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.
Visual Art
Hossein Valamanesh was a civic poet who believed in art as a force for bringing people and ideas together. Lisa Slade sheds light on two of the late Adelaide artist’s beautiful works on display in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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Following the recent opening of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s 2021 Ramsay Art Prize, two winning works from the previous Ramsay prize provide the inspiration for an illuminating display at the gallery – a timely exhibition that coincides with Reconciliation Week.
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.
A rare longcase clock crafted exactly 200 years ago by a British convict is today marking the end of time at the Art Gallery of SA, and will help contextualise a six-day durational reading by performance artist Mike Parr.
A new display at the Art Gallery of SA showcases elaborate textiles, decorative furniture and other designs by 19th-century British firm Morris & Co – including items that once graced the homes of a prominent Adelaide family.
