Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
The Art Museum gallery closed in late 1997 for the relocation of the Art Museum from Underdale Campus to City West Campus.
Tom Arthur, Fiona Hall, Leah King-Smith, Anne MacDonald, Robyn Stacey, Laurens Tan and Ken Unsworth
In our society, death is hidden, denied and buried in euphemism. Within Australia, there is very little contemporary art practice on the subject of death or its commemoration. Death: insights on life is an exhibition which explains perceptions of death and aims to stimulate awareness about one of the largest burial grounds and Victorian cemeteries in the world, Rookwood Necropolis.
Death: insights on life includes work produced by seven artists during a residency at Rookwood Necropolis in 1995. Their work examines the subject of death from the perspective of attitudes to death in our present society, various perceptions of death among cultures, the role of the cemetery, the importance of the cemetery to different communities, the cemetery as public space and the heritage of the necropolis in terms of architectural, social, historical and ecological significance.
A touring exhibition managed by the Lewers Bequest and Penrith Region Art Gallery. Curated by Eileen Chanin. Catalogue essays by Eileen Chanin and Phillip Kent.
Chris Barry, Lauren Berkowitz/Lisa Andrew, Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Andrew Browne, Jon Cattapan, Tim Jones and Robyn Stacey
Constructed City presents the city as an imagined place – a place which can be seductive, dramatic, ambiguous, or threatening. Nine artists (many working collaboratively) have each constructed theoretical cities through which they explore the conceptual dilemmas inherent in the work and notions of the modern city itself.
A CAST touring exhibition by Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania. Curated by Simeon Kronenberg. Catalogue essays by Simeon Kronenberg, Ross Moore and Natalie King.
An exhibition of found and fashioned objects from Anne Newmarch's studio. Newmarch has made challenging, socially-engaged art for over 30 years and during this time she has also established collections of objects which she uses as visual resource material. This exhibition will coincide with a survey exhibition of Newmarch's prints and drawings at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
A University of South Australia Art Museum exhibition. Catalogue essay by Stephanie Britton.
