at Samstag Museum of Art. They dive into the concepts, ethics and aesthetics that underpin and find expression through her practice. Jemima shares her encyclopaedic knowledge of global protest movements, what archiving processes work for her, and why even as a regular return visitor to Australia, LA suits her as a person and maker.

‘Deep Surface’ is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.

𝗝𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗪𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗻: 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 is on at Samstag Museum of Art Friday 26 June — Friday 18 September 2026

🎧 Find the Samstag ON ART podcast wherever you get your podcasts or listen in on our website.
🔗Link in bio.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded in June 26, 2026.

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Jemima Wyman in her s tudio with ‘Haze (Purple)’ and ‘Haze (Red),’ 2023. Courtesy the artist.

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