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Maria Zagala / Art Gallery of SA

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Maria Zagala is associate curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Articles by Maria

Forked tongue and other conceits

An Art Gallery of South Australia display of works by Adelaide artist Olga Sankey – daughter of ‘Surrealist at Sea’ Voitre Marek – highlights both her fascination with words and the imprint left by a devout Catholic upbringing.

A blizzard: the story behind an iconic image

Captured during Douglas Mawson’s 1912 Antarctic expedition and currently on show as part of a display at the Art Gallery of South Australia, photographer Frank Hurley’s A blizzard expresses the sense of human frailty in a harsh environment.