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SALA FESTIVAL 2017 SALA celebrates 20 years in 2017 with more than 660 exhibitions spread across the state showcasing the work of professional, emerging and amateur artists across a variety of mediums. It is a fantastic representation of the passion we have for visual arts in this state. Welcome to the 20th incarnation of SALA.
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Painting student in studio L3 BVA (Jasmine Crisp) Photo by Beth Shimmin.
ADELAIDE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ART 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside The Drawing Exchange: Exhibition Various artists
ART@GOOLWA 13 Porter Street, Goolwa
The Drawing Exchange brings together artists from around Australia to produce new works directly on the walls of the school, and highlights the tension between personal creativity and public display.
Arbitrary Charm Various artists
August 7 to September 22
A co-operative of local artists and gifts, paintings, ceramics, leather, jewellery, wood work and much more.
The Drawing Exchange: Open Studio
August 1 to August 31
Various artists artatgoolwa.com.au
Engage with artists as they make new drawing works live, focusing on the process of drawing and the tension between personal creativity and public display.
ACE OPEN
August 7 to August 11
Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace Adelaide Central School Domestic Arts
of Art Open Day 2017
Sera Waters
Various artists
Unravel the complex histories and traditions of home-making with celebrated artist Sera Waters, as she continues her investigation into the contemporary significance of traditional home-crafts.
Adelaide Central School of Art invites you to explore its award-winning heritage campus and student studios. Activities include tours, information sessions and artist demonstrations. Refreshments available for purchase. Sera Waters, Telling Tales on Terry
July 21 to August 26
Towelling - Fashioning locals
Sunday, August 20, 10am – 4pm
(2016-17).
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acsa.sa.edu.au David Parle, Cow.
John Lacey
More to Landscape July 30 - Sept 3 Open daily 11am - 5pm
Opening Event 13 Aug 1 - 5pm Artists talk 20 Aug 2 - 3pm
Pruner’s Hut offers quality food, art, design, red wine and coffee for visitors. Set amongst local vineyards, the art exhibitions change each calendar month. Watercolour demos during SALA. Ring or email to book
41 Woodcone Rd Mt Compass 0419 823 708 johnlacey.com.au
gallery studio
Located on Trotts Road at McLaren Flat (via Bagshaws or Elliott Roads). Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
Phone: 0409 670 922 prunershut.com Facebook: Pruners Hut
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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North Terrace, Adelaide Avatar Christopher Orchard
In the year 2000 a bald, portly, middle-aged man, described by Orchard as an avatar, started to appear in his work. This display includes several works featuring this avatar, who, in Orchard’s own words, represents “the entire history of what it means to be human”. Orchard is the feature artist for this year’s SALA Festival and the subject of a major publication by Wakefield Press. Marek Herburt,Study of a tree at a creek.
July 28 to September 3 artgallery.sa.gov.au
Christopher Orchard, Small levitation.
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BAY DISCOVERY CENTRE 1 Moseley Square, Glenelg Colour Seen
Grainger Studio Foyer, 91 Hindley Street
Marek Herburt
Interpreting the Symphony
Marek Herburt’s work reflects an intrinsic awareness of the Australian light on the landscape environment. Vibrant colours and form interact in the spaces between which are inherently vital to the forms themselves. Wandering throughout South Australia, Herburt notices light and form behind every corner, along stretched highways, in small streets and in undisturbed hiding spots around his home.
Kels O’Sullivan
Art inspired by the music of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s 2017 season. Each piece elicits an imaginative response, yet is abstract. Music. Interpreted. Translated for the eye. Colour and form evoking sounds. Capturing movement, tempi, rhythms, emotion. Connecting eye, ear and soul. Breathe. Imagine. Let the music in.
August 4 to September 24 August 1 to August 31 holdfast.sa.gov.au/BDC Kels Osullivan Romeo and Juliet, edition giclee 2016.
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The Drawing Exchange A collaboration between Australia’s top art schools* 7 Aug – 22 Sept 2017 The Drawing Exchange brings together artists from around Australia to produce new works directly on the walls of Adelaide Central School of Art and the National Art School (NAS) in Sydney. Featuring 22 Australian artists, including the 2017 SALA Festival Monograph Artist, Christopher Orchard. *Adelaide Central School of Art was recently identified in the national QILT Student Experience Survey as the leading art school in SA and placed second in Australia by less than 1%, with a 91.2% overall quality of student experience score. NAS scored 92%.
Drawing Masterclass with Annalise Rees 31 Aug – 2 September 2017
Project partners
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acsa.sa.edu.au image | Christopher Orchard in action during Drawing Month (2014) at Adelaide Central School of Art. Photograph by Alycia Bennett
Supported by SPENCER FAMILY FOUNDATION
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BMG ART 444 South Road Marleston Now & Then: The Uncertainty of the Poet
added power. They reference the kind of potent images found in the performance of plays by Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett or Albee.” Stephen Rosenberg, Stephen Rosenberg Fine Art, New York, 2017.
Christopher Orchard
“Christopher Orchard’s superb ability to draw and his high level of skill as a colourist give his politically and socially charged scenarios
August 4 to August 26 (Wednesdays to Fridays, noon to 5pm, Saturdays, 2pm to 5pm) bmgart.com.au
Christopher Orchard, The Runner.
THE COLONIST 44 The Parade, Norwood Urban & Acrylic Expressions Michael Sander, Rachel Lobban and Ray Nash
The Colonist showcases three artists’ different styles of work in urban retro, mixed media/pop art/acrylic and graffiti art.
Deb s, les enfants.
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
August 1 to August 31 colonist.com.au Ray Nash, Mick.
COMMUNITY BRIDGING SERVICES Eastwood Community Centre, 95 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood
Chirrup Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. Art Program
Chirrup features paintings and drawings by artists with disability from Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. Art Program. Characterised by strongly individual stylistic approaches, ranging from narrative
Flinders University City
pictorial imagery to broad abstractions and symbolic representations, the spontaneous use of colour and instinctive personal mark making reflects the diverse talents of the artists.
Gallery, State Library of South Australia, North Terrace Island to Inland: Contemporary art from Kangaroo Island Cheryl Bridgart, Live Louder.
August 2 to September 1 communitybridging services.org.au
BELTANA HOUSE GALLERY 364 Carrington Street
Various artists
Island to Inland presents new work by 10 contemporary artists exploring the isolation and inspiration of life on Kangaroo Island.
A Masquerade Cheryl Bridgart
Until September 3
Mystery. Intrigue. Fantasy. Enjoy Cheryl Bridgart’s latest colourful and playful fine art embroideries, paintings and garments. Meticulously stitched masks form contemporary art works representing our individual uniqueness. August 13 to August 27
artmuseum.flinders.edu.au
wellmade.com.au/creative-practitioners/cheryl-bridgart Hugh Adrain, Numbers.
HOW DO WE LOVE THEE? LET US COUNT THE WAYS... Official Opening: Sunday 6th August 2 – 4pm The National Wine Centre, Cnr North Tce & Hackney Rd Adelaide, South Australia. 4 – 27 August 2017 Floor talks 14, 15, 18 August Telephone: 08 8553 0448 KANGAROO ISLAND THE INTERTIDAL ZONE
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A 20-YEAR VISION SHINES BRIGHT
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“AT THE CORE IT’S ABOUT CELEBRATING SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LIVING ARTISTS AND EXPANDING THE AUDIENCE. AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN AND STILL IS AT THE HEART OF THE FESTIVAL.”
