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Sue Kneebone, Infinity Pool, 2015, 60 x 41cm (detail), giclee print. Image courtesy of the artist.
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SALA FESTIVAL 2015
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SALA in Adelaide Botanic Garden
The month-long celebration of South Australian art and artists will once again take over Adelaide and the state.
The Garden is hosting a record six exhibitions during August. The botanically-themed exhibitions range from close-up photography to oil paintings, to a unique immersive cinema experience in the Bicentennial Conservatory.
This year, more than 5000 artists will show their work in 610 exhibitions and events. In this special SALA feature, we cover CACSA’s exciting multi-venue exhibition CACSA Contemporary 2015 (p47), interview this year’s Monograph recipient Giles Bettison (p39), Glenn Kestell (p51), Morgan Allender (p53), as well as this year’s SALA winners.
Artists: Jenny Berends, Asami Sakura, Nicola Semmens, Julia Townsend and more. August 1-August 31
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Sasha Grbich, A Series of Uncomfortable Silences (installation detail)
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AMARO 173 Hutt Street
CACSA Contemporary 2015
Charles Ryan Horswell: Amaro!
Curated by Logan Macdonald
Emerging artist Charles Ryan
and delivered by the
Horswell, in collaboration
Contemporary Art Centre of
with the proprietors of Amaro
Grbich and Sue Kneebone. Until August 21
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Restaurant, has created artworks in response to Amaro’s menu and ambience. August 1-August 31
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Mixed media group exhibition
Salt of the Earth, RSASA Members’ SALA Exhibition 31 July – 30 August. Entry Free Just a Walk in the Park, Acrylic by David Baker
Where: RSASA Gallery Mon – Friday 10.30 – 4.00pm, Sat & Sun 1 – 4.00pm. Closed Public Holidays
July 25 to September 6
For more information: Bev Bills, Director, RSASA Office: 8232 0450 or 0415 616 900
Artists Roe Gartelmann, Nicola Semmens, Julie Corfe, Maggie Rees painting Filippo Scarpantoni
Royal South Australian Society of Arts Inc. Level 1 Institute Building, Cnr North Terrace & Kintore Ave Adelaide, Ph/Fax: 8232 0450 www.rsasarts.com.au rsasarts@bigpond.net.au Mon- Fri 10.30-4.30pm Sat & Sun 1- 4pm Pub Hol. Closed.
Inflatable ram installation by Evelyn Roth taking up residence on the lawns on weekends throughout the exhibition.
Erica Sandgren
A mix of warmth for winter in paintings, mixed media, sculpture, textiles, photographs, along with portraits created during RSASA Portrait Prize demonstrations will be on display. Includes works by 44 artists who have created portraits of 11 sitters in mediums of sculpture, painting & textiles.
Four Legs – the year of the ram/ goat/sheep
John Davis Goat
Central Gallery features Sasha
Four Legs Amy Fairweather
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Cgharles Ryan Horswell, Amaro!(detail)
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Giles Bettison, Veil #22
S A L A Aptos Cruz 147 Mt Barker Road, Stirling
The Engaging Object: Masterworks by Giles Bettison, 2000-2015 An opportunity to view unique works created over
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the last 15 years by a master murrine glass artist using techniques dating back to ancient Rome.
Jason Sims
Artist talk and launch of Giles Bettison’s new
South Australian artist Jason Sims tackles the complex
book Pattern and Perception, Sunday,
realm of perceptual art through the creation of sculptures
August 2, (1-3pm).
that employ light and space to elicit a cerebral response. The Gallery presents Sims’s work as part of Guildhouse’s Collections Project for 2015 and the South Australian
Until August 31
Living Artists Festival.
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Jason Sims, From Where I Stand III
Lisa Harms, window-sill-still-frame (detail)
landscapes loved, lived-with, lost, and views from other windows. Participation welcome.
22 Gawler Street, Port Noarlunga August 1-August 31
Lisa Harms: Window-Sill-StillFrame, or, What is and isn’t There?
Mondays-Fridays (10am-4pm), artist on site 1pm-4pm Wed-Fri (or by appointment)
An historic villa on Port Noarlunga’s riverbank will act as a framing device for
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ROBERT HANNAFORD ALISON MITCHELL By the way the art of travel PAINTINGS : DRAWINGS : RUMINATIONS Beech Trees – Yorkshire, Robert Hannaford, Oil 50x60.
Riverton Light Gallery 54 Main Rd Riverton SA
Victory of Samothrace – Louvre, Alison Mitchell, Watercolour 18x12.
Gallery Hours Sat & Sun 11 – 4 pm during SALA (Sundays thereafter) or by appointment
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Past, Present & Future: 30 Years
Piyarat Mukura: Le Visage Et La Face
An exhibition celebrating 30 years featuring
Piyarat Mukura is a watercolour artist who studied
paintings, printmaking, sculpture, glass,
Bachelor of Visual Arts specialising in drawing at UniSA.
ceramics and jewellery. A unique look into
Her portraits bring a sense of soulful emotion through
Adelaide’s leading contemporary art gallery’s
the use of facial features and haunting eyes.
past, present and future August 17-August 31 July 31-August 30
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Cheryl Bridgart: 3,000 + Hours = One Exhibition By threading a fine needle, Bridgart creates exquisitely detailed
embroideries and one-off garments.
