Jude Adams

Jude Adams has a decades-spanning career in the visual arts covering a range of practices. She is a former lecturer in Art History and Theory at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and worked in community arts initiating a range of projects, including the groundbreaking exhibition The Lovely Motherhood Show (1981).

Continuing an interest in large, collaborative exhibitions and events, she co-coordinated FRANFEST (2017), a month-long, statewide, multi-venue festival celebrating the work of South Australian women artists, past and present. Jude was an active member of the Women's Art Movements in Sydney and Adelaide and a board member of the Experimental Arts Foundation, Community Arts Network (South Australia) and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Most recently she held a solo exhibition Narratives from the Family Album (2018) at Artroom5, Adelaide, and was the keynote speaker for the symposium 'Stories and Solidarity' in association with the exhibition Paper Cut (2021) of works from The Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia. Recent essays include: 'Ann Newmarch: Artist, activist, feminist', in Margot Osborne (ed.), The Adelaide Art Scene 1939–2000 (2023).