The future of SALA is bright as it celebrates two decades this year with a record number of participants while keeping to its 1998 vision. BY JANE LLEWELLYN
from the residencies is presented as part of the festival at participating venues. This year, painter and sculptor Sonali Patel is presenting work at SAHMRI, Jane Skeer at the Adelaide Festival Centre and Steph Fuller at Flinders Medical Centre.
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hen SALA began 20 years ago – thanks to the direction of Paul Greenaway and Sam Hill-Smith (Deputy Chair), and the support of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) – there were only 21 metropolitan venues and 20 country venues participating. This year, there are 660 exhibitions and events and more than 6000 participants. The original festival was only a week-long and now the month of August is dedicated to all things contemporary art. Greenaway cites three elements that were at the core of the SALA festival he created: “audience development, creating opportunities for artists, and education.” Even though this year’s festival looks quite different to that of 20 years ago on the surface, the fundamental objectives are the same. “At the core it’s about celebrating South Australian living artists and expanding the audience,” SALA general manager Penny Griggs says. “Audience development has been and still is at the heart of the festival.” Griggs has made a concerted effort to connect with established artists and the professional sector to help cement SALA’s future.
For the first time SALA is working with Country Health SA and the University of South Australia to include four new artistin-residence opportunities at country mental health inpatient units located at Whyalla, Berri and Glenside.
From L to R: Fiona Borthwick, Penny Griggs and Kate Moskwa.
“While many people identify with being artists, people who dedicate their professional lives to art have to be at the core of this festival,” she says. “Community is important and participation is important but at the very core are people who are professional artists.” To make contemporary art more accessible, the festival has broadened the experience for audiences, so it’s not just about straight-up art exhibitions. It’s about allowing audiences the opportunity to get
to know artists in a different way. This includes the Artist’s Voice Forum where South Australian artists lead discussions and debate on the state of visual arts in the state. One stream that has developed over the last couple of years is the open studio – a chance to catch an artist at work in their studio. There are more than 100 artists registered for open studios this year. Then there is the artist-in-residence program. Announced earlier in the year, the work
Griggs hopes that there might be an opportunity for SALA programming where we will see curated exhibitions as the centerpieces of the festival. She would also like to develop the artist residencies further. SALA is celebrating 20 years with one of the most diverse programs including the SALA Gala Dada Dance, a Dada-inspired evening embracing the experimental, including whimsical wines, fanciful food and postmodern beats for art-defying dancing. “There are some really great artists and galleries participating,” Griggs says. “It’s going to be a big year.”
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GAWLER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Various Gawler businesses Gawler SALA Art Trail Various artists
Explore the wonderful art works on display at various venues throughout Gawler. Follow the trail and experience unique works August 1 to August 31 gawler.org.au/event/gawler-sala-art-trail Simone Lyon, Gorge.
Dean (detail), Sam Ostero.
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2 Haines Road, Tea Tree Gully
SALA - Alive and Vibrant on Goodwood Road Various artists
Garden Instinct Various artists
The recently renovated Goodwood Road is especially alive and vibrant during SALA, with many cafes and shops displaying a variety of work from various artists. Goodwood Road’s new street furniture also features some gorgeous works of art see if you can spot it during a 'goody' SALA stroll.
Photo imagery and narratives depicting eight Tea Tree Gully residents whose lives are enriched by their gardens. Also showing: eight artists reflect on the idea of garden. Opens August 6, 2pm August 9 to September 16
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Marion Cultural Centre, 287 Diagonal Road Gallery M Open Contemporary Art Prize 2017 Selected finalists
An independent judging panel has selected innovative artwork in all media for this exciting initiative, offering nonacquisitive prizes to the value of more than $5000 including the major prize of $3000 donated by Jarrah J. Holmes, Century 21 Real Estate. August 1 to August 27 gallerym.com.au Merkalova Liza Moonlight as an invitation.
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Michelle Lee, TwinFlames.
dan withey external drivers 5 - 26 august 2017 www.hillsmithgallery.com.au
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GREEN TANK GALLERY 41 Woodcone Road, Mt Compass More to Landscape
John Lacey’s exhibition More to Landscape explores the obvious to the abstract, simplifying form and tone, using various mediums with oil, challenging the viewer’s interpretation.
Goodwood Road is always alive and vibrant and during SALA, it’s even more so. Come follow the Goody SALA trail and enjoy all that the Road has to offer. Opening night Tuesday August 1, many places open for a SALA stroll.
July 30 to September 3 johnlacey.com.au John Lacey, From a Cold Start.
GUILDHOUSE Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, North Tce The Collections Project Michelle Kelly
New work created in response to the State Herbarium’s collection of fungi for The Guildhouse Collections Project with the Botanic Gardens of South Australia. August 13 to September 24 guildhouse.org.au/projects/collectionsproject-michelle-kelly/
Michelle Kelly, Glossy Brown Fungi.
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Angus Clyne Boulangerie 113 Candela Latin American Food Capri Theatre Cru Tapas Bar and Kitchen EN Japanese Bar and Restaurant Eternal Spirit Everything Vegan Gingers Coffee Studio Goodwood Bakehouse Goodwood Community Bendigo Bank Goodwood Community Centre Goodwood Fresh Goodwood Institute Theatre and Studio Goodwood Library
Dulce Maria Diaz-Llanos Montes Rachel Ey Bridgette Minuzzo Adelaide Camera Club Deborah White Rachel Ey Dianne Carver Kate Csortan and Brooke Goyne Michelle Lee and John Hemmings Suzanne Healey Alli Symons Wendy Hocking Yvette Wiskar Maureen Finck Ioanna, Kathy Szepessy & Aiyudot Khom Dianne Carver Goodwood and St Thomas Primary School Students and Aiyudot Khom Ettie Ink and Gosia Szczepaniak Tanja Roma Nita von Stanke Cindy Brownrigg Jade Nokes Erika Walter Emma Hack Alli Symons and Maureen Finck Textile Warrior Annette Summers Sarah Georgi Wendy Hocking
Goodwood Post Offfice Goodwood Primary School Fence
Hoochie Mama Salon Kazbah on Goodwood Pretty Petals Shine Hair The Basin Haircutter The Chiropractic Domain The Little Hair Boutique The Physio Studio Trouble and Strife Two Sisters Food and Wine Whisk Patisserie Xzibit Hair and Beauty Venues and artists subject to change.
2 Cowper St, Glenelg SALA at GU Film House Glenelg Various artists
SALA at GU Film House Glenelg is a fun exhibition of new work by five emerging, established and amateur SA-based artists. Artist: Annette Summers.
August 3 to August 30 gufilmhouse.com.au/ Cinema/Glenelg Jade Harland, Lost.