Her art is instantly recognisable with dream elements. Cheryl Bridgart, Only When You Sleep
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emotive qualities and subconscious
August 9-August 31 (Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm)
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Cedric Varcoe, Milkyway Dreaming
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Cedric Varcoe: Ngarrindjeri Stories Narangga Ngarrindjeri artist Cedric Varcoe exercises his unique and expressive painting style to share his knowledge of various Ngarrindjeri dreaming stories. August 1-August 31
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WINDOW ON A WORKING ARTIST’S LIFE Displayed in this church where she designed all windows will be works on paper, prints and glass panels for sale. Also on display will be portable labyrinths the result of her 2003 Churchill Fellowship. Artists talks at 2pm on projects Sats 15th & 29 th August. Stained Glass Tour Sat. 22nd at 1pm. Book 0421 794 504
Christ Church Uniting, 26 King William Rd Wayville Opening 5.30 pm 14th August Sats 10-5pm,Tues. and Weds 10-2pm www.cedarprest.com.au
Sculpture Winged Victory by Sonia Donnellan drawing by Youngsoon Jin photo by John Nieddu
Find your inner artist as you draw or paint in response to an array of sculptures from the Prospect Council’s Art Collection. All welcome! 2—23 August 1 Thomas Street (cnr Main North Rd) Nailsworth www.prospect.sa.gov.au facebook.com/ProspectGallery
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IT’S A BEAUTIFUL THING Giles Bettison: Pattern and Perception –BYJOHN NEYLON–
The text for Pattern and Perception is enriched by Osborne’s ongoing curiosity about pattern as a catalyst for response. This is particularly evident in the section ‘On beauty and the science of visual perception’ which offers a very accessible overview of recent research into the workings of the ‘visual brain’. Into this context the author drops the work of Giles Bettison. It’s
a good fit because it introduces the idea that (in engaging with Bettison’s work) the brain is simultaneously processing different aspects of perception (such as colour, luminosity, form, movement) at an instinctive speed that outstrips language. Once the author begins the task of unpacking Bettison’s development and central ideas, this context bears fruit in terms of layering the viewing process beyond a simple ‘wow’ or ‘how does he do that?’ response to a more reflective reading. Not that Bettison’s works require seductive value-adds to hold the gaze. In the richly varied fields of colour and patchwork arrangements of shapes lie many references to sources as diverse as Bauhaus colour theories, the work of artists Piet Mondrian and Joseph Albers, the woven rugs of Albers’ partner Anni Albers and woven patterns of African (Ghana) textiles and the ‘all over’ dynamics of Indigenous desert art paintings. Into this mix drop visual elements of American and South Australian rural landscapes and Manhattan tower blocks. For many viewers these connections will be the entry points to his work. Closer to home, the referencing of the warm, dusty hues and interlocking rectangles of Mid North South Australian paddocks around Kapunda in particular will have particular resonance. Bettison’s epiphany came in the form of a fortuitous encounter with the American glass artist Richard Marquis who in 1993 was demonstrating his adaptation of the Venetian murrine technique at the JamFactory’s hot glass studio in Adelaide. It was to be Bettison’s unique and innovative exploitation of the murrine technique that launched his national and international reputation. By using fused sheet glass (as opposed to the traditional canes), Bettison has continued to find ways
Giles Bettison: Pattern and Perception, Margot Osborne, Wakefield Press
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iles Bettison makes beautiful glass objects. This exhibition, which includes new work and a selection tracing origins and evolution of ideas, confirms that this quest for beauty has always been a constant in his practice. Further confirmation can be found in a new publication, Giles Bettison: Pattern and Perception, written by Margot Osborne. This book is the latest in the Wakefield Press SALA Monograph Series (now 17 titles). Osborne comes very well qualified for the task of unpacking Bettison’s development and formulating insights into key ideas. In going to the heart of the artist’s fascination with complex chromatic patterns, Osborne is clearly drawing down on research and ideas associated with her ongoing interest in the phenomena of beauty within contemporary art. The author curated The Return of Beauty (JamFactory, 2000) and as guest editor of a themed Artlink issue (Art Mind Beauty, 2008) convened a number of writers who were engaged with the question of beauty as something generated within the mind – with the tantalising prospect of everything being explained by advances in neuroscience. But never absolutely. Allied to this was a consideration of pleasure as something to be distrusted as a seductive distraction from the harsh realities or maybe a healing agent in an uncertain world. Whatever the answers, Osborne has been clearly in this drop zone, trying to understand why, after all the exorcisms of postaesthetic modern art, beauty refuses to go away.
