South Australian Living Artists Festival August 2019
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#salafestival / salafestival.com Official Program South Australian Living Artists Festival August 2019 (detail), timber, (detail), timber, End to 2 Artist: Louise Haselton, acrylic, webbing, 2018. Photo Sam Roberts Thank you to our partners, supporters, the venues and the South Australian artists. Major Sponsors Front image credit: Louise Haselton End to End 2, 2018, timber, mirrored acrylic, acrylic, webbing, 54.5 (plus tail) x 50.5 x 12cm. Photo: Sam Roberts Festival Founder & Patron Paul Greenaway OAM SALA Festival is supported by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, SA Living Artists Inc Board an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Nicholas Linke (Chair) Naomi Fallon (Deputy Chair) Festival Partners Education Partner Richard Allen (Treasurer) Christine Nicholls Traci Ayris Roy Ananda (until May 2019) Trish Hansen Mena Muecke Sarah Boucaut Gill Hicks Jenna Pippett Media Partner Community Media Partner Local Chinese Media Partner Staff Kate Moskwa – CEO Christina Joy Peek – Program Coordinator Isobella Caruso – Partnerships Manager Steph Fuller – Administration Assistant Grace Marlow – Schools Program Coordinator Extended SALA Team Philip Grudnoff - Bookkeeper Anthony & Kelly O’Sullivan (Influx Creative) – Graphic Design Premium Partners Mark de Raad, Adrian Bennett & Yogeshwar Chauhan, (I-Nex) - Web Developer Petrina Egan – Publicity Geoff Vass (Cadzow TECH ) - IT Support Artist Advisory Group Ali Baker, Gus Clutterbuck, Jenna Pippett, Kate Power, Thom Buchanan, Thomas Readett, Vicki Reynolds Will Nolan, Yusuf Hayat. Sponsors SALA Volunteers Chen Zhang (Claire), Wang Xiayi (Ashley), Tina (Prabhjot) Parikh, Colleen Slattery and all the volunteers Official Suppliers Thank you to our supporters, colleagues, family & friends In memoriam: South Australian artists and friends who passed away in 2018-2019. We remember the valuable contribution they made to Artist-in-residence Supporters visual arts in South Australia – they are missed by the SALA community. Our thoughts are with their friends and families. Donald Brooks, Annabelle Collett, Martyn Cook, Sandra Elms, Frank Ford, Nadje Jacquier, Jess Nolan, Kwementyaye FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE Petyarre, Brian Seidel & Kunmanara Williams. Contact SALA 08 7077 0011 / [email protected] Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace Adelaide. PO Box 8067, Station Arcade Adelaide SA 5000 Supporters Join us on Download the SALA Festival app Facebook, Twitter & Instagram and check in at exhibitions #salafestival @salafestival Available from the App Store & Google Play Welcome Contents Special Events 4 Art Tours 6 Festival Awards 10 Artists in Residence 11 Exhibitions City of Adelaide / North Adelaide 13 The Hon Steven Marshall MP Melvin Mansell City of Norwood Payneham St Peters 23 Premier of South Australia Newscorp Editorial Director SA, WA, NT & TAS City of Burnside 25 The South Australian Government is a great supporter Like the news industry, the SALA Festival is all about Walkerville 27 of the arts – an industry that showcases our culture, seeing the bigger picture: viewing an ever-changing creativity, innovation and bold ideas. landscape through an innovative mix of media. Campbelltown City Council 27 Since 1998, local, interstate and international audiences This takes both traditional forms – such as paint, City of Prospect 27 have delighted in the visionary work presented by sculpture, photography and print – and exciting new talented artists at the South Australian Living Artists formats including digitally generated imagery, video City of Tea Tree Gully 28 (SALA) Festival. and even virtual reality. This winter, we get to enjoy nearly 700 exhibitions, Just as the news industry is undertaking massive change City of Salisbury 28 tours, workshops and displays showing at over to reach its audience through different platforms, so City of Playford 28 500 venues across the state, including regional artists are utilising the latest materials and emerging South Australia. technologies to produce exciting works that speak to a City of Port Adelaide Enfield 29 I’m proud of the festival’s inclusivity. There are now 21st century community. even more bilingual tours on offer and more schools The Advertiser is proud to have been associated with City of Charles Sturt 31 are participating in varying ways. It is still the biggest SALA as the event’s major sponsor for more than a open access visual arts festival in the world. decade and support the state’s artists in its various City of West Torrens 33 publications. As you peruse this program, I encourage you to City of Holdfast Bay 33 immerse yourself in multiple experiences and try Through the pages of The Advertiser, SA Weekend