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Conquering pain with art

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SALA FESTIVAL 2016 Adelaide comes alive with art

Narelle Autio, George St Angel, 2015

ADELAIDE CENTRAL GALLERY • 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside

Various artists, Anything At All

Visual arts will be centre stage for the 19th year this month, as more than 630 local exhibitions will decorate offices, cafes, restaurants, businesses and art institutes across the state. Featuring local artists, SALA is an annual celebration of artists of all calibres, ages and practices. You can see new work from emerging and amateur local artists as well as exclusive and classic work from our finest talents. It is a true celebration of South Australian art and artists. Welcome to SALA 2016.

The pace and complexity of the contemporary art world can sometimes obscure the simple truth that art can come from and be about anything: anything at all. Curated by John Neylon and featuring artists such as Deidre But-Husaim, Christopher Orchard and Geoff Wilson. August 14-September 17 ACSA.SA.EDU.AU

ADELAIDE BOTANIC GARDEN • North Terrace Cassie Thring, Black Bird

Various artists, SALA in Adelaide Botanic Garden The Garden is hosting four exhibitions during August. Featuring photography and paintings of flowers you’ll see in the Garden itself, paintings of produce you might find in your own back yard, and a 360-degree virtual reality work that is a finalist in the SALA Unitcare Services Moving Image Award. Artists: Adam Durst, Elisabeth Howlett, Alison Mitchell, Amanda Phillips and Alex Waite Mitchell.

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Cassie Thring, Stilled Life Combining early and current image-making technologies, Thring explores in paint, video and photography a personal dilemma encountered in the ambiguous nature of taxidermy ‘trophy’ heads. Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Bicentennial Conservatory

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Pruner’s Hut offers quality food, art, design and coffee for visitors. Set amongst local vineyards, the art exhibitions change each calendar month. Located on Trotts Road at McLaren Flat (via Bagshaws or Elliott Roads). Open Fridays, weekends and public holidays.

SALA featuring the work

of Nikki Carabetta-Baugh Facebook: Pruners Hut Phone: 0409 670 922

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ADELAIDE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • Light Square Gallery

THE AVENUES

Various artists, Graduated Tones

• Avenues Shopping Centre – 106 Payneham Road, Stepney

Graduated Tones is a celebration of the Adelaide College of the Arts Photography Department. This invited alumni exhibition aims to highlight the divers arts practice of recent graduates and to connect and build resilience in the wider community of photography practice in South Australia.

Matt Hunter & Piyarat Mukura Mukura’s watercolour works feature images of various faces whilst Hunter works with ink to create different intricate designs and patterns. August 1–31

August 4–25

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Emmaline Zanelli

Piyarat Mukura, untitled

Fiona Hall, All the King's men, 2014-15

Molly Willson, watercolour on canvas

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• North Terrace, Adelaide

• Glenelg Town Hall, 1 Moseley Square

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Various artists, F I E L D

South Australian artists are celebrated throughout the Gallery in August with exhibitions and displays including Robert Hannaford, Fiona Hall: All the King’s Men, Catherine Truman, Sue Kneebone, Guidhouse 50 and The Collections Project.

A exhibition by emerging artists Nerissa Kyle, Molly Willson and Tara RowhaniFarid whose practices centre around painting in the expanded field, exploring unconventional and less traditional ways in which painting can exist.

Various times

July 29-September 4

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ROYAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ARTS INC. Solar Art Prize Entries due by 23rd August: Prizes to $40,000 in vouchers for Solar products.

Captured Moments: Perfect Morning for it, collage & acrylic by Vikki Waller

31 July – 28 August RSASA Members’ SALA/ Spring Exhibition Moments in time captured through the eyes of artists. Is it real or the essence of creativity in moments of time? Paintings, photos. Mixed media, sculpture, textiles…

Where: RSASA Gallery Mon – Friday 10.30 – 4.00pm, Sat & Sun 1:00 – 4.00pm.

For more information: Bev Bills, Director, RSASA Office: 8232 0450 or 0415 616 900

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.

Opening night Friday 5th August 5.30-7.30pm 93 North Terrace College Park www.smartart.com.au P. 8363 4030

Bill Botten • Mariana Mezic • Bron Kelly • Rubi Cassidy

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CHERYL BRIDGART

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• Beltana House Gallery, 364 Carrington Street • 444 South Road, Marleston

Master Maker Showcased in historic horse stables is Bridgart’s unique visual language laced with dreams, feelings and passion in highly skilled fine art embroidery and paintings. This new body of vivid, eyecatching works is fuelled by an inherent response to the challenges of and moving on from the Pinery Fire of November 2015.

Murray Prichard: A Leap of Faith and Nola Jones: Sculpture & Assemblages Murray Prichard’s work has always been a felt response, not a rational analysis of the Australian landscape: intuitive and spontaneous, sparked by visual experiences held in his memory, translating into a distinctly personal, visual language. Nola Jones’ idiosyncratic journey through sculpture over four decades mirrors her broad international travels and a will for experimentation.

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August 13-September 3 Murray Prichard, Beach Heat

Cheryl Bridgart, Unlimited Spirit

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THE COLONIST • Colonist Tavern, 44 The Parade

Alli Hill, Arky Maur and Samatha Gollan Enjoy three different styles of art throughout this Art Deco hotel, from intricate Aboriginal art to modern statement pieces and industrial art by three talented local artists.

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• Eastwood Community Centre, 95 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood

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Community Bridging Services, Tonk Engaging and enlivening paintings and drawings by 24 artists with disability. Presented by Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. Facilitated/curated by Adelaide artist Hans Kreiner.

Hugh Adrain, Numbers and Letters.

Alli Hill, untitled

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29 July to 4 September Bay Discovery Centre Glenelg Town Hall 1 Moseley Square PH 81799508

We see the chaos around us; how do we proceed in this time of change?

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Nerissa Kyle, Molly Willson and Tara Rowhani-Farid An exploration of painting in the expanded field

Artists: Cathy Brooks, Emma Fry, Katie Harten, Youngsoon Jin, Peter Lindon, Joanna Majchrowska, Sue Michael, Janneke Posthumus, Carolyn Ramsey, Bianca Smith, work from the Collection of David O’Loughlin

Image: Sue Michael, The Restless Ocean, (detail), acrylic on canvas, 2016

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Nerissa Kyle, Form 1 from Copper series, copper pipe and k-flex.

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Ellie Kammer, Warm.

CONQUERING PAIN WITH ART → Uncomfortable and disarming – Ellie Kammer is proving to be

one of Adelaide’s most interesting emerging artists.

