Josina Pumani & Leshaye Swan

Josina Pumani & Leshaye Swan presents the work of two studio artists from the APY Art Centre Collective, an organisation that supports Indigenous artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, regional South Australia, and Adelaide.

Josina Pumani, winner of the 2024 Emerging Artist Prize at the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAAs) and 2025 Wynne Prize finalist, and Leshaye Swan, also a NATSIAA finalist, are ceramicists working at the Collective Art Centre and members of Blak Manta First Nations ceramics collective. Both artists tell stories of Country and Community through clay.

Hailing from Mimili Community on the APY Lands, they now reside in Adelaide. Josina’s pots explore the story of the Maralinga and Emu Field nuclear tests and their enduring impact on her family. Leshaye creates large-scale vessels, inscribing them with depictions of plants and flowers found around Bucket Well, her family’s homeland, outside of Mimili.

Exhibitors: Josina Pumani & Leshaye Swan