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Maria Zagala / Art Gallery of SA

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Maria Zagala is associate curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Articles by Maria

Archive of artists’ books acts as a valuable time capsule

A display of artists’ books at the Art Gallery of SA highlights a major gift of more than 500 items from the Australian Experimental Art Foundation that offer insight into the radical shift in artistic values and aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s.

Forked tongue and other conceits

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.

installation view: Frank Hurley's 'A blizzard' in the AGSA display Antarctica: Five Responses. Photo: Saul Steed

A blizzard: the story behind an iconic image

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.