Visual Art
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.
Visual Art
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.
Tarnanthi artistic director Nici Cumpston highlights some of the diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on show at the Art Gallery of SA during the 2023 festival – from delightful animations and unique sculptural works, to paintings inspired by a love of rock music.
More than 1500 First Nations artists from across Australia will feature in this year’s Tarnanthi Festival, which includes a major exhibition of work by the multi-award-winning Vincent Namatjira and will see the annual Tarnanthi Art Fair return as an in-person event at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
The first major exhibition of Peter Waples-Crowe’s work in South Australia is an explosion of colour and form that centres the artist’s Indigenous queer identity and culture.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Tarnanthi Art Fair goes online this weekend, ASQ to begin national tour with a world premiere at the Town Hall, people’s choice voting opens for the 2022 SAM Awards, ActNow invites applications for First Nations arts pathway program, and opportunities for artists and early-career curators.
