Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
John Barbour, Kate Brennan, Shaun Kirby and Bronwyn Platten
This exhibition presents four artists working in Adelaide whose otherwise dissimilar proposals are united by a common concern for the way in which visual arts works as language.
The work in this exhibition is undoubtedly intended as discourse, and courts interpretation. However, paradoxically, it is also wilfully opaque, resisting conclusions and even the very idea of meaning.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Curated by Erica Green. Catalogue essays by John Barrett-Lennard, Anne Brennan, Julie Ewington and David O’Halloran.
Julie Adams, Mae Adams, Glen D Clarke, Peter Cole, Caroline Durré, Rodney Forbes, Christopher Gray, Kaye L Green, Euan Heng, Merryle Johnson, Catherine Larkins, Frank Mesaric, Kevin Mortensen, Clive Murray-White, Susan Purdy, Rodney Scherer, Colin Suggett, Margaret Voce, Dan Wollmering, William Young
A touring exhibition, Contemporary Gippsland Artists features paintings, print, photographs and sculpture, by a selection of twenty artists working in the Gippsland area of Victoria. There is no particular theme or subject matter, no readily identifiable Gippsland landscape.
As David Hansen suggests in his catalogue essay, “the regional landscape is important only insofar as it is part of a wider lived experience, and insofar as it can be part of the narrower, thematic or formal concerns of the artists’ work”.
A touring exhibition organised by the Latrobe Valley Arts Centre. Curated by Donald Coventry and Rodney Scherer. Catalogue essays by Karen E. Bensley and David Hansen.
Di Barrett, Alyx Macfadyen, Rick Martin, Josie Starrs and Lisa Tomasetti
Real Fictions is the work of a group of South Australian photographers who in their different ways, evolve the Renaissance portraitists, playing as they do with neo-classical, heroic treatments of the human subject in painting and sculpture.
These photo-portraits are highly elusive, with a unique and idiosyncratic iconography, which writer Cath Kenneally explores in detail in her catalogue essay.
Following the launch of the exhibition at the Art Museum, the South Australian Exhibition Touring Program (SATEP), will manage its tour to regional centres.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Exhibition co-ordinator: Madeleine Mallee. Catalogue essay by Cath Kenneally.
This exhibition presents a survey of paintings and studies by Adelaide artist Anna Platten, selected from her work of the past ten years. Platten is a graduate of the South Australian School of Art and in 1987 was awarded the inaugural South Australian School of Art Chanter Bequest, enabling her to travel to Europe to view and experience the old masters who have been influential in her work.
Platten has a passionate commitment to the expression and communication of her feelings, rendered through narrative paintings, objectively constructed in a traditional manner, and rich in sensuality and symbolic detail.
The exhibition reflects the University of South Australia Art Museum’s interest to periodically draw attention to the achievement of an Adelaide artist, by examining their work in relative depth at an appropriate time in their career.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Curated by Erica Green. Catalogue essay by George Couvalis.
Robert Harrison, an American architectural ceramicist, will be artist in residence at the University of South Australia, School of Design, Ceramics Department, during August – September 1992.
Harrison has worked in the ceramics field for over fourteen years, focusing on sculptural concerns for the past seven years. Much of his more recent work has involved site specific, architecturally based, large-scale outdoor sculpture and the use of varied materials. He has exhibited widely throughout the western United States and Canada.
Since 1985, Robert Harrison has held the position of Assistant Head, Ceramics Studio (Summer Head, Ceramics Studio) at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
The exhibition will feature an installation “with the notion of ‘site’ being paramount prior to conception”.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Exhibition co-ordinator: Madeleine Mallee. Catalogue essay by Rick Newby.
Stephen Bram, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Melinda Harper, Gail Hastings, Ann Marie May, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness and Gary Wilson
An exhibition of work by artists who are closely associated with Store 5, an artist-run exhibition space in Melbourne.
These artists are as much concerned with the value of the labour and time spent in the making of work, as they are with end products.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Exhibition co-ordinator: Kate Brennan. Catalogue essay by Carolyn Barnes.
Selected works by University of South Australia Master of Visual Art and Graduate Diploma students and graduates.
