what’s on in Adelaide SA

Sunday 12^th August 11:30AM, Greenhill Galleries, 140 Barton Tce. West, North Adelaide, 35^th Anniversay Exhibition, new works by Sheree Wright and ‘The Age of UnReason’, Cherie Maidment

Sunday 12^th August 1PM, Gray Street Workshop, 10, Sydney Place, Adelaide, open studio

Tuesday 14^th August 6:30-8:00PM Lecture Theatre G04, Napier Building, North Terrace Campus, Cultural Oration with Artlab Australia’s Director, Andrew Durham, discussing the topic Conservation and the Artist’s Intention. Durham will show examples of the conservation of modern art works by Frank Stella, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Bacon to demonstrate the importance of understanding the materials and techniques of art-making; the traditional, the innovative and the idiosyncratic (including light refreshments after the lecture)

Thursday 16th August 2PM, join the tour at the front of the Mitchell Building, University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus for a tour of the University’s public artworks by South Australian artists including Geoff Wilson, Greg Johns, Clifford Frith, Hossein Valamanesh and Johnnie Dady

Thursday 16^th August 6PM, Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, ‘I DO’ (Christine Pyman is exhibiting in this one, if any of you happen to be in Melbourne that day)

Friday 17th August 2pm, Barr Smith Library Foyer, University of Adelaide, Frank Grauso will take part in Artist Talks, where he will discuss his passion for photography which embraces everyday objects and locations through a subtle and understated lens.

Sunday 19^th August 11:30AM, Greenhill Galleries, Penny’s Hill Winery, Willunga Road, McLaren Vale, ‘Drawings and Prints’, Dieter Engler

Sunday 19^th August 2:30PM, Greenhill Galleries, Level 1 Hilton Hotel, The Artist Speaks’, Peter Griffen talks about his current exhibition at the Hilton. RSVP Greenhill Galleries 8267 2933 or greenhill@internode.on.net

Thursday 23^rd August 6PM, Urban Cow, ‘Substance’, jewellery by Kim Thomson

Friday 24^th August 5PM, Hill Smith, David Bromley, recent works

Sunday 26th August 12:30pm, Barr Smith Library Foyer, University of Adelaide, Frank Grauso will take part in Artist Talks, where he will discuss his passion for photography which embraces everyday objects and locations through a subtle and understated lens.

Thursday 30^th August 6PM, Experimental Arts Foundation, Calin Dan, Memory Tags (a lounge)

Tuesday August 14^th 6-7pm   Upstairs, 15 Kingston Ave Richmond

HQ Gallery is pleased to invite you to attend an artists’ talk to support the current exhibitions disarm by Lisa Picciau, and Silver Road to Storyland (Red:Eye Adults) by the members of the Headquarters Collective   disarm, an exhibition of new photographic work by Lisa Picciau, explores and documents (un)familiar spaces and landscapes and examines the changes inherent in placing an individual (if not the viewer), in the realm of a space.  Lisa is also showing an earlier body of work – a series titled Generations.

Lisa will be talking about the production of her new work, shot with a 5×4 view camera, and showing a portfolio of work to date.

Silver Road to Storyland (Red:Eye Adults) is an exhibition of new Moving Image work by Kerri Hudson, Andy Marshall, Sam Oster, Ashlee Page and Jason Sweeney .

Sam Oster will be talking about the production of her latest moving image work ‘Teacup Ballet’, inspired by the Olive Cotton image of the same name, and about working with choreographer Felecia Hick. Ashlee Page will talk about her latest piece Red Eye Road, made using software programs to produce a moving image piece with digital stills.

If you haven’t had a chance to see this SALA exhibition, or would like the opportunity to see it again, this is an ideal opportunity to check it out.

