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Entwined

Have you ever played string games? Well, you might have Honor Maude to thank. The ³ÉÈË´óƬ is excited to present Honor Maude’s research collection inÌýEntwined: string games across cultures.

Entwined

50 Years Proud: Queerness on Campus

Fifty years ago, the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s students were prominent players in the fight for Gay Liberation. This exhibition featured student magazine, On Dit, providing a social and historical record of student life.

50 Years Proud

³ÉÈË´óƬ Theatre Guild's 85th Anniversary

Celebrate UATG

Let Our Songs Speak for Us

Celebrating 50 years of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music.

Let Our Songs Speak for Us

Face to Face: Embracing Portraiture

Described as a cultural mirror, portraits are where art, biography, history and identity collide. During its history the ³ÉÈË´óƬ has collected portraits of our leaders and great thinkers to adorn our walls.Ìý

Face to Face: Embracing Portraiture

South Australian History Festival: Stories from the Archives, from Foundation to Federation

This exhibition showcased a selection of documents from the State Records of South Australia as well as the ³ÉÈË´óƬ Library's Special Collections from the time of first European settlement to Federation in 1901.Ìý

Stories from the Archives, from Foundation to Federation

Campuscapes
The artworks in this exhibition offered the opportunity to consider how the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s North Terrace campus contributes to our well-being and experience of education and research. These artworks showÌýthe evolution of the campus in response to the changing needs of our students and staff. Take a bird’s eye view of the campus through the ages, and discover what connections you have to the landscape.

Campuscapes

eMotion
The work of four international photographers, the BenineseÌýIsholaÌýAkpo, the Brazilian Edu Monteiro, American DavidÌýSchalliolÌýand Spanish LourdesÌýSegade,photographers, is crossedÌýwithÌýa graphic project combining real and imaginary spaces and making two modes of expression interact to better discover the places visited.

eMotion

Play with Pride: Celebrating 125 Year of Adelaide University Sport
Uncover historical photos pasted-up on buildings across the North Terrace Campus, showcasing 125 years of Adelaide University Sport. Chosen by key figures in our sports community, each image has been thoughtfully selected from the archive for you to discover.

Play with Pride

Community Legends
This exhibition celebrated the kindness and resilience shown by individuals within the ³ÉÈË´óƬ. Our Community Legends were nominated by their peers, colleagues and those who saw them go the extra mile. These portraits created by local artist, Fruzsi Kenez, honour the contributions they have made to our community.Ìý

Community Legends

Art in action: creation of the World of Ideas mural
The World of Ideas mural is inspired by the heritage gift collection, which highlights the global engagement and connections the University has around the world. An accompanying exhibition displays the inspiration for this artwork, showcasing the connections of Adelaide’s global university.

Art in Action

Reflections: Connecting to Country through Art - 26 October to 27ÌýNovember 2020
In a collaboration between the University Library and Wirltu Yarlu Aboriginal Education, the artworks on display in this exhibition were selected by our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and students from the University's stellar Indigenous art collection.

Reflections

Australian of the Year - 24 August to 8 November 2020
A travelling exhibition from the National Museum of Australia developed in collaboration with the National Australia Day Council.

Australian of the Year

125 Years - Aboriginal Women's Suffrage
This art exhibition featured the creative talents of photographer Colleen Raven Strangways of Nharla Photography. Her contemporary portraits of Aboriginal women capture a determined spirit, resonant with the suffrage movement 125 years ago, and vital in the fight for equity for First Nation Australians.

125 Years - Aboriginal Women's Suffrage
The Significant Life of R.A. Fisher:ÌýMathematician / Statistician / Geneticist
TheÌýexhibition explored the achievements of this gifted thinker, through his research papers and own writings which were donated to the ³ÉÈË´óƬ Library.ÌýTo this day, Fisher’s extraordinary contributions continue to influence in many branches of human thought and endeavour.

The Significant Life of R.A Fisher

Museum of Words: Poetry in the Hub
How do we exhibit objects without a space for them to be physically exhibited? This is what Museum of Words: Poetry in the Hub set out to answer.ÌýWe invited staff and students to engage poetically with objects from the University’s collections.

Museum of Words

History of Book Illustration
Is a picture really worth a thousand words?ÌýFrom woodcut to lithograph, this exhibition explores the history and methods of book illustration, and sheds light on the important role that co-existent images and text play in the transfer and retention of meaningful knowledge.

History of Book Illustration

Cover to Cover: Exposing the Bookbinder's Ancient Craft
From forwarding to finishing, and all of the steps in between, this exhibition celebrated the bookbinder, and the unique combination of utility, dexterity and artistry required to excel at this ancient craft.Ìý

Cover to Cover

Student raggers and radicals: Student activity and activism from 1880
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ was founded in 1874 on the Oxbridge tutorial model, and our students happily embraced the tradition of raucous high spirits and ragging, nearly always characterised by a joyful sense of humour.

Raggers and Radicals

Have Book, Will Travel:ÌýMapping Provenance in Rare Books & Special Collections
From America, England, Europe and even Antarctica, many of the books held in Special Collections have travelled far and wide to get here. This exhibition showcased just how far some of these books have come, based on the inscriptions and bookplates found inside their covers.

Have Book, Will Travel

Bound to Please: The Iconic Victorian Binding in an Era of Industrialisation and Mechanisation
This fascinating exhibition explored the evolution of the book as it transitions away from the traditional methods of hand-binding towards the exquisitely gilt-blocked and mass-produced publishers’ cloth binding.

Bound to Please

140 Years of Books
In celebration of the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s 140th anniversary, Rare Books & Special Collections present ‘140 Books: 1874-2014’, an exhibition of books published in each year of the University’s history.

140 Years of Books

Garden books in the Special Collections of the Barr Smith Library
Although the Barr Smith Library has not deliberately collected works on gardening or garden history, a surprising wealth of material has accumulated from the bequests of major donors such as Sir Samuel Way and Mrs Christine Macgregor. We have also collected works on plant and garden history to support teaching and research in architecture, landscape design, botany, history and literature.

Garden Books