Background Image: Jade Nokes
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HISS AND GROWL Are the secrets to the work of one of Australia’s most formative figurative artists, Christopher Orchard, uncovered with this year’s SALA monograph? BY JOHN NEYLON
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hristopher Orchard believes that art making is about making art. Or as Degas reminded the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, “You can’t make a poem with ideas … you make it with words.” This means conjuring images from dumb materials like charcoal, graphite and paper. To let the materials have their say. Peter Goldsworthy, one of the contributors to the justpublished SALA/Wakefield publication, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet, nails this in one of his poems, Promenade: Three Odes to Charcoal: “To draw with charcoal/ is to fight the canvas /with both hands tied/behind
your back./Even using all seven/fingers of colour/it’s a hard fight, but this/contest I admire most: /the formal constraint/ of the head-butt,/the blunt object/of the charcoal stick/smiting the white.” Another contributor, Roy Ananda, talks about Orchard’s “constant prodding, punching and provocation of the picture plane”. It’s a battlefield. Henri Matisse once said, “Unless I wake up with the urge to kill somebody, I can’t work.” This sense of pent-up urgency, of seeing art making as a matter of life and death, is always there in Orchards’ imagery – akin to Brett Whiteley’s “inexplicably beautiful system rotating around the terror of nothing”.
Christopher Orchard, Blind.
artwork by (left to right) Adrian Erle Spratt, Emma Christison, Glenda Cloak
“Chirrup” Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. Art Program
Official opening Wednesday 2 August 1pm To be opened by: Rick Neagle President, Dignity Party / Chairman, Count Me In Inc.
Exhibition dates 2 August - 1 September 2017 Eastwood Community Centre 95 Glen Osmond Road Eastwood Telephone (08) 8373 2225 Mondays and Tuesdays 12.30pm - 4.30pm Wednesdays 1pm - 4.30pm Thursdays 11.30am - 4pm Fridays 11.30am - 4.30pm Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc providing art, recreation, education and open employment for people with a disability
With the publication of this extensively illustrated publication and insightful contributions by long term observers and associates – Peter Goldsworthy, Margot Osborne, Roy Ananda, Julia Robinson and Rod Taylor – it would seem that the balloon is finally up. Now, it seems, we can be privy to its secrets and the real reason why Orchard has been so attached to his cast of characters – particularly the little Bald Man.
Osborne’s narrative provides an accessible context to the evolution of such motifs. It is an extensive back story. A number of earlier works, drawn over a two-year period in Berry Street Studios in London in the mid-1980s, reveal something of what he regards as his “fight with the figure” – a struggle to find a certain kind of avatar. Orchard initially populated his surreal
ROYAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARTS INC. RSASA / SALA RSASA Portrait Prize Exhibition 30 July – 27 August One of the 70 finalists selected: Hugh Adamson, A Hard Life – Kevin Rogers, acrylic First Prize $10,000 Acquisitive, Kennedy Arts Foundation Prize.
Where:
RSASA Gallery: Mon – Friday 10.30 – 4.00pm, Sat & Sun 1 – 4.00pm.
For more information:
Bev Bills, Director, RSASA Office: 8232 0450 or 0415 616 900
To be opened by John Hill, Chair SALA 30 July at 2.00pm. Winners to be announced at opening FREE Entry Portrait Demonstrations: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 20 August
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de Chirico-inflected interiors and plazas with a youthful, suited male that many observers read as self-portraiture. While in London he came into contact with the Portuguese-born artist Paula Rego whose magic-realist figurative images opened windows in Orchard’s imagination.
tall ladders, poke their noses into dark recesses and tote heavy loads.
Later, in 2000, Orchard was struck by figures seen below his Gunnery Studio window and began instinctively to draw them. At this time, he became familiar with the work of the South African artist, William Kentridge. Orchard sensed a kindred spirit in the primacy Kentridge afforded both mark-making and memorybased imagery, set within a dystopic urban landscape. Here was this dialogue between surface and symbol Orchard had been searching for. Around 2005, the artist began to recognise the authority of what he had created. “Technically,” he says, “it was there, and probably had enough meat on the bone to carry whatever it needed.” He has continued to draw this bald-headed figure hundreds of times from sketches to large scale fully worked charcoals and pastels. Orchard was at the crossroads around the mid-1990s. He had created a body of distinctive imagery that relied on well-established surrealist dynamics and formulas to enchant a growing body of followers and collectors. Potentially a career cul-de-sac beckoned. But, belief in Matisse’s dictum that “an artist should never be a prisoner of himself” paid dividends. In a break out succession of imagery, Orchard’s figures shuffled as it were onto the stage.
Figures swoop and hover like Baroque fresco extras. In the relentless glare of a spotlight, individual figures bare their souls like corporate crooks caught in an ICAC sting. So, that’s it is it – just another portrayal of the contemporary human condition as an existentialist bun fight without rhyme and reason? Julia Robinson suggests that it’s more complex and personal than that. She regards the various characters – the trickster, itinerant, researcher, orator and seer as devices for the artist to fulfill a desire to be, or experience what it is like, to be a number of different personas. Ananda writes at a tangent to this perspective by suggesting that it is not only a play of personas but of pictorial space, as seen in Orchard’s constant gaming of illusionism and surface materiality, that reveal drawing’s ability to “articulate both the physical and metaphysical spaces that house human experience”. Taylor emphasises Orchard’s adoption of a mode of mark making designed to reveal essential, even ‘timeless’ form. This brings us back to the heartland of Orchard’s practice. Where many will seek and find some social message in what appear to be little morality plays or proverbs for a modern age, others will sense uncertainty and ambiguity. As Kentridge has it, “The uncertain and imprecise ways of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning …
The ethical and moral questions … in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process.” So this is it – the long awaited publication on one of Australia’s foremost figurative artists. Is everything now revealed? Does it break open the innermost Russian Doll of Orchard’s symbolic universe? Maybe. Better to lend an ear to the hiss of graphite and the growling of charcoal on paper. And remember Degas’ advice “when you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people”.
Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet (Wakefield Press) Solo exhibitions Avatar Art Gallery of South Australia Friday, July 28 to Sunday, September 3 artgallery.sa.gov.au Then and Now BMG Art Gallery, 444 South Road Friday, August 4 to Saturday, August 26 bmgart.com.au
They comprise a diverse cast of characters: Commedia dell’arte buffoons, Punch and Judy knockabouts and men who could have stepped out of ancient Egyptian stone reliefs or the pages of The Wall Street Journal. It is their behaviour that confirmed a sense of absurdist parody more in keeping with Waiting for Godot. As they act out a number of nonsensical rituals, they rediscover the toys of childhood and are tasked deploying signage, fencing-off areas with bunting, measuring, testing and relocating equipment. They rake the distance with binoculars, ascend
1 9 J U LY – 2 6 A U G U S T 2 0 1 7 Artists: Silvana Angelakis, Aleksandra Antic, Christobel Kelly, Suzie Lockery, Lloma Mackenzie, Andrea Przygonski, Olga Sankey, Joshua Searson, Sandra Starkey Simon, Margie Sheppard and Joel Gailer.
32 WEST THEBARTON RD, THEBARTON OPEN 11AM - 5PM WED - SAT P: 08 8351 8738 info@westgallerythebarton.com.au westgallerythebarton.com.au
Silvana Angelakis, Hunt ‘Em Down, Smoke ‘Em Out, Multi plate etching and collagraph, 120 cm x 155 cm
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STILL POINT An exhibition of contrasting works combining limited edition nature mandala prints & expressive original paintings. Inspired by nature’s confidence to create regardless of barriers, artist Janelle Amos’ work reveres the honesty & worthiness within life’s imperfection & celebrates the ‘Still Point’ & intrinsic beauty of a creative moment. Join the Nature Mandala workshop on Friday 18th August for details go to selfpollinate.com
Peter Lehmann Wines Cellar Door, Para Road, Tanunda | peterlehmannwines.com
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JAMFACTORY 19 Morphett Street Confluence: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Design Nicole Monks and Yolngu weavers of Elcho Island with Koskela
Confluence brings together striking contemporary design in an exhibition celebrating strong partnerships and collaborative practices. Presented as part of Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. September 29 to November 26
HILL SMITH GALLERY 113 Pirie Street External Drivers Dan Withey
“The concept for External Drivers is about the things that drive us in life - the
Nicole Monks, Marlu Collection, 2016. Photo: Boaz Nothman
struggles of being alive and how we respond to situations and environments that we find ourselves in whether natural or unnatural and the conflicting nature of the two.”
jamfactory.com.au
August 5 to August 26 hillsmithgallery.com.au
HUTT STREET LIBRARY AND CITY LIBRARY Westminster Overlooking Thames, Charles Mifsud.
