Welcome to OUR MOB, Adelaide Festival Centre’s much loved annual art exhibition.
Over the past eighteen years, hundreds of First Nations artists have exhibited and shared their stories while building and growing their careers. We are immensely privileged to provide a platform for contemporary First Nations visual artists and recognise the ongoing importance of OUR MOB and OUR YOUNG MOB for us all.
In the spirit of reconciliation, and with Adelaide Festival Centre’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan now endorsed and active, we are delighted to welcome artists, partners, and audiences to this exceptional exhibition.
Although being driven by Adelaide Festival Centre, OUR MOB is dependent on key arts organisations across the state who collaborate with First Nations artists far and wide, as well as partners in the arts industry and regional and remote arts organisations that bring First Nations artists together in a professionally presented annual exhibition and celebrations. Through OUR MOB we can track the emergence and development of new and exciting arts activities and come to know the work of individual artists.
OUR MOB announcement
Due to redevelopment works and the temporary closure of Adelaide Festival Centre between July 2025 and February 2026, the gallery spaces in Adelaide Festival Centre will not be accessible or open to the public during that time.
Unfortunately, this means that OUR MOB for 2025 will not be able to proceed as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s First Nations program for 2025.
However, we are looking to present a bigger exhibition of First Nation artists as part of OUR MOB in 2026 when OUR MOB Celebrates its 20th year anniversary.
Stay tuned for updates.
OUR MOB 2024
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OUR MOB 2023
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Don Dunstan Foundation OUR MOB Emerging Artist Prize
Supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation
Lesley Coulthard
Trevor Nickolls Art Prize for OUR MOB
Supported by the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation
Samantha Gollan
Country Arts SA Regional OUR MOB Professional Development Opportunity
Supported by Country Arts
Cedric Varcoe
OUR YOUNG MOB Award
Supported by Ku Arts
Kunyi June-Anne McInerney
Trevor Nickolls Art Prize for OUR YOUNG MOB
Isaac Gowan-Reynolds and Mariah Lawrie
Highly Commended
Connie Ryder
OUR MOB 2022
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Don Dunstan Foundation OUR MOB Emerging Artist Prize
Supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation
Winner: Temaana Sanderson-Bromley
Trevor Nickolls Art Prize for OUR MOB
Supported by the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation
Winner: Kat Bell
Country Arts SA Regional OUR MOB Professional Development Opportunity
Supported by Country Arts
Winner: Sherrie Jones
OUR YOUNG MOB Award
Supported by Ku Arts
Winner: Zachary O’Donnell
Trevor Nickolls Art Prize for OUR YOUNG MOB
Winner: Macinta Fowler
OUR MOB 2021
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Don Dunstan Foundation Prize. Supported by the Don Dunstan Foundation
Winner: Janet (Jay) Milera, Land Meets Sea, acrylic on canvas.
Highly Commended: Kath Moore, Sister's Story, acrylic on canvas & Weaving (Lakun), acrylic on canvas.
Trevor Nickolls OUR MOB Award. Supported by the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation
Winner: Maude Parker, Australian Natives, acrylic on canvas & Birds and Butterflies, acrylic on canvas.
Highly Commended: Mali Isabel, Spirituality, acrylic on canvas.
Trevor Nickolls OUR YOUNG MOB Award. Supported by the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation
Winner: Mia Makuch, My Journey, acrylic on canvas.
Country Arts SA Regional Emerging Artist Professional Development Award. Supported by Country Arts SA
Winner: Kat Bell, The Birthing Pod, acrylic on canvas & Gathering on the Mighty Murray River, hand stitched & embroidered yarn, threaded onto bamboo stick.
Ku Arts OUR YOUNG MOB Award. Supported by Ku Arts
Winner: Ulani Williams-Psorakis, Knowledge Handed Down from the Dreamtime, acrylic on canvas.
Highly Commended
Mia Makuch, My Journey, acrylic on canvas.
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