Thursday 9^th August 6PM, Nexus Gallery, Across Continents

Thursday 9^th August 6-8PM, Bruce Wilson Galley, Vizarts, O’Halloran Hill Campus, Majors Road, O’Halloran Hill, Hands On Again, third year degree students

Thursday 9^th August 6PM, Queen’s Arms Hotel, 88 Wright Street, ‘54 Bubbles’

Thursday 9^th August 6PM, New Land Gallery, 2 McLaren Parade, Port Adelaide, ‘Evidence of Water’, Rick Hutchinson, and ‘Sand in Our Pockets’, Belinda Broughton and Ervin Janek

Thursday 9^th August 6PM, Art on King William, Kelly Milton the launch of Art on King William is at Feast, 6pm [Kelly currently has limestone work exhibited at Kensington Gallery & @ Made in Japan, venue 114]

Thursday 9^th August 6:30PM, Liverpool Street Studio Gallery, Liverpool Street, Adelaide, Swan Song

Thursday 9^th August 7PM, Hotel Richmond, 1128 Rundle Mall, Comfort of Strangers

Thursday 9^th August 7PM, Norton Summit Primary School, 15 Crescent Drive, Norton Summit, local artists and students

art and music from 6pm - be there

dr bikini / medicated / billion dollar bums

Saturday 4th August 2PM, Semaphore Angel, 81 The Esplanade, Semaphore, pottery, glass, pottery wheel demonstration (open studio)

Saturday 4th August 2:30PM, First Street Artist Studios Inc., 131 Coglin Street, Brompton, Sixth Sense (open studio)

Saturday 4th August 3PM, Dragonfly, 193 Victoria Square, Virant (Vibrant?), Alive and Burnt Wood

Saturday 4th August, from 4PM viewing, 7PM auction, North Adelaide Institute, 176 Tynte Street, Art Auction in aid of Friends of the Earth

Saturday 4th August 6:30PM, Café 47, 74B Morphett Street, The Essence of Adelaide and Beyond

Saturday 4th August 7PM, Worldsend Hotel, 208 Hindley Street, The Whakapapa Tree

Saturday 4th August 9PM, Crown and Anchor Hotel, 196 Grenfell Street, Civil Twilight

Friday 3 August 5PM, Worldsend Hotel, Sensualidad Efimera

Friday 3^rd August 5:30PM, SALA launch, invitation only.

Friday 3 August 6PM, Art Gallery of SA, SALA Display – 10 years

Friday 3 August 6-8PM, Tin Cat Café

Friday 3 August 6-8PM, Adelaide Theosophical Society, 310 South Terrace, Harmonic Energies

Friday 3 August 6-8PM, Arts Access SA, 101 Halifax Street, Road Works

Friday 3 August 6-8PM, Studio Barcelona, 23 Ebenezer Place, Mary Freer

Friday 3 August 6PM, Rising Sunday Pictures, 180 Pulteney Street, A Disparate Collection

Friday 3 August 6-8PM, Zu Design, balcony Gays Arcade (plus lots of others in Gays and Adelaide Arcades, T’Arts downstairs, the tailors opposite Zu Design and more)

Friday 3 August 6:30PM, Café Komodo, 118 Prospect Road, Evanescent, David Washington and Danny Johnson

Friday 3 August 6:30PM, Premier Art Gallery/Supplies, 284 Rundle Street, Noodle

Friday 3 August 7PM, Centre for Creative Photography, 138 Richmond Road, Marleston, lecturing staff and assistants, recent work

Friday 3 August 7PM, Hughes Gallery, 411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton

Friday 3 August 8PM, Urtext Studios, Level 2, 14 Grenfell Street, Antonyms and Aorta

It should be a really fun night, with live music by Amoebius Trip, food, drink, an award-winning auctioneer, door prizes, and amazing artworks to be auctioned!

Held as part of South Australian Living Artists Festival, the Auction features the work of many local and interstate artists, including the Tjanpi Desert Weavers (as featured at this year’s Womadelaide), Deni Odlum, Laura Wills, Sam Jeffries, Alisa Teletovic, Fleur Elise Noble, Mitch, Matt Sheehy, Shani Louey-Gung, and many others!

There will be something there for everyone! Including weavings, handmade homewares, jewellery, paintings, prints, henna, sculpture, and more.

Money raised goes towards supporting indigenous traditional owners in the Northern Territory in their campaign against the proposed nuclear waste dump on their traditional lands.