235 Hutt Street and 77 Rundle Mall Connections Various artists
Experience a range of work that explores human connection – with ourselves, with others and with the world around us through an eclectic range of artworks presented by 10 South Australian artists.
JOHN HARVEY GALLERY 12 James Street, Salisbury Diverse Palettes Various artists
A diverse exhibition with a compilation of artists and mediums.
August 1 to August 31 Until August 11 cityofadelaide.com/libraries A Matter of Mind, Kara Gillett - Daniel Purvis.
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Under Foot Gordon Russell 1-31 August We owe much of our health to engineers. Explore ‘Underfoot’ and admire their contribution.‘Gordon helps us discover art in the everyday landscape’ Foyer of the SA Water House in Victoria Square gordon@unitcare.com.au
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KELLERMEISTER CELLAR DOOR Barossa Valley Way, Lyndoch
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on dark paper. This exhibition explores the relationship between light and landscape, from the first touch of dawn on rocky hills to the last light of sunset on leaves.
LEIGH STREET LUGGAGE
Light Touch
August 1 to August 23 Tori Wade is an Adelaide-based painter who focuses on local landscapes using dry pastels
22A Leigh Street, Adelaide Kellermeister.com.au Rubato Victoria Beresin
These works express Beresin’s gradual withdrawal from a long career in music teaching. The juxtaposition of materials used connects Beresin’s past with her future direction. August 1 to August 31
Victoria Beresin, Untitled.
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Light Touch, Tori Wade.
KING WILLIAM ROAD King William Road, Hyde Park Established + Emerging Artists on King William Road
The street comes alive for SALA with live music and artists. Soak up the atmosphere, bring the family, book in for lunch and enjoy a fun afternoon on King William Road while you take the time to view the work from emerging and established artists on display at more than15 locations.
Various artists
August 1 to August 31
MID NORTH VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION (VAPAA) Various venues in the Mid North Various artists
SALA is alive and well in the Mid North. Nine exhibitions cater for all genres with venues in a variety of towns and villages including Burra, Balaklava, Auburn, Riverton and the heart of Clare. August 1 to August 31 vapaa.org.au claregilbertvalleys.sa.gov.au goyder.sa.gov.au
Alison Mitchell , Hanging Pomegranates.
Emma Hack.
PROXY 2015-17 oil on canvas 122 x 275cms
CHRISTOPHER ORCHARD Now & Then: The uncertainty of the Poet Opening Friday 4 August 26 August 2017
444 South Road, Marleston, SA 5033 T +61 8 8297 2440 | M 0421 311 680 art @bmgart.com.au | www.bmgart.com.au
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MURRAY BRIDGE REGIONAL GALLERY 27 Sixth St, Murray Bridge Disquiet India Flint
Observations on a changing landscape. Stories told in cloth and paper, metal and mud, bone and stone, sound and stillness. Until August 27 murraybridgegallery.com.au India Flinto.
THE NATIONAL WINE CENTRE North Terrace and Hackney Road
Enjoy the outstanding diversity of Kangaroo Island’s gifted visual artists, for the eighth How Do We Love Thee? tour as fascinating new artworks explore vital conservation messages.
How do we love thee?
August 4 to August 27
Let us count the ways… KI the intertidal zone
fineartkangarooisland.com.
Various artists
au/sala-2017-kangaroo-islandartists-national-wine-centre William Herkes, Earrings.
PEPPER STREET ARTS Road, Magill
An exhibition celebrating the brilliance of craft-workers from the Pepper Street community. There will be work from more than 30 artists including textiles, jewellery, ceramics, mosaics, metalwork, woodwork and more.
The Art of Crafts
July 30 to August 25
Pepper Street Arts Centre, 558 Magill
Various artists pepperstreetartscentre.com.au
Mishka Amman, Winter Pool.
PETER LEHMANN WINES
NEXUS ARTS
Off Para Road, Tanunda
Lion Arts Centre and The Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, University of South
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Janelle Amos
Fly Away
Contrasting works by Janelle Amos, combining limited edition nature mandala prints and expressive original paintings. Inspired by nature’s confidence to create regardless of barriers.
Various artists
An interdisciplinary exhibition by eight Afghan-Australian new and emerging artists focused on the common themes of identity and connection.
August 1 to August 31 August 10 to September 1 selfpollinate.com
Elyas Alavi, Milky Life series 2017.
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Janelle Amos, Natural State.
ARBITRARY CHARM A co-operative of local artists, gifts, paintings, ceramics, leather, jewellery, wood work and much more Every day from 11am to 4pm Art@Goolwa, 13 Porter Street Goolwa (off Cadell St) artatgoolwa.com.au
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“It’s the idea of the human being in the space making the work and giving audiences the opportunity to engage with them in an educational environment,” says participating artist Luke Thurgate. The exchange highlights the value both institutions place on drawing as a methodology for teaching right across their curriculum. “ACSA and the NAS use drawing not just as a way to talk about drawing itself but to talk about thinking and making and all the possibilities inherent to that,” Thurgate says. “Drawing just happens to be a very efficient way of teaching those things.” A number of the artworks are sitespecific or will be informed by the walls as canvases. For example, Sydneybased artist Wendy Murray is creating a panorama from Adelaide's CBD by drawing frame-by-frame sections of the street from one end to the other. “It’s a response to Adelaide itself but the format will be conditioned by the possibility of the walls,” Thurgate says.
Yve Thompson. Photo: Ingrid Kellenbach.
AN AMBITIOUS EXCHANGE Two of the country’s top art schools will celebrate the act of drawing with an ambitious project, The Drawing Exchange. BY JANE LLEWELLYN
ACSA ran a similar project in 2014, Drawing Month. Back then, the school had just moved into their Glenside location and drawing directly on the walls was a way of breaking in the new building. Fast forward to 2017 and ACSA is building on the idea from three years ago. The Drawing Exchange presents a cross-section of artists from both faculties along with some invited artists from Melbourne, Toowoomba and Sydney. Most of the 22 artists involved will draw directly on the walls at both venues, with a couple of projected video works included in the mix.
The exhibitions will run concurrently in Sydney and Adelaide beginning with installation week (Monday, August 7 to Friday, August 11), which is essentially an open studio where artists will be making work live.
“They will be lumpy and have patched sections, they will have a whole history that will start to show through the hatch mark,” Thurgate says. “It will fade in and out in terms of the mark-making.”
creating works at ACSA. The installation week will be documented and the venues will swap footage and run it on screens at each location. “There will be a range of exchanges that are happening across states, across artists, across institutions, certainly across audiences and artists,” Thurgate says. “The subtext is the notion of exchange or collaboration that has played out quite nicely.”
