SALA: What lies ahead
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Uncomfortable questions are hidden in Harry Thring’s art exhibition, which opens tonight as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival.
SALA this year features a record 4917 artists, with new program additions including a weekend dedicated to open studios.
Thring will be exhibiting a collection of paintings in a joint show with T-shirt designer Tom Pascale, of RTD, at Magazine Gallery.
Thring says his exhibition continues to draw from the same themes as his show at Peter Walker Gallery earlier this year, with some of the new works “a little more advanced in terms of the idea that’s behind them”.
“Previously my paintings have been more about looking back at less complicated times, but I’m finding that now I’m naturally looking ahead,” he says.
“All my work is very personal; it hides questions about what lies ahead that I don’t really feel comfortable asking straight out.”
There is less hidden in the joint Fine Art Kangaroo Island and Kangaroo Island Natural Resources Management Board SALA exhibition at the National Wine Centre, which opens on Sunday.
The annual exhibition of 100 artworks focuses on a different aspect of the island’s biodiversity each year, with the new display looking at its resilience and specifically at Rosenberg’s goanna. Using a range of mediums, 22 award-winning established artists and exciting emerging artists visually explore various aspects of its life and habitat.
Pelican Lagoon Research Centre Peggy Rismiller is renowned for her long-running research into Rosenberg’s goanna and is also an exhibiting artist.
“As a scientist, I love the challenge of using art to interpret the intrinsic beauty of nature from seldom-seen perspectives,” she says.
Other artists include Fine Art KI director Fred Peters, an “art jewellery” designer who has crafted a necklace of goanna hatchlings (above).
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Carclew Youth Arts has two SALA exhibitions opening tomorrow which feature the work of emerging artists Jayson Fox, Katia Carletti and Carly Snoswell.
“Jayson’s work in The Dance of the Dunce [in the Foyer Gallery] is narratively driven, depicting what it means to be a social rogue, a miscreant, an uncouth youth or a street urchin,” curator Jemimah Davis says.
“The body of work includes over 20 pieces, across the mediums of ceramics, painting, print and animation projection.”
In the Carclew Ballroom Gallery, resident artists Carletti and Snoswel are presenting a joint show called Habit featuring a diverse collection of work including the pieces below: Carletti’s Monstera (detail), 2013, oil on board, earthenware, cotton string, and Snoswell’s Work in Progress (detail), 2013, stoneware, cable ties.
“Habit explores concepts surrounding the home and the objects, images and rituals that occupy this space,” Snoswell says.
For more information on the SALA Festival, visit the website.
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