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Kammer’s struggle with the chronic disease, which causes infertility, swelling and bleeding in the lower abdomen, is present in her works. “This expressive style I’ve been experimenting with lately demands a bit of madness and rule breaking,” she says. “At the same time, though, I work to a deadline and with some very expensive materials, so I can’t afford the time or money to allow myself to go wild on the canvas and risk ruining the image. Though there may be the impression of looseness in the application or technique, every stroke is considered.”

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“I used to want to be alone, but I’m finding that surrounding myself with other peoples’ positive artistic energy is great fuel to get busy.” Kammer will head to Los Angeles next year for an artist residency with Australian hyperrealist painter, Robin Eley.

“I try not to get obsessed with artists, because their style ends up creeping its way into my work and I lose originality. I’m also madly in love with Alex Kanevsky, Ben Quilty, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud to name just a few.”

Ellie Kammer Six Contemporary Painters group exhibition

rawing inspiration from the old masters, Kammer's obsessions began with Sorolla, Caravaggio and Rembrandt, occupying a style known as figurative expressionism.

“I’m dangerously in love with Jenny Saville,” Kammer says. “I try not to get obsessed with artists, because their style ends up creeping its way into my work and I lose originality. I’m also madly in love with Alex Kanevsky, Ben Quilty, Francis Bacon and

Currently working from home, Kammer intends to relocate to her sister’s new café and art hub, Karma & Crow. She is excited about the prospect of working in the creative environment that her sister’s venue will bring.

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Exhibitions anything at all | SALA Festival 16 August – 17 September Narelle Autio, Deidre But-Husaim, Sasha Grbich, Aldo Iacobelli, Ian North, Sophia Nuske, Christopher Orchard and Geoff Wilson Curated by John Neylon roundabout | OzAsia Festival 24 September – 21 October Riel Hilario, Wawi Navarroza (Philippines) and Mark Valenzuela (Australia)

Image | Christopher Orchard, Horn (detail), 2015, graphite on found objects and paper, 113 x 70 x 50 cm Courtesy the artist, BMGArt, Adelaide and Wagner Gallery, Sydney. Photograph by James Edwards

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EMMA HACK GALLERY • Shop 14 (entrance), North Adelaide Village, 67 O’Connell St

Emma Hack, Chinoiserie Emma Hack is an Australian artist working in the unique medium of body paint installation and photography. Hack’s newest works will preview in Adelaide, prior to launching in Hong Kong later in the month. August 3-September 3 (Wednesdays-Saturdays) EMMAHACKGALLERY.COM

David Baker, Blue Tongue Lizard

DAVID’S ART PROJECTS • Café 42nd Street, Shop 161 Tea Tree Plaza Shopping Centre

David Baker, Allsorts Allsorts combines a Liquorice Allsorts essence – bright colours, symmetry and texture – with the pop-art of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Exhibition open every day in August during shopping hours. DAVIDSARTPROJECTS.COM FACEBOOK.COM/JUSTARTINGAROUND

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DO SALA IN STRATHALBYN • Strathalbyn (venues: Helen Stacey Gallery & Studio, Lime Street Studio, Stationmaster Art Gallery and Strathalbyn Library)

FINE ART KANGAROO ISLAND • National Wine Centre North Tce and Hackney Road

Four venues, 16 artists SALA visitors are invited to do SALA in Strathalbyn at four venues featuring 16 established or emerging artists. Works span diverse mediums, subjects and locations.

Various artists, How Do We Love Thee? … Ki Grass Tree & Green Carpenter Bee

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Helen Stacey, Golden Afternoon near Wellington

Twenty award-winning and exciting emerging artists combine fascinating art with pristine environment to depict the vulnerable native bee and its reliance on the enigmatic, slowgrowing Xanthorrhoea.

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Maggie Welz, Old Yacca

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CHERYL BRIDGART Master Maker

Daily 11am to 5pm Wed to Sun August 7-31. Beltana House, 364 Carrington Street Adelaide Ph. 0417813779 www.bridgart.com Cheryl Bridgart Artist

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OSTRICH FLIES • Bruce Nuske, SALA at David Roche Foundation

By John Neylon

he commemorative trophy has become a zombie tradition. In the classical world a sculptured likeness or imperial visage on a coin really meant something. Of course today’s examples include such ‘trophy’ trophies as the Melbourne Cup and so on. But from here it’s a short taxi ride to the level of junior-level faux gold sporting trophies still carrying on as if they’d been designed by Praxiteles or Bernini. Bruce Nuske has been engaged with the idea of the trophy as seen through the filter of the David Roche collection. Now Roche, as is well-known, was a serious trophy acquirer in the international field of dog breeding. It has been suggested that he built his remarkable decorative arts collections along the lines of a hunter bagging the biggest game. It’s an engaging if simplistic simile which doesn’t admit the subtleties of balancing passions with the high levels of connoisseurship required to make the right choices that will stand the test of time. But, as a walk through his house, crowded with look-at-me items, demonstrates there is a point where the business of appraising high-end eye candy and canine rock stars appear to intersect.

It presents as a group of trophy cabinets which contain awards, commemorations and judging memorabilia. Bruce Nuske, as an artist with a particular interest in the historical development of the decorative arts, plus the talent to interrogate traditions within a contemporary context, has jumped at the invitation to respond to the Roche collection. He is in fact David Roche Foundation’s (DRF) first SALA artist. Nuske’s advantage is that throughout his practice he has played the role of double agent in honouring traditional styles and techniques while plying a trademark brand of humour characterised by understated absurdity and an ability to recast historical ideas as contemporary possibilities. His response to the Roche collection reflects this somewhat ambivalent relationship. His most obvious ‘homage’ to David Roche the much awarded dog breeder and judge is a classical vase (Trophy for

a Fake Dog) surmounted by a motley collection of dogs around the lip. The terra cotta vase has the patination of an unearthed artefact. The dogs are plastic – ‘real’ plastic as they say in the trade.

The secret of his success is that he hedges his bets with a dash of the Rococo, that 18th century mindset and style that valued playfulness, excess, ornamentation and asymmetry. Consider another of the artist’s works in the DRF SALA exhibition, a tea caddy being looked at by an ostrich. Its principal inspiration was an ivory tea caddy in the Roche collection. The other is possibly many of the porcelain figurines and indeed, animals, perched on shelves and in cases in Fermoy

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The Art of Gardens An exhibition of artwork by more than 30 artists inspired by or created for the garden

31 July – 26 August 2016

Celebrating SALA at Gallery 1855 Remnant Formations

Catherine Hewitt with Regine Schwarzer

There but for the grace of God, go I... Mona Khizam

Small sculptures and paintings

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House. To this, add Nuske’s long standing interest in the figure of Empress Josephine and her passion for things Antipodean, particular Australian plants and creatures. The swan, which features prominently in furniture, paintings and other wares in David Roche’s bedroom suggested a link, in Nuske’s imagination, to the the black Australian swans that waddled around the plushy sward at Malmaison. The ceramic tea caddy it surmounts is classic Nuske in its slyly subversive ornamentations. But wait – there’s more. An ostrich, inspired by an actual 18th century design from the house of Furstenberg, is placed alongside looking wistfully upwards. Poor old Ozzie. He/she didn’t make it into the classical all stars team and Furstenberg’s plans to launch a hot little seller within the scientific community foundered on the fact that this bird didn’t fly – in every respect. Perhaps if Nuske completes his plans for the SALA show by creating some ‘fancy birds’ of deliciously unknown provenance or breeding, three-toed Ozzie will have some company. So much and more to talk about with this gem of an exhibition. And we haven’t even started on the Rabbit or those ever-so-phallic perfume vials.

