CV / Curatorial Projects
Exhibitions
2017 – 2018 TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia and twenty partner exhibitions
2015 – 2016 TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia and twenty-two partner exhibitions
2013 HEARTLAND curated with Lisa Slade, Art Gallery of South Australia
2010 Desert Country, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, touring nationally 2011 - 2013
2007 Indigenous Responses to Colonialism - Another Story,
Curated with Maggie Fletcher and Nerina Dunt, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
Major Publications – Books
2017 TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Islander Art, Nici Cumpston, Art Gallery of South Australia
2015 TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Islander Art, Nici Cumpston, Art Gallery of South Australia
2015 Yvonne Koolmatrie: Riverland Jonathan Jones, Hetti Perkins, Genevieve
O’Callaghan & Nici Cumpston, Art Gallery of South Australia
2013 HEARTLAND Nici Cumpston and Lisa Slade
Art Gallery of South Australia
2010 Desert Country Nici Cumpston with Barry Patton
Art Gallery of South Australia
Selected Essays
2012 Breaking new ground catalogue essay for Ninuku Arts exhibition Manta Irititjangku
ngura Kuttjupalakutu Ancient Land New Territory in New York May 2012, Harvey Art
Projects, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
2012 Blackfella Road, Lorraine Connelly-Northey with Fulvia Mantelli catalogue essay for
Deadly: in –between heaven and hell, 2012 Adelaide Festival of Arts at Tandanya National
Aboriginal Cultural Institute
2009 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art - Parallel Collisions Jonathan Jones and Richard
Bell, Art Gallery of South Australia
2010 Artlink Blak on Blak, Beaver Lennon: painting country vol 30 no1
2009 Menagerie, Niningka Lewis Object Gallery, Nici Cumpston
2008 Beyond the Black Stump Histories of Outback Australia - A family story
Edited by Alan Mayne, Wakefield Press 2008
2001 Kaltja Now - Indigenous Arts Australia
Tandanya - National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Wakefield Press, Adelaide