Visual Art
Bold ceramic forms, whimsical wall-mounted gremlins and large, confident paintings sit side by side in an exhibition of work by SA artists Zaachariaha Fielding and Alfred Lowe, reviewed here by Troy-Anthony Baylis and showing as part of Tarnanthi.
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.
Crafting modernism offers an intriguing insight into the lifelong creative journey of South Australian potter Milton Moon, who was fuelled by a vision that married Zen philosophy with a determination to express a distinctly Australian sense of place.
Created in the shadow of the Vietnam War and at the height of the Funk art movement, Adelaide-based artist Olive Bishop’s Wash and War will be in the spotlight at the Art Gallery of South Australia on ANZAC Day.
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.
Pure Form illuminates the seismic shift away from traditional ceramic-making that occurred in Japan after World War II with a breathtakingly beautiful, extensive, and scholarly exhibition of ceramics which favour form over function.
In the quiet light of Gallery Two at JamFactory, Stephanie James-Manttan’s sculptural vessels defy the solid materiality of porcelain to evoke the transcendent ebb and flow of migrating birds.