something new. I have every confidence that you will magazine, the Sunday Mail, The Messenger and their City of Unley 35 find something to learn or marvel at. online counterparts, we take artists’ images and their City of Mitcham 37 Congratulations to all participating artists and the stories from the walls of galleries and into the homes and hands of our readers. organisers for what will be another successful year. City of Marion 39 In judging and awarding The Advertiser Contemporary Art Prize, I also gain an insight to how South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula / Onkaparinga 39 most imaginative and creative forces view the society we live in, and the issues which confront it. Adelaide Hills 44 Make the most of the month of August to immerse Gawler Light & Adelaide Plains Council 46 yourself in the kaleidoscope of experiences that is SALA, discover new venues and meet the local artists Clare Valley 47 behind the images. Barossa Valley 48 Riverlands 50 Murraylands 51 Limestone Coast 51 Yorke Peninsula 52 Eyre Peninsula 52 Flinders Ranges / Outback 52 Nicholas Linke Kate Moskwa Online 53 Chair, SALA Festival CEO, SALA Festival Open Studios Index 54 Welcome to the 22nd SALA Festival which has become Art connects people with ideas, emotions and stories the biggest open access visual arts festival in the world. and has a unique capacity to communicate the human Artists Index 58 experience. The exhibitions and events in the South This year the Festival will comprise nearly 700 Venues Index 62 exhibitions and events across the State, including Australian Living Artists Festival are a reflection of our works by new, emerging, established and State’s culture and communities. internationally recognised South Australian artists. SALA is celebrated in galleries, restaurants and bars, along main streets, and in studios across the State. Of course the Festival would not be possible without SALA Festival respectfully acknowledges the First Nations of South the valuable contributions of so many. On behalf of The program invites you to discover venues and Australia and and all Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia. the SALA Board I wish to thank the State Government artists in your neighbourhood and beyond, to seek out We pay respect to Elders past and present and emerging and recognise through Arts South Australia, our other partners, something different and make new connections. sponsors and venues, our incredible staff and There are numerous ways you can search the program their cultural heritage, beliefs and continuing connection to land, place, volunteers whose tireless work brings the Festival - including finding exhibitions near you if you’re using waters and community. We acknowledge that they are of continuing together, and our incredible and committed audience a mobile device. If you’re looking for guidance we importance to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living today. of more than 850,000 who each year celebrate SA’s have walking, scooter, and bus tours, bilingual tours living artists. in Mandarin, Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi as well as Most importantly I wish to thank the more than 8,000 participatory tours so you can have a go at making art. SALA is an open access Festival. Details for exhibitions and events incredible artists whose diverse voices will this year South Australians can be proud that we host the world’s are published according to the information provided at the time of make up the SALA Festival. largest open access visual arts festival, truly a reflection registration. Every effort is made to ensure that all details are correct at I encourage you to go outside of your comfort zone this of the State’s engagement with culture and an openness time of publication. Program details may be subject to change. Please year – plan to see a few more exhibitions - and enjoy to see the world from another’s point of view. There are check details of any events via the contact information provided for the incredible talent of South Australia’s living artists in over 8,000 artists participating in this year’s Festival, each listing. Otherwise check salafestival.com for up-to-date information exhibitions across the State. each with their own distinct perspective; experience the provided to the Festival. world through the work of South Australia’s living artists. PechaKucha PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation Night format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. PechaKucha Nights are informal gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts - just about anything, really. We’ve invited a range of South Australian artists to present in the PechaKucha 20x20 format for a night of art-inspired frivolity. The bar will be open. Artist Tom Readett, 2018 SALA PechaKucha Night.