to take this ancient technique in unexpected, visually exciting directions. The outstanding feature of the artist’s work is the play of pattern-within-pattern which invites the eye to scan constantly between the complexities of individual murrine to force fields of buzzing, intricate patterns of the enclosing form. The fact that the decision making about the balance to be struck between order and chaos appears in thrall to the willfulness of molten glass to have its own way, adds to the thrill of visual and perhaps emotional engagement. “It’s like nature,” Bettison says, “at one level it looks really ordered but you step back and it gets chaotic.” The Japanese connections that Osborne identifies in her text, particularly the artist’s interest in folk pottery and the writings of Yanagi Sōetsu (The Unknown Craftsman,
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1952) pulls the ukiyo-e spirit of free-floating patterns back to earth. There is a response, it might appear to Yanagi’s stress on “no – minded” handcrafting and the honour due to everyday things in a group of works in this exhibition inspired in part by an exhibition of contemporary Japanese ceramics (the Richard McMahon Collection) at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The defiant, nuggety character of these works require the murrine patterning to stand up to – and sometimes fight with – the vessel’s form. In art there’s nothing like a good stoush. It keeps everything, even beauty, on its toes.
Giles Bettison Pattern and Perception JamFactory Until Saturday, September 19
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Such and Much Glenn Kestell, John Ferguson and Yve Thompson
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BMG presents three exhibitions: Glenn Kestell’s It’s Always Been About You Me, John Ferguson’s Construct and Yve Thompson’s
Interrupted Dance.
Distinctively personal paintings and drawings by artists with a disability. Presented by Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc, this year’s exhibition features new artwork from 21 artists. Michelle Nikou, Sylvia’s jumper
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CACSA Contemporary 2015 CACSA Contemporary 2015 is a celebration of the diversity of contemporary art in South Australia, featuring a selection of emerging, mid-career and established artists to provide a unique array of artworks that highlights this state’s artistic talent. August 6-August 30
Glenn Kestell, As We Keep These Things to Ourselves (detail)
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Cedar Prest, wedge tail over sand ridges
Ray Guyner, Forest (detail)
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Moments in Time stained glass work. Artist talks (August 15 and
Three local Adelaide artists (Diana Whiley,
August 29) and stained glass works tour (August 22).
Leith Semmens and Tracey Burgess) combine steampunk, hipster and fantasy
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Cedar Prest: Window on a Working Artist’s Life
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An exhibition of mixed media works and project designs by Cedar Prest, who is best known for her
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The South Australian Living Artists Festival inhabits many venues across the state including the Adelaide Airport, which will host the exhibition ID: Portraiture and Identity. –BY JANE LLEWELLYN–
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he exhibition presents a broad range of portraits from famous faces to images of everyday people in a variety of media – painting, photography and drawing. “It’s a cavernous space so for anything to have an impact it needs to have great scale,” says curator Carollyn Kavanagh. “I knew I wanted portraits, and they needed to be big.”
The exhibition also features a live drawing element, which allows the audience the opportunity to interact with the artists. Every Friday during the exhibition, Andrew Clarke, Daniel Connell and Luke Thurgate will be working in the terminal, with Clarke and Thurgate drawing from life, recording the daily activity of the airport, and Connell completing a large-scale work. “I really love this idea of people seeing the portraits as the exhibition but then really engaging with the idea of drawing and watching artists work live – being both the audience and the subject,” says Kavanagh. “I
52 Tuesdays. Rogers photographed CobhamHervey every week for a year, documenting her last year of high school and exploring what it’s like for young people (females in particular) on the cusp of growing up.
think it will be a nice way of seeing into the whole idea of what portraiture is about and how it engages with people and connects with people.” Kavanagh has selected artists whose work deal with the subject of identity but in different ways. Megan Roodenrys’ paintings, for instance, look at ideas around celebrity, she has done a lot of portraits of AFL footballers. This exhibition includes her portraits of former Australian of the Year Dr Gill Hicks and Senator Penny Wong, who will both be opening the show.
Other artists include Jasmine Dixon, Emma Hack, Simon Ifould, Richard Lyons, Derek Sargent and Damien Shen. “I’m hoping audiences will see this real sense of diversity about identity. Originally I was looking at the idea of Australian identity and how we can’t pin that down. It’s such a fluid, hugely changing concept,” says Kavanagh. “I like Daniel’s [Connell] idea that you don’t have to be someone in the public eye to be the subject of a portrait. Portraiture is about everybody and it’s about connecting with people as individuals.”
While Roodenrys’ work questions who are our heroes, emerging artist Saritkhun Poolphol presents a series titled the Anti Heroes. “His work is concerned with the concept that we don’t always know much about these people that we decide to put trust in. He is looking at heroism from the other side,” she says. Another artist, Nat Rogers, will present photographic portraits of Tilda Cobham-Hervey – the teenager who starred in the local film
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ID Portraiture & Identity Adelaide Airport Until Tuesday, September 1
“ Artfully Distressed in an Uneasy World” Cheryl Bridgart, freehand embroidery (69 x53cm) photo by John Marshman
Diana Whiley, Harlequin Nights (detail)
The advantage for artists having their work exhibited at the airport is the sheer number of people that pass through the doors. “Working with the airport your audience covers such a broad demographic – basically everybody. I knew I wanted to work with portraiture because I think it’s something that engages everybody. Whether you love art or not, people love portraiture,” she says.
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Gen Z - Generation Next Emma Hack’s newest work evolves fearlessly from her well-known style of body art illusion into highly detailed, delicate, embroidery works. Accompanied by an installation of larger-than-life imagery covering the walls at Emma Hack Gallery, this is an exhibition not to be missed. August 5-September 13 Wed-Fri (11am-5pm) Sat-Sun (10am-4pm)
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Emma Hack, I Tread the Earth and it Inspires me
Penumbral Tales
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Through the medium of photography, nine contemporary South Australian artists explore the idea of the ‘periphery’ – the realm of the outsider, fringe dweller and marginalised. Until September 20 (Tue-Fri, 11am-4pm, Sat-Sun, 12pm-4pm)
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The Farmhouse Exhibition features
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Margie Kenny, Glass half full?
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Looking but Seeing South Australian artists, using various media, respond to the experience of seeing something familiar for the first time.
August 12-September 19
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Open studio exhibition and workshop launch at the artist’s
Marion Cultural Centre, 287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Park
home featuring more than 50 works past and present. August 15th and August 16
showing work in all media, from
(10am-5pm)
Dierdre Edwards, A Walk Along the Torrens
More than 90 artists are jewellery through to larger 3D works, paintings, photography, printmaking, glass and ceramics, and much more. August 7-August 30
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of light and hope in all that our created earth contains. Exhibition will include photographs, painting
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What a Wonderful World
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of ‘still life’ afresh, from the assemblage works of Janine Mackintosh, the textural
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studies of Stephen Trebilcock to the unified compositions of John Waters.
HSG Artists: Still Life Still life paintings traditionally
August 13-August 29
contemplate natural objects in a pleasing arrangement, depicting a slice of life. Hill
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John Waters, Gemstone
Smith Gallery artists explore the genre
and needlework.
August 27-August 29
While we live in a world that seems
Thursday and Friday (10am-6pm)
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Saturday (10am-4pm)
Karen Genoff, Plague Proportions & Observations
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Christine Lawrence: Outback Landscapes A realist, specialising in painting and drawing, Christine Lawrence, Mares Tails Wanarra
Lawrence aims to capture the essence of what inspired her and her art is drawn from the complexity and beauty of the natural world. Light colour, shape, form, texture, space and change all contribute to her vast palette. Until August 31
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The British Hotel, 58 Finniss Street, North Adelaide BASEM3NT, Reid House (basement), 1/15-17, Featherstone Place Contemporary Studio is a showcase of abstract acrylics demonstrating Kaminski’s emergence as an artist, who has developed a unique style by experimenting with techniques to create abstract impressionist paintings which are spontaneous and dynamic. The British Hotel: August 1-August 9 (Mon-Sat (11am-12midnight), Sun (12pm-10pm) BASEM3NT: August 14-August 23 (Tue-Thu (11am-4pm), Fri-Sat (11am-7pm)
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Evette Sunset: The River’s Way
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A sculptural installation washing
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Kristel Britcher, Tristan Louth-Robins, Ian McFarland, Lee Salamone, Paul Sloan
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Contemporary artists create new stories from old. Through contemporary artworks the artists reinterpret objects from the Museaum’s collection to create a dynamic socail dialogue between Unley’s past, present and future. See the future in the stories of the past.
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Shane Farley, the National Community Development Manager at Beyond Bank, says: “Our real motivation to get involved was really to drive the sale of art for the artists and the galleries, for all those involved. We recognise that the artists are doing the hard work and we want to make the purchase process as easy as possible.” This year Beyond Bank has also become a sponsor of SALA with the Art Card part of their broader art program, which looks at community engagement. “If it’s successful, which we are really confident it will be, then it’s certainly scalable across the country for the various art sectors where we operate,” says Farley.
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How do we Love Thee? Let us Count the Ways… KI Fungi Artists: Audrey Harnett, Caroline Taylor, Cath Cantlon, Cecilia Gunnarsson, Dean Fox, Dean Wiles, Diana Keir, Fred Peters, Gay de Mather, Janet Ayliffe, Jennifer Woodhouse, Jenny Clapson, Joyleen Cowin, Kenita Williamson, Llewelyn Ash, Maggie Welz, Melanie Les,
The idea of the Art Card is not just to encourage people to buy art but to also make it easier to do so and encourage South Australian artists to create and sell their work.
Art Card –BY Jane Llewellyn–
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he art market has been impacted greatly by the Global Financial Crisis, as shown by the number of commercial galleries closing over the last couple of years. The launch of Beyond Bank’s Art Card during this year’s South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival might be just what the industry needs to encourage people to buy art and to help it grow in the future.