Date: Saturday 4 August

Time: Viewing from 4pm, Auction at 7pm

Venue: North Adelaide Institute (Community Centre), 176 Tynte St, North Adelaide

South Australian Living Artists Festival Art Gallery of South Australia  3 - 19 August 2007

The state’s premier visual arts institution, the Art Gallery of South Australia, will host more than 500 artists, curators, collectors, arts industry professionals and supporters tonight to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival. At this special event, the Gallery will also launch a special free exhibition showcasing work by some of our most outstanding contemporary South Australian artists; all of them past recipients of the prestigious SALA monograph.

Artists whose work features in the exhibition include: Annette Bezor, James Darling, Kathleen Petyarre, Nick Mount, Ian Abdulla, Deborah Paauwe, Michelle Nikou, Aldo Iacobelli and Julie Blyfield. Works on show embrace a diverse range of media from painting, photo-media, sculpture and installation, glass and jewellery.

“The Art Gallery of South Australia is proud to be the leading supporter and promoter of the visual arts in South Australia, displaying exceptional work by South Australian artists every day of the year” says Art Gallery Director, Christopher Menz. “The 2007 SALA exhibition highlights just some of the many local works purchased by the Gallery over the past decade, giving us all the opportunity to reflect on the great breadth of talent that exists in our State” says Menz.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to hear from the artists themselves at a series of free Sunday afternoon talks held in the exhibition:

5 August:       James Darling (2pm), Deborah Paauwe (2.30pm)
12 August:     Aldo Iacobelli (2pm), Michelle Nikou (2.30pm)
19 August:     Annette Bezor (2pm), Ian Abdulla (2.30pm)

The 2007 SALA exhibition is located in galleries 9 and 10 at the Art Gallery of South Australia and is open daily 10am to 5pm from tomorrow. Admission is free.

Thursday 2nd August 6-8, Chesser Galleries, 23 Chesser Street, Adelaide, “Wishlist” the craftsouth exhibition.

(CHRISTINE PYMAN is exhibiting in one this so BE THERE!)

Thursday 2nd August 6-8, SoMA, 147 Parade, Norwood, ‘Due’, Gerry Wedd and Chris de Rosa

Thursday 2nd August 6-8, Pepper Street

Thursday 2nd August 6-8, Irving Baby, 40 Hindley Street, Mad About Vintage (jewellery)

Thursday 2nd August 6PM, La Boheme, 36 Grote Street, Sight Lines

Thursday 2nd August 6PM, A P Bond Art Dealer, 95 Unley Road, Unley, Quaternity

Thursday 2nd August 6:30PM, Parks Arts and Function Complex - AXIS Gallery, Fat and Flat #5 - Indicators

Thursday 2nd August 7PM, Artistic License, Out From the Crowd, several artists, opening by Lynda Allen

Thursday 2nd August 7PM, Caos Cafe, 188 Hindley Street, “Mapping Us”, Fran Callen, guest speaker Conny Wilson, General Manager, SALA Festival

A sale of unframed artwork by Fran Callen will be part of the Mapping Us exhibition opening. Works in the art sale range in price from $5-$50.

Thursday 2^nd August 7PM, Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton, ‘Chapter 46’, Andrea Przygonski

Transmission

Artists: Di Barrett , Greg Donovan, Andrew Hill , Mark Kimber, Toby Richardson & Olga Sankey

Exhibition Launch: Wednesday 8 August 2007 6-8pm    Exhibition open 7 - 31 August

Visiting Scholar: Dr Anne Marsh – Floor talk Wednesday 8 August 5pm

SALA Artist Talks: Saturday 11 August 2.00pm    

Gallery opening hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11am – 5pm

And during SALA Festival (Sat 11^th Sun 12^thMon 13^th & Sat 18^th Sun 19^th 11-5pm)

An exhibition of painting, photography and printmaking mediated through digital processes by six artists from DARE, the Digital Art Research Experiment, South Australian School of Art.

Please go to the SASA Gallery website for more information and to download an invitation: http://www.unisa.edu.au/art/sasagallery/current.asp