In a bustling Kent Town studio – surrounded by colourful stuffed toys and an eclectic collection of materials and artworks – Truc Truong reveals how art became her saviour during a dark time, and her excitement at the opportunity offered by a mentorship that will add new skills to her practice.
Visual Art
Whimsical creations by ceramicist Bruce Nuske displayed in an exhibition space designed by the late Khai Liew are being shown alongside a meditative presentation by visual artist Dana Awartani in this captivating showcase at Samstag Museum of Art.
Design
A damaged Khai Liew chair, a torn souvenir scarf from the 1956 Olympics, and a broken vase and perfume bottles owned by Paula Nagel are among a wonderful collection of repaired or transformed items on show in a new exhibition at JamFactory.
Design
Lovely to look at – but not made to sit in – Marc Newson’s Cloisonné Blue Chair is part of a body of work the designer created using a centuries-old Chinese enamelling technique. It is on show in the Art Gallery of SA’s Metamorphosis display.
Books & Poetry
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.
Festivals
Artist Chris Yee, whose digital animation Perspective Pathways was chosen to illustrate the cover of the 2023 OzAsia Festival program, says he is motivated to tell stories around Australian-Asian identity through his colourful and dynamic creations.
Design
PHOTO GALLERY: In the 50 years since it began life in an old factory in St Peters, JamFactory has helped forge hundreds of creative careers and put Adelaide at the heart of Australia’s contemporary craft and design scene. Now, as it reflects on the past and looks to the future, it has one pressing need: more space.
Some of Adelaide’s office buildings are at near capacity while others languish. This month we showcase how a number of CBD property owners are successfully refitting, refurbishing and repurposing the city’s ageing building stock to respond to new needs, while others are tailoring new builds to a hybrid workplace.
A quiet cul de sac in Adelaide’s West End has become a haven for local glassmakers like Liam Fleming, whose more recent work was born from playful experimentation.
As debate continues over the proposed demolition of an historic precinct to make way for a new hospital in Adelaide, it’s timely to re-examine our state’s heritage and its capacity to create value, opportunity and a lucrative future for South Australia.
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.
Graphic designer and digital illustrator Alana Naylor has won the 2023 Adelaide Fringe poster competition with a vibrant design inspired by native flora and the buzz that surrounds the annual festival.
Visual Art
The tranquillity of Clare Belfrage’s Kensington studio and the delicate beauty of the myriad glass works on display belies the high-stakes drama of the practice that has sustained the distinguished artist for the past 30 years.
Visual Art
For Craig Glasson, the studio is a ‘laboratory of ideas’. At times he needs silence to bring those ideas to fruition through his painstaking, design-inspired practice – but he also loves listening to techno music.
Australia’s chronic affordable housing shortage is planting an inter-generational time bomb. We look at some historical and contemporary social housing projects that could pave the way for increased public and private investment in this space.
An unsent fan letter, the discovery of a 30-year-old magazine in a dusty archive of craft journals in Mount Isa, and a final creative meeting of minds lie behind the exhibition of celebrated ceramicist Petrus Spronk at The Main Gallery in Halifax Street.
A 5m-high public artwork paying homage to Aussie backyard icon the Hills Hoist cuts a new silhouette in the ever-shifting landscape of Hindley Street, thanks to a partnership between Helpmann Academy and SA Power Networks.
The residential entries in the 2022 SA Architecture Awards range from extreme extroverts to some shy types in character neighbourhoods, while a record number of apartment buildings mark that sector’s coming of age.
