Tag: Art Gallery of South Australia
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Tarnanthi Festival 2025: Celebrating 10 years
At this year’s 10th-anniversary Tarnanthi Festival, you can experience a diverse profusion of leading-edge works of art from across Australia, presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia, throughout Adelaide and around South Australia. Don’t miss the opening weekend celebrating contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Festival highlights Tarnanthi Launch Join the excitement on…
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Monet, Matisse and van Gogh ‘masterworks’ bound for Adelaide in multimillion-dollar Winter Art series
The Art Gallery of South Australia has revealed its 2026 winter centrepiece, a new exhibition bringing together works by some of the most celebrated names in 19th and 20th century art with Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition. Slated to open in July 2026, the exhibition will feature key showpieces from the collection of the Toledo…
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Is our state gallery doing enough for South Australia’s living artists?
Since SALA’s inception in 1998 as the brainchild of art dealer and gallerist Paul Greenaway OAM, the festival has had an arm’s length relationship with South Australia’s flagship art museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia. This is not surprising as SALA is an inclusive, open access, feel-good event, that embraces all comers irrespective of…
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A modernist maelstrom or thoughtful deep dive into the interior worlds of women?
Dangerously modern: Australian women artists in Europe 1890-1940 delivers that rare experience, a groundbreaking and thought-provoking deep dive into a relatively neglected aspect of Australian art. As the ticketed highlight of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s winter program, the exhibition is competing for interstate visitation with the big guns of French Impressionism in Melbourne…
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This material world is both sublime and subversive
Radical Textiles Art Gallery of South Australia Needlepoint and embroidery in Jane Austen’s time were meant for ladies of a certain class, occupying hands that never had to labour in fields or factories, adding to the list of accomplishments required to attract a suitable husband. Quilting, crochet, knitting, sewing, cross-stitch and other textile crafts have…
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New director announced for Art Gallery of South Australia
Jason Smith, the current director of Geelong Gallery, has been appointed the new director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Smith has over 25 years of experience, having previously served as curatorial manager of Australian art at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art. He was also the director and CEO of Heide Museum of…
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Inside Radical Textiles: “a trojan horse” of activism
Radical Textiles is full of layered tapestries and eye-catching embroidery but be warned some exhibits will test your willpower to adhere to the gallery’s strict “no touching” rule. We’re proud to say we kept our hands to ourselves (as should you) but certainly picked up our own embroidery starter packs from the gift shop on…
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‘Because I love her’ – stitching together the untold stories of extraordinary women
You can feel the collective love radiating from the two large textile works that together make the NELL ANNE QUILT, says Nell of the result of the collaborative project she has spearheaded over the past four years. Three of the 441 embroidered patches on the quilts are dedicated to the most important women in her…
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Sliding-door landscapes offer a window into the heart and mind
Today, we often think of conceptual art as one manifestation of modern and contemporary art. However, over a thousand years ago, scholar–artists in China conceived of a genre of painting that featured idealised seasonal landscapes. Utilising the limitless capacity of brush and ink, the literati created atmospheric visions of the natural world. Inspired by lyrical…
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Dangerously modern: Art Gallery to shine a light on trailblazing women
Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 is a joint exhibition curated by AGSA with the Art Gallery of New South Wales to recognise the role these artists played in the development of international modernism. It will premiere in Adelaide from May 24 until September 7 before moving to Sydney from October 11. Drawing…