18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum
The notion of a contemporary art biennial as a site of refuge is appealing, if somewhat unexcepted, in our current climate. Biennials generally brim with curatorial concepts and statements, and often feature a near-overwhelming number of artworks. They are also spaces of social and political dialogue where commissioned artworks are presented to the public for […]
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Sera Waters
Sera Waters’s significance as a leading South Australian artist was firmly cemented in 2022 with two major projects exhibited at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA). Her series Storied Sail Cloths, 2021, was included in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, curated by Sebastian Goldspink, and in November her solo project Sera […]
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Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. The Biennial is part of the Adelaide Festival, and since its inception in 1990 has exhibited nearly 500 artists to over one million visitors. It is a major exhibition […]
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Tracey and Kathy Ramsay
Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art returns for its sixth iteration in October 2021. Curated by Nici Cumpston, the exhibition is an extensive survey of contemporary Aboriginal art from across Australia. The word “tarnanthi” comes from the language of the Kaurna people, the Traditional Owners […]
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Clarice Beckett: Power in the Present Moment
But there was distraction. As I went from dramatic image to exhilarating abstract whirls of colour, my eye kept going to two small paintings hanging beside each other at the end of the adjacent gallery. By contrast with the gestures and the commentary of the Americans, the little pictures seemed — self-contained. One shone with […]
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Review | Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
In Issue 42, Ted Snell reviews the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, exploring the prismatic approach of Curator Erica Green
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