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Welcome
prominence. We also offer readers a chance
to win one of his wonderful posters created
especially for this issue.
By Jessica Gallagher
We explore our music theatre program,
students and alumni who are taking on the
world, and a troupe of volunteers who bring
the past to life for school children at Urrbrae
House on the Waite campus.
Creativity takes many forms. The act of
writing this column fits within the definition
(just!), as does all that this magazine aims
to achieve. At its core, it is about making,
inventing or producing something new.
Our founders, 150 years ago, were
creators. They imagined and made
something new – a University whose
generations of graduates and staff have in
countless ways changed this city, this State,
this nation and our world.
We are all now also creators of the next
imagining of this University.
The new Adelaide University, as we will
become from 1 January 2026, will be built
upon the foundations that have been laid
for us by the past.
We are all a part of this evolution: alumni,
staff and students are all able and invited to
contribute ideas.
The goal now, as it was 150 years ago,
is to create something of substance and of
value which will endure and meet the needs
of the generations to follow.
In this issue of Lumen, we cast a light onto
some of the art and science of creativity
our broad community of students, staff and
alumni are a part of.
Prominent alumni artist Peter Drew has
created a new artwork for us to celebrate
one of our most amazing alumni – Edith
Dornwell, our first female graduate in 1885
who became, simultaneously, Australia’s first
science graduate.
Peter writes for us about his creative
process, as he worked with Lumen to
bring this amazing woman into greater
This Lumen also breaks an exclusive
story, more than 50 years in the making,
as we reveal for the first time the
“perpetrators” of our University’s greatest
prank – hanging an FJ Holden from the
middle of the Uni footbridge! They tell
Lumen how they did it and re-unite at the
“scene of the crime”.
Arts doyenne, critic, writer, journalist,
author and former On Dit editor Samela
Harris explores for us the creative spark,
and an imaginary poet, which has fuelled
her career and her life.
We also introduce a young student artist,
Temaana Yundu Sanderson-Bromley,
an Adnyamathanha, Narungga and
Wangkangurru Yarluyandi man in a
profile written by fellow student Lilli
Mae Mavrogiannis.
About Lumen
Welcome to the Wirltuti/Warltati (Kaurna for
Spring/Summer) issue of Lumen, 2024.
Lumen is the University of Adelaide’s peak
magazine – for and about the University.
It is published bi-annually and distributed
via a print edition and email to more than
100,000 recipients.
Our thanks to our many contributors this
issue – alumni, academics, staff and students.
Editorial team
Lumen Editor: Mark Douglas
(lumen@adelaide.edu.au)
Photographic Editor: Isaac Freeman
Layout: Cath Dew
Contact us
If you have feedback about the magazine, or
would like to send a Letter to the Editor, you
can contact us in these ways:
By email: lumen@adelaide.edu.au
Our letters pages are filled with beautiful
stories of how our campuses have been the
starting point of many amazing friendships,
relationships and marriages over the years.
We explore the thinking and process
behind creating and launching a new
identity and brand for Adelaide
University; and we share new writing
from recent PhD graduate Hossein Asgari
who brings feminist Iranian poet Forugh
Farrokhzad to life in his first novel which
straddles both Tehran and Adelaide.
I thank you all for your support as we’ve
celebrated 150 years and charted important
next steps for our institution. I hope you
enjoy this edition of Lumen!
Professor Gallagher is the University’s
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President
(External Engagement).
Online: adelaide.edu.au/lumen
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of Adelaide, SA 5005
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We acknowledge the Kaurna people, the
traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains
and the land on which the University of
Adelaide’s campuses at North Terrace,
Waite and Roseworthy are built.
We acknowledge the deep feelings of
attachment and relationship of the Kaurna
people to Country, and we respect and
value their past, present and ongoing
connection to the land and cultural beliefs.
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