Visual Art
The Art Gallery of South Australia is mourning the loss of its former curator Angus Trumble, who is remembered fondly for his curious interests, cheekily risqué lunchtime talks and rooftop parties, as well as his significant contribution to the arts.
Visual Art
It seems fitting that the butterfly, associated with transformation and spiritual rebirth, has become the focus of Clarice Beckett: The present moment, writes the curator of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
A brief flourish of hard-edge painting between 1967 and 1969 reveals father-and-son Adelaide artists working at the forefront of international abstraction, and a new display at the Art Gallery of SA offers a chance to view their bold works.
Coinciding with the exhibition of French Impressionist masterpieces at the Art Gallery of SA is a display which shows how Australian artists – including the flamboyant Charles Conder – were immersed in the most radical developments in European art.
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.
