Publications
SASA Gallery catalogues can be viewed for past exhibitions. Introductory text is by Mary Knights, Gallery Director. Download Adobe Acrobat to view these catalogues.
2008
This everything water
| This everything water is an exhibition of work by Kay Lawrence, Bardi artist Aubrey Tigan from
Djaridjin, and Nyigina Law Man, Butcher Joe Nangan. The exhibition,
which is part of the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, explores the
iridescent and material qualities of pearl shell, and the symbolic
meanings attributed to it by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
This everything water is underpinned by research undertaken by
Lawrence into shell harvested in the early 20th Century around the
Dampier Peninsula, a remote area north of Broome. PDF file (5.9mb) |
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Gathering loss
| Gathering Loss is an
exhibition of work by Irmina van Niele that explores cultural and
emotional attachment to place and the effects of displacement and loss.
Using processes that are obsessive and repetitive - such as making
collages from hundreds of cut-out paper images of buildings and people,
and knitting striped pastel patches out of old plastic bags - Irmina's
work evokes fragmentary and incoherent childhood memories, nostalgia and
a sense of instability. PDF file (2.3mb) |
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Cinderella II - The Dreamer
| Cinderella II
- The Dreamer is an
exhibition of work by Gosia Wlodarczak that engages primarily with
drawing, but also incorporate elements of sound and video into
installation and performance. In her art practice Gosia equates the
reality of 'being'
with seeing. Engaging with time, space and place her drawings reflect
what she sees existing in the immediate proximity of the space
surrounding her. As she states: 'I draw my
environment as I see it in real time - tracing
and re-tracing the visible...'
(Gosia
Wlodarczak March 2008) PDF file (3.1mb) |
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Line Drawing
| Curated by Linda Marie Walker,
Line Drawing engages with notions of line, spatiality and drawing from a
range of interdisciplinary positions. Using the SASA Gallery as a
project space, Julie Henderson, Bianca Hester and James Geurts worked
with Teri Hoskin, Domenico de Clario and the curator. While working
towards installation, performance and publication outcomes, this project
focuses on process, generative and open-ended possibilities. The nature
of the work was not predetermined and the artists explored connections
and intersections across concepts and art practices.
PDF file (1.8mb) |
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The Constance Gordon-Johnson Sculpture and Installation Prize
| Since 2004 the Constance
Gordon-Johnson Prize has recognised the outstanding achievements of four
emerging artists from the Sculpture and Installation studio of the South
Australian School of Art. The event however is more than a generous cash
prize for an individual artist. Since the inaugural exhibition we have
presented the work of 26 talented and committed emerging artists. In
some cases this has been the first professional opportunity the artists
have had to present their work, in most cases it has been the first of
many professional engagements the Sculpture and Installation Studio
Alumni have enjoyed. PDF file (559kb) |
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Shards
| Shards is one of a series
of research based exhibitions that engages external scholars to
participate in the SASA Gallery's exhibition
and publication programs. The external scholar for this exhibition is
Brenda Croft, Senior Curator, Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander Art,
National Gallery of Australia. As well as writing an essay for the
catalogue, Croft will participate in events
associated with the exhibition. PDF file (14mb) |
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The Green Candle
| The Green
Candle is the result of a collaboration between Dr John Barbour and
Paul Hoban. The exhibition is based on the artists' ongoing interest in
each other's ideas and explores the connections and differences evident
between their art practices. Barbour and Hoban are academics connected
with the South Australian School of Art. PDF file (5.2mb) |
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2007
Quirk
| Quirk brings together contemporary
artists from Tasmania and South Australia who explore the abject and
perverse through their work. Developed for the 2007 Adelaide Fringe
Festival, this exhibition is intended to expose artwork that is quirky,
playful, weird and a little obsessive. The artists Sonia Donnellan,
Amanda Robins, Rebecca Knapp, Anna Phillips, Mish Meijers, Tricky Walsh
and Pamela Zeplin address the curatorial premise from a diverse range of
perspectives and use media and techniques that range from band-aids and
embroidery to film and installation. PDF file (5.1mb) |
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The Dream Republic
| The Dream Republic,
curated by Pamela Zeplin, is the culmination of a seven week residency
undertaken by Indonesian artist Heri Dono in Adelaide. Dono has
developed an international reputation for his work that is both
unsettling and whimsical. In his art practice, which embraces
installation, wayang puppetry, video, performance and collaboration,
Dono engages with contemporary social and political issues and explores
the position of the individual in society. PDF file (5.9mb) |
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Strangely Familiar
| Strangely Familiar
[working title] is the third in a series of exhibitions of work by
artists and designers from RMIT University and the Louis Laybourne Smith
School of Architecture & Design, UniSA. These exhibitions, which
have been staged in Melbourne and Adelaide, provide the opportunity for
experimental, interactive and evolving design processes to be explored. PDF file (4mb) |
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Years without magic
| Years without
magic is an exhibition by Louise Haselton
and Bridget Currie in which they explore 'connections
and commonalities' in their work. Ideas
intersect and resonate. The discarded and banal transform into things
golden, mysterious and whimsical. Often seamless sculptural and
installation practices are problematised. Traditional techniques such as
metal casting are juxtaposed with the slipshod and cobbled together; the
materiality and inherent qualities of found and made objects fascinate
and repulse, and works carefully placed in the gallery space are
contrasted with others randomly dropped during a performance. PDF file (5.5mb) |
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Transmission
| Transmission is a group
exhibition by members of the Digital Art Research Experiment (DARE).
This exhibition is the fifth in a series that invites external
scholars, as well as local, interstate and international artists and
designers, to participate in the SASA Gallery's
exhibition and publication programs. Dr Anne Marsh, Associate Professor,
Theory of Art & Design, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, is
the external scholar participating in this exhibition. Her research
areas include photography, feminism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and
performance art. PDF file (1.7mb) |
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The Ranger
| The Ranger is one of a
series of research based exhibitions that engage external scholars to
participate in the SASA Gallery's exhibition
and publication programs. Dr Pat Hoffie is Associate Professor at
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her research, artwork
and writing are informed by myths and delusions about Australia's
history, relationships with other societies and inequities of cultural
power particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Lola Greeno is a
Tasmanian Aboriginal artist and arts administrator with Arts Tasmania.
Greeno is best known for her necklaces made from shells including black
crow, cockle and the iridescent blue-green maireener shells. PDF file (9.1mb) |
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Spill
| Spill is one of a series
of research based exhibitions that engage external scholars to
participate in the SASA Gallery's exhibition
and publication programs. The external scholar for this exhibition is Dr
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
Durham. Her research explores issues of ethnicity, identity and cultural
values and their impact on understanding affectual and emotional
responses to landscapes. While in Adelaide, as well as writing the
catalogue essay, Tolia-Kelly will participate in events associated with
the exhibition, including a symposium developed in partnership with the
Cultures of the Body Research Group, School of Communication, UniSA. PDF file (1.2mb) |
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