The Drawing Exchange Adelaide Central Gallery and Teaching & Studio Building Monday, August 7 to Friday, September 22 acsa.sa.edu.au
The Drawing Exchange will allow artists a chance to experiment and be propositional with the works, as they won’t exist after the exhibition. “The idea of the temporary or the semiephemeral drawing was a big part of the project,” Thurgate says. “It gives artists the opportunity to try out iterations of previous works or try something new.” One of the most important aspects of the project has been the exchange element with Adelaide-based artists Roy Ananda and Sasha Grbich creating works at NAS and a number of NAS artists
‘rubato’ Victoria Beresin Venue: Leigh Street Luggage 22a Leigh Street Adelaide SA 5000
Colours of the Country III Alice Springs Beanie Festival Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery 14 July – 27 August This collection of Beanies demonstrates the growth of the Beanie as an art form and will inspire audiences to laugh, don crazy headwear and bring out those knitting needles all over again!
3 Mary Elie St Port Pirie pprag.org
Image: I’m your Fan: Wool Felt and Wireation – Lisa Waller, 2011
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he Drawing Exchange is a collaboration between the Adelaide Central School of Art (ACSA) and Sydney’s National Art School (NAS) that aims to create an educational environment where audiences can interact with artists while they are creating artworks.
Christopher Orchard is creating an ambitious piece where he will start on the top corner of one of the walls (which is 3.5m high) and crosshatch his way from one side to the other (activating the surface texture of the walls that have been used for previous shows).
“THE IDEA OF THE TEMPORARY OR THE SEMI-EPHEMERAL DRAWING WAS A BIG PART OF THE PROJECT. IT GIVES ARTISTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY OUT ITERATIONS OF PREVIOUS WORKS OR TRY SOMETHING NEW.”
Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Sat 10am-3pm
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PORT PIRIE REGIONAL ART GALLERY 3 Mary Elie St, Port Pirie Colours of the Country III Alice Springs Beanie Festival
The colourful exhibition encapsulates the whimsical essence of the Beanie Festival and also highlights the works produced by Indigenous artists from the Central Desert region who are regular collaborators in this cross-cultural event. Allyson Parsons, Portrait of a Mallee.
Until August 27
PIKES WINES
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Lisa Waller, Im your fan.
233 Polish Hill River Road, Polish Hill
PROSPECT GALLERY
Three Generations Marie Parsons, Allyson Parsons & Henry Cockington
1 Thomas Street, Nailsworth
Marie is exhibiting pastels, oils and drawings while Allyson’s works, exquisitely detailed, showcase local landscapes. Henry has been hard at work on his signature still lifes, portraits and landscapes.
Side by Side II
Contemporary artists create new works in response to works they have selected from the Prospect Art Collection. Previously exhibited and now side by side.
July 31 to September 20
August 6 to September 3
Various artists
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prospect.sa.gov.au/prospectgallery Side by Side II, Helen Sherriff, What lies beneath.
PRUNER’S HUT Trotts Rd, McLaren Flat Added Spice Lorraine Brown
COLLECT: GEMS 21 July - 20 August
Brown’s expressive works are the product of her desire to story-tell and to capture the essence of a subject, playing with creating texture and her imagination. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during August. prunershut.com
Lorraine Brown, The Wine Trail.
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Daily 11am to 5pm Tue to Sun August 13-27 Beltana House Gallery, 364 Carrington Street Adelaide Ph. 0417813779
jamfactory.com.au Adelaide Barossa Online
wellmade.com.au/creative-practitioners/cheryl-bridgart Cheryl Bridgart Artist
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DEAD LEAVES AND THE DIRTY GROUND Recently announced as the winner of SALA’s major award for her series of three sculptures, Leaves, Julia McInerney’s work is heavily influenced by literature, especially that of Swiss writer Robert Walser. BY JANE LLEWELLYN
McInerney’s winning work, Leaves, is influenced by 20th Century Swiss writer Robert Walser, in particular his work Microscripts, a series of manuscripts that display microscopic writing. He developed this writing to overcome cramp that was psychosomatic in nature and debilitated his ability to write. He miniaturised the words so they were as small as one- or twomillimetres high and appeared incredibly cramped on the page. “I found these scripts visually very compelling, Walser would often cram the words into one corner of the page, making the negative space as charged as the areas of text. It was here that I began thinking about a sculptural form that related to scripts and the tablet form, the ancient use of stone and clay tablets that to me had a very sculptural presence.
Julia McInerney , The situation had obliged her to travel.
“The microscripts initially provided a template for these new works. I was forming depressions in the tablets for the squid ink that corresponded to the areas of text in the scripts. The thinking behind it is quite circuitous, the tablets could be thought of as ink wells, or a form that precedes writing.” For McInerney, it’s the expansive and private space of literature that is the attraction against the static nature of sculpture. “I’m interested in where these two coexist, where they draw breath from each other that supports one and the same thing in the end,” she says. McInerney’s new body of work, Archipelago, showing this month at GAG Projects, also uses Walser’s writing as the central point of departure. The title for the exhibition, Archipelago is taken from one of the works in the show. McInerney describes it as a “winter work” due to the fact it can only hold its shape in winter because it’s made of coconut oil which melts at 24 degrees.
The work is a cast of one-part of a two-part mould which is called a sinker mould. The mould is used it to make small anchors that are tied to the end of the line. “This piece is re-presenting a tool, but casting it from a material that cannot be held in the hand, it would melt under any contact with the body,” she says.
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Julia McInerney Archipelago GAG Projects Wednesday, August 2 to Sunday, August 27 juliamcinerney.com
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GALLERY M OPEN CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE 2017 over $5,000 in prizes
Official Launch:
Colour Seen
7pm, Friday 4 August
Marek Herburt
Opening night 5 - 8pm
An exhibition of vibrant large scale works reflecting an awareness of the effects of the Australian light on the natural environment.
General opening hours: Mon - Sat: 10am - 4pm Sunday: 1 - 4pm
4 August to 24 September 2017
Study of a tree at a creek (detail)
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iterature is the major reference point in my work, from studying the lives of writers and their work, to looking into the materiality of books and scripts,” McInerney says. “The question of translation between the literary to the sculptural is deeply embedded in my practice.”
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ROYAL SA SOCIETY OF ARTS Level 1, Institute Building, Corner of North Tce and Kintore Ave SALA RSASA Portrait Prize Exhibition
Hill, Chair of the SALA Board. Seventy finalists have been selected and a further 26 art works will be displayed as Salon de Refuses at the Arkaba and Kensington Hotels. A series of demonstrations with distinguished sitters and talented artists will be held throughout the SALA Festival mainly in the RSASA Gallery.
Various artists
July 30 to August 27 The RSASA is proud to present the third Biennial Portrait Prize Exhibition to be opened by the Honourable John
RED POLES
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190 McMurtrie Road, McLaren Vale Creatures – Real and Imagined Various artists
Artists were asked to respond to the following: Who is this creature is it real is it not …with a yowl and a growl and a croak and a shriek. With its big eyes looking out, who do you see/find/imagine/seek/draw/create… August 5 to September 21 redpoles.com.au
eep Calm Mr Monopoly
Maclaren Penny. Free Spirit, Liana Hughes 2017.
