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South Australian Living Artists Festival Report 2019

Louise Haselton, End to End 2 (detail), timber, acrylic, webbing, 2018. Photo Sam Roberts Thank you to our partners Introduction

Major Sponsors

SALA Festival is supported by the South Australian Government through Arts and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Festival Partners Education Partner

Bring the Baby Tour with Luke Wilcox, 2019, photo Sam Roberts

Media Partner Community Media Partner Local Chinese Media Partner The South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is entirely dedicated to supporting and promoting South Australian artists. SALA exhibitions and events are held in every corner of the State in traditional art spaces as well as venues as unexpected as the optometrist’s Premium Partners waiting room, regional wine trails, the local primary school and your favourite wine bar; every year hundreds of unexpected places become SALA venues.

Sponsors The Festival’s reach is uncontested SALA’s public program of talks, tours, thanks to the breadth of locations in workshops and open studios supports which you’ll find SALA events across the the open access program and expands

State. Art is delivered to the people with on our understanding and experience Margaret Worth, As One, 2019, stainless steel SALA’s audience discovering exhibitions of the visual arts. SALA impacts the with patina, dichroic foil, corten steel, Official Suppliers while buying their morning coffee, doing State’s tourism industry, retail and 235 x 150 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist. their shopping, or strolling down the dining sectors, education, community street – the Festival’s rapidly expanding building, health and wellbeing, and audience has increased from 600,000+ positions South Australia as a place in 2016 to 870,000+ in 2019. which fosters innovation and creativity. “An amazing and

Artist-in-residence Supporters SALA showcases a range of arts practice unique festival that SA from beginners to professionals across can be proud of.” all mediums. School students and hobby SALA 2019 Audience Member artists sit in the program alongside the FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE State’s preeminent artists. Skill and excellence is celebrated and aspired to “I believe the arts are an while also promoting the benefits that participation in art-making has on all important part of everyone’s life.” members of our community. SALA 2019 Artist

Supporters

2 3 Bring the Baby Tour with Luke Wilcox, 2019, History photo Sam Roberts Event Summary

SALA Festival celebrated its 22nd anniversary in 2019. Founded by Paul Greenaway OAM (Director, Greenaway Art Gallery) and Sam Hill-Smith (Director, Hill-Smith Fine Art Gallery) through the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA), it started as SALA Week in 1998. In its first year there were 21 metropolitan venues and 20 country venues. It was established to 8257+ participating artists 692 develop audiences and create opportunities for Individual, amateur, emerging and exhibitions and events artists. Since then it has become a month-long professional visual artists in 588 venues Across metropolitan and regional celebration of local art throughout the state. South Australia

Festival Founder & Patron of SALA – Paul Greenaway OAM 20+ art tours Vision 332+ To create and sustain an environment exhibition openings in which South Australian visual artists are supported, valued and celebrated. 117+ Mission open studios SALA provides a range of opportunities 870,000+ and initiatives that celebrate and Collective Haunt Inc. Open Studio, 2019, work by Jane Skeer, photo Sam Roberts. visitors promote South Australian visual artists, Estimated attendance at SALA exhibitions locally, nationally and internationally. across South Australia* Initiatives include the annual SALA Festival, an innovative, community- 24,000+ based statewide festival. opening night guests Estimated attendance at SALA exhibition opening nights Approach “It is a great platform for professional self- SALA is committed to inclusivity, employed artists like $1,200,000+ innovation, excellence, sustainability art sales at SALA exhibitions* and accountability. SALA fosters myself to present their a wide range of mutually beneficial art independently, collaborations and partnerships to share their studio $950,000 achieve its Vision and Mission. and creative process estimated new state with a new audience expenditure The flow-through to South Australia’s economy as well as the are understood to be substantial because established one, and SALA encourages tourism and local spending to make some money! across the entire State* I do very well by my standards during SALA.”

