AGSA Podcasts

Wirlomin-Noongar-Australian writer and poet Claire Coleman speaks on Yhonnie Scarce's  Thunder, Raining Poison  and  Kuḻaṯa Tjuṯa  in  Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: installation view: Tarnanthi 2015 featuring Thunder raining poison by Yhonnie Scarce, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adealide; photo: Saul Steed.

Join Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design as she discusses Julie Blyfield's  flowers of the sea  metalwork installation in Gallery 2. Image: Julie Blyfield, born Melbourne 1957,  flowers of the sea , 2022, Maylands, South Australia, bi-metal copper and sterling silver, heat coloured, wax seal, 17.0 x 32.5 x 0.7 cm (1), 31.0 x 24.0 x 0.7 cm (2), 24.0 x 25.0 x 0.7 cm (3), 31.0...

Educators heard about Tarnanthi, Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at AGSA Carly Dodd, Assistant Curator, Tarnanthi, Gloria Strzelecki, Acting Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Bernadette Klavins, Project Manager Artistic Programs, Tarnanthi.  Please note that due to technical issues some of this talk was not recorded, for more information ch...

Hear from Russell Kelty, Curator Asian Art, as he discuss the art and culture of the Mughal Empire as depicted in the miniature painting  Akbar Enthroned  created 1595-1600 in the exhibition:  Touching the Divