Visual Art
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why be born a slave!, which has recently gone back on display at the Art Gallery of SA after extensive conservation work, is a difficult work for contemporary viewers. Curator Tansy Curtin explains the story behind it.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Flickerfest presents a showcase of top short films at the Mercury, First Nations artist callout for Our Mob exhibition, Biennial artist Shaun Gladwell curates AGSA’s First Fridays, a lost opera remounted, and a free work-in-progress showing in Port Adelaide.
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Sebastian Goldspink’s visceral and compelling curation of works by 25 contemporary Australian artists fulfils the tricky task of weaving together the manifold preoccupations of our unsettled times, opening up portals to transcendence, and offering hope through our interconnectedness and resilience.
Billowing brightly-coloured sails suspended from the façade of the Art Gallery of SA herald the opening today of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State – a showcase of work by 25 leading contemporary artists from across the country.
As the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art looms, Sera Waters is setting sail into her family’s colonial past from her studio in Stepney.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Art Gallery seeks new intake of young Vanguards, a cathedral of light and dancing fire at WOMADelaide, Deep Creek Residency Fellowship opportunity for writers, First Nations short film initiative, and art at the Town Hall.
