Visual Art
Significant new insights into the life and work of 18th-century watercolourist Sarah Stone can be gleaned through a recently discovered album of 40 botanical studies now on display in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Elder Wing.
InReview
Adelaide artist Margaret Dodd rebelled against both social norms and formal art conventions with her witty ceramic sculptures and iconic film This Woman is Not a Car, on display at the Art Gallery of South Australia during SALA.
Adelaide-born artist Dorrit Black witnessed first-hand the destructive eruption of Sicily’s Mount Etna in 1928, and her resulting work The Eruption is a highlight of a new display of her linocut prints at the Art Gallery of SA.
Two aged tanned kangaroo skins found at a garage sale in Mount Barker and a set of 19th-century leather moulding tools acquired at a local antiques fair prompted the Art Gallery of SA’s most recent conservation project with Artlab Australia.
John Russell’s 1891 painting A Clearing in the Forest is back on display at the Art Gallery of SA following its inclusion in a major international exhibition, where new light was shed on the vibrant work.
