'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...
Lisa King, 'Gazing Heroes'
I’ve known Lisa King for a while now. I first met her up in the dance studio/sometimes art factory Paperhorse Studios. I once bought some of her art... read more...
Kat Botten, 'twenty one'
Hipster photography – sometimes I feel like I’ve seen it all. Teens sucking home-made bongs, emaciated girls, androgynous boys, friends playing... read more...
'Big Log Jam' by Open Spatial Workshop
Bianca Hester, Terri Bird and Scott Mitchell collaborate under the acronym OWS – Open Spatial Workshop. The word ‘workshop’ is a good clue... read more...
Kel Mocilnik + Steph Crase
Format is hosting two projects in the gallery this month – Kel Mocilnik’s solo exhibition In Pursuit of Repetition and Stephanie Crase’s... read more...
2011 Graduate Shows
Adelaide College of the Arts starts this year’s run with its show I Was Here on Wednesday night. Then UniSA swings into gear with 6 grad shows... read more...
Kate Gagliardi, 'Hello Universe'
This is Kate’s second solo show at Magazine Gallery and it’s your classic Gagliardi affair – a bunch of gazing ladies done up in drips, splatters,... read more...
'Hollywood Forever'
Hollywood Forever is a group exhibition featuring a mix of works by artists Tony Garifalakis, James L Marshall, Takeshi Murata and Christian Tedeschi.... read more...
Brigid Noone + Ray Harris ,'We Are Ladies'
Anyway, so Ray and Brigid Noone – both veterans of FELTspace on Compton St – are good chums, and are putting on a show at Artroom5 down at... read more...
FUC: Sexy Urban Design Team
‘I want a decent bike lane all the way down King William Street,’ I whisper. ’I want an ice rink in Hindmarsh Square,’ says the... read more...
Ben Leslie and Patrick Rees, 'META'
‘Meta’ as a prefix can be used to either denote change or signify something beyond. It’s a perfectly fitting name for this exhibition, where what... read more...
Still Life Still
‘Still Life Still’ is a group exhibition featuring the works of Akira Akira, Wendy Fairclough, and Nicholas Folland, and is largely, but not... read more...
Dan Withey, ‘The House of Dan’
This show follows on the heels of a hugely successful solo exhibition in Melbourne, and it’s pretty clear at this point that Dan’s a crowd pleaser.... read more...
Ray Harris, 'Hold me Close and Let me Go'
Some of the most striking works around Adelaide in the last few years have been Ray Harris’ video pieces. You’ve seen her crying, mascara running down... read more...
Festival of Unpopular Culture preview: 'Human Doings'
For this show, Monte and FUC Artistic Director Rayleen Forester asked four pairs of professional humans (“artists”) to collaborate over a creative... read more...
The Two Jakes
Two things taught me that life is unfair: 1. Mario Kart, & 2. The fact that – no matter how hard I try – there will always be people naturally... read more...
Post-Logical Form & Britney Spears Eating
When you see Britney Spears eating a sandwich, what do you think? I think, ‘Check it out – it’s Britney Spears, and she’s eating... read more...
Lets Eat The Dead 3
‘Lets Eat the Dead 3′ is an exhibition featuring a handful of selected Adelaide artists, displaying mixed media artworks which explore all... read more...