Eight shows to see this SALA Festival

A record 700-plus exhibitions will be presented across Adelaide and regional South Australia during the 2024 SALA Festival. We’ve selected eight shows to whet your appetite for the month-long smorgasbord of visual art.

Green Room: Winning art, dancing at WOMAD

SA arts and culture news in brief: Local artist Sally Scales honoured in national First Nations art awards, organisers say there will be dancing at WOMADelaide, design unveiled for Goolwa public art commission, AGSA’s Free/State Vernissage Weekend, tasty ABC comedy to return, and more.

The studio space at APY Gallery in Light Square is used by both experienced and emerging artists. Photo: Meg Hansen Photography

APY Gallery forced to find new Adelaide home

Adelaide’s APY Gallery is being forced to look for a new home in the city, with the lease on its thriving exhibition space and artist studio in Light Square set to end prematurely early next year.

Old, new, us: Painting a generational story

After taking up painting only five months ago, Sally Scales is now showing her bold contemporary works alongside paintings by her mother Josephine Mick in a special exhibition at APY Gallery that also honours the legacy of Sally’s grandmother.

Zaachariaha Fielding is turning canvases into confessionals

Acclaimed musician Zaachariaha Fielding of Electric Fields has finally found the patience required to produce visual art. He says his first exhibition, at APY Gallery Adelaide, is “colourful and emotional”.