SALA 2019 Artist *Based on best averages gained through qualitative/quantitative surveying of participating SALA Festival venues and exhibiting artists. (Survey Monkey, September 2019) 4 5 Connecting artists How did audiences with audiences discover exhibitions?

Source of Event Awareness 250,000 SALA Festival programs distributed statewide in early July through The Advertiser 30,000 SALA Festival programs sent to all registered venues SALA Festival posters displayed statewide 4,000 SALA Program 46% internet articles published across regional, local, national and international Radio 2% 405 websites; Now, Brisbane Courier Mail, Daily Telegraph Australia, Herald Sun, Victor Harbour Times. Posters 2% Social media 13% radio reports across regional, local and national stations; ABC , Website 10% 373 ABC , ABC regional stations, 5AA Adelaide, Radio Adelaide, Three D Radio. Returning visitor/ already aware 10% Word of mouth 9% press articles written across regional, local, national and international publications; Other 8% 275 The Advertiser, Sunday Mail, Messenger Newspapers, SA Weekend, The Adelaide Review, SA Life Magazine, iAge Media, Broadsheet, CityMag and local community street press. Online television reports broadcast across local and national channels; ABC News, 111 Channel 7, Channel 10, Channel 9. The Festival website hosted the official 2019 Program while Media coverage had a cumulative potential audience/circulation of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram * kept artists and the community 20,757,407 and an advertising space rate of $3,048,861 up to date, engaged and informed.

* *Media coverage report 1 May-15 September 2019 by isentia 65,000+ visits to the SALA website and 39,928 users in the lead up to and during the Festival

Page views 335,421

(*Source Google Analytics)

Photography Tour with Rosina Possingham, featuring work SALA Forum featuring Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Cynthia Schwertsik, Photography Tour with Rosina Possingham, Life Drawing Tour with Andrew Clarke, by Neville Assad-Salha, 2019, photo Sam Roberts Erin Davidson and Patrice Sharkey, 2019, photo Sam Roberts featuring work by Sam Gold, 2019, photo Sam Roberts 2019, photo Sam Roberts

6 7 Who attends SALA? Recognising high quality work

Age profile Gender profile SALA Feature Artist

Each year Arts South Australia funds the SA Living Artist publication. The publication 18-24 yrs 6% focuses on the production of a major, 25-34 yrs 13% high-quality book profiling a prominent 35-44 yrs 15% female 80% South Australian visual artist. 45-54 yrs 18% male 20% 55-64 yrs 31% 65+ yrs 17% In recent years the subject of the A total of 20 books have been publication has become SALA’s published since 2000 profiling artists featured artist. Their work is profiled in Clare Belfrage, Christopher Orchard, the marketing material for the Festival Catherine Truman, Giles Bettison, and we are able to celebrate their work Nicholas Folland, Stephen Bowers, and practice with the wider community. Mark Kimber, Hossein Valamanesh, Khai Liew, Angela Valamanesh, Gerry The book is developed and published Wedd, Julie Blyfield, Aldo Iacobelli, in conjunction with the SALA Festival Michelle Nikou, Deborah Paauwe, Ian Board and Wakefield Press. Origin of attendees W. Abdullah, Nick Mount, James Darling, In 2019 the SA Living Artist publication Kathleen Petyarre and Annette Bezor. was Louise Haselton: Act Natural. The recipient of the 2020 SALA Louise Haselton at Kunstgiesserei Flierl, Berlin, 2017, Haselton is an outstanding South photo Shoufay Derz publication is Kirsten Coelho. “I love the art, the venues, Australian artist of international repute. Her alluring artworks offer glimpses To see the complete SALA series visit that local artists are featured, of the curious inner lives of everyday Wakefield Press, 16 Rose St, Mile End and there are so many things and overlooked things. With a witty or wakefieldpress.com.au to see that draw you to other local resident 75% reverence for the objects and materials intrastate 21% she engages, Haselton explores areas too.” the communicative possibilities of SALA 2019 Audience Member interstate 3% weight, balance and form within her international 1% predominantly sculptural works. Her practice is unexpected, unconventional, and exemplary of an artist especially attuned to the matters which surround

