InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: A new role for Windmill Theatre’s artistic director, friends of the Mercury urged to attend extraordinary general meeting, local theatre group set to debut with provocative climate satire, SALA Award winners announced, what’s in store at Nature Festival, and Girls Rock! at Foyer Fridays.
Visual Art
In Florence, Georgina Mills trained in the exacting techniques of neo-classical figurative sculpture. Now, in Re-framing, she’s striving to revitalise figurative sculpture’s relationship to the contemporary art scene in Australia.
Three talented local artists take inspiration from a collection of historic European prints for a mixed-media exhibition that offers insight into the role of art in making sense of crises – from the renaissance to contemporary times.
Music melds with history, technology and sculpture as a 1981 Sigma is turned into a musical instrument in a performance that brings the sounds – and images – of industry back to the old Mitsubishi factory floor at Tonsley.
For his exhibition Still Tied to a Tree, SALA feature artist Mark Valenzuela has created an overwhelming hybrid world that – while surreal – feels uncomfortably familiar.
SA arts and culture news in brief: SALA celebrates its 25th anniversary with a record 11,865 participating artists, local ceramicist selected for prestigious Rome residency, applications open for 2023 Fringe grants, Illuminate events extended, Class of Cabaret callout, and how a new villain ensured Independent Theatre’s latest show will go on.
