An installation image of 'Adelaide Mid-Century Moderns', which includes mid-20th-century modern furniture alongside paintings and prints by 25 Adelaide artists. Photo: Luke Simon Photography / supplied

Visual Art

When mods and rockers ruled the Adelaide art scene

Adelaide’s break with the past and embrace of the new is revealed in a Carrick Hill exhibition which celebrates risk-taking, innovation and play leading up to and during the heyday of mid-century modernism.

Visual Art

Relics and Ruins reflects mother and daughter’s shared passion for painting

Honesty and trust is crucial to the relationship between mother-and-daughter artists Anna Gore and Mary-Jean Richardson, whose 2023 SALA exhibition is testimony to the power of creative collaboration and the enduring art of painting.

Visual Art

Trent Parke’s monument to humankind

Celebrated photographer Trent Parke’s new retrospective exhibition is like a time capsule, offering a unique and fascinating look at everyday life through his lens.

InReview

Green Room: Living art and warping reality

SA arts and culture news in brief: Exhibitions to whet your SALA appetite, meet The Mercury’s new GM, a mentorship opportunity to catapult your career, Film Festival callout for “reality-warping creatives”, ACE opens its artist studios, and young South Australians urged to get creative to fight climate change.

Festivals

'That little ball of light saved my life': Denis Smith's long journey to Duality

When his social media accounts were hacked in 2022, light painting photographer Denis Smith reassessed his online life. The creative results feature in his SALA show Duality, which also offers visitors a chance to try the technique themselves.