Visual Art
The Art Gallery of South Australia has unveiled a major new acquisition and launched its exhibition line-up for 2024 – including a Radical Textiles display featuring items ranging from William Morris tapestries to Kylie Minogue’s gold hotpants.
InReview
Tarnanthi Festival celebrates the depth and breadth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art across Australia – and from psychedelic paintings to mesmerising moving image works, there is plenty to see in this year’s more that 60 exhibitions and events.
Dusan and Voitre Marek created a stir when their ‘weird art’ was first displayed in Adelaide. Now the pioneering surrealist artists are being celebrated in a new exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA that shows the diversity of their work and incorporates heartfelt human stories.
Jason Karas has been appointed the new chair of the Art Gallery of South Australia, with the lawyer promising the institution will be ambitious and innovative.
Artist and recent OAM recipient Nici Cumpston’s journey to becoming a curator at the Art Gallery of SA included many roles – one of which involved processing crime scene photos.
The yellow and black banners that have cloaked the Art Gallery of SA’s façade in recent months are part of a Monster Theatres art installation that curator Leigh Robb says can now be seen as extraordinarily prophetic in light of COVID-19.
Six South Australian visual artists and art collectives hit hard by the COVID-19 shutdown will receive a total of $60,000 in grants after being selected from among almost 100 applicants for the Art Gallery of SA’s artist bursaries.
