If you don’t fight … you lose

The latest exhibition at FUMA spotlights the overlooked contributions of Adelaide’s Progressive Art Movement and the history of student protests.
Mandy Martin, ‘Adelaide Railway Station 2 (detail)’, 1973, screenprint, ink on paper, Ann Newmarch Collection. Image: © the Estate of the artist. A vintage coloured photograph showing three woman in farmer wear walking in a field. Two others are leisurely seated at the back.

The graphic art of protest in an era of political activism comes to life in the latest exhibition at Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) in Adelaide. The show, titled If you don’t fight … you lose: politics, posters and PAM, features prints and posters from Adelaide’s Progressive Art Movement (PAM), which was active in the 1970s.

PAM was born out of the Flinders University Politics and Art course, and led by radical thinkers, Brian Medlin and Ann Newmarch. The group brought together artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, actors and musicians to target local issues with revolutionary ambitions.

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