Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. 

Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.

Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. 
Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.
ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.

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Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA.

Hayley Millar Baker

Tarntanya/Adelaide and Berlin-based artist Ida Sophia works in sculpture, performance, and video. In her first solo exhibition in a public institution, the 40 day performance and installation work Patience and Penetentia, she examined the relational dynamic of the silent treatment. Enacted seven hours a day over a two-month period, Ida worked with Ashton Malcolm, Sarah Neville, OAKEY and Isobel Stolinski who joined her in the gallery. This public conversation between Samstag’s Associate Curator Sarah Buckley and Ida Sophia was recorded on Tuesday 18 August as the exhibition was nearing its end. Reflecting on the experience, Ida discusses the genesis of her work, her abiding interest in religious iconography and the creative partnerships that sustain her practice. 

Tarntanya/Adelaide and Berlin-based artist Ida Sophia works in sculpture, performance, and video. In her first solo exhibition in a public institution, the 40 day performance and installation work&nbsp;Patience and Penetentia, she examined the relational dynamic of the silent treatment. Enacted seven hours a day over a two-month period, Ida worked with Ashton Malcolm, Sarah Neville, OAKEY and Isobel Stolinski who joined her in the gallery. This public conversation between Samstag&rsquo;s Associate Curator Sarah Buckley and Ida Sophia was recorded on Tuesday 18 August as the exhibition was nearing its end. Reflecting on the experience, Ida discusses the genesis of her work, her abiding interest in religious iconography and the creative partnerships that sustain her practice.&nbsp;

n her first solo exhibition in a public institution, the 40 day performance and installation work Patience and Penetentia, Ida Sophia examines the relational dynamic of the silent treatment. 

Ida Sophia

Jemima Wyman (Palawa) is an LA-based artist and Samstag Scholar (2005). Over three decades, Wyman has explored collective organising, democracy and dissent through photographic collage, painting, performance, textiles and moving image. She joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss Deep Surface, a major survey exhibition devoted to her work now on at the Samstag Museum of Art.  They dive into the concepts, ethics and aesthetics that underpin and find expression through her practice. Jemima shares her encyclopaedic knowledge of global protest movements, what archiving processes work for her, and why even as a regular return visitor to Australia, LA suits her as a person and maker.  

Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius. The exhibition is on at the Samstag Museum of Art Friday 26 June — Friday 18 September 2026

Jemima Wyman (Palawa) is an LA-based artist and Samstag Scholar (2005). Over three decades, Wyman has explored collective organising, democracy and dissent through photographic collage, painting, performance, textiles and moving image. She joins Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio to discuss&nbsp;Deep Surface, a major survey exhibition devoted to her work now on at the Samstag Museum of Art.&nbsp; They dive into the concepts, ethics and aesthetics that underpin and find expression through her practice. Jemima shares her encyclopaedic knowledge of global protest movements, what archiving processes work for her, and why even as a regular return visitor to Australia, LA suits her as a person and maker. &nbsp;
Jemima Wyman: Deep Surface&nbsp;is a QUT Galleries and Museums travelling exhibition curated by Katherine Dionysius. The exhibition is on at the Samstag Museum of Art Friday 26 June &mdash; Friday 18 September 2026

Jemima Wyman (Palawa) is an LA-based artist and Samstag Scholar (2005) who shares her encyclopaedic knowledge of global protest movements, what archiving processes work for her, and why even as a regular return visitor to Australia, LA suits her as a person and maker.  

Jemima Wyman

Ellie Buttrose is the curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a survey exhibition featuring 24 artists across three venues: the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Samstag Museum of Art. Joining Samstag’s Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio midway through the exhibition’s installation  Ellie shares how this survey of Australian contemporary art has unfolded and continues to surprise her, what these artworks and art practices reveal and why exhibition making is an experimental practice.

2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Yield Strength
Friday 27 February — Monday 8 June 2026

Ellie Buttrose is the curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a survey exhibition featuring 24 artists across three venues: the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Samstag Museum of Art. Joining Samstag&rsquo;s Associate Curator Anna Zagala in the studio midway through the exhibition&rsquo;s installation &nbsp;Ellie shares how this survey of Australian contemporary art has unfolded and continues to surprise her, what these artworks and art practices reveal and why exhibition making is an experimental practice.
2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Yield Strength Friday 27 February &mdash; Monday 8 June 2026

Ellie Buttrose is the curator of the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a survey exhibition featuring 24 artists across three venues: the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Samstag Museum of Art.

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