The Art Gallery of South Australia has unveiled a major new acquisition and launched its exhibition line-up for 2024 – including a Radical Textiles display featuring items ranging from William Morris tapestries to Kylie Minogue’s gold hotpants.
Arts & Culture
PHOTO GALLERY: Photographic artist Alex Frayne is well known for his images capturing Adelaide noir and the myriad moods of South Australian landscapes, but his latest adventure has seen him embracing the ‘crazy energy’ of Los Angeles.
Visual Art
A fresh and comprehensive new narrative reveals how the Adelaide art scene post-World War II was an incubator of progressive ideas and talent, despite often being dismissed or disparaged in the wider mainstream history of Australian art.
On the eve of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival, artistic director Nici Cumpston highlights some of the diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on show at the Art Gallery of SA – from delightful animations and unique sculptural works, to paintings inspired by a love of rock music.
Decorative? Nostalgic? Blatantly commercial? All of the above, says former Adelaide artist David Bromley, who shrugs off his critics in an Adelaide Film Festival documentary exploring his life and art.
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s new acquisition – Brodie Neill’s @Chair – celebrates of one of the most iconic symbols of our time, but the work’s creation was a long quest for the artist.
SA arts & culture news in brief: An opportunity for artists to respond to an historic political poster collection; new films added to festival program; Helpmann Academy’s new home for its graduate exhibition; and a Nobel Prize winner in conversation.
Visual Art
The 2023 biennial Community Housing Art Awards show diversity, depth and talent among tenants in South Australian community and social housing.
Visual Art
In his latest solo exhibition, Finite Bounty, Dan Withey continues his preoccupation with human existence as he tries to make sense of the world.
More than 1500 First Nations artists from across Australia will feature in this year’s Tarnanthi Festival, which includes a major exhibition of work by the multi-award-winning Vincent Namatjira and will see the annual Tarnanthi Art Fair return as an in-person event at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
Artist and poets will lead an exploration of places of refuge and sanctuary in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art next year, with work spilling onto the city streets and leaving a legacy of public art.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Artist submissions open for 2024 Cabaret Festival; star-studded line-ups revealed for two upcoming Adelaide festivals for writers and readers; meet ActNow’s new MakeSpace residents; Porter Street Commission recipient announced, and the 2023 Our Mob winners.
Celebrated photographer Trent Parke’s new retrospective exhibition is like a time capsule, offering a unique and fascinating look at everyday life through his lens.
When his social media accounts were hacked in 2022, light painting photographer Denis Smith reassessed his online life. The creative results feature in his SALA show Duality, which also offers visitors a chance to try the technique themselves.
CityMag
CityMag founder Josh Fanning explores how the city has changed – or hasn’t – since he started the magazine 10 years ago. Here he turns his mind to street art. Sign up for the free CityMag newsletter to be the first to read the column each Thursday.
Festivals
Poh Ling Yeow says being immersed in her Illuminate Adelaide exhibition has been cathartic on many levels, including helping her deal with the grief of losing her mother.
Four South Australian artists have experimented with illusion, fire and other elements of nature, culture, science and technology in a cross-disciplinary project that responds to the uncertainty of the world in which we live.
Transporting visitors into the world of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera with a vibrant display of more than 150 works, the Art Gallery of SA’s new exhibition illuminates why Kahlo is an artist of such enduring allure.
SA arts and culture news in brief: A life-changing scholarship opportunity, surprising images capture the art of science, Adelaide Fringe warehouse auction, art prize winner maps Unley, celebrations at The Mill, and an introduction to paper sculpture.
Our inaugural 40 Under 40 Artist in Residence, Ida Sophia, speaks about adapting her art for CityMag and travelling back in time for her Ramsay Art Prize-winning work, ‘Witness’.
Visual Art
An exhibition of 12 large Arthur Boyd tapestries depicting the life of Saint Francis gives Adelaide art lovers a rare opportunity to experience the depth, vibrancy and scale of these incredible works.
Arts & Culture
PHOTO GALLERY: This image of a rarely-encountered inland taipan captured by photographer Damian Esquerré in the gibber plains of South Australia is among entries shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition.
A showcase of superbly curated new works by the 27 Australian artists shortlisted for this year’s Ramsay Art Prize confirms that the heart of the nation’s contemporary art scene – as relevant and dynamic as ever – continues its powerful beat.
South Australian performance, sculpture and installation artist Ida Sophia has won the 2023 Ramsay Art Prize for her video work ‘Witness’.
Crafting modernism offers an intriguing insight into the lifelong creative journey of South Australian potter Milton Moon, who was fuelled by a vision that married Zen philosophy with a determination to express a distinctly Australian sense of place.
This year’s Archibald and Wynne prize-winning works capture the culture of music and performance. They also represent a changing of the guard at the annual series of prizes presented by the Art Gallery of NSW
Almost nothing is as fragile as a single sheet of paper, but a Pakistan-born paper sculptor who now calls Adelaide home is using this delicate material to carve narratives of moral and psychological truths.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Finalists announced for the 2023 Ramsay Art Prize, how this year’s History Festival seeks to evoke a sense of wonder, applications open for $20,000 Porter Street Commission, and what’s in store at the Cabaret Fringe.
Created in the shadow of the Vietnam War and at the height of the Funk art movement, Adelaide-based artist Olive Bishop’s Wash and War will be in the spotlight at the Art Gallery of South Australia on ANZAC Day.
