Books & Poetry
Hot on the heels of her debut novel The Family String, South Australian author Denise Picton brings us a new and hilariously uplifting tale – The Knighton Women’s Compendium.
Music
Singer-songwriter Meg Washington enchanted UKARIA as she and musician Paul Hankinson reimagined her back-catalogue in an intimate duo concert.
Artists provoke and offend, but they also liberate us and help us understand who we are and where we’re going. Writer Stephen Orr makes a case for significant new investment in South Australian artists and cultural institutions.
The Art Gallery of South Australia has unveiled a major new acquisition and launched its exhibition line-up for 2024 – including a Radical Textiles display featuring items ranging from William Morris tapestries to Kylie Minogue’s gold hotpants.
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SA Arts & Culture news in brief: American glass artist’s Botanic Garden exhibition hailed as a coup for Adelaide, 2023 Guildhouse Fellow and inaugural SA Literary Fellows announced, and the Adelaide Film Festival invites film submissions for 2024.
Australian Dance Theatre is celebrating the work of emerging artists with a bold triptych of new pieces exploring themes including the brain’s response to trauma, and language as a tool of colonial oppression.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Australian String Quartet reveals its 2024 season – including a weekend of music in the Barossa, prospective members sought for state Artists at Work Taskforce looking into work insecurity and income inequality, and an Adelaide gallery to close its doors.
In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of her memoir Welcome to Your New Life, Anna Goldsworthy has penned the script for a charmingly hectic stage play that captures the myriad emotions of first-time motherhood.
A fresh and comprehensive new narrative reveals how the Adelaide art scene post-World War II was an incubator of progressive ideas and talent, despite often being dismissed or disparaged in the wider mainstream history of Australian art.
“Bold ceramic forms, whimsical wall-mounted gremlins and large, confident paintings sit side by side in an exhibition of work by SA artists Zaachariaha Fielding and Alfred Lowe, reviewed here by Troy-Anthony Baylis and showing as part of Tarnanthi.
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The 2024 Adelaide Festival will feature returning favourites such as Barrie Kosky, Laurie Anderson, Angélique Kidjo, Stephen Page and Akram Khan, as well as introducing a new generation of rising stars from Australia and around the world.