Catherine Buddle, Jason Cordero, Talia Dawson Launch: 2pm, Sunday 7 August

The Iron Canvas, The Gardener’s Bouquet, Mixed Media

Bruce Nuske, Trophy For A Fake Dog, 2016 brown and red terracotta with plastic dogs. Photo: Anna Fenech

Something about the enduring tradition of honouring achievement with cheap sashes, cardboard certificates and tin badges caught Nuske’s imagination. The fact that such ordinary, mass-produced items are crammed into trophy cases in an antechamber to David Roche’s bedroom in Fermoy House, with its leopard skin patterned accents, skeleton clock, Napoleonic pistol and liberal libations of swooning swans, seemed an absurdity but, at the same time, a reaffirmation of the manner in which David Roche conducted his life. Nuske’s long-standing interest in Classicism, and thus his fascination with the Roche collection of furniture and other items in the Rococo, Neoclassic, Empire and Regency styles is based on an admiration of classical order and its seductive aesthetics. That said, Nuske sees his work as playfully re-interpreting things rather than copying and reproducing. As such, some of his work sits somewhere between referencing high-end 18th century decorative art and Victorian revival with its dizzy mashups of styles.

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Community Launch Event: Sunday 31 July at 2 pm Launch Guest: Irene Pearce Tickle Tank Open Garden and Community Artist Jewellery demonstration by Anthea Piszczuk Felting demonstration by Marzena Kaczmarek Woodwork demonstration by Greg Jackson Music by Adelaide Jazz Trio Artist Demonstrations Saturdays 6, 13, 20 August 2 pm - 4 pm

All welcome!

Opening speaker: Christine Nicholls

Head of Visual Arts and Australian Studies, Flinders University Gallery 1855 2 Haines Road, Tea Tree Gully Exhibitions conclude: 24 September 2016

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Kyoko Hashimoto, Silver Tassel Earrings, $135

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Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm www.teatreegully.sa.gov.au/gallery1855 Image: Regine Schwarzer, pendant (detail), 2016, smokey quartz from Morella Victoria. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

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FLINDERS UNIVERSITY CITY GALLERY • State Library of South Australia, North Terrace

Wish me luck: Honouring our World War II Veterans

Jason Cordero, The Bridge of Shadows (detail)

Wish me luck: Honouring our World War II Veterans presents a selection of portraits of surviving SA veterans taken as part of the AIPP Reflections Project. An Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) and Flinders University Art Museum exhibition in partnership with Atkins Photo Lab and Veterans SA.

GALLERY 1855 • 2 Haines Road, Tea Tree Gully

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Gallery 1855 will present three exhibitions to celebrate SALA: Remnant Formations (works in metal and paper), There but for the Grace of God Go I (photographic series of a refugee camp) and Small Sculptures and Paintings.

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John Denlay, Untitled.

GALLERY M • Marion Cultural Centre, 287 Diagonal Road, Oaklands Park

Gallery M Open Contemporary Prize 2016 An independent judging panel has selected innovative artwork in all media for this exciting new initiative, offering non-acquisitive prizes to the value of $4500.

Brian North, Shadow

Marina Birch, Raymond Boland, 2015

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DISTANT HORIZONS Marek Herburt; Chris Meadows; Jim Cook

29th July – end of September The Art Gallery at Pikes, Pikes Wines, 233 Polish Hill River Rd, PIKESWINES.COM.AU/GALLERY Marek Herburt, Creek at edge of Buranga fores.

Jim Cook, Sheep grazing Brinkworth.

Chris Meadows, Cactus on the Plain.

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GOODWOOD ROAD • Various locations, Goodwood Road

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Goodwood Road – Alive and Vibrant The Goodwood Road Precinct, in the heart of Goodwood, is especially alive and vibrant during SALA, with many cafes and shops displaying a variety of work from various artists.

• 113 Pirie Street, Adelaide

Rod Taylor, New Works “Expressing the meaning of visual art succinctly in words is difficult. The best that I can say about the works in this show is that they are somehow about the mystery of things, expressed through craft and the play of formal properties such as space, shape and colour.”

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JAMFACTORY • 19 Morphett Street, Adelaide

Jamfactory Icon 2016 Gerry Wedd: Kitschen Man JamFactory’s Icon series is an annual solo exhibition celebrating the achievements of one of South Australia’s leading craft and design. Until September 11 (Gallery One) JAMFACTORY.COM.AU Gerry Wedd, Gram Jar

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GAWLER SALA ART TRAIL

Supporting Australian Artists and Craftspeople Paintings, Prints, Cards, Jewellery, Giftware, Aboriginal Art, Ceramics, Textiles, Glass, Garden Art. Open Friday, Sunday, Monday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm

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• Various venues, Gawler

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Various artists, Art in Gawler

Opening by Cath Kerry 3pm Saturday 13 August 2016

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The SALA Gawler Art in August program consists of 11 venues offering an eclectic mix of textiles, painting, drawing, sculpture

Wed to Sat 12noon to 5pm or by appointment

and ceramics from local artists.

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O’LEARY WALKER WINES • The Historic Johnston Brewery, 18 Oakwood Road, Oakbank

Sally Werner, Fish in a Dish A ‘Tiffany-style’ splash into the world of fish animated by coffee pods, bits of glass, old tin and the odd bottle opener. August 1-31 SALLYWERNERDESIGNS.COM

Alex Valero, Grave (Intra & Ultra)

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• 730 Seppeltsfield Rd, Seppeltsfield

FUSE Glass Prize, various artists The FUSE Glass Prize, a new biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists, is Australasia’s richest prize for glass. Until September 25 JAMFACTORY.COM.AU

MURRAY BRIDGE REGIONAL GALLERY • 27 Sixth St, Murray Bridge

Winnie Pelz, Solstice to Solstice In response to the rugged beauty of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula, this exhibition comprises large-scale landscape paintings, observed through the development of an extraordinary garden, overlooking the sea. A selection of smaller works – including drawings, paintings, photographs and poetry – reflect the changing nature of the landscape through the seasons, from solstice to solstice. Until September 4 MURRAYBRIDGEGALLERY.COM.AU

Winnie Pelz, King Brown Landscape

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rhyme Humpty Dumpty and references the fact that it’s not the king who goes and fights the battle but the foot soldiers who go on his behalf, with the heads representing these fallen soldiers.