Michele Lane, Patti Blucher, Peggy Rismiller, Quentin Chester and Rick Southgate July 30-August 30
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South Australian artist Emma Hack is a great supporter of the idea, saying, “I think the art market has the chance to flourish again and little things like this could really make a big difference in the long run.” There are already similar initiatives in Tasmania with COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme, and New South Wales, which has Art Money, and now it’s South Australia’s
turn with the Art Card. Basically it’s a low rate credit card that allows consumers to purchase art interest free for a period of 12 months. The Art Card not only provides a great incentive for collectors but will also help artists and galleries with their cash flow. “What I think is really wonderful about the whole thing is that it allows artists to create, and they get paid as soon as the work sells rather than worrying about the layby system,” says Hack. “People can also take longer to pay it off which means they can buy more expensive works or works that are a little bit more collectable.” Hack believes in the long run the Art Card will have a significant impact on the art market and state as a whole. She says: “It’s such a wonderful thing for South Australia and South Australian artists and to be launched as part of SALA is just perfect. It’s a perfect alignment of a great product as well as support for the local artistic community.”
“Anything that helps artists get money more quickly and promotes sales of art is something we want to be part of and promote,” says Griggs.
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Exciting artist run contemporary gallery / shop in the heart of Adelaide.
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The concept behind the Art Card taps into the essence of what SALA is about. SALA General Manager Penny Griggs explains: “Anything that helps people buy art is a good thing. Obviously for SALA there is a broad range of art available for sale and through different ways, not just through your traditional way of buying art through galleries.”
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Steve Shearer: Reflections in Watercolour fascination with capturing a feeling of light
theme of recycling, upcycling, reusing
August 2-August 28
81 O’Connell Street, North Adelaide
An emerging self-taught artist, Shearer’s
Celebrating artists working within the
Helen Sherriff, Crokus
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and mood pervades his evocative portraits
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Gaynor Hartvigsen & Angelee Theodoros: Quintessence
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Plunder by David Blaiklock
Cassini’s Approach by Harry Thring
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There will be familiar names such as Christine Collins, Ariel Hassan, Sue Kneebone, and Nasim Nasr who have appeared in all three Contemporary exhibitions. Audiences will also be introduced to new names such as Anna Horne, Sundari Carmody and Zoe Kirkwood.
Sue Kneebone, Infinity Pool, 2015, 60 x 41cm, giclee print. Image courtesy of the artist.
The contemporary art scene is constantly changing and evolving and with the recent controversial changes to arts funding in the federal budget, we are likely to see a much
Showcasing the new CACSA Contemporary 2015 is an ambitious project celebrating South Australian Contemporary Art with more than 40 emerging, mid-career and senior artists showing across 10 venues in the city and its surrounds. –BY Jane Llewellyn–
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ollowing on from similar projects in 2010 (The New New) and 2012 (New South Australian Art), CACSA Contemporary 2015 presents a snapshot of what’s happening in contemporary South Australian art. When The New New was held in 2010, it was 10 years since there had been any kind of major survey of contemporary art, the last being Chemistry at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 2000. Curator Logan Macdonald: “The idea of the Contemporary series is to revise and revisit the landscape, preferably every couple of years, to get a feel for what is happening in contemporary art.” While the 2012 project, which occupied the disused Du Plessis building on North Terrace, was much smaller in scale – mainly due to resources – this year it seemed like the right time to revisit the concept on a much larger scale. CACSA Contemporary 2015 draws on existing galleries, and their structures and infrastructures, bringing together the visual arts community.
“It acknowledges spaces like FELTspace, SASA [South Australian School of Art] and Light Square Gallery, which don’t have much funding allocated to them but try to facilitate things to happen,” says Macdonald. “A huge part of it is to connect the artists and create the incubator spaces and bring them to a certain level of vibrancy.” Project manager Sarita Chadwick: “It’s a lot about partnerships as well as celebrating these mid-tier gallery/organisations. We do all work together and it’s a great opportunity for everyone to come together and say, ‘Wow there is some really exciting contemporary art that is happening at this moment’.” With so many artists involved across a number of different venues, there is no overarching theme, but instead there are small narratives connecting the artists. “There will be some really ambitious projects and bodies of work. It’s all about us trusting the artists to not subscribe to a certain model and push at the things that they are interested in and try to find some kind of harmony between it all,” says Macdonald.
CACSA Contemporary 2015 venues and dates Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 14 Porter Street, Parkside Until Sunday, August 30 Light Square Gallery, Adelaide College of the Arts 39 light Square Until Sunday, August 23 SASA Gallery Kaurna Building, City West Campus Until Tuesday, August 11 FELTspace 12 Compton St, Adelaide Until Saturday, August 22
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different landscape in the future. Despite future funding uncertainties, Chadwick says one of the most important things about this project is showing that South Australia houses exemplary contemporary artists. “They are professionals, they are making amazing work and it’s all happening here, and they are all showing together at the same time,” says Chadwick.