*Based on best estimates from qualitative and us. Louise Haselton: Act natural is quantitative surveying of SALA artists and a compendium of Haselton’s works participating venues to date including illustrated essays chronicling the inspirations, influences and ideas behind her extraordinary Governor’s Sculptural Garden, Matt Turley, Photography Tour with Rosina Possingham, 2019, practice of the last twenty-five years. Balancing Act 2019, photo Sam Roberts photo Sam Roberts Louise Haselton: Act Natural by Gillian brown, Leigh Robb, Jenna McKenzie, 2019, photo Steph Fuller

“I’m a full time artist and I believe the SALA festival connects us with a new audience and raises the profile of visual arts generally.”

SALA 2019 Artist

8 9 2019 SALA Festival Awards Credit Union SA School Awards WINNERS St John’s Grammar SALA School Awards Conversations with Line South Australian living artists are invited to The SALA School Awards are Special School presented in partnership with Sensory Stars self-nominate for a share in prizes valued at Credit Union SA. The Heights School over $41,700. All 2019 participating schools were The Heights School Art Exhibition automatically nominated to win Competition cash prizes for their school valued Congratulations to all the 2019 award recipients St Gabriel’s School at $13,000. and thank you to all the organisations and Contemporary Gabriel’s Gallery In 2019 the school award ceremony COMMENDATIONS individuals who invest in South Australian artists. Curators Award was held at the Art Gallery of South Bridgewater Primary School Australia’s Radford Auditorium on The Earth Beneath Our Feet In 2019 the award ceremony was held as part of WINNER Tuesday 4 September. Steph Cibich Woodside Primary School the Finissage Party and featured performance art Congratulations to the 2019 winners We All Smile in the Same Language and thank you to Credit Union SA and and music by Bait Fridge. The SALA Awards Night Bowden Brompton the Art Gallery of South Australia for Community School and Finissage Party took place on Saturday 31 their support. Kill the Streets August at Lion Arts Factory. SALA School Awards, 2019, photo Sam Roberts The City of Unley Active Ageing Award

WINNER Contemporary Maggie Cecchin Art Award Atkins Photo Lab Award

WINNER WINNER Derek Sargent & Jess Miley Lee Walter SALA Forum featuring members of The Unbound Collective: Ali Gumillya Baker, SALA PechaKucha featuring Elizabeth Close, 2019, Don Dunstan Faye Rosas Blanch & Simone Ulalka and community member Jermaine Hampton, photo Jack Fenby Foundation Award 2019, photo Sam Roberts

WINNER Sue Webb & SALA Forum Day SALA Pecha Kucha Night Centre for Creative Deborah Baldassi Held on Thursday 15 August and hosted by Nexus Arts, On Thursday 8 August at Nexus Arts Special thanks Photography the day was led by South Australian visual artists & arts we hosted our fifth SALA to all the Latent Image professionals and featured three panel discussions. PechaKucha Night. PechaKucha presenters: PechaKucha Nights are informal Award MC – Yusuf Ali Hayat gatherings where creative people get Tamara Baillie Unitcare Services together and share their ideas, works WINNER TOPIC Decolonising Methodologies in Creative Practice Tom Buchanan Joseph Haxan Moving Image Award PANEL Members of The Unbound Collective: Ali Gumillya and thoughts. We invited a range of Baker, Faye Rosas Blanch & Simone Ulalka and community South Australian artists to present in the Elizabeth Close PechaKucha 20x20 format for a night WINNER member Jermaine Hampton Brad Darkson Grant Parke of art-inspired frivolity. TOPIC South Australian Arts Practice – perceptions and Steph Fuller perspectives Olivia Kathigitis PANEL Patrice Sharkey, Erin Davidson, Kaspar Schmidt City Rural Mumm and Cynthia Schwertsik Jonathan Kim Sonja Porcaro Emerging Artist 4th Biennial RSASA / TOPIC Where Art Meets Life: Assessing the Impact of Dark Award SALA Portrait Prize Mofo, a New Midwinter Festival in Australia Dan Withey Presented by Adrian Franklin WINNER WINNER Steven Bellosguardo Kate Kurucz PLUS performances by Grace Marlow, Mullets of SA and Dr. Ashton 10 11 Artists-in-residence Opportunities to engage with visual art through creative participation and attendance

