Adelaide Festival
The 25 Australian contemporary artists selected for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art have been announced, with curator Sebastian Goldspink promising Free/State will be a biennial for the times, ‘reflective of a nation still in the throes of grappling with its past and defining its future’.
Festivals
This year’s Tarnanthi Festival will feature new works by almost 1000 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, from stories shared on salvaged car parts to an augmented-reality experience transporting visitors to the APY Lands, while the popular annual art fair will be presented as an online-only event.
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South Australian glass artist Liam Fleming has been named as the 2021 Guildhouse Fellow, securing a 12-month fellowship valued at more than $50,000 that he says will enable him to refine his practice and focus his energy entirely on making.
Artist Hoda Afshar’s emotive video and photographic installation exploring the experiences of Australian whistleblowers has won the $15,000 People’s Choice Award in the 2021 Ramsay Art Prize presented by the Art Gallery of SA.
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.
In SALA feature artist Roy Ananda’s dual exhibitions for this year’s festival, the surprising connections between a lifetime of obsessive pop culture fandom and 20 years of contemporary art practice are delightfully revealed.
Award-winning designer and film producer Alison Page – a regular panellist for eight years on ABC television show The New Inventors – has been appointed to the board of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