GORDON RUSSELL SA Water House foyer, Victoria Square Under Foot Gordon Russell
We owe much of our health to engineers. Explore Under Foot and admire their contribution. August 1 to August 31 0413 941 057
Urban Arts
SIDE by SIDE II
Opening Party
saturday august 5th from 3pm
Contemporary artists create new works in response to works selected from Prospect Art Collection
featuring works by
mike sander, rachel lobban & ray nash Join The Colonist as we showcase 3 emerging artists with different styles of work in urban retro, mixed media/ pop art/acrylic & graffiti art.
Curated by Sarah Northcott
6 August to 3 September
on display aug 1st - 31st
44 The Parade, Norwood, SA 5067 8362 3736 | colonist.com.au #thecolonistnorwood
Fran Callen, Nadia Caon, Ursula Halpin, Declan Lee, Bridgette Minuzzo, Lee Salomone, Helen Sherriff 1 Thomas Street (cnr Main North Rd) NAILSWORTH www.prospect.sa.gov.au/prospectgallery | facebook.com/ProspectGallery Image: Fran Callen, Self-Folding (Work in Progress), (detail)
Art Title: Mr Cool Aid Saves The Day
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SAUERBIER HOUSE 21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga
and Northern Territory working individually and collaboratively to present artist books, book objects plus framed/unframed book pages.
Story Country ABX Group
August 5 to September 2
ABX group consists of artists from South Australia
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Michelle Nikou a e i o u, installation view, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2016.
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Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Hawke Building, City West Campus, University of South Australia The Summation of Force Trent Parke and Narelle Autio
A multi-channel video work that pitches competitive sport and the mythical power of cricket as a metaphor for life and parenthood.
Adelaide-based Samstag Scholar and University of South Australia alumnus Michelle Nikou draws on surrealism to transform mundane domestic objects and materials into sculptures of humour, poignancy and marvel. Until September 1
unisa.edu.au/Business-community/ Samstag-Museum/ Boo, Isabel Lopes, Debby Haskard Strauss, Fire.
SALA in Alexandrina Dridan and Friends David Dridan, Cheryl Anne Brown, Silvio Apponyi, Harry Sherwin David Hamilton, Bill Steele Stationmaster’s Art Gallery 20 South Tce Strathalbyn. July 31 to August 27
Taking Place Langhorne Creek Loene Furler, Winnie Pelz and Leigh Marshall Langhorne Creek Hub Bridge St, Langhorne Creek July 31 to August 20
No Bridge too Far James parker and John Whitney South Coast Regional Art Centre Goolwa Tce Goolwa July 28 to September 3
Stranger than Fiction Strathalbyn Library Colman Tce Strathalbyn July 31 to August 20 Langhorne Landscape, oil on canvas, Winnie Pelz
Until September 1
Innerspace Peter McLachlan Mount Compass Golf Course George Francis Dve Mount Compass August 4 to 31
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TAFE SA AC ARTS Light Square Gallery, Adelaide College of the Arts, Basement Level, 39 Light Square She Collects The Beautiful/ Turbulent Nature.
SIGNAL POINT GALLERY AT THE GOOLWA WHARF
Chris De Rosa
A solo exhibition by the winner of the 2017 Breaking Ground Visual Arts Professional Development award, presented by Country Arts SA. Chris de Rosa’s work is informed by the ocean and shoreline of her local environment.
5 Laurie Lane, Goolwa Kitschen Man Gerry Wedd
August 4 to August 31
JamFactory Icon series presents leading practitioners with significant national and international profiles and influence in their chosen fields. The fourth in this series is Gerry Wedd’s Kitschen Man.
Chris De Rosa, Turbulent nature.
tafesa.edu.au/gallery
Until August 31 visitalexandrina.com
Tsering Hannaford - Succulent still life.
TERRACE FLOORS
T’ARTS COLLECTIVE
51 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood
10 Gays Arcade, Adelaide SALA on Terrace 2017
Arcade, Rundle Mall
Various artists Greenery Maude Bath, David Innocente
SALA on Terrace will showcase a dynamic collection of works presented in various mediums such as painting, ceramics, photography and glass from 21 artists.
and Helen Moon
Open studio at T’Arts for SALA celebrates the work of local members. Each day there will be a different artist demonstrating (who will be available for conversations).
Until August 19 terracefloors.com.au
July 30 to August 26 Gerry Wedd, Gram Jar.
tartscollective.com.au Maude Bath, Blue, green Leafy sea dragon.
Tassie Devil by Zinia King
RED POLES
licensed cafe-gallery-b&b SALA group exhibition
“Creatures – Real and Imagined” with 18 mixed media artists.
Opens Saturday August 5 till September 21 Much more than a destination! Great local food, cellar doors for Brick Kiln and Vale Brewing, open fires.
190 McMurtrie Road, McLaren Vale SA 5171. P: 08 8323 8994 Open Wednesday to Sunday from 9am to 5pm and public holidays. Live Music Sundays redpoles@redpoles.com.au www.redpoles.com.au
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I couldn’t wait for the painting sessions. We enjoyed many painting sessions, good company, day trips to places like Victor Harbor to paint, and glasses of red wine. “I had been struggling to get back into painting and I am so grateful that the group has rekindled my passion, and put interest into my life at Helping Hand,” he says. “It’s a credit to Cassie [Thring], the way she has encouraged us all to take risks, and recognise that the attempt is worthwhile. I feel like she has created a very supportive group that is gaining momentum. Full credit to the wonderful lifestyle staff at Helping Hand for their support too.”
Young at Art Len Harvey, Jim.
LEN HARVEY WINS OUTSIDER AWARD
Helping Hand Aged Care, 49 Buxton Terrace, North Adelaide. Tuesday, August 1 to Thursday, August 31 Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm 8224 7777
Plus on Saturday 12th August, you will see the street come alive for SALA with live music and artists along King William Road. Soak up the atmosphere, bring the family, book in for lunch and enjoy a fun afternoon on King William Road.
BY DAVID KNIGHT
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Harvey didn’t enter Jim for the Outsider Award. That was done by his Helping Hand Art Club facilitator Cassie Thring, who only mentioned to Harvey that she submitted his work when he was announced as a finalist. “I have forgiven her,” Harvey, whose work is part of the Young at Art exhibition at Helping Hand, jokes.
Harvey, who started painting 40 years ago, says the weekly Art Club is an “afternoon of good company and inspiration”. He started painting eight years before he retired and then Helping Hand rekindled his passion. “My wife (Jean) and I would enjoy going to exhibitions and noticed that the art we liked was often sold, which made us think we must know something about what a good painting looked like,” he says. “I was invited to join a painting group for General Motors Holden [where he worked as an engineer], and having never painted before, went and bought the materials needed, fitting them in a shoebox. The first painting I made of some sea, sand and sky had me hooked, and from that moment
WHERE ART MEET LIFE+STYLE Enjoy a variety of work from emerging and established artists on display in many of the boutiques, restaurants and cafes along King William Road through the month of August.
Since 2015, The Adelaide Review has partnered with SALA to present the Outsider Award, which recognises exciting works created outside the established arts scene. This year’s winner is Len Harvey, a 90-year-old Helping Hand resident, who won thanks to his oil portrait, Jim.
im is a friend of mine who also lives at Helping Hand,” Harvey says of his winning work. “I decided to paint his portrait after I saw a photo of him that was taken on Melbourne Cup Day last year. I thought the photo really showed Jim’s lively personality and would be a personal challenge to paint the portrait for my own enjoyment.”