Illuminate Adelaide will return this winter with a new night-time digital art trail through the Botanic Garden, a pavilion full of mind-bending interactive experiences in Victoria Square, free city-wide works by artists including celebrity chef Poh Ling Yeow, and a music line-up featuring Yothu Yindi.
John Olsen, one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists who was known for his distinctive depictions of landscapes and nature, has died at age 95.
Arts & Culture
At 77, local artist David Hardy has entered the Archibald Prize for the first time, painting respected Adelaide musician and guitar maker Don Morrison in front of his “outdoor dunny”.
Visual Art
The 2023 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition offers a fascinating glimpse of the art stars of the future, featuring works ranging from an installation of tactile ceramic chairs, to jewellery pieces that draw on personal experience of chronic illness.
The north-eastern concourse at Adelaide Railway Station is the unusual ‘gallery’ space for a pair of immersive screen-based works – one of which draws inspiration from an unrecognised principality on a platform in the middle of the North Sea.
The Art Gallery of SA’s headline exhibition for the Adelaide Festival’s visual arts program provides a thrilling new perspective on the American pop artist superstar whose cultural omnipresence has inspired countless exhibitions, documentaries, and even a cartoon cameo in The Simpsons.
Promoting the relationship between art, health and wellbeing is at the centre of a South Australian art prize which has just been launched for the second time and offers a total of $50,000 in prize money.
From her studio space in Stepney, painter-turned-animator Kate Kurucz is piecing together a personal story of migration, loneliness, and more than a hint of movie magic.
Visual Art
A new exhibition of vivid realist portraits by Adelaide-based artist Daniel Connell highlights the struggles faced by many temporary visa holders during the COVID pandemic, as well as the contribution migrants make to the community.
Visual Art
With a friendship spanning two decades, Carly Tarkari Dodd and Dominic Guerrera’s collaborative residency in the Adelaide CBD pays tribute to First Nations protest and “raw” conversations.
A solo exhibition at The Mill is giving voice to lesser heard stories.
Women artists have often come up with creative ways of combining family and work. Curator and artist Sarah Northcott found new directions in her kitchen studio – and inspiration in a TV documentary she watched one sleepless early morning.
Twenty-seven graduating artists delve into subjects ranging from the Australian landscape and urban environments to lost histories and an imagined dystopian future in the Adelaide Central School of Art’s 2022 Graduate Exhibition.
In her Norwood studio space, sculptor Bernadette Klavins digs deep into her family history – and humankind’s relationship with the earth.
Arts & Culture
PHOTO GALLERY: Adelaide photographer Tony Lewis’s 40-year career has brought him up close to stars like Grace Jones, Michael Hutchence and Annie Lennox, as well as giving him a front-of-stage view of some of our biggest festival shows. Now he’s showing his favourite images larger-than-life on the screens at The Lab.
Visual Art
Five exciting contemporary artists are presenting a diverse and intriguing collection of work in Adelaide Contemporary Experimental’s Studios: 2022 exhibition, with one artist even attempting to wrestle a world record from Hollywood royalty.
Passion and politics are at the heart of a major Australian-exclusive exhibition of works by influential Mexican modernists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that will be presented as part of the Art Gallery of SA’s 2023 program.
The Art Gallery of South Australia has been transformed into a multi-sensory enclave with the ambitious presentation of Gamepieces, an exhibition that brings pioneering Indian artist Nalini Malani’s incredible 50-year multi-media practice to light.
A strange and colourful world has taken over the Santos Museum of Economic Botany through Chris De Rosa’s Seaweeding Exhibition, a tribute to pioneering women in science and a climate-change warning.
A quiet cul de sac in Adelaide’s West End has become a haven for local glassmakers like Liam Fleming, whose more recent work was born from playful experimentation.
Invited to respond to the theme Political Climate, more than 20 artists have created a diverse collection of work sited in semi-bushland behind the historic home at Carrick Hill. John Neylon highlights some of the most impressive sculptures in the 2022 Heysen Sculpture Biennial.
Visual Art
The Art Gallery of South Australia is mourning the loss of its former curator Angus Trumble, who is remembered fondly for his curious interests, cheekily risqué lunchtime talks and rooftop parties, as well as his significant contribution to the arts.
Sponsored
Local emerging creatives Chloe Noble, Danny Jarratt, Miriam Sims and Neville Cichon have given a collection of stobie poles in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield a facelift thanks to the Helpmann Academy SA Power Networks Stobie Pole Project.
A display of artists’ books at the Art Gallery of SA highlights a major gift of more than 500 items from the Australian Experimental Art Foundation that offer insight into the radical shift in artistic values and aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s.
At Camp Coorong, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow and her friend and collaborator Jelina Haines are weaving the next chapter in a long, rich story.
Andy Warhol’s career-long obsession with photography will be the focus of a 2023 exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia that promises to shed fresh light on the American Pop artist as well as those he captured in his portraits – including his Australian friend Henry Gillespie.
Using Christian iconography as a jumping-off point, First Nations artist Ryan Presley’s exhibition at the Adelaide Contemporary Experimental challenges narrow perspectives on Australian history.
Outgoing Adelaide Symphony Orchestra managing director Vincent Ciccarello will join the Art Gallery of South Australia next month in a new role focused on philanthropy.