Artists were hosted in a range of organisations SALA Art Tours Open Studios including the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, SAHMRI (South Australian Health As in previous years SALA collaborated Regional Art Bus Tours Open Studios continues to be popular with many South Australian artists to with audiences. During SALA in 2019 The tours on offer included Adelaide and Medical Research Institute), SA Film Corp, host a range of art tours across the there were 117 open studios and artist Hills, McLaren Vale, Barossa, CBD and regions. demonstrations. The Open Studios Government House and Country Health SA. Encounter Bay & Mt Compass. artist demonstrations give people an Tours included walking tours such opportunity to meet the artists and as a tour with the Lord Mayor Sandy Bilingual Art Tours learn about how they work. Verschoor and artist Jemimah Dodd, Artists Host organisation Project Bring the Baby Tour with artist Luke Now in its 9th year the bilingual Wilcox, Street Art Tours with Jake Chinese tours offer the local and visiting Chinese community access to Holmes and Vans the Omega; as 6 Manton Gallery Open Studios, 2019, Laura Wills Flinders Medical Centre Through drawing, investigations and site- well as participatory tours including the local and regional visual arts scene. photo Sam Roberts via the Arts in Health program specific participatory works Wills explored the The tours are conducted over the John Blines Photography Tour with artist Rosina properties of ten medicinal trees, uncovering Possingham, SALA Date Night and weekends of the Festival and facilitated their uses, manufacture and how they relate Sketchy SALA Tours with artist by an incredibly dedicated group of to and heal the body. Blines’ Placebo explored Luke Thurgate and an Ekphrasis volunteers. the potential that knowing a treatment has Workshop with poet Jill Jones, offered In 2019 SALA offered its first an organic, plant-based origin makes it more in conjunction with Writers SA. multilingual Indian Tours in Hindi, acceptable, tolerable and possibly, more Punjabi and Gujarati, led by artist Zoe efficacious. Freney and Indian bilingual volunteer Tina (Prabhjot) Parikh. The tours were Naomi Hunter SAHMRI (South Australian Health Hunter focused on understanding the brain and conducted over the weekend, visiting and Medical Research Institute) the research into Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s the institutions along North Terrace disease. The glass sculptures and video explore and ending at the SALA Parlour for the interplay between scientific or medicalised children’s art activities. knowledge and the role of the lived experience Street Art Tour with Vans the Omega and Jake Holmes featuring artwork by Vans the Omega, of being a body. 2019, photo Sam Roberts Total tours attendance 360+

Donovan Christie Country Health SA Artists Donovan Christie and Josef Felber & Josef Felber produced a body of work responding to time spent at the Glenside acute psychiatric unit.

Lee Walter Royal Adelaide Hospital Guided by her conversations with patients via the Centre for Creative Health and families living with dementia, Walter has created a body of work representing the essence of the time she spent with each individual.

Christopher & Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre Christopher and Therese Williams used the Therese Williams via the Centre for Creative Health piano at Hampstead as a metaphor for the fragility, beauty and dignity of the human body. Cassie Thring Cassie Thring engaged residents of Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre as both makers and explorers, exhibiting their artworks throughout the Centre.

