Visual Art
Adelaide artist and 2024 Porter Street Commission recipient Lee Salomone’s first major exhibition in more than a decade is a culmination of 30 years of art-making and collecting found objects.
Visual Art
The natural wonder of bioluminescence is the inspiration for many of the recent works in a 20-year sculpture survey exhibition by Adelaide artist Marijana Tadic that shines light on the beauty around us.
Invited to respond to the theme Political Climate, more than 20 artists have created a diverse collection of work sited in semi-bushland behind the historic home at Carrick Hill. John Neylon highlights some of the most impressive sculptures in the 2022 Heysen Sculpture Biennial.
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.
Sited on a sprawling hills property, far from inner-city galleries, the 2022 Palmer Sculpture Biennial requires visitors to don their walking shoes and brave a bit of dust – but the reward is a striking and memorable contemporary art experience.
Flanked by two imposing buildings in a passageway off North Terrace, this primordial-looking sculpture could be easily overlooked by passersby, but it’s worth stopping to admire its quiet power, writes Katherine Arguile.
