​Two internationally based Australian artists highlight human behaviour at a macro and micro scale.


Image: Jemima Wyman, Haze 27 , 2024, hand-cut digital photographs 104 x 140cm. Private collection.

KUDLILA SEASON

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface
Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia
Friday 26 June — Friday 18 September 2026

Exploring social movements and relational dynamics, these exhibitions draw attention to inherent patterns that foster and thwart connection.

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface
LA-based Australian artist and Samstag Scholar (2005) Jemima Wyman’s (Palawa) practice is a visually and politically charged exploration of camouflage, collective organising, democracy and dissent. This survey exhibition of Wyman’s work spans decades. Known for her vivid, kaleidoscopic hand-cut collages, Wyman’s maximalist environments channel the upheaval, uncertainty, and distress of protest into a hypnotic and rhythmic harmony of patterned surfaces.

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius.

Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia
Ida Sophia’s installation and durational performance Patience and Penitentia explores the painful and damaging experience of relational withdrawal—the silent treatment—in a work that enacts the power dynamics, strategies of control and form of punishment at its core. Over the span of the exhibition, a participatory ritual performed by the artist and a select number of performers will see Sophia incorporate elements of sound, language, movement and gesture to publicly transfigure private suffering through collective release.

Upcoming Events

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Ida Sophia: Patience and Penitentia
Durational Performance

Samstag Museum of Art, Gallery 2 (upstairs)

This Week's Performance Dates:
August /
Tuesday 11th — 10 am to 5 pm
Wednesday 12th — 10 am to 5 pm
Friday 14th — 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday 15th — 10 am to 5 pm

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Artist Talk: Ida Sophia

Join us as we hear from artist Ida Sophia discusses the inspiration behind her 
latest work, the rigours of durational performance, and the development of
her practice.

Tuesday 18 August, 1pm
Samstag Museum of Art
Register here

 

Samstag Museum of Art acknowledges the Kaurna people as traditional custodians of the land upon which the Museum stands.
Samstag exhibition seasons refer to Kaurna weather patterns, used with approval from Kaurna Warra Karrpanthi (KWK).