Adelaide Festival Centre King William Road, Monday, August 3 to Sunday, August 30 Art Pod 25 Pirie Street Thursday, August 6 to Sunday, August 30 Adelaide Central Gallery Glenside Cultural Precinct Until Friday, August 21 Greenaway Art Gallery 39 Rundle Street, Kent Town Wednesday, August 5 to Friday, August 28 Kerry Packer Civic Gallery University of South Australia City West Campus, Hawke Building Thursday, August 6 to Thursday, September 3
SALA in Adelaide Botanic Garden This August, visit Adelaide Botanic Garden for botanically themed exhibitions including photography, paintings,immersive cinema, and guided walks - all alongside the beauty of the Garden’s own living collections. • A Botanical Garden Year by Asami Sakura, Simpson Kiosk • Beyond the Garden Gate by Jenny Berends, North Lodge • Garden Vanities by Nicola Semmens, Diggers Garden Shop • Splendour of Abundance by Julia Townsend, North Lodge • Atlas – immersive cinema, Bicentennial Conservatory (31 July, 1+2 August only) • Plants to Pixels, Bicentennial Conservatory (18 – 21 August only) Plus guided botanical art walks each Sunday in August at 11am, by the Friends of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide. Meet at the Schomburgk Pavilion.
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Mixed media exhibition exploring concepts of the Chinese zodiac year of the ram/goat/ sheep. A huge inflatable ram installation by Evelyn Roth takes up residence on weekends.
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in their café galleries with a dynamic mix of
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vibrant artworks created for SALA by Splashout artists. Splashout is an independent studio specialising in art education. August 1-August 30
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A stunning and confronting exhibition, Loreto (famous for his paintings of the late Don Dunstan), now turns his talent to religion. Through surrealism, as only the Spanish know how, he explores his conflicted feelings on Christianity from growing up in Franco’s religious Spain. August 15-August 30
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‘Gen Z’ Generation Next 5 Aug to 13 Sept Emma Hack’s newest work evolves fearlessly from her well-known style of body art illusion into highly detailed, delicate, embroidered portraits. Accompanied by an installation of larger-than-life imagery covering the walls at Emma Hack Gallery, this is an exhibition not to be missed.
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Birth of the Cool and Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape Birth of the Cool is a selection of works by four painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins.
lifetime achievement of an exceptional artist whose long career has, until now, remained largely uncelebrated in the public eye. Until September 18
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Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape recognises the
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10 highly collectable, one of a kind artworks exhibited as three collections exploring the themes; ‘Elements’, ‘Connection’ and ‘Manipulated Memories’. Hanging alongside are 50 smaller, affordable counterparts, collectable for all ages, introducing the muse of the collection to art collecting.
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SALA on Terrace features emerging and established artists in an
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In earlier work, Kestell presented arresting images of suits with no heads, which overtly looked at ideas around perception and identity. The headless figures are identified by the façade they present to the world.
Glenn Kestell, Observer, 2015, 61cm X 61 cm, oil on linen.
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uring last year’s South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival, Glenn Kestell was the recipient of the Rip It Up Young Artist Award. This year he will be exhibiting at BMG Gallery in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition, titled It Has Always Been About You and Me, will feature a series of works that continue to explore issues around identity and how we see ourselves and other people.
“They are about identity in regards to certain ways we see people or certain stereotypes. They are a reflection on a very specific type of person,” says Kestell. “People can relate to it in that they might wear a suit for work every day or just for special occasions like funerals, and through that uniform they are losing their identity.” This recent series It Has Always Been About You and Me, continues Kestell’s signature style of abstract images with a somewhat contemplative feel. The paintings begin as a simple portrait but then Kestell reworks them to become something new in their own right.
“It’s still about how we look at and judge other people and that feeling of being looked at and of being judged. That feeling that we are isolated in our own bodies,” he says. “We are in these forms looking out, but they are also about people looking in at you as an object.”
“I keep revisiting them, or I completely repaint them. Some get tough and gritty because there might be 10 paintings underneath,” he says.
In The Silent Struggles, the figure appears to be breaking out of a domestic environment; perhaps he is feeling trapped or overwhelmed by housework and other domestic responsibilities. It’s about that feeling of everything getting on top of you. Kestell: “It’s about everyday anxieties and the feeling that you are always being judged. The idea that everyone is judging each other.”
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In works like The Silent Struggles, Kestell presents a figure (himself) dressed in a hoodie but he points out it’s not about suits versus non-suits.
Perhaps in exploring the identity of others, Kestell is becoming more certain of his own identity, particularly as an artist. “This is the first show where I have started to feel some sort of honesty and a bit more faith in the work,” he says.
Reflections in Watercolour & Oil by Steve Shearer
2 - 29 August Subtle washes and strong contrasts in Steve’s watercolour and oil streetscapes, portraits and landscapes capture the mood in an expression, movement or the light. Come and see new paintings displayed from each Saturday.
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In Our Nature
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diversity of the region’s flora and fauna.
