Join the Museum for an exhibition showcasing four generations of Adnyamathanha carvers – Kristian Coulthard, Clem Coulthard, Walter Coulthard, Ted Coulthard and Winnie Ryan.
This exhibition complements the exhibition Mulka Yata/The Knowledge of Place, currently on show at the SAMSTAG Museum of Art.
The Flinders Ranges, including Ikara (Wilpena Pound), have been the ancestral home to the Adnyamathanha people, from some 50,000 years past. They are still with us today, among them the Coulthards – caretakers of Adnyamathanha culture and knowledge – who prevailed amidst the colonial intrusions of mining, agriculture and settlement.
In the late 19th century while working pragmatically with pastoralists, Ted Coulthard forged a generational art movement around wood carving, that he traded with settlers: walking sticks, snakes, lizards, boomerangs and shields, made with high standards of craftsmanship. This Adnyamathanha art movement of carvers is now sustained through Ted’s great-grandson, Kristian Coulthard, an accomplished artist–keeper of tradition, based near Blinman.