Amos Gebhardt South Australian Film Corporation Gebhardt gave a presentation on their moving image work in progress with the finished work

to be displayed at Samstag Museum during Bilingual E-Scooter Art Tour, 2019, SALA 2020. photo SALA Volunteer “[Our SALA] event was a great success, as we found Margaret Worth Government House The Government House Residency provided there were many local people who are very creative but Worth with space and time to construct did not have any outlet to exhibit their work. It gave them self-directed research culminating in a new sculpture displayed in the Government House confidence and created a better community spirit.” Grounds during SALA 2019. 2019 SALA Venue 12 13 Exhibition by location

SALA Curated SALA Parlour - Exhibitions engaging young South Australians In 2019 SALA curated exhibitions as part of our highly valued partnerships 43 Credit Union SA continued in 2019 as with Centennial Park and Government SALA’s Education Partner, supporting Barossa Valley 36 House. youth participation in the visual arts 1 Campbelltown City Council 3 Government House hosted a sculptural through subsidised SALA registrations exhibition in the garden titled The for schools, the Schools Awards, and /North Adelaide 182 Governor’s Sculptural Garden featuring the SALA Parlour. 20 the work of Keith Jackson, James The SALA Parlour is a public studio Bryant, Chris Ormerod, Tim Shaw, Karl 30 space housed in a shipping container Meyer, Dave Parker & Rayna Schofield, on the lawns of the South Australian 24 Greg Johns, Brent Quilliam, Stephen Museum throughout the month of Skillitzi, Jayd Van Der Meer, Paul 12 August. The Parlour encourages Zalkauskas, Warren Pickering, Rosana school-aged children to engage with 31 Cohen, Matt Turley, Gerry McMahon, visual art and highlights the creative Simon Farrow, James Hamilton, Peter Norwood Payneham St Peters 41 potential of young South Australians. Colbey, Clancy Warner & Elizabeth The drop-in, pop-up artspace offers / Onkaparinga 79 Close. a plethora of creative tasks for 11 More sculptures were enjoyed at children to participate in while in the 2 Centennial Park with the Sculptural CBD. In 2019 SALA offered Sunday City of Port Adelaide Enfield 43 Walk during SALA Festival. The Sessions at the SALA Parlour featuring 5 beautiful cemetery and memorial park contemporary artists guiding activities welcomed the work of South Australian for children and their families. SALA 6 sculptural artists into the landscape also offered artist-led workshops with 4 including Simon Farrow, Anna Small, artists during the week for classes and Westley Tully, Brent Quilliam, James school groups. City of Unley 35 Hamilton, Peter Colbey, Erika Edwards, 14 Warren Pickering, Keith Jackson, Lindy Sando & Vaughan Taylor, Clancy Clare Valley 15 Warner and Chris Murphy. Jarvis škoda art cars 5 Special thanks to Colleen Slattery Flinders Ranges/Outback 6 and the Brighton Jetty Sculptures Even cars became SALA venues in committee for their support for Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains 7 2019. There were two Jarvis škoda 3 Government House and Centennial mobile art venues on the road during Limestone Coast 5 Park exhibitions. SALA. The cars featured work of artists Arlon Hall and Elma Lawrie. 9 Riverland 14 Government House Walkerville 4 Reception Yorke Peninsula 6 ONLINE 2

His Excellency the Honourable Photos 1-3: SALA Parlour, workshop TOTAL 692 with artist Elyas Alavi, 2019, Hieu Van Le hosted a reception at photo Sam Roberts Government House on 21 August Photo 4: Jarvis Skoda SALA Car to celebrate SALA Festival and featuring work by Arlon Hall, 2019, acknowledge the 2019 Government photo Christopher Crabbe 4 House artist in residence, “It was my first time as a venue hosting an Margaret Worth. “Thank you for providing a wonderful platform exhibition - I wanted to get our region involved for emerging and established artists, and for and share the arts under this well-known banner.” providing informal, ‘snapshot’ opportunities for 2019 SALA Venue experiencing local art.”

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