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Ian McFarland, Smash
forWARDback Contemporary artists explore the Unley Museum’s historic collection and reinterpret social objects through the Bob Daily & Kalyna Micenko, Flower Power
lens of contemporary culture to build a dialogue between past, present and future social constructs. Artists: Lee Salamone, Kristel Britcher, Paul Sloan, Tristan Louth-Robins and Ian McFarland. August 2-September 22
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Exciting new works of art from recycled, upcycled and repurposed objects
2 – 28 August
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Opening Community Event: Sunday 2 August, 2 pm – 4 pm Launch Guest: Evette Sunset environmental installation artist Artist Demonstrations, Special Guest Speaker from Finding Workable Solutions, Community Bottle Top Projects, People’s Choice Award
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Artists: Bente Andermahr Gary Campbell, Annette Dawson Talia Dawson, Ed Douglas, Greg Geraghty Robert Habel, Amy Hermann Margie Kenny, Cat Leonard, Sally March Bridgette Minuzzo, Megan O’Hara Ken Orchard, Amalia Ranisau Judith Rolevink, Betty Smart Chris Thiel and more
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Opening Sunday 9 August, 2pm
Gallery 1855 2 Haines Road, Tea Tree Gully Gallery hours: Wednesday–Saturday noon–5pm Image: Greg Geraghty, Hiding, 2014, oil on plywood, 84 x 100cm
Saturday 8 August, 2 pm - 4 pm Rachel Hare, reinventing with recyclable materials Saturday 15 August, 2 pm – 4 pm Jane Skeer & Danica Headland, community bottletop blanket & mandala Saturday 22 August, 2 pm – 4 pm Arnolda Beynon, basket-weaving from your backyard
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Emerging Artist Charles Ryan Horswell, in collaboration with the proprietors of Amaro Restaurant, has created artworks in response to Amaro’s menu and ambience. During August.
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“Breaking Ground came at a time when retrospectively I was probably starting to drift. It has brought me back and anchored me in a really strong way,” says Allender. “I now feel completely reinvigorated and more dedicated to my practice than ever. I think that’s priceless and I wasn’t expecting it.”
Morgan Allender, As the Earth Turns
The exhibition at Artspace continues to explore the gothic, dark elements of nature and is the flipside to the pretty flower arrangements Allender makes in her floristry business. Her paintings combine elements of both the landscape and still-life genres. “I am interested in playing with pictorial space. They all do different things spatially, so I am manipulating scale and depth to create these spaces that pull you in or push you out,” says Allender
“I think the thing I have gotten the most out of Breaking Ground in terms of development is a complete reengagement with the medium of painting,” says Allender. “It’s a
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really personal thing that is completely life changing. I get really emotional when I think about it.”
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Since leaving art school in 2004, Allender has managed to carve out a successful career, exhibiting regularly locally and interstate. When the GFC hit, and started to impact the art world, she reassessed and set up a floral business – Tenth Meadow. The business took off and as a result was dragging her away from her practice.
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Breaking Ground has not only allowed Allender the chance to experiment with the process of creating artworks but also to explore how the works are exhibited. “This show is meant to be the show I have never had, spatially, and always wanted. The blacked out space, the non-commercial lighting, it’s almost theatrical so it’s nice that it’s at the Festival Centre,” explains Allender. “I’m trying to create a feeling of installation in the show rather than just a room with paintings hanging on the wall. I’m trying to create a certain ambiance.”
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he purpose of the South Australian Living Artist’s Breaking Ground Award is to help a regional artist broaden their practice and develop a new body of work for display at Artspace Gallery at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Last year’s recipient, Morgan Allender, encapsulates the spirit of the award with it reviving her love of painting.
painting, oil paint is completely endlessly fascinating,” says Allender. “I’m now also addicted to the large scale. The fact you have so much space to play with is quite forgiving and I was always worried it would be the opposite.”
These new works in particular are all a vortex, they spin and are about the underlying theme of the unsettling qualities of nature. “They are evocative mood pieces really. They are supposed to evoke a mood whatever that is, it might be different for different people,” says Allender. Breaking Ground has allowed Allender the opportunity to experiment with her practice and to explore working on a large scale (one of the pieces is approximately 2.8m long). “They are about materiality more so than other works I have done in the past. I’m really loving
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Opening night: Friday 31 July 2015, 5.30-7.30pm Uniting Communities, Atrium, 1st Floor, 10 Pitt Street, Adelaide Exhibition: Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm during August Uniting Communities, 10 & 14 Pitt Street, Adelaide The Pitt Street Wishing Tree exhibition presents a collection of people’s stories collected on Pitt Street in June 2015 and retold in artworks that document social spaces and gives these spaces meaning, encouraging individuals to become invested in the long-term sustainability of their own city. Supported by:
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IN FROM OUTSIDE Two talented artists were recognised by The Adelaide Review and our sister publication Rip It Up at the recent SALA Awards. –BY CHRISTOPHER SANDERS–
