Indigenous-led Adelaide Gallery Forced to Relocate
By Suining Sim
Installation view of the group exhibition "Ngayulu Kulinu Ngayuku Kami-Ku Inma – I hear My Grandmother’s song," at APY Gallery, Adelaide, 2021. Image via Instagram.
The Indigenous-led APY Art Centre Collective, the only organization representing artists across all Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) communities, will have to relocate its Adelaide gallery following a premature termination of its lease. The Collective had signed a five-year lease with an option for renewal in 2019 with the University of South Australia (UniSA), which owns the venue on 9 Light Square, but the contract will now end in March 2022 and the building redeveloped into the UniSA Enterprise Hub, an incubator for research and business projects.
