AGSA Podcasts

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Kick-start your Pridevember weekend; Troy-Anthony Baylis will discuss potential inter(sex)ions between 'chromatopia', the Rainbow Flag, and the expanding ‘chromatones’ of nu-queer representation. image: Gareth Sansom, Australia, born 1939, Wittgenstein’s brush with Vorticism, 2016, Sorrento, Victoria, oil and ena...

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, speaks on Dragon and Bamboo by Kano Tan’yu in Gallery 19 in Samurai. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au image: KANŌ Tan’yu, Japan, 1602 - 1674, Dragon and bamboo, with inscription after Sesshū Tōyo, 1650-1660, Edo (Tokyo), hanging scroll, in...

What’s the connection between the rainbow and gay pride? Join Dr Lisa Slade to find out more about the politics of colour in this lunchtime talk set against the backdrop of the Chromatopia display in Gallery 9.

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 Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art pre 1980, discuss Modern British art including the work of the Bloomsbury group and Omega Workshops in Gallery 13 of the Melrose Wing of European Art. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au imag...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Celia Dottore, Tarnanthi Project Officer, introduces the work of Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton exhibited as part of Open Hands. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au image: Maringka Burton and Betty Muffler in front of a collaborative work in progress; image courtesy the artists and Iwan...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, introduces Tarnanthi: Open Hands. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director Tarnanthi, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art featuring Quandamooka djagan marumba (Quanda...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian painting and sculpture introduces the major new acquisition by Robert Dowling in Gallery 3 of the Elder Wing of Australian Art. For more information visit: agsa.sa.gov.au image detail: Robert Dowling, Australia/Britain, 1827 - 1886, Baptism of Christ, 1863, London, oil on canvas...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join guest speaker Dr Ralph Body, as he shares his insights into Hans Heysen and his creative response to trees, in celebration of the inaugural Nature Festival. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au image: Hans Heysen, Australia, 8 /10/1877 - 1968, Red Gold, 1913, Hahndorf, South Australia, 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, connects the works of French Expressionist artist Georges Rouault with the new work from Restless Dance titled Seeing Through Darkness. For more information please visit: agsa.sa.gov.au image: Restless Dance Theatre, Seeing Through Dark...

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 Converging currents, a new display of bark paintings from the Gallery’s collection. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au image: installation view: Converging Currents: Bark Painting from Arnhem Land,...

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Dr Lisa Slade, Assistant Director, introduces the new display Chromatopia in Gallery 9. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Bernadette Klavins viewing works in Chromatopia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed.

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Restless Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director Michelle Ryan, lighting and stage designer Geoff Cobham and Assistant Director Dr Lisa Slade for a colourful discussion about the creative development of Seeing Through Darkness. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Restless Dance Theatre, Seeing T...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Tansy Curtin, Curator of International Art pre 1980, introduces a number of early Australian Modernists who had international careers in Gallery 3 of the Elder Wing of Australian Art. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Ethel Carrick Fox, Australia, 1872 - 1952, Sur la plage, c...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as inaugural Guildhouse fellow Troy-Anthony Baylis discusses his Berlin residency and new installation Nomenclatures with Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Troy-Anthony Baylis, photo; Sia Duff

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as South Australian maverick maker Tom Moore introduces his newly acquired works of art into the AGSA collection made possible with the support of the Gallery's Contemporary Collectors. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Tom Moore; photo Saul Steed.

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Assistant Curator of Australian painting and sculpture, Elle Freak converses with South Australian artist Margaret Dodd about her new display in gallery 17. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Margaret Dodd, Australia, born 1941, Holden with hair curlers, from the series This W...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as South Australian artist, Kirsten Coelho speaks with Curator of Decorative Arts, Rebecca Evans about her work as the feature artist of 2020 SALA Festival. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Russell Kelty, Associate Curator of Asian Art, introduces the new exhibition Samurai. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japan, 1798 - 1861, Sasai Kyuzo Masayasu, from the series Heroic stories of the Taiheiki (Taiheiki eiyuden), c.1847-50, Edo (Tokyo), wood...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Monster Theatres' artist Mark Valenzuela discusses the monsters and meaning at work in his installations made for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial. For more information visit: www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Saul Steed

Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian paintings and sculpture, introduces the newly acquired sculpture by C Douglas Richardson. Image: C Douglas Richardson, Australia, 1853 - 1932, On the beach, 1914, Melbourne, white clay low fired, 29.5 cm (height); Gift of Will Abel Smith and Mary Choate through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Ade...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Gloria Strzelecki, Assistant Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art discusses a new acquisition in the Elder Wing of Australian Art. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. In this live recording, join Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, and Senior Kaurna Man Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien in conversation. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au Senior Kaurna man Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien and Artistic Director, Tarnanthi and Curator of Aboriginal...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, discusses Donald Judd’s sculpture, Untitled 1974-75. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Donald Judd, United States, 1928 - 1994, Untitled, 1974-75, Adelaide, reinforced concrete, 126.0 x 760.0 x 660.0 cm (irr...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as AGSA Director Rhana Devenport introduces the new acquisition and moving image work Think Evolution #1 by Aki Inomata. For further information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au image: Think Evolution #1: Kiku-ishi (Ammonite), 2016-17, Tokyo, HD video, 2 minutes; Mary Phyllis Henderson Bequest Fund through t...

Thank you for listening to this recording, produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, speaks about the newly acquired pearl brooch made by colonial artist Julius Schomburgk. For more information visit www.agsa.sa.gov.au