All the King’s Men also highlights the complexity of military garments. Many of the patterns are repeated but with different permutations and countries regularly redesign them to keep enemies on their toes. While Hall has used some of these garments in ways that make it difficult to recognise which nation they belong to, it’s often easy to recognise the pattern of your own country.

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ll the King’s Men is the centerpiece of Fiona Hall’s installation work Wrong Way Time that was exhibited in the Australian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Recently acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, All the King’s Men is one of the gallery’s most significant acquisitions to date.

“Many of the patterns are quite abstract and don’t carry much conceptual weight particularly if you don’t know what war they belong to but that reflects the modern nature of conflict,” she says. “If you look at current conflicts, like the one in the Middle East, there are a confusing number of militaries involved.”

The work is comprised of 20 human-sized heads installed so they are free-hanging. The heads are made from knitted camouflage garments from different militaries of nations currently involved in conflicts in different parts of the world: Iraq, Ukraine, Russia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Germany, Estonia, France and Italy.

With very little changing on the world stage since Hall made the work, it is just as relevant today as when it was first exhibited in 2015. “The work is essentially about the endless conflicts that the world seems to perpetually undergo,” she says. “With the state of play that has happened post making the work, things are not changing for the better.”

Some of the heads are figurative while others are disfigured with missing or distorted features and include other elements like teeth, bones, horns, dice and glass. “There are materials that are discarded remnants from another life,” Hall says. “The way they are used in each of the heads is very purposefully selected for each piece.”

All the King’s Men reflects the current state of play in terms of global conflicts, world finances and the environment. The title for the exhibition comes from the line in the nursery

Fiona Hall, All the King's men, 2014 15, Adelaide, knitted military uniforms, wire, bone, horns, teeth, dice, glass and mixed media,

Fiona Hall: All the King’s Men

(dimensions variable); Gift of Candy Bennett and Edwina Lehmann, Dr Peter and Sandra Dobson, David and Pam McKee, Simon

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Mordant AM and Catriona Mordant, John Phillips, and Tracey and Michael Whiting through the Art Gallery of South Australia

Friday, July 29 to Saturday, December 31

Contemporary Collectors through the Fiona Hall Appeal 2015-16, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Photo Clayton Glen

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PEPPER STREET ARTS CENTRE AND ATRIUM • 558 Magill Road, Magill

Various artists, The Art of Gardens: An Exhibition of Artwork Inspired by or Created for the Garden Botanical inspired textiles and mosaics, both functional and sculptural art pieces. Metalwork sculptures and work made from recycled materials. Gardeninspired paintings, prints and jewellery are also delights. July 31-August 26 PEPPERSTREETARTSCENTRE.COM.AU Danny Murphy, Ceramics, Clay

PROSPECT GALLERY • 1 Thomas Street, Prospect

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Prospect Arts Action Network, Paandemonium We see the chaos around us; pendulums swing, ground undulates, needs must be negotiated, complex webs must be accepted. This exhibition assesses the careful negations that are needed for us to quietly proceed in this time of change.

• 95 Graves St, Newton

Various artists, Sixteen & Beyond Emerging artists exhibit in an emerging venue. A fusion of the new and unknown taking bold steps towards the future together. August 1-31 (Fridays and Sundays)

August 7-September 4 Marek Herburt, Violet Bush

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PIKES WINES • 233 Polish Hill River Rd, Polish Hill River

Marek Herburt, Chris Meadows, Jim Cook, Distant Horizons This exhibition is celebrating three experienced artists who now reside in the Clare Valley. The beauty of this region is very apparent in all of their individual styles. July 29-August 31 PIKESWINES.COM.AU/GALLERY

Lynda Duke, Playtime 1

Youngsoon Jin, Pandemonium 1

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Exhibition by David Baker

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Nikki Carabetta-Baugh, Wodli Karra A display of Aboriginal dot paintings. Australian animals are themed around the Aussie bush as part of a cultural, spiritual and mythological connection to land. August 5-September 4 (Open Fridays, 10.30am-3pm, Saturdays/Sundays,

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Goodwood Road is always alive and vibrant, with an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants, cafes and businesses. During SALA, it’s even more so, with a great mix of art on display.

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Captured Moments SALA is a time to celebrate being an artist, and RSASA Members have captured this moment in the year to showcase their amazing artworks. RSASA is also celebrating 160 years this year, a special year to make sure there are artworks around for the public to view, including SALA in the Garden at Unley on August 21. Contemporary works include paintings, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles and mixed media from a range of talented artists. July 31-August 28 RSASARTS.COM.AU

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SMARTART • 93 North Terrace, College Park

Various artists, SALA Bill Botten, Mariana Mezic, Rubi Cassidy and Bron Kelly are four diverse artists. Botten is an established artist who works in acrylic and oil, and will present large, rich, vibrant, abstract paintings with an industrial, urban edge. Mezic works in pencil graphite and watercolours to create soulful, enigmatic visions on paper; Cassidy creates intimate landscapes of suburbia, reminiscent of Jeffrey Smart. Kelly provides a touch of reality with luscious, evocative still-lifes. August 5, 5.30pm-7.30pm David Dridan, Beautiful Day Hindmarsh Island

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SIGNAL POINT GALLERY • Goolwa Wharf

David Dridan and David Hamilton, A Life in the Australian Landscape and Naturally Works by David Dridan OAM and David Hamilton on Australian landscape and fauna are perfectly complementary in this exhibition at Goolwa Wharf’s Signal Point Gallery. Until August 28

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SALA in Adelaide Botanic Garden

• Adelaide Convention Centre, West Wing (Morphett Bridge entry)

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Caught Dancing by Adam Durst, North Lodge

In Full Bloom by Elisabeth Howlett, North Lodge An array of flowers painted in oil featuring iconic blooms from the Botanic Garden plus more. More Gardener’s Folly by Alison Mitchell, Diggers Garden Shop Paintings from her autumn garden pomegranates, quinces, chilies and tomatoes.

Adelaide characters, unsung heroes, the art of performance and the performance of art. Who is “real” in this world of shadows and mirrors we call The Arts? Where did all the dummies come from? Sophie Downey threw away her successful career as a barrister to explore these heady topics.

Sophie Downey, Wedding Day Guitar Murderess

Photographic series of flowers from the Botanic Garden caught unaware dancing, posing, basking.

