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John Neylon

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Taking some risks with Adelaide X

Collaboration and experimentation are at the centre of a new group exhibition infused with humour and playfulness at Port Adelaide’s Post Office Projects Gallery.

Space invaders: What makes good public art?

Whether it’s beautiful, humorous, provocative or poignant, public art needs that X factor to be successful. In the second article in a two-part series, John Neylon highlights some prime examples in Adelaide.

Paul Kelly, 'The Big Scotsman', 1963: Can a piece of advertising be considered a work of public art? Photo: Tony Lewis

Taking it to the streets: public art at the crossroads

Adelaide has had its fair share of debates about public art, from the Hajek sculptures in the Festival Plaza to the pigs in Rundle Mall. In the first article in a two-part series, John Neylon offers his take on the subject and argues that the tide is turning for individual artists creating work for the public sphere.

Swimming in a sea of surrealism

Dusan and Voitre Marek created a stir when their ‘weird art’ was first displayed in Adelaide. Now the pioneering surrealist artists are being celebrated in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA that shows the diversity of their work and incorporates heartfelt human stories.

Southwest Contemporary: An art space with street swagger

Possibly the ‘coolest kid’ on the Adelaide gallery block right now, Southwest Contemporary is an independent art space where the work of talented experienced and emerging artists is being shown side-by-side.

The right tone: seeing the world in a different light

A new exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia invites viewers to spend a day in the life of Clarice Beckett, a significant Australian painter who disappeared from the art history narrative for 35 years.