AGSA Podcasts

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Nici Cumpston, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art introduces this year’s Tarnanthi exhibition at AGSA. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Sven Kovac

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative arts introduces the new acquisition Alice and Friend in Wonderland by Khai Liew. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Khai Liew, Malaysia/Australia, born 1952, Alice and Friend in Wonderland, 2020, Norwood, Adelaide, Queensland blackbean (sp. Cast...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture, introduces the painting Sunset over Morestil by John Peter Russell. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Dr Lisa Slade, Assistant Director, will introduce the Elder Wing as a painterly arboretum in her talk as part of this year’s Nature Festival. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Hilda Rix Nicholas, born Ballarat, Victoria 1884, died Tombong, New South Wales 1961, Two Moroccan men wit...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Russell Kelty, Acting Curator of Asian Art, discusses the development of porcelain as a conveyor of taste and style in A Vast Emporium: Artistic and cultural exchange in an age of global trade. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: China, Jiangxi, Plate, with sailing ship, 1700-20, Ji...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tansy Curtin, Curator of International art, will discuss the Baroque painting Narcissus by Pietro Negri which has recently been restituted to a South Australian family after being stolen by the Nazi regime during the Second World War. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Tansy Curtin...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Learn more about the exhibition Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea; join curator Elle Freak and Voitre Marek’s children, Olga Sankey and Ivan Marek, for a discussion about the making of this major survey exhibition and the legacy of the Dušan and Voitre Marek. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Elle Freak, Associate Curator, Australian Paintings & Sculpture, shares her final remarks on the exhibition Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Elle Freak, Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaid...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings & Sculpture, considers how Dušan and Voitre Marek embraced nature’s elemental and spiritual forces. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Dušan Marek, Australia, 7 /03/1926 - 1993, Analysis of substance, 1952, Kings Cross, Sydney, oil on ca...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, discusses Dušan and Voitre Mareks’ drawings in the exhibition Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Voitre Marek, Australia, 1919 - 1999, Surrealism is an art that follows (l...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. In celebration of the crossover between 2021 Ramsay Art Prize and the South Australian Living Artist Festival (SALA), join Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art, in conversation with South Australian Finalist Kasia Tons. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Kasia Tons, born 1985, After, 2019-...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Dušan Marek, born Bítouchov, Czechoslovakia 1926, died Adelaide 1993, Equator, 1948, Gibraltar, SS Charlton Sovereign, oil on board, 121.7 x 91.2 cm, 126.5 x 96.0 x 5.5 cm (frame size); South Australian Government Grant 1972, Art Gallery of South Australia,...

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Bernadette Klavins, local artist and writer, introduces the work of SALA feature artist Roy Ananda in the latest display Roy Ananda: Further Annotations. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Nat Rogers

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Lisa Slade, Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, uncovers the surrealist metaphors that appear and repeat throughout the exhibition Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Dušan Marek, born Bítouchov, Czechoslovakia 1926, died Adelaide 1993,...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as AGSA Director, Rhana Devenport, speaks on the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto in Dark Matter, Bright Light in Gallery 17. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Installation view - Dark Matter, Bright Light, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2020; photo: Saul Steed.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Elle Freak, Associate Curator, Australian Paintings & Sculpture, introduces the latest exhibition Dušan and Voitre Marek: Surrealists at sea. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Voitre Marek, born Dolní Oldřichov, Czechoslovakia 1919, died Adelaide 1999, My Gibraltar, 1948, on board...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Russell Kelty, Associate Curator of Asian Art, discusses a 16th century Japanese screen depicting the arrival of a Portuguese ship in A Vast Emporium: Artistic and cultural exchange in an age of global trade in Gallery 21. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: China, Jiangxi, Plate, w...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design and Ramsay Art Prize 2021 judge, in conversation with South Australian artist Kate Bohunnis to discuss her winning work in this year’s prize. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Ramsay Art Prize 2021 featuring Kate Bohunnis with the...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, as she discusses Daniel Boyd’s immersive large scale diptych painting Untitled (TBOMB), a major new acquisition from the series Sandpiper dance by the Kudjila/Gangalu artist. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Da...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rhana Devenport, Director, introduces the Ramsay Art Prize 2021 in Gallery 9. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Nat Rogers

Tracey Lock, curator of Australian art and curator of 'Clarice Beckett: the present moment' speaks about the fortunate and unfortunate events associated with Clarice Beckett. As author of the book, curator and designer of the exhibition Lock shares highlights and challenges in the assembly of the exhibition during the time of a global pandemic.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts, speaks on the Rhianon Vernon-Roberts display in Gallery 6. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Sven Kovac

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, makes closing remarks on the exhibition, Clarice Beckett: The present moment For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Evening landscape, c1925, Melbourne, oil on cardboard, 35.5 x 40.7 cm; Purchased...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, discusses Janet Dawson’s abstract lithograph Grand bruit from 1960 in Gallery 6. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Nat Rogers

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as academic and poet Jill Jones, who is also short listed for the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards discusses the influences of Theosophy and other 19th century spiritual movements on developments in modern art. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 19...