“It held no prejudice against those without training or experience,” Willsmore says of The General Store Gallery. “When there was an empty wall space, I suggested bringing some of my drawings from home. And that’s how this started. Since then, I have worked towards creating new and interesting work for the SALA, Fringe and Feast.” Willsmore’s SALA exhibition Transparent is a collection of light interactive sculpture featuring X-ray film. “The main exhibit, Raining Cats and Dogs, is an installation of six umbrellas, suspended under lights from the ceiling, to showcase the light forms created from images of loved pets. You will also see a selection of my lamps with X-ray shades, and a tri-fold privacy screen using strips of ultrasound, MRI and CT scans. “The X-rays were donated by individuals, a radiology department, and dental and veterinary practices, following my request on social media in late 2014. I have many people to thank for going through their homes in search of their unwanted x-rays and scans.” As an artist, what attracts Willsmore to X-ray film? “X-rays are fascinating. As light filters through
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the various shades of ink, different shapes and patterns emerge... much like finding faces in the clouds. The film is a nice medium to work with. It cuts easily, bends well and it feels good to touch. It’s also appealing to make use of unwanted things by transforming them into something fun and interesting.” The winner of Rip It Up’s Young Artist Award is Jessica Clark, who is showing her exhibition About and Falling at Naomi Murrell’s store on Ebenezer Place. She hadn’t contemplated exhibiting in a gallery until a couple of days before the SALA application cut-off date. “I received what seemed like a somewhat spur-of-the-moment email from my pal Naomi Murrell,” says Clark. “She had been looking at some water-themed images on my website and Instagram feed and decided that they would look amazing alongside her new winter clothing collection that she was just about to launch in her store – aptly titled She Sells Sea Shells. “She contacted me to see what I thought of exhibiting with her – with the promise of a killer launch-night party. So over the next few days, I went through my inconveniently large collection of personal photographs and found a selection that I thought would work. The images themselves are from many different locations around the world – six different countries. All taken over the past two years or so.” With her photography career, Clark says one of her greatest fears is becoming jaded with the work. “I want to live the one life I have and actually spend it enjoying what I do for money. Otherwise, what is even the point? To ensure that, I believe in making space in my life to
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create, to explore new ideas and photographic techniques in my own time. I find that travelling is the best opportunity for me to do this. I have produced most of my favourite images while away from home. “I only take on limited bookings for weddings and other paid work within a year – to ensure I have the space and time to keep things
exciting and fresh. By doing this, I remain in a creative and inspired headspace. I believe I owe that to my clients.” It was her time away from home that produced the majority of the exhibition’s pieces, including the hero image Pisces Pash. “Travelling through Europe, by way of Shanghai, I visited a Buddhist temple,” Clark
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Rip It Up Young Artist Award Jessica Clark Breaking Ground Regional Arts Award Cindy Durant Oz Minerals Copper Sculpture Award Mark Ryan says. “It was a beautifully serene experience. Towards the exit, I happened upon this koi pond. There was a lady selling small bags of fish food pellets for 60 cents. She demonstrated how to feed the fish: by placing the food flat in the palm of your hand, and gently lowering it into the water for the fish to eat. The sound of the fish all flapping and leaping out of the water over the top of each other in excited anticipation was so loud. The water below swirled with the most vivid colours. A true frenzy. “The fishes’ mouths felt like suction cups on your skin, even taking a whole finger into their throats. After all the food was gone, some of the fish stayed near the surface, and let us pet their heads, and hold their slimy bodies. I was shocked at their social, almost playful nature. It was such a bizarre experience.” Clark says the exhibition’s content varies significantly but there is a strong aesthetic connection. “Lots of blues and pops of orange and pink. Some, like Pisces Pash, are quite a close up view of a scene, while others are of a broader more detached perspective. What is
consistent across the collection is the use of colour – vivid, sharp, somewhat playful, even visceral – like you can look at the images and feel the wind in your face, or smell the ocean breeze, or hear the patter of rain. Every image in the exhibition is something that is observed. Nothing has been set up or staged. This way, I find that each individual piece has its own story and intrigue.”
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7 - 30 August 2015 Michelle Willsmore Transparent Tincat Cafe Restaurant and Gallery Until Friday, August 21 michelleleewillsmore.com Jessica Clark About and Falling Naomi Murrell Saturday, August 1 to Monday, August 31 jessicaclark.com.au
The PaperCross, Oil on hardwood
SALA AT THE CATHEDRAL An exhibition by Spanish Australian-Gypsy Artist
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YOU’RE INVITED Inspired by form, colour, texture & nature’s timeless spirit Enjoy with us the opening night of QUINTESSENCE, an exhibition of paintings by Gaynor Hartvigsen & Angelee Theodoros Complimentary refreshments will be served from 6pm, Thur 6th August 2015 at Pfitzner Furniture, 33 The Parade Norwood. pfitzner.com.au
In The Name Of The Father, The Son & Surrealism
artwork by (above left) Nicola Neutze; (above) Deirdre Edwards (left) Jo Mignone; (below) Lynette Brown
A stunning exhibition of bold and confronting works. St Peters Cathedral, 27 King William Road, Adelaide. Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 4pm. Sundays 12 noon – 4pm. Artist on site: Daily 11am to 3pm. Sunday 1pm – 3pm. To be Opened by the Hon. Rev. Dr Lynn Arnold AO on Friday, August 14 at 6pm. Flamenco entertainment by Gypsy singer ‘el Titi de Algeciras’ and Guitarist ‘Aloysius Leeson’.
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Transition
artworks in various media by members of the Red House Group Inc
The support of St Peter’s Cathedral and Triana Flamenco Dance Studio is gratefully acknowledged.
Special Evening Viewings: 5-8pm, Fridays 14 & 21 August live music in cafe adjacent to Gallery M Gallery M, Marion Cultural Centre 287 Diagonal Rd, Oaklands Pk SA P:8377 2904 info@gallerym.net.au
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