SALA ON KING WILLIAM ROAD
FLOW OF CONSCIOUSNESS LIANA VARGAS 11TH - 31ST AUGUST
FRIDAY 11TH AUGUST 6PM BIRTSOS LEGAL 39 KENSINGTON RD. NORWOOD
VISIT KINGWILLIAMROAD.COM.AU
FOR ALL THE DETAILS OR PICK UP A GUIDE WHEN YOU’RE ON THE STREET
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THE UNLEY 27 Unley Road, Parkside My Garden Lyn Anstey
The My Garden series was inspired by the irresistible scents and amazing colours of the blooms that come and go over the seasons inspiring Anstey to paint the flowers to showcase their beauty. August 2 to August 31 theunley.com.au
Lyn Anstey, Pink Flower.
LIANA VARGAS BIRTSOS LEGAL THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
39 Kensington Road, Norwood Flow of Consciousness Liana Vargas
“Through a fracture in the vapour comes the roar of waters, torrents and streams...” Liana Vargas’ solo exhibition is inspired by the words of William Wordsworth, who so eloquently transports the reader to a place of aweinspiring beauty, power and potential danger.
Kaurna Building Level 3, Kaurna Building, Fenn Place, Adelaide The University of South Australia’s Images of Research: Engaged Research, Enterprising
August 11 to August 31
Researchers Various lianavargas.com.au
This exhibition showcases of some of our staff and students research images, telling a story about the research we do and the people who make it happen. Monday 31 July – Thursday 10 August unisa.edu.au/research/photocomp
Resilience and Vulnerability, Jelina Haines.
at GU Film House Glenelg exhibiting 3 to 30 August 2017 10.00a to 9.30p daily Jade HARLAND David HAYDEN Trish LOADER Sue NORMAN Karen PUTTOCK
Liana Vargas, Fissure.
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SALA FESTIVAL AWARDS NIGHT A crowd of art lovers gathered at The Advertiser building on Friday, July 7 for the 2017 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival Awards. PHOTOS BY SIA DUFF Laura Wills and Carollyn Kavanagh.
Anton Hart and Paloma Concierta.
Christie Anthoney and David Griggs.
Jenni Georgi and Steve Oatway.
#7 Suzie Lockery.
WEST GALLERY THEBARTON
Sandy Fuller, Steph Fuller and Michael Fuller.
Ella Kroning and Alfonso Coronel.
[GRAFTd] EXHIBITION
32 West Thebarton Road
5 August – 2 September
Monumental Various artists
Where will the interpretation of Monumental take these 10 leading South Australian printmakers? Until August 26 westgallerythebarton.com.au
ABX Group STORY COUNTRY
MY GARDEN by Lyn Anstey
Works inspired by the beauty of the artist’s home garden.
HIGH TEA OPENING By Mark Gilbert, President of the Friends of the State Library.
SATURDAY 5 AUGUST, 1.30–4PM
OPENING PARTY
Sat. August 5th, 3pm - 5pm Enjoy light nibbles, meet the artist and view the stunning works displayed around the walls of the Unley.
On Display Aug 1st - 31st 27 Unley Road, Parkside, SA 5063 8271 5544 | theunley.com.au #theunley
SAUERBIER HOUSE
culture exchange
She Collects The Beautiful/ Turbulent Nature
4 – 31 August 2017
Artist Chris de Rosa
Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square Gallery 39 Light Square, Adelaide Mon-Fri, 9am – 5pm
tafesa.edu.au/gallery
21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga Wed to Fri 10am–4pm | Sat 12noon–4pm 8186 1393 | onkaparingacity.com/arts SUPPORTED BY CITY OF ONKAPARINGA
Image: turbulent nature, 2017, digital inkjet print, pigment stain, flourescence, dye, on perforated magnani paper and glazed ceramic. 76 x 120cm. Photo: Pippy Mount. CRICOS Code: 00092B | RTO Code: 41026 | HEP Code: PRV14002
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SALA IN THE CLARE VALLEY & SURROUNDING TOWNS In the mid north there are nine galleries and other venues with SALA exhibitions, with at least 69 artists’ works on show. Once you have viewed these why not visit some of the other great galleries in the region. You would be mad if you didn’t!
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Blyth
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Penwortham Watervale Leasingham
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Auburn
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Alive with Colour* Scarlattis Gallery Mt Surmon Wines 280 Basham Rd, Stanley Flat
Soulscape* Clare Valley Wine, Food and Tourism Centre 8 Spring Gully Rd, Clare
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Medika Gallery 16 Moore Street, Blyth 3
The Art Teachers* Burra Regional Art Gallery 5 Market St, Burra 4
D’Vine Art Gallery 232 Main North Road, Clare 5
Mr. Micks 7 Dominic Street, Clare 6
Blackman Gallery 130 Main North Road, Clare
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Sevenhill Cellars and St. Aloysius Church 111C College Road, Sevenhill 10
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3 Generations* Pikes Wines - The Art Gallery at Pikes 233 Polish Hill River Rd, Sevenhill
Nona Burden Open Studio* Nona Burden Open Studio 8 North St, Auburn
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Annies Lane at Quelltaler Quelltaler Road, Watervale 12
Vine Art Studio & Gallery 289 Blocks Road, Leasingham 13
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Clare Valley Art Gallery Lot 3 Main North Road, Clare
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Galah Gala* Linhay Gallery 13 Main North Rd, Auburn
Loving Where We Live* Art @ Auburn 36 Main North Rd, Auburn
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2017 Balco Balaklava Art Prize Exhibition* Balaklava Courthouse Gallery 6 Edith Tce, Balaklava SA 17
TEN* Riverton Light Gallery 54 Torrens (Main) Rd, Riverton
* SALA Exhibition
F O R M O R E I N F O R M A T I O N V I S I T V A PA A . O R G . A U
LIVING THE DREAM Trent Parke and Narelle Autio: The Summation of Force, Samstag Art Museum BY JOHN NEYLON
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hy hasn’t the game of cricket produced great art? Sure, there have been some outstanding individual contribution such as Francis Bacon’s 1980s contorted male figures sporting cricket pads. One suggestion is that this was motivated by a keen interest in the golden-haired David Gower. On a visit to London in the 1890s, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro painted Match de Cricket à Bedford Park. Like a true Frenchman he kept his distance – a very long view over a hedge - from this curious English ritual. There are numerous commemorative sculptures such as Robert Hannaford’s heroic depiction of the Don smiting the ball to the boundary near the Victor York Richardson Gates at Adelaide Oval. But where is the art that engages with the psyche of the game? Cricket’s dark side of the moon is all about the subtexts that take us to the heartland of what it means
to “Play up! Play up! And play the game” – even if the “Gatling’s jammed and the Colonel dead and the regiment blind with dust and smoke”. Yes, Victorian England left a legacy of cricket being a metaphor for how life should be truly lived. More than a game. For absolute confirmation check out James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake to appreciate how sex and cricket are common bedfellows. In this context why hasn’t cricket been rewarded with decent art? It has the optics – green swards dotted with flannelled fools, ‘how’s that’ gestures worthy of a Greek tragedy, rhythmical run ups, classic catches of the highest athletic
as a cricket pitch. The boys play backyard cricket with enthusiasm, tonking balls onto roofs, into windows and over fences. Then pads and helmets appear. The bowling becomes more aggressive. There is close up capture of that whiff of fear. Adult rituals impose themselves. A boy is padded up and walks through the laundry door into the glare of floodlights. A tossed coin spins out of the darkness. The heat is on. Dozens of lads subject themselves to standardised testing to identify potential. Like Mitchell Johnson flipping a car tyre, one boy runs down the beach trailing a small parachute. He’s wired up. He breathes into a mask. No weak heart, lungs or legs if you want to be an elite athlete. Only when plotted as a light sensitive robotic does a sense of freedom prevail and the young athlete becomes a manifestation of pure energy. That this complexity of symbolic narrative can function in such attenuated and fragmented formats is due to both artists’ eyes for what mystifies and intrigues. Add to this the capacity to orchestrate so many visually compelling vignettes in such a way that the viewing experience ebbs and flows like the shifting fortunes associated with a five-day test match. There is an extraordinary game going on here - call it magic realism – in which the viewer is invited to believe that something so ordinary as playing backyard cricket then translating this experience into a mirror on the adult, mass-media world of sports entertainment – has the capacity to go the heart of what cricket means in contemporary life. At one level it is about the crucible – the backyard - well captured by Steve Cannane in his 2010 book First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards that Made Them. At another it touches on the darkness of passion and extreme competition that dogs the dreams of all who would push themselves to the limit.
