Visual Art
An intensive collaboration between Adelaide Botanic Garden and artist Dale Chihuly has created a series of striking glass installations – including two brand new works – that are curated to live in rhythm with the flora and fauna around them.
Visual Art
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is being transformed like never before with the colourful, large-scale glass sculptures of Dale Chihuly. John Neylon looks at why Chihuly is considered one of the most important artists of the 21st century and what visitors can expect from his first major outdoor exhibition in Australia.
SA Arts & Culture news in brief: American glass artist’s Botanic Garden exhibition hailed as a coup for Adelaide, 2023 Guildhouse Fellow and inaugural SA Literary Fellows announced, and the Adelaide Film Festival invites film submissions for 2024.
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.
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.
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.
South Australian glass artist Liam Fleming has been named as the 2021 Guildhouse Fellow, securing a 12-month fellowship valued at more than $50,000 that he says will enable him to refine his practice and focus his energy entirely on making.
