InReview
Tarnanthi Festival celebrates the depth and breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art across Australia – and from psychedelic paintings to mesmerising moving image works, there is plenty to see in this year’s more that 60 exhibitions and events.
Visual Art
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.
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Artist and recent OAM recipient Nici Cumpston’s journey to becoming a curator at the Art Gallery of SA included many roles – one of which involved processing crime scene photos.
The yellow and black banners that have cloaked the Art Gallery of SA’s façade in recent months are part of a Monster Theatres art installation that curator Leigh Robb says can now be seen as extraordinarily prophetic in light of COVID-19.
Six South Australian visual artists and art collectives hit hard by the COVID-19 shutdown will receive a total of $60,000 in grants after being selected from among almost 100 applicants for the Art Gallery of SA’s artist bursaries.
The Art Gallery of South Australia has today reopened to the public after a 10-week closure due to the COVID-19 crisis, with the SA Museum to open from Monday and many smaller galleries also welcoming back visitors with new exhibitions.