order and the visual majesty of a Brian Lara cover drive. But that’s just surface noise. Artists Narelle Autio and Trent Parke know that – and it shows. The Summation of Force is a multiscreen filmic experience. Those familiar with the artists’ work will recognise trademark touches – Parke working the narrow corridors between flash-light glare and extreme darkness and Autio’s gimlet eye for moments that mean more than all the others. Let’s say for the sake of argument that Force is about cricket. There is a narrative of sorts – a rite of passage for lads (played by the artists’
sons) from innocent play to competitive performance. Other lads swell the ranks of performers, moved around like Olive Cotton teacups on the great table top of life. There is an audience – parents arranged like mute spectators at an Alabama electric chair send off. The setting is primarily a backyard. At times this morphs into spaces that might be basketball court, a sports laboratory or simply the cosmos. In the darkness of the gallery space scenarios appear and disappear like events in a shadow puppet show. Turf is dug up and literally pressed into service
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The Summation of Force is a remarkable experience – cricket’s Platonic Cave in which the spectres and shadows of what is dreamed, adjudicated, achieved and valued in the name of sport come out to play. An elite performance.
Autumn Watervale, Allyson Parsons
Autumn in Harrow, Marie Parsons
Arum Lily, Henry Cockington
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The Art Gallery at Pikes are privileged and proud to present a SALA Exhibition:
‘THREE GENERATIONS’ By Marie Parsons, Allyson Parsons and Henry Cockington
29th July – 20th September 2017 10am – 4pm daily. The Art Gallery at Pikes, Pikes Wines, 233 Polish Hill River Road, Polish Hill SA 5453 Phone: 08 8843 4370
Trent Parke and Narelle Autio: The Summation of Force Samstag Art Museum Until Friday, September 1 unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum
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WINNERS
2017 SALA AWARD WINNERS
The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Julia McInerney
Julia McInerney, Leaves (Her Barely Visible Gestures).
The Adelaide Review Outsider Art Award Len Harvey
Len Harvey, Jim.
The Art of Crafts An exhibition of mixed media celebrating craft-workers
30 July – 25 August 2017
‘Primus’ The Space Gallery Alexander Ave. Trinity College, Evanston South Opening 6pm 18 Aug, then Mon–Fri 9am–4.30pm Sign in at Administration Building | T: 8522 0680 ‘Three Worlds, Triple the Insight’ Café Sia Gawler Green Shopping Centre, Tulloch St, Evanston 31st July–27th August | T: 8522 6990 Poetic Justice Café Gallery 3 Walker Pl, Gawler Open 7 days per week 8am–4pm M: 0473 240 585
Totally Framed 44a Adelaide Road, Gawler South Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9am–5pm, Sat 10am–1pm T: 8523 2299
Jacqueline Isaacson, green bracelet, wood and resin
Gawler, The Arts Destination
Opens: Sunday 30 July at 2 pm Opening Speaker: Victoria Bowes Executive Officer, Guildhouse
Alchemy Café 29 Adelaide Rd. (Crn Sixth St.) Gawler South Mon–Fri 8am-4pm & Sat-Sun 7.30am–3pm T: 8523 5736
Artist Demonstration by Lyndy Danby (jewellery making) Artist Demonstration by Rima Rowe (basketry) Artist Demonstration by Erik Tils (Coober Pedy Zebra Stone) Music by Adelaide Jazz Duo
Life in Light Tony Piccolo MP | 148 Murray St, Gawler Mon–Fri 9am–5pm | T: 8522 2878
Free entry. All welcome.
Artist Demonstrations Saturday 5, 12 and 19 August 2 pm - 4 pm
Exhibitions, Gift Shop, Art Classes, Coffee Shop. 558 Magill Road, Magill Ph: 8364 6154 Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 am – 5 pm Saturday 12 noon – 5 pm An arts and cultural initiative funded by the City of Burnside www.pepperstreetartscentre.com.au
Garden Instinct Celebrating City of Tea Tree Gully based gardeners
Sam Oster Reflections of garden by Alison Main, Christine Pyman Holly Marling, Lucy Timbrell Michal Kluvanek, Rebecca Cooke Robert Habel and Yve Thompson Exhibition launch: 2pm, Sunday 6 August Opening speaker: Tony Kanellos Curator, Santos Museum of Economic Botany Exhibition concludes 16 September Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm www.teatreegully.sa.gov.au/gallery1855 Image: Sam Oster, Ruth (detail), 2017, photographic print 120 x 120cm
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FINALISTS Unitcare Services Moving Image Award (Winner to be announced August 30) Andrea Malone, John Schumann.
City Rural Emerging Artist Award
The City of Unley Active Ageing Award
Atkins Photographic Award
Andrea Malone
Finalists: Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, Che Chorley, Sophie Corso and Paul Forza
Jane Skeer
(Winner to be announced August 30) Third Royal South Australian Society of Arts Biennial Portrait Prize Lee Walter, Briar Rose, A portrait.
Finalists: Alice Blanch, Trevor Comley and Bridgette Minuzzo
Centre for Creative Photography Latent Image Award
(Winners will be announced at the exhibition opening on July 30)
Jane Skeer, Flyers (detail).
Lee Walter
1 _ MICHELLE NIKOU: a e i o u _
30 June to 1 September ON ART_
In conversation with Michelle Nikou (SA) and Kendrah Morgan, exhibition Co-curator (Vic) Samstag Museum of Art, Tuesday 15 August 1:30 – 2:30pm
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30 June to 1 September ON ART_
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Panel discussion with Narelle Autio and Trent Parke (SA), Amanda Duthie, Director Adelaide Film Festival (SA), Matthew Bate, Closer Productions (SA), Philippa Hawker, film and arts writer (Vic), Samstag Museum of Art Tuesday 22 August 1:30 – 2:30pm _ 3 _ ART AFTER DARK WEST END
Thursday 10 August
55 North Terrace, Adelaide www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum Phone (08) 8302 0870 Tues to Fri 10am — 5pm / Sat 2 — 5pm Free admission — all welcome!
Image: Michelle NIKOU, Sylvia’s Jumper, 2013-16, wool, cement, sand, plaster, Boncrete, wood, 20.0 x 120.0 x 85.0 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.