Visual Arts
Index of events:
High Beam Global Visual Arts
Jacek Limanowka
Spectrum Art Exhibition
Water and Flowers Imply…
That’s Not Garbage – Training & Development Workshops
Handle with Care - 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Australia
Access Arts Link (TAS)
A colourful and vibrant exhibition of works by Tasmanian artists with a disability.
Andrew Kerr (SA)
A quirky, bold and colourful exhibition of acrylics on canvas and sculpture.
Artist in Residence SA
A great opportunity for people to see artists with disabilities creating art. It will give viewers an insight into the often time consuming and complex processes which go into creating an artwork.
A-Frame Winners Showcase (SA)
Arts Access SA’s 2007 A-Frame Art Exhibition prizewinners: Sophie Janzon (under 26), Lucy McCann (regional), Bryan Tingey (open), Gail Haynes (packers’ prize) and Dana Nance (people’s choice) present works of drawing, painting and mixed media. View their winning artworks.
DADAA WA “Family Foto” (WA)
"Your Family and Mine" takes a closer look at the often private landscape of the family; the people we live with, the places we live in and the people we come from. Moving through closed doors, household interiors open up giving an intimate preview of how and who we live with. Families are blood, relatives, friends, pets, networks, peers and are often as marked by their absence and passing as their ongoing presence. "Your Family and Mine" looks at the lives of people living with a mental illness and plays with notions of perceived normality and dysfunction.
Coordinated/ Curated by: Mark McPherson
Photographers: Wayne Richards, Terry Mathews, Kay Merrin, Clayton
Martin, Judy Mary Seward, Nicky Vervest, Pauline Miles, Yvette
Bonhoffer, Mary Urquhart and Mark McPherson.
Faith Thorley “Heading in the Right Direction”(SA)
A journey from wellness to illness towards acceptance & renewal of life as told through the dynamic and life-affirming artworks of Faith Thorley. View her artworks.
John Willanski “Ink Rain on my Parade” (SA)
Festival time is here again but inky clouds are gathering on the horizon. Perhaps the drought is about to break?That’s good reason to celebrate, let Ink Rain on my parade! Shapes, icons and even words conspire together to magicallyevolve into larger images.The eye is continually drawn into and out of each piece, discovering shapes within and at large. Each work invites inspection at a distance and draws the viewer to a closer scrutiny. View his artworks.
The Limbness Project (SA)
Alexandra Devitt-Lansom brings you The Limbness Project. A generational point of view on living life without a limb or in some cases limbs. From an 11 year old boy to an 80 year old grandmother, The Limbness Project is an enlightening experience not to miss.
Reins, Rope & Red Tape (SA)
An exhibition of artworks by emerging SA disabled visual artists: Alex Guthrie
Michelle Hosking, Mel Kelly, and Ad'm Martin.
Trina Edwards (SA)
Talented newcomer to arts practice, Trina Edwards, presents a number of vivid acrylic works with a surfing theme, following on from her painting selected and sold at the 2007 A-Frame exhibition shown at the Adelaide Festival Theatre.
| 25 Feb – 15 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Sat 12-5pm (closed Sundays) | VENUE: 106 Currie St, Adelaide (cnr Rosina St)  |
South Australia
From a midlife crisis to demented angels, dynamic, touching and exhilarating works.
| 21 Jan - 15 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Fri 9-5pm | VENUE: Disability Information Resource Centre, 195 Gilles St, Adelaide |
HBG ENDORSED VISUAL ARTS
South Australia
The 'Spectrum Art Exhibition' is an opportunity for the general public to view art created by a group of young artists from Autism SA. The Opening Night and Exhibition completes a series of artist workshops that have looked into the aspects that are considered in order to organise an exhibition.
| 22 Feb - 14 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Fri 10-4pm + Fri 22 Feb 6.30-9pm + Sun 24 Feb 10am-4pm |
VENUE: Carclew Ballroom, Jeffcott St, North Adelaide |
South Australia
Presented by Boris Dontscheff
Exotic flowers, particularly lilies, as signifiers of purity represented in contexts hinting at water use: issues of sustainability are evoked by representations of flowers (exotic and indigenous). Alternating layers of acrylic and pastel explore formative forces of light and colour to evoke layers of meaning.
| 14 Feb - 15 Mar | HOURS: Mon – Fri 8.30am – 5pm + Thurs 14 Feb 6 – 7.30pm |
VENUE: Lucia’s Spaghetti And Pizza Bar, Adelaide Central Market, Shop 1 & 2 Western Mall (Enter Off Gouger Street) |
South Australia
That’s Not Garbage – Training & Development Workshops
Presented by Enviro-mental Pty Ltd
Hands on workshops for Teachers and community educators who want to work creatively, save money and the environment by using recycled materials. Presented by well known creative communicator Kristen Messenger and supported by visual/performance artist Neil Clegg. Check the Fringe website for curriculum linked themes. Materials included in price. All workshops: $50, G$45
| 23 Feb - 15 Mar | HOURS: Sat 23 Feb, 2pm, Mon 25 Feb 1pm, Tue 26 Feb 9.30am, Wed 27 Feb 1pm, Thu 28 Feb 9.30am, Fri 29 Feb 1pm, Sat 8 Mar 2pm, Mon 10 Mar 9.30am, Tue 11 Mar 1pm, Wed 12 Mar 9.30am, Thu 13 Mar 9.30am, Fri 14 Mar 1pm, Sat 15 Mar 2pm |
VENUE: 24 Charles Rd, Beverley |
HBG ENDORSED VISUAL ARTS
South Australia
Handle with Care - 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Dadang Christanto
Never Ending Stories, 2008
acrylic paint on used cardboard
150 x 500 x 500 cm
courtesy the artist
2008 is the tenth edition of this major survey of current art practice, featuring recent work by artists from around Australia.
In Handle with Care the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art considers aspects of contemporary life that generate disquiet and debate. An undercurrent of anxiety in today’s society is explored in sculpture, photography, video, painting and installations by well-known Australian-born and immigrant artists, and by emerging artists whose work engages in a range of sociopolitical issues.
A sub-theme of the exhibition is the experience of transiting between cultures, of crossing racial, national as well as psychological borders. Collectively, works in the exhibition describe – both in thematic content and material form – the fragile nature of our relationships with the cultural and natural environments in which we live.
Artists exhibiting in Handle with Care include Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Dadang Christanto, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, James Darling and Lesley Forwood, Dennis Del Favero, Janet Laurence, Anthony Mannix, Tom Múller, Dorothy Napangardi, James Newitt, Bronwyn Oliver, Gregory Pryor, Kate Rohde, Sandra Selig, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Hossein Valamanesh, Suzann Victor, Guan Wei, Catherine Woo, Ken Yonetani and a collection of young Australian filmmakers.
Additionally, elements of Handle with Care will explore the work of artists using light as their medium, to complement the Festival’s Speed of Light exhibitions.
For the first time, none of the artists featured have previously shown in the Adelaide Biennial.
Curator Felicity Fenner
This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Art Gallery of South Australia
| 29 Feb - 4 May 15 Mar 2pm, (Auslan interpreted tour) |
HOURS: daily 10am–5pm + 29 Feb, 7-9pm |
VENUE: Art Gallery of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Book at the Adelaide Festival | ||