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Otanical by Amanda Phillips and Alexander Waite Mitchell, Barber Shop Rotunda 360-degree virtual reality - watch characters come to life magically in front of your eyes. (5-7 and 12-14 August only, plus opening afternoon)

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Join us for the opening afternoon on Sunday 31 July. Speeches from 2pm in the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion, then wander between exhibitions and meet the artists.

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Aleksandra Antic, Sonya Hender, Jake Holmes, Michelle Lane, Suzie Lockery, Lorelei Medcalf, Vicki Reynolds, Olga Sankey, Josh Searson, Mei Sheong Wong, Margie Sheppard, Sandra Starkey Simon, Simone Tippett and Georgina Willoughby.

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harbouring something more sinister through its mimicry. “The works in Soft-Machine Buzz explore disparity between the speed of contemporary life and the romantic ambition that Modernist abstraction can illustrate pure human experience,” Marshall says. “Hyperconnectivity has been so naturalised that our sense of temporality is severely disoriented and accelerated to the brink of collapse. I’ve been interested in the notion that art can offer a substitute to this velocity, and produce an experience that transcends the banality of the everyday. With Soft-Machine Buzz, I attempt to achieve this through the use of contemporary prosumer technologies… essentially using tools that enable such speed to create an experience that is only possible through time with the work. Creating these paintings by printing digital files complicates their status, and allows them to act as simulations or surrogates.”

→ Now splitting his time between Los Angeles and Melbourne, former Feltspace co-director James L. Marshall will exhibit in Adelaide for the first time since 2012 with an upcoming exhibition, SoftMachine Buzz, at Hugo Michell Gallery.

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arshall, who received a Samstag Scholarship in 2014, is a multimedia artist who says his SoftMachine Buzz works are “abstract paintings created digitally and then commercially printed, rather than being painted in a traditional sense”. The artist, who used to DJ in Adelaide under the name Brainsss!, won’t be in Adelaide during the exhibition, as he is about to exhibit at La Croix Gallery in Los Angeles, but he will return to Australia in September for another project. Marshall, who also works for industrial designer Christopher Boots in Melbourne, is looking to make LA home.

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James L. Marshall, Yet to be titled, Inkjet on canvas, 34 inch x 24 inch 2016

“Previous works have been bright but for this series I wanted to streamline my creative process and visually reduce them by removing colour,” he says. “Black is notoriously difficult to photograph, so by removing colour I’m preferencing the physical experience

of the piece rather than the photographic documentation – which we are so accustomed to these days. I like to think that the series captures some kind of uncanny speculative energy not dissimilar to paranormal photography – visually seductive but potentially

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“If all goes to plan, Los Angeles will be my (semi)permanent home moving forward,” Marshall says. “I‘ve been back and forth for the past seven years but this seems like the most concrete move. “LA is a real melting pot for contemporary art right now,” says Marshall, who was Raid Project’s assistant director in LA for a while. “The city gives you space to work. It has world class schools and museums, and an energetic creative community. While it can, at times, feel alienating, LA provides the cover to disappear and really focus. I also love that there’s this utopian attitude within a completely fucked up dystopian city – that really resonates with me.” Marshall used his Samstag Scholarship to study at the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles last year. “I applied and was offered a place in their 2015 MFA [Master of Fine Arts] program,” he says. “ArtCenter has a strong emphasis on critical theory, which I was interested in revisiting after a few years of focusing on exhibiting. The program also offered one-on-one studio visits with visiting artists and critics like Bruce Hainley, Stan Douglas, Walead Beshty and Diana Thater. Having that opportunity to work with such talented faculty and peers has really helped my work, and has re-enforced my beliefs about the important social and political role of the artist within contemporary culture.”

Marlene Post “Ladies” acrylic on canvas 50 x 60cm 2016

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Official opening Wednesday 3 August 1pm To be opened by: Megan Rainey Program Manager Guildhouse

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To be exhibited at Hugo Michell from Thursday, July 28, Soft-Machine Buzz is the latest iteration of a project that Marshall has been working on for the last three years.

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SPLASHOUT ART STUDIOS • 71 Jetty Road, Brighton

Bright ‘n Bold Big, bright and bold artworks by selected members of Splashout Art Studios. All together in Adelaide’s funkiest beachside gallery.

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A celebration of art and creative expression across all ages. Put on your Hat is a collection of photography, drawings, paintings and cartoon sketches depicting aspects and memories of hats. Why hats? Hats have been around for a very long time. August 8-31

Rebecca Millerok, Synthesis

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EMMA HACK’S SAL A EXHIBITION

Skin Illustrator, Photographer, Sculptor GALLERY + studio Diverse Multimedia Artist

Emma Hack Gallery Shop 14, North Adelaide Village 67 O’Connell St, North Adelaide Phone: (08) 8267 5028

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Gallery Hours: Wed to Fri 11am to 5pm Saturday 12pm to 4pm Sun to Tue Closed Visit: emmahackgallery.com mail@emmahackartist.com

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• 10G Gays Arcade, Rundle Mall

• 80 Edmund Avenue, Unley

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Mark Kimber and Sera Waters, MetaOrt

The main window in the gallery will be set up as a studio and, during SALA, artists from the T’arts collective will have an opportunity to demonstrate their work from 11am-3pm. Artists will showcase the following skills: weaving, printing, jewellery, pottery and feltmaking.

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An exhibition that explores otherworldly scars that exist in the space between reality and the mystic through contemporary textiles, installation and photography. August 3-September 18

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TERRACE FLOORS + FURNISHINGS • 51 Glen Osmond Road, Eastwood

SALA on Terrace 2016 SALA on Terrace will showcase a diverse and dynamic collection of artworks presented in various mediums from 22 South Australian emerging and established artists. July 28-August 13 Mark Kimber, Side show valley

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Fur and Feathers Group exhibition by 20 artists in a wide variety of mediums

Exhibition opens Saturday July 23 at 3pm and closes August 28. Red Poles is open Wednesday to Sunday from 9am to 5 pm

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WELLMADE • Beltana House Gallery, 364 Carrington Street, Adelaide

Meet Your Maker: Laced Dreams with Cheryl Bridgart Discover the beauty of colour and textiles as artist Cheryl Bridgart welcomes you into her studio and shares personal insights into her practice covering more than 30 years of making. You’ll have the chance to delve through sketch books of her evolving visual narratives inspired by her daily life and dreams. See Bridgart demonstrate her iconic freehand embroidery technique which she describes as drawing with her sewing machine. Wine and cheese provided. Only 25 spots available, $40 per ticket. August 21, 1pm-3pm WELLMADE.COM.AU/EVENTS Ian Willding, The First Flush

WALKWAY GALLERY • 43 Woolshed Street, Bordertown

Various artists, Our Stories, Our Way: Our Mob 2015 on Tour A collection of works by South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who exhibited in Our Mob 2015. The exhibition aims to engage the public with reconciliation and cross-cultural understanding by showcasing Aboriginal artists’ visual expressions of their own stories.

Cheryl Bridgart, Work in progress

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Various artists, Afterlife Afterlife brings together a group of prominent Adelaide printmakers who examine the spatial experience of objects, which teeter on the edge of ruination.

Southern Cross Care residents present their collaborative exhibition, so ‘put your hat on’ and come with us to the State Library of South Australia ‘The Hub’

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Sonya Hender, Arrival Afterlife

ARE YOU FOR REAL ADELAIDE CONVENTION CENTRE WEST WING (MORPHETT BRIDGE ENTRY) WEDNESDAY 10 AUGUST 2016, 6PM

ARTIST, LAWYER, MUSICIAN, SAXOFFENDER!

The Opening will wind up at about 7.30, but the celebration of Downey’s mission to combine art and music will continue with: THE ARTLAW AFTER PARTY at the Colonel Light Hotel two blocks up the road, featuring international blues musician Isaiah B Brunt, Mark Meyer, Jesse Deane-Freeman and the Saxoffender herself (if you’re lucky)

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Christopher Orchard, PERFECT (detail), 2016, graphite on paper and found objects, 70 x 60 x 70.5 cm (table), objects on table variable. Courtesy the artist, BMGArt, Adelaide and Wagner Galleries, Sydney, photograph by James Edwards

MOMENTS IN TIME → Featuring a broad selection of contemporary South Australian artists, Anything at All required two leaps of faith: by the artists to create the work, and by the viewer to accept that anything has the potential to become art.

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hese artists have all made the leap for curator John Neylon – Narelle Autio, Deidre But-Husaim, Sasha Grbich, Aldo Iacobelli, Ian North, Sophia Nuske, Christopher Orchard and Geoff Wilson.

“The artists have started from an almost intangible starting point,” says Neylon, who also writes for The Adelaide Review. “It’s part of their practice but at the same time it’s like a little leap in the dark where they are daring themselves to actually discover something meaningful while they are doing it.” Autio, for example, uses a roving eye approach to her practice. She deliberately occupies a certain space or area where she thinks there might be the potential to capture a unique image. It’s unpredictable but it’s precisely what Autio is hoping to catch: a moment in time which disappears as quickly as it presents itself. In the work George Street (angel) (2001), Autio has captured the moment a person in fancy dress (dressed as an angel) is getting out of a taxi. “If you don’t look too closely it becomes a transcendental image, where it almost looks like an angel coming out of a taxi,” explains Neylon. “It’s like contemporary life has collapsed into some kind of baroque fantasia through the association of random events taking place.”

Another example of circumstances or a unique situation being the trigger for an artwork is the painting Ashbrook Avenue (2016) by Iacobelli. After observing a woman regularly riding past his house on a bicycle carrying a bunch of flowers, he became curious. He discovered that she had lost her husband and was visiting his grave. He felt a sense of sadness and it played on his imagination to the point where he felt he needed to create an artwork about that. “I talk about that 'aboutness' being possibly the idea of a woman putting flowers on a grave or perhaps it’s the idea of the artist noticing the event and being motivated to make a painting about it,” Neylon says. These works are two examples where the artists have taken these everyday events and, through the materiality of expression in the form of a photograph or a painting, turned them into works of art. In the case of Nuske, she takes everyday objects and turns them into works of art. For this exhibition, she has created matches made of porcelain that will be positioned near the fireplace at the Adelaide Central Gallery. The fireplace, which is usually concealed, will be revealed for the exhibition transforming the gallery into a living room. There will also be matches in the studio next to a fire hydrant.

Wilson’s painting of a car wash at Belair, titled Primaries Exit One Way, was stimulated by a conversation he was having with an ex-student about what to paint, he suggested there might be a painting in the car wash. Neylon then suggested to Wilson that he paint it and he has gone ahead and done that. “There is that metaphysical moment in time when he realised that a thing might become a work of art,” Neylon says.

“It’s about these moments that suddenly come along and, like a bird on a bough, they land somewhere and suggest that something can become something else,” Neylon says. “It’s as simple as that.”

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Anything at All looks at that moment when an artist’s idea evolves into a work of art, whether it’s through chance or a deliberate repurposing of an object or notion to become a realised form.

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WILLUNGA GALLERY • The Daniel O’Connell Hotel, 165 Tynte Street, North Adelaide

Willunga Gallery presents new works by Dan Mansutti Dan Mansutti: “My work explores the idea of boundaries – both real and imaginary, of our own construction or imposed by others. Perception can be the difference between confinement and freedom.”

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• Darling building, 28 Franklin Street, Adelaide

Scott McCarten, Behind Closed Doors Step behind the closed doors of the city into a world of abandonment, detritus and decay in a photographic autopsy of Adelaide. August 6-31 (Saturdays and Sundays, 11am-6pm) BEHINDCLOSEDDOORS.WORDPRESS.COM

Beautiful Day Hindmarsh Island, David Dridan.

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Lyre Bird, David Hamilton, copper.

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• 53 Goodwood Road, Wayville

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Hugh Adamson, Scott Eames, Makram Iskandar, Julie Li and Victor Zhang exhibit a diverse range of art. A multi-cultural exhibition presented using different media. Talented Chinese/Australian artists all members of RSASA. August 1-28 ZIGALLERY.COM.AU

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Fri-Sun 10-4.30pm Helen Stacey Gallery & Studio, 17 Harriet St. off North Pd.

Fish in a Dish by Sally Werner

Inspired by the plight of the Great Barrier Reef, and the unnecessary dumping of coffee pods. Fish in a Dish is a ‘tiffany-style’ splash into the world of fish animated by coffee pods, bits of glass, old tin and the odd bottle opener.

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2016 SALA FESTIVAL AWARDS The 2016 SALA Festival Awards were held on Friday, July 8, with local South Australian artists picking up a swag prizes throughout the evening. –PHOTOS BY SIA DUFF–

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OZ MINERALS COPPER SCULPTURE AWARD

• Winner: Julia Robinson

• Winner: Mary Ann Santin

• Highly Commended: Jess Taylor • Commendation: Tobias Staheli

THE ADELAIDE REVIEW YOUNG ARTIST AWARD • Winner: Emmaline Zanelli

THE ADELAIDE REVIEW OUTSIDER ART AWARD • Winner: Scott McCarten

COUNTRY ARTS SA BREAKING GROUND AWARD

THE CITY RURAL EMERGING ARTIST AWARD • Winner: Tina Jade Panagaris

CENTENNIAL PARK ENVIRONMENTAL ART AWARD • Winner: Tobias Staheli

CITY OF UNLEY ACTIVE AGEING AWARD • Winner: Sheila Whittam

• Winner: Chris De Rosa

CENTRE FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY LATENT IMAGE AWARD

THE UNITCARE SERVICES MOVING IMAGE AWARD

• Winner: Nathan Stolz

• Finalists: Amanda Phillips & Alexander Waite Mitchell, Ray Harris, Grace Marlow, Jeremy Nicholas. Winner to be announced at the conclusion of SALA.

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THE DON DUNSTAN FOUNDATION AWARD • Winner: Andrea Malone

• Finalists: Emmaline Zanelli, Forest Harder, Lee Walter, Nathan Stolz, Neville Cichon. Winner to be announced during SALA.

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James Dodd, Mildura Boys.

HOUSEBOAT ADVENTURES → James Dodd’s artworks, showing this month at the Artspace Gallery at the Adelaide Festival Centre, are the culmination of the 2016 SALA Festival’s Artist in Residence program that Dodd began earlier this year.

or the program, Dodd responded to the iconic Murray River murals of Fred Williams, which were commissioned by the Adelaide Festival Centre for its original opening. “Throughout the residency, I have been thinking about Fred’s paintings and the motifs and tropes he uses in ways of formatting and whether they may lead into ways I like to work,” Dodd says. Along with the inlay paintings by Williams, which still hang in the foyer, are a number of etchings the iconic landscape painter created that are not often on display. Dodd connected with both the paintings and the etchings, finding links to his own practice and the representation of landscape.

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Like Williams, who travelled along the Murray River on a houseboat, Dodd took a similar journey in a tinny to get a feel for the landscape. While Williams worked ‘en plein air’, he often returned to the studio to emulate what he saw when he was in the field. Dodd works in a similar way. His paintings are not necessarily a faithful reproduction of a landscape but, rather, capture the textures and the way the place feels. “It was more that Fred had a sense of a place and he was developing a response to that, which resonates with me,” Dodd says.

While using scrawled texts is something Dodd has experimented with in the past, by thinking about how Williams worked, Dodd is now approaching the material in new ways. “I am using a lot of the scratched marks to define or create the landscape,” he says. “I’m letting these found marks build an abstract landscape.”

In the case of the Murray River works, Dodd presents a contemporary view of the environment incorporating elements of graffiti discovered on his journey along the Murray. “I connect with the translation of low cultural outcomes such as graffiti into high culture like what we put in galleries now.”

“I am using the long scratch marks to delineate horizon lines or forms in the landscape and I’m also thinking about those kinds of textures and how they might imitate textures in the landscape like the surface in the water,” Dodd says.

Along with the paintings, Dodd is also exhibiting a boat – a hybrid between a tinny, a bicycle, and a paddle steamer. Through delving into Williams’s work methods, this project has allowed Dodd to extend his practice and provide audiences with a unique interpretation of the Murray River as Williams did all those years ago.

The process of incising – used to create this graffiti – is similar to the process of making an etching plate; another link Dodd discovered. James Dodd Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre August 19-September 3 Dodd will also be painting the carpark wall (to the right of the Festival Centre carpark entrance along Festival Drive) from August 1-5.

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John Foxx, Through Gardens Overgrown, Photograph 2016.

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oxx was the singer and driving force behind experimental electronic and glam- and Krautrock-influenced band Ultravox! (called the “Velvet Underground of my generation” by Duran Duran’s John Taylor). Foxx quit the band to go solo before Ultravox! achieved mainstream success with the hit Vienna in the early ‘80s.

Inﬂuential musician and artist John Foxx follows Robert Forster and Lloyd Cole as seminal underground artists who the Hawke EU Centre has invited to Adelaide to discuss their work. But Foxx’s visit is a tad different, as his arrival will coincide with an exhibition of his celebrated art.

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With Ultravox!, and as a solo artist, Foxx’s art rock and electronic fusion inspired everyone from 80s new wavers to turn of the millennium electro and techno producers. Along the way, he worked with peers such as Brain Eno and Gary Numan and released landmark singles such as Underpass and Europe After the Rain, which is also the name of the exhibition which will show at the Kerry Packer Civil Gallery until Friday, August 5.This is the first time his work will be exhibited in Australia. In the mid-80s, Foxx ventured into graphic design, designing book covers for Salman Rushdie (The Moor’s Last Sigh) and Anthony Burgess (A Dead Man in Deptford). Now, he is an artist of note. His work, which combines images from different photographs (including classic art with modern objects), was displayed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The Hawke EU Centre’s director, Professor Anthony Elliott, discussed Foxx’s career with the musician and artist on Wednesday, July 27. Elliott believes Foxx is a kind of contemporary version of the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte. “Foxx’s work – his photos, paintings, sculptures – coolly reckons into itself what

people disown or displace of their own identities,” Elliott says. “His projects seem to involve exploring the relations between identity and memory, and, in the process, discerning a future which would be otherwise. Foxx’s extraordinary confrontation with the history of classical aesthetics through the lens of the digital is captivating.” Though many musicians have held exhibitions and are talented artists in their own right, not many have made the transition from musician to artist as successfully as Foxx. Does Elliott believe there is a connection between his musical work and his visual art? “A b s o l u t e l y . Hi s c e n t r a l t h e m e of introversion, introspection and inwardness – what he calls ‘the quiet man’ – pervades both his music and art. You’re right in what you say: David Bowie painted, and so occasionally does Paul McCartney – but it’s hard to see any discernible connection to their musical output and projects. Not so Foxx. I’ve often thought Foxx’s artworks are literal translations of his songs, the music captured on canvas.”

i Europe After the Rain: Exhibition by John Foxx Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building Level 3, UniSA City West Campus Until Friday, August 5 unisa.edu.au

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Floating world Breaking Ground 2016: Cindy Durant – B Y J O H N N E Y L O N–

And so it came to pass that Californian artist Cindy Durant came to South Australia and now calls Penong home. Here, she has come to find everything she needs to inspire her glassbased practice. Penong, many would know, is that place with all those windmills on the edge of town. If the spectacle of these extraordinary structures perched side by side doesn’t prepare the travelers for the surrealism of the ride west, then nothing will. The township is Durant’s ‘local’. Her home is off the track that leads to the legendary Cactus Beach. It’s a pilgrim’s track canonized not only by generations of surf wagons but also the imprint of colonial explorer Edward John Eyre’s footprints (according to the permapine log sign). From the veranda of the Durant family home it’s possible to see magnificent white dunes that often seem to float between heaven and earth. Allow yourself to be lured towards them and you’ll pass across a remarkable causeway bounded by salt lakes that at certain times complement each other in delicate tints of pink and green. It’s that kind of place. And for someone, like Durant, who fell under its spell, there is nowhere else she would rather be. “This place I live in,” she says, “is beautiful, rugged, isolated, and sometimes harsh. I love it for all these reasons.” Her practice incorporates a diversity of media, particularly metal and glass and techniques including glass and vitreous enamel on metal and working with sheet and powdered and crushed glass. Durant is the recipient of Country Arts SA’s 2016 Breaking Ground Professional Development Award. Layers, the

Cindy Durant, Wire 1, 2016, kiln formed glass, 4 pieces 385 x 505 mm each. Photo: Grant Hancock.

current exhibition at Artspace, showcases the outcomes of her journey. A key aspect of this experience was a mentorship undertaken with Adelaide artist Joshua Searson, which opened up fresh aesthetic possibilities through Photoshop editing techniques. Durant’s grasp of these techniques is evident across the exhibition where her roving eye (and camera) has seized upon the smallest of details such as seaweed strands or shells and striking motifs such as jetty structures and old buildings. Pictorial experimentation aside, the artist has also pushed the boundaries of structure from large vessel forms to one large mobile incorporating wafer-thin crystalline leaves. A wall structure consists of a shelf on which backlit panels of glass depict images sourced from the Penong area’s colonial past. These days the ‘shelf’ is a conventional strategy but sensitively handled, as with

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this work, it demonstrates that the past can be dusted off and re-presented in an engaging manner. While edited and enhanced photographic images – particularly translated into richly coloured glass panels – communicate a visual freshness, the true measure of Durant’s ongoing development as an artist can be found in some larger, more understated panels, particularly the Wire and Salt series of images. They communicate a compelling minimalist aesthetic which reflects the bare-boned character of the coastal region where the artist lives. In these works, a growing confidence in handling a technique involving screen printing and kiln fusing glass powder onto panels is clearly evident. The artist states that one of the best comments she’d had about her Salt panels is that they looked as if they’d been lifted from the actual dried lake surface. And indeed they do – all glistening and sparkling in a way that only salt crystals do in hard sunlight.

The Wire series is effectively a tight edit from photographs of wire coils on the property, which sit very comfortably within their glass skins. Poetics of the everyday. Balancing the demands of running a commercially viable glass studio while operating so far from conventional support structures of galleries and audiences – while expanding creative horizons – will always be a challenge for the artist. But when the potential of the Salt and Wire bodies of investigation is considered, the sky, like the one that hangs over this special place the artist calls home, has no limit.

i Floating world Breaking Ground 2016: Cindy Durant Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre Until Sunday, August 14 adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

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he further you travel west in South Australia, the black-top experience heading for the Nullabor offers its own reality – a sense of floating through a landscape of unbroken horizons. Folk who live on the west coast see it differently. Good country. Hardship country. Sorry country. Way back country. One day country. Here, the optics of place are never neutral. The kink in the road, the crest of a hill, smudge of dust or smoke, the colour of the soil, the lean of a shed – these are cultural way points defined by oral traditions, racial memories and lived experience. As the historian Simon Schama has it, one’s native country is “less an expanse of territory, than a substance, it’s a rock, or a soil, or an aridity, or a water or a light. It’s a place where our dreams materialise; it’s through that place that our dreams take their proper form.”

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Meet your maker: Union St Printmakers –By Peta Mount–

These days, newcomers and a committed group of regulars attend casual classes every Saturday, and full-day intensives for smaller groups are held on Tuesdays. Tippett’s approach to teaching is intuitive. “When people come in, I just try and respond to what they communicate about what they want to do,” Tippett says. “Each session waxes and wanes according to the people who are in it.” Conversation and collaboration are a big part of the classes and Saturday afternoons often end with happy hour. Printmaking is an egalitarian art that provides makers of all ages, backgrounds and expertise a means of expression. Tippett describes the printmaking community of Union St as hardworking, humble and generous, all traits that just as accurately describe her. Tippett is a tireless supporter of the creative community. When not teaching classes or working on her own practice, she spends time curating exhibitions, producing a periodic e-newsletter with news and information for local printmakers, and organising masterclasses with visiting artists. She is a board

member of both Guildhouse and the Print Council of Australia, and the South Australian contact for Enjay Presses. If that wasn’t enough, she also enjoys playing with letterpresses and is the founding member of Letterpress Lovelies, a local group that shares their passion for this age–old technique. Tippett’s own practice is informed by her work with the community. Alongside a longstanding love for watery surfaces and the colour blue, she ﬁnds working in collaboration makes for richer and more interesting work. It is not surprising then that, despite an accomplished practice, which includes work in this year’s Australian exhibition publication at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tippett considers teaching her greatest achievement. Most recently, she has been excited to see members of the Union St Printmakers community initiate their own projects, evidence that her years of hard work and determination in fostering the local community is having meaningful results.

Simone Tippett, Poolaroids II, 2004/05, Polaroid Spectra 1200 Film.

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Simone Tippett in studio at Union Street Printmakers, Photographer Dave Cronin

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nion St Printmakers is set in a private oasis not far from Adelaide’s CBD in the suburb of Stepney. Established by Simone Tippett in 2009, the small school has been quietly nurturing the local printmaking community ever since.

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Celebrate South Australian ar tists at the Ar t Galler y with six SAL A exhibitions and displays on show. Featuring the major exhibition Robert Hannaford and displays Catherine Truman, Fiona Hall: All the King’s Men, Guildhouse 50, Sue Kneebone and The Collections Project.

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ART GALLERY OF SOU TH AU STR ALIA ar tgaller y. sa . gov. au image details clockwise from left: Robert Hannaford, Self-portrait, 1966, charcoal and white chalk on paper, 54.1 x 42.7cm. Private collection, courtesy of the artist. Catherine Truman, Red Laboratory Shells, (from some uncertain facts), 2012, carved English lime, Shu Niku ink, laboratory glass, 300mm (largest dimension); Courtesy the artist photo: Grant Hancock. Fiona Hall, All the King’s Men, 2014–15, Adelaide, knitted military uniforms, wire, bone, horns, teeth, dice, glass and mixed media, (dimensions variable); Gift of Candy Bennett and Edwina Lehmann, Dr Peter and Sandra Dobson, David and Pam McKee, Simon Mordant AM and Catriona Mordant, John Phillips, and Tracey and Michael Whiting through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors through the Fiona Hall Appeal 2015–16, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. photo Clayton Glen. Julie Blyfield, Drought vessel, 2009, Stepney, Adelaide, sterling silver, 12.5 x 24.5 x 23.0cm; Rhianon Vernon Roberts Memorial Collection 2011; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. image courtesy of the artist. photo: Grant Hancock. Sue Kneebone, installation view, Sue Kneebone, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2016. Kate Kurucz, The Island, 2016, oil on linen, 91 x 91cm. Courtesy the artist and Guildhouse. The Collections Project. photo: Grant Hancock