2011/2012 calendar

Vague Possibilities

Artists
Ray Harris, Matt Huppatz, James Marshall,
Monte Masi & Amy Spiers

Curator
Dr Mary Knights

External Scholar
Dr Edward Colless,
Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, VCA

Gallery floor talk
5pm Wednesday 23 March

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 23 March

Exhibition open
Tuesday 22 February - Friday 25 March 

Speculative project - gallery as experimental zone of engagement. 

Vague Possibilities invite (PDF file 93kb)

Soft Rebellion

Artists
Stuart Bailey, Carla Cescon, James Dodd & Paul Sloan.

Curators
Stuart Bailey & James Dodd

External Scholar
Chris Chapman, Senior Curator,
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 6 April

Exhibition open
Tuesday 5 April - Friday 6 May

The artists exhibiting as part of Soft Rebellion
recognise that fighting in modest ways, with actions
that might seem incidental or nominal is invaluable to
the cultural and social ecology as a whole.
The importance of simple, small acts of resistance
can be significant, providing individuals with important
vicarious release and the potential for reiteration of minority viewpoints.

Soft Rebellion invite (PDF file 94kb)

Crazy Fingers

Artists
Amy Baker, Annika Evans, Brigid Noone,
Amy Patterson & Mary-Jean Richardson

External Scholar
Maria Kunda, Associate Lecturer
Art & Design Theory, UTAS

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 18 May

Exhibition open
Tuesday 17 May - Friday 24 June

Crazy Fingers has been gathering for over ten years,
these five artists explore emotional ambiguous dialogues, across arts forms that are concerned with
the laborious process of thought and making.

Crazy Fingers invite (PDF file 132kb)

Margin to Centre: Visionary Art

Artists
Vittorio Ban (SA), Howard Finster (US), Iris Frame (SA), Anne Marie Grgich (US), Bronco Johnson (NSW), Albert Louden (UK), Anthony Mannix (NSW), R.A. Miller (US) Frank Phelan (SA), Jungle Phillips (SA), Jose dos Santos (ESP), Gerard Sendrey (FR), Mary T. Smith (US), James Son Ford Thomas (US), James T. Thomas (US)

Artists in Residency
Anthony Mannix and the Loop Orchestra (Sydney)
Rudely Interrupted (Sydney)

Curators
Paul Hoban & Professor Colin Rhodes

External Scholar
Professor Colin Rhodes, Dean,
Professor of Art History & Theory

Wednesday 27 July @ the SASA Gallery
5.00pm Gallery Floor talk
6.00pm Exhibition Launch
7.30pm Anthony Mannix and The Loop Orchestra
8.30pm Rudely Interrupted

Exhibition open
Tuesday 5 July - Friday 5 August

Self taught and Outsider art: A selection of significant international, national and local artists.

Margin to Centre: Visionary Art invite (PDF File148kb)

everyday the possible

Artists
Sonia Donnellan, Anna Hughes & Sonja Porcaro

External Scholar
Mary Zournazi, Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences, UNSW

Writer
Cath Kenneally

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 17 August

Exhibition open
Tuesday 16 August - Friday 16 September

everyday the possible investigates how 'affect' can be realised through visual art practice as a poetic expression of uncertainty.

everday the possible invite (PDF File 88kb)

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To the Islands:
The Architecture of Isolation

Artists
Urs Bette, Jacqueline Bowring, Margit Bruenner,
Michael Chapman, Jennifer Harvey, Russell Lowe,
Michael Ostwald & Sean Pickersgill

Curators
Jennifer Harvey and Sean Pickersgill

Writers
Karen Burns, Jennifer Harvey & Sean Pickersgill

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 28 September

Exhibition open
Tuesday 27 September - Friday 21 October

This exhibition will explore the latent architectural qualities in the idea of the 'island'. The participating artists and architects were asked to examine the text of Lucian of Samosata's 'True Stories' and the surreal islands described in the voyage. The artists have brought the thematics of these texts into contemporary experience, exploring the idea that islands may represent both symptoms and solutions to the experience of isolation.  

To the Islands:
The Architecture of Design invite (PDF File 79kb)

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Artists
Susan Bruce, Gary Campbell,
Michael Gabbedy & Keith Giles

Curators
Susan Bruce & Keith Giles

External Scholar
Dr Vicki Crowley, Senior Lecturer,
School of Communication, International Studies & Languages, UniSA

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 2 November

Exhibition open
Wednesday 2 - Friday 25 November

This exhibition recalls, reflects upon, and considers the four  artists' family stories, experiences of childhood and their significant others.

Bethink is a part of the Visual Arts Program, Feast Festival 2011.

Preview Rethinking the Past
by Stephanie Radok Australian Art Review

Review Past into Present
by Dr Christine Nicholls, Asian Art News

Bethink invite (PDF file 104kb) 

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Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) Exhibition 2011

Artists
Briony Milverton, Laura Wills, Hayley Carpenter,
Natasha Natale, Zoe Woods, Alex Burchmore,
Emily Catt, Michael Drew, Jennifer Allnutt,
Sally Baker, Steph English, Arlon Hall, Chloe Langford,
 Patrick Rees, Courtney Bignell, Sundari Carmody,
Laura Crowther, CJ Taylor, Kerri Ann Wright,
Celeste Aldahn, Bridgette Minuzzo, Rose Paton

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 7 December

Exhibition open
Saturday 3 - Wednesday 14 December

This is one of cluster of exhibitions that celebrates the work of students graduating in 2011 with degrees from Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia.

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Lost for words

Artists
John Barbour, Louise Haselton, Olga Sankey,
Simone Slee and Sandra Uray-Kennett

External Scholar
Dr Alex Selenitisch,
Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Melbourne

Curator
Olga Sankey

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 29 February

Exhibition open
Tuesday 21 February - Friday 23 March

Lost for words invite (PDF file 92kb)

SA vertical SA

Johannes S. Sistermanns

This multi dimensional : exhibition : performance : is happening in the staircase and foyers of the Kaurna Building. Sounds will be transmitted via WaVers on resonating iron, glass and wooden surfaces, planes of cling film and the building itself. Johannes uses wireless connections - bluetooth, iPhone, iPad and flat WaVers and sings corresponding to the Indian note Sa.

With the generous support by JM Audio Design, Darmstadt/Germany

Performance
7.30 -10.30pm Wednesday 29 February

SA vertical SA invite (PDF file 119kb)

For further information on the sound and performance work by Johannes S. Sistermanns

Objectified

Artists
Heidi Kenyon, Will Nolan, Pip and Pop,
Tristan Louth-Robins, Paul Sloan,
Sera Waters and Laura Wills

Curator
Karen Paris

External Scholar
Associate Professor David Cross, Co-Director Research & Postgraduate, Massey University, New Zealand

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 4 April

Exhibition open
Tuesday 3 April - Friday 4 May

The artists of Objectified explore the theory of the transitional object, as coined by Donald W Winnicott
as object attachment which occurs as part of the process of the understanding of self.

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Walking with Alice

Artists
Linde Ivimey, Jan Svankmeyer,
Simone Kennedy, Noel McKenna

Curator
Simone Kennedy

External Scholar
Elspeth Pitt, Curator, Australian Prints, Drawings
and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Australia    

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 16 May

Exhibition open
Tuesday 15 May - Friday 20 July

Inspired by the Czech animator Jan Svankmayer's film Alice this exhibition Walking with Alice proposes to build and put forward separate psychoanalytical areas (within the gallery space) looking at three artist's expressions of the unconscious/conscious self whilst pertaining to the imaginary world of Alice in Wonderland.

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conversations in ellipsis

Artists
Morgan Allender, Sally Arnold, Nic Brown,
Cathy Frawley, Sasha Grbich, Lisa Harms,
Alessandra Tomeo and Kaylie Weir

Curator
Lisa Harms

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 1 August

Exhibition open
Tuesday 31 July - Friday 24 August

an exercise in affect & association
time & (e)motion studies
or
things unsaid

The exhibition conversations in ellipsis will span multiple venues across the Adelaide CBD including Feltspace and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
This exhibition is being developed as a partnership with Adelaide City Council, Feltspace and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and is a part of the SALA Festival 2012.

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Post Skangagroovian

Artists
Gus Cltterbuck, Jo Crawford, Margaret Dodd,
Alex Danko, Nicole Greenslade, Phillip Hart,
Bronwyn Kemp, Bruce Nuske and Gerry Wedd

Curators
Jo Crawford, Peter Johnson and Bruce Nuske

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 26 September

Exhibition open
Tuesday 4 September - Friday 12 October

Post Skangaroovian seeks to explore the legacy of a 'new wave of stylish, post modern ceramics recognised as particular to Adelaide studio ceramics in the period of 1968 to 1978.
This exhibition is being developed in partnership with the 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Hot Chocolate

Artists
Troy-Anthony Baylis (Adelaide, Australia), Bianca Beetson (Brisbane, Queensland), Brenda L Croft (Adelaide, Australia), Pamela Croft-Warcon (Keppel Sands, Queensland), Cary Leibowitz (New York, USA), Yves Netzhammer (Zurich, Switzerland), Nat Paton (Brisbane, Queensland) and Dieter Roth (Switzerland/Germany - deceased).

Curators
Troy-Anthony Baylis and Frances Wyld

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 7 November

Exhibition open
Tuesday 23 October - Thursday 29 November

An exhibition of contemporary art researching metaphors and practices of making and relating
art with chocolate.

Hot Chocolate is part of the Visual Arts Program Feast Festival 2012.

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Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) Exhibition 2012

Artists
(TBC)

Exhibition launch
6pm Wednesday 5 December

Exhibition open
Wednesday 5 - Wednesday 19 December

This is one of cluster of exhibitions that celebrates the work of students graduating in 2012 with degrees from Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia.