InReview
SA arts & culture news in brief: Musician Benjamin Roberts’ 577-street Adelaide mission for mental health, planting the seeds of the future of blak artistry, film sheds light on SA anti-war protests, ‘The Art of Dying’, and more.
Visual Art
Archie Moore has become the first Australian to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale with his powerful work mixing politics and history with the poetry of internalised anxieties around belonging.
Baleen Moondjan is an epic Ngugi/Nunukul/Moondjan story of great beauty, sorrow and dignity told under darkening sky and measured out by the timeless beat of waves on the sands of Pathawilyangga in this unforgettable performance.
Sonya Rankine has woven traditional techniques and a passion for truth telling and creativity into a multi-faceted contemporary arts practice and business. Her latest pieces are lighting up the historic phone booths at Adelaide Railway Station.
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.
Colonialism, pop culture and family legacy are all part of the story shared through the first major survey exhibition of work by Vincent Namatjira, an artist who enjoys placing powerful people outside their comfort zone.
