_{about:

Jennifer Eadie is a writer and artist-researcher who lives & works across Kaurna, Adnyamathanha and Goolarabooloo Millibinyarri country. Her site-responsive and collaborative practice assembles text and still/moving image as a means of interrogating the censorship of body and place, in an Australian context. She is a sessional lecturer in the South Australian School of Art and an ARC Research Fellow/PhD in the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame.

contact:

ndjeadie@gmail.com

record:

poetry / creative

Eadie, J (2024) ‘The Impact of Missionaries’ , Westerley 69.1
Eadie J and The Kaurna Womens Art Collective (2023) ‘Footprints’, Tarnanthi exhibition installation and text

Eadie, J (2022) ‘Love Letter Backwards’ in accompanying texts: UNRAVEL exhibition publication

Eadie, J et al., (2021) ‘A Collaboration with Looking Glass’ in FUMA Gallery exhibition: Looking Glass, Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce (organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with curator Hetti Perkins)

Eadie, J (2021) ‘Against Segregation’ in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 101

Eadie, J (2020) 'It Turns Back Upon Itself' in CORDITE Poetry Review, vol 97

Eadie, J & Semmens, A (2020) 'LEAVE ONLY YOUR FOOTPRINTS: a dialogue exploring identity and connection to Country that is enabled through embodied movement', Critical Path Digital Interchange Festival

commissions

Eadie, J (2025) ‘1967’ text and transcription, National Portrait Gallery

Eadie, J (2024), text, NEOTERICA exhibition

Eadie, J (2024) ‘this push and pull between us’, witness/ tree project

journal articles / book chapters

Eadie J & Muecke S (2025) ‘

Reclaiming Country: Australian Aboriginal Walking Trails as Method

‘ in Casper Bruun Jensen (ed), Southern Anthropocenes, Routledge: NY.

Muecke et al (2025) ‘Saltfish: ecologies of creative processes’ in Anna Hickey-Moody et al., (eds), New Materialist Affirmations:
Creative Research Interventions in Methods and Practice, Edinburgh University Press:UK

Eadie J & Muecke S (2024) ‘Seaside Concepts: Walking and Writing the Lurujarri Trail’ in Felicity Picken & Emma Waterton (eds), Shores, Surfaces and Depths: Oceanic Cultures, Routledge: NY.

Muecke et al.,(2022) ‘Saltfish’, Sydney Review of Books

Eadie J (2021) ‘So Many Birds/One River: A fictocritical response to the Port-Yarta Puulti River, Kaurna Country’, TEXT Journal

Muecke, S & Eadie, J (2020) 'Ways of Life: Knowledge Transfer and Aboriginal Heritage Trails' Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53:8

Eadie J (2014) ‘The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age’ Modern Fiction Studies 60:1

books

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2022 -

exhibitions & residencies

2024 – memory line, wash house gallery, Sauerbier House

2024 – NEOTERICA(text) - Adelaide Festival

2024 – witness/tree w/ Adrianne Semmens, Nexus Arts Gallery

2023 – Nexus Studio Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens

2023 - Footprints w/ The Kaurna Womens Art Collective & Dave Laslett - Tarnanthi Festival

2023 - Sauerbier House Cultural Exchange Residency

2023 - Australia Council Project Grant w/ OSCA and Kaurna Womens Arts Collective

2023 - LARTELARE artist talk & exhibition w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix

2023 - LARTELARE residency w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective, Vitalstatistix

2023 - Arts SA Project Grant w/ OSCA and The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective

2023 - PAE Placemaking Project Grant recipient w/ The Kaurna Womens Arts Collective

2022 - Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie, OSCA

2022 - Deep Dive Artist Residency, POP Gallery Port Adelaide

2022 – Following the River, SALA residency and exhibition

2022 - BREW Writer in Residence, Pandanus, NT

2022 – UNRAVEL exhibition & performance w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill

2021 - The Impact of Missionaries, The Mill Gallery

2021 - Breakout Residency w/ Adrianne Semmens, The Mill Adelaide

2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens

2020 - Writer in Residence, The Mill Adelaide

2018 - Poet in Residence, City of Adelaide

prizes

2024 – finalist: Bowness Photography Prize, MAPh
2024 – finalist: CLIP prize, Perth Centre for Photography

2023 – finalist: Olive Cotton Award w/ Dave Laslett (lead artist) and Aunty Tina Flanagan

creative commissions

2022-2023 - OSCA Public art commission w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie
2020 - Critical Path Commission w/ Adrianne Semmens}

_{academic roles

ARC Research Fellow, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame (2022- )

Sessional Lecturer, South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (2024- )
Research and transcription, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, Flinders University (2021-2022)
Course coordinator, Lecturer & Tutor, Aboriginal Pathway Program, University of South Australia (2018-2021)
Tutor, Foundation Studies, University of South Australia (2019-2021)
Lecturer & Tutor, School of Arts & Humanities, ACU (2017-2020)

creative roles

Desert Voices Project - teaching artist (2024)
The Kaurna Womens Art Collective - co-founder & artist w/ Aunty Margaret Brodie (2021-2023), with Bonny Brodie leading the collective from 2024
witness/ tree project -co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens(2023-2024)
UNRAVEL - co-founder & artist w/ Adrianne Semmens (2020-2022)

qualifications

BA Fine Art, UNSW Art & Design
BA Arts and Philosophy w/ Honours, UNSW/ANU
PhD in process, Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame}