A installation view of the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum featuring 'Meeting the Mangrove', by Christopher Bassi, Art Gallery of SA. Photo: Saul Steed / supplied

Visual Art

Adelaide Biennial review: The search for sanctuary

Peace may seem elusive in some of the works in the 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, writes John Neylon. Nonetheless, there is plenty to capture the interest and stir the emotions of a broad audience.

Adelaide Festival

Adelaide Biennial offers a place to discover your 'inner sanctum'

Twenty-four leading contemporary artists present their take on the concept of Inner Sanctum through works ranging from paintings and poetry to video installations and music in curator José Da Silva’s 2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

InReview

Green Room: Collectors' pieces, space to experiment

SA arts & culture news in brief: Take a deep dive into the Art Gallery of SA’s collection with a new book sharing the stories of 500 key works, meet Australian Dance Theatre’s newly appointed artistic associate, and discover the eclectic line-up of works-in-progress showing during this year’s inSPACE program.

Design

The story behind Marc Newson’s exquisite blue chair

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.

Visual Art

Behold the fearsome Japanese gods of wild weather

Kyoto-based artist Takaya Kōho animated the wild and often destructive forces of nature with his depiction of the Japanese gods of thunder and wind in a pair of late 19^th-century six-panel screens on display in the Art Gallery of SA.