Print Cult 2012
When Mr Henry Print invented printing 500 years ago*, he could never have guessed just what disgraceful applications his humble creation would be up to... read more...
Andre Lawrence, 'Material Echoes' and Fruzsi Kenez, 'MAMA'
Family and place are the keys to ‘home’, but these two elements are not always connected through time or location. What results for those left... read more...
Chloe Langford, 'TOTAL REFRESHMENT'
Art exhibitions can be awkward. Are we meant to connect to the artwork, to each other? Why? Do we seek to? Chloe Langford draws upon these uneasy questions... read more...
Carla Cescon & Clare Milledge, 'Maximalist Ritualist'
There is something wholly spiritual about objects themselves. Objects of technology move beyond this, their ability to connect with us as tools of daily... read more...
Nathan Farrant, 'LAND'
Nathan is one of those softly spoken guys who surprise you with their insight. He is quiet and kind, a deep thinker. His art practice works like this too... read more...
THERE/TRANSPARENT/NOT THERE/MIRROR
Tom Squires’ brain works differently to most people’s. His ideas don’t look or sound like other people’s ideas. He has good ideas... read more...
Objectified
When art runs into psychoanalysis, it enters murky territory. Take one part inexact science, two parts brain voodoo and a splash of ‘creative license’... read more...
Sensation Seekers
Sensation is about contact, movement, connectivity and engagement. Sometimes it is about disruption and disjunction. It refers to the way we are affected... read more...
James Dodd, 'Top End Scrawl'
There is a certain aesthetic, that I’d call ‘neon sunset bright’, that is synonymous with the work of James Dodd. His latest exhibition,... read more...
Hard Treasure
Hard Treasure brings together a group of artists, designers, makers and craftspeople who understand that when it comes to ‘rubbish’, X doesn’t... read more...
Boxcopy presents 'Rubes!'
Everyone keeps calling it Mad March, and it’s true, it’s hard to find the time to think let alone sleep properly considering how many great... read more...
'Restless' at the AEAF
Restless is an uncomfortable state. It’s a build up of energy waiting to be expelled. There is a nervousness, and a movement – the feeling that... read more...
Parallel Collisions, 12th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
A biennial is usually a really cool exhibition that happens every two years where the curators choose the coolest artists who are really cool at the time... read more...
Deadly: in-between Heaven and Hell
The best curators let artists inform their decisions, rather than forcing them through the ‘curatorial rationale’ sausage-maker. Rather than... read more...
Lost For Words
When I was younger I was shy, always lost for words. I am still shy, I guess. In front of art I often find myself struggling to find the right thing to... read more...
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2012
Graduate exhibitions are a pretty big deal, a monument to the achievements of a diverse group of graduating students, exposing the talents of an emerging... read more...
Tony Garifalakis and Richard Lewer Collaboration
On my computer I have a folder labelled “ANIMALS FIGHTING”. I guess I’m a sicko. I really like photos of animals – especially dogs... read more...
'Dystopian Utopianator', Patrick Rees and 'Will Happiness Find Me', Malia Wearn
At the opening night of Patrick Rees’ 2011 show with Ben Leslie META, I overheard someone good-naturedly accuse him of having an embarrassing amount... read more...
Li Gang, 'in the grey scale'
Li Gang does all sorts of stuff – sculpture, painting, drawing, photography. His upcoming show at the aEaf, in the grey scale, is a touring photography... read more...
I Have A Theme
Screen-printing tees ain’t easy. You gotta have top notch materials, you gotta know your way around the silk screens and squeegees, and you gotta... read more...
under city sound scapes
The grey area between visual art and music – often referred to as ‘sound’ – is a bit of a neglected field in Adelaide. Every now and then though,... read more...
André Castelluci, 'Adelaide Skateboard Photography'
There is a belief in certain realms of society that skateboarding is the degenerate’s pastime and should never be deemed more than a faux pas. The... read more...
Sandra Uray-Kennett + Kristel Britcher
There are too many openings this week. The SASA graduate exhibitions, Kat Botten, plus Tooth and Nail. Oh, and FELTspace is exhibiting too. Try not to... read more...
Tooth and Nail Grand Opening Exhibition
Both the studio resident list the Grand Opening Exhibition feature a combination of old favourites – Kate Gagliardi, Peter Drew, Kahl Hopper – and... read more...