AGSA Podcasts

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Julie Robinson, Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, explores Frank Hurley’s photographs in Antarctica: Five Responses in Gallery 8. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Frank Hurley, Australia, 1885 - 1962, A glacial fairyland, 1912, Cape Denison, Antarctica, carbon photograph...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art pre-1980, discusses the work of Mary Beale and introduces two recent acquisitions, The Penitent Magdalene and Head of a Boy, on display in Gallery 13. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Mary Beale, Britain, 1633 - 1699, Mary Wither of Andw...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, discusses how and why Clarice Beckett aspired to paint the exact illusion of reality. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Motor lights, 1929, Melbourne, oil on board, 28.3 x 35.2 cm;...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South of Australia. Join us as Russell Kelty, Associate Curator of Asian Art, speaks about woodblock prints created in mid-nineteenth century Japan which depict samurai, currently on display in Gallery 21. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Japan, Archery contest at Sanjusangendo (Sanjusangendo toshiya no zu)...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Dr Alessandro Antonello from Flinders University discusses his research on Antarctica set against the backdrop of a series of new acquisitions on display in Gallery 8. This talk will be held in the Radford Auditorium. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Frank Hurley, Australia, 1885...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, speaks about Beaumaris as Clarice Beckett’s metaphoric Bodhi Tree and introduces aspects of spiritualism in the art of Beckett. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, The empty seat, c1...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, introduces Clarice Beckett: The present moment in Gallery 25. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, The red sunshade, 1932, Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, oil on board, 14.2 x 22.0 cm;...

Commissioned for the exhibition, musician Simone Slattery has created a suite of soundscapes that accompany the viewing experience. Inspired by Beckett’s own connection with nature, Slattery has woven a delicate score that includes sampled birdsong and the sounds of the street, made in collaboration with nature recording artist Andrew Skeoch. Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Lights,...

Commissioned for the exhibition, musician Simone Slattery has created a suite of soundscapes that accompany the viewing experience. Inspired by Beckett’s own connection with nature, Slattery has woven a delicate score that includes sampled birdsong and the sounds of the street, made in collaboration with nature recording artist Andrew Skeoch. Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Wet sand, Angl...

Commissioned for the exhibition, musician Simone Slattery has created a suite of soundscapes that accompany the viewing experience. Inspired by Beckett’s own connection with nature, Slattery has woven a delicate score that includes sampled birdsong and the sounds of the street, made in collaboration with nature recording artist Andrew Skeoch. Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, October mornin...

Soundscape created by Simone Slattery. Commissioned for Clarice Beckett: The Present Moment, musician Simone Slattery has created a suite of soundscapes that accompany the viewing experience. Inspired by Beckett’s own connection with nature, Slattery has woven a delicate score that includes sampled birdsong and the sounds of the street, made in collaboration with nature recording artist Andrew Ske...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Director Rhana Devenport as she discusses a major new sculptural acquisition on display in Gallery 17. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Leigh Robb, curator of contemporary art and Lucas Croall, artist and academic, for an illuminating conversation about the mechanics of vision, concepts of infinity and the outer edges of perception. Recorded live on Friday 5 February 2021 as part of First Friday: Smoke and Mirrors For more information please...

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 the depiction of the samurai in woodblock prints of the late 19th century. 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 Gloria Strzelecki, Assistant Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, introduces new acquisitions in Gallery 6. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Curator of Contemporary Art, Leigh Robb, in conversation with artist Julia Robinson as they discuss mythology and dangerous women in art focusing on Beatrice, and the iconic Circe Invidiosa from 1892 by John William Waterhouse, recently returned from loan in Italy. For more information please visit: agsa.sa....

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Nici Cumpston speaks on Naomi Hobson’s photographic series 'Adolescent Wonderland' in Gallery 24. For more information please visit: asga.sa.gov.au Image: Naomi Hobson, Southern Kaantju/Umpila people, Queensland, born 1978, Coen, Queensland, The Birthday Skirt “I love this! think I’ll wear it to Puchaa...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Sally Scales, Chairperson of the APY Executive Board Council, discusses the works by APY Land artists in Gallery 23. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Installation view: Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands featuring Ngayuku ngura - My Country by Wawiriya Burton, Art Gallery of South Austr...

Tuesday Talk: Nici Cumpston introduces the moving image works created by artists from Tangentyere and Yarrenyty Arltere art centres.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Gallery Guide Rosemary Collins explores John Russell’s work Fishing Boats, Goulphar on display in Gallery 15. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Gallery Guide Pam Norman to explore Gilbert & George’s, Dark shadow no 9 on display in Dark Matter, Bright Light. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Andre Castellucci

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Gallery Guide Brian Knott to explore Mary Cockburn Mercer’s Virgin of the Rocks in Gallery 5. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Art Gallery of South Australia; photo: Andre Castellucci

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Curator of Contemporary Art, Leigh Robb, introduces Dark matter, bright light, the new display in Gallery 17 featuring recent international acquisitions alongside iconic collection works which explore the mechanics of vision, perception and concepts of infinity. For more information please visit: agsa....

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art as she introduces the Ernabella Project in Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director, Tarnanthi and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art featuring K...

Thank you for listening to the track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Fiona Salmon, Director of the Flinders University Museum of Art, introduces the work of Lena Yarinkura and Yolanda Rostron in Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: installation view: Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands featuring Karrh (Spider) and Ngalbenbe (sun sto...