From Frida Kahlo to Leonardo da Vinci, the really famous artists tend to be from elsewhere and long gone. But every year the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival turns the spotlight on local artists who are still going strong.
Highlights include: jeweller Catherine Truman’s solo show, No Surface Holds, which is part of the JamFactory’s Icon series; Domestic Arts by Sera Waters at ACE Open; and Avatar by Christopher Orchard at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In conjunction with his Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) solo show, Orchard will also be conducting a drawing class in the gallery.
Orchard is the 2017 SALA Featured Artist and the subject of the SALA monograph, Christopher Orchard: The Uncertainty of the Poet. Since the turn of the 21st century he has been painting and drawing a stocky bald gent in a suit and tie. In addition to the AGSA show, Orchard’s portly man can be found in a solo show at BMG Art.
It was also announced last week that glass artist Clare Belfrage will be the SALA Festival Featured Artist for 2018.
Now in its 20th year, with some 660 events, including hundreds of exhibitions, cycle tours, a Dada inspired dance, an art dinner party, drawing classes, lectures and 120 open studios, the SALA Festival proves that art in South Australia is alive and well.
SALA Festival
Various venues
1 August – 31 August
South Australian photographers Trent Parke & Narelle Autio and Alice Blanch have taken out the final two prizes in the 2017 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival Awards.
Until 2026, Wanneroo Regional Art Gallery will be showing 53 original artworks by one of the most famous artists of the 20th century: Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol ICONS includes famous works such as Elvis (1963), Campbell’s Soup Cans (1968) and Marilyn (1967).
For the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Paris-based Fondation Cartier has commissioned 14 new works by Indigenous artists across the globe, curated by renowned Kuku Yalanji artist, Tony Albert.
From revamped industrial sites to brand new spaces in Sydney, to openings in Adelaide, Melbourne, Cottesloe and Darwin—across Australia there’s a flurry of new and reopening gallery activity.
“Heat and gravity were as much the materials as the glass itself,” says Rosalind Lemoh on her latest show at Canberra Glassworks that explores new mediums and influences for the Gundaroo-based artist.
An exact 360º replica of the Mona Lisa and the largest existing collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s unedited drawings and writings. View, in pictures, how THE LUME Melbourne brings the work of Leonardo da Vinci to life.
Yhonnie Scarce, a Kokatha and Nukunu artist, has emerged in recent years as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. Yhonnie Scarce: The Light of Day, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, curates a survey of significant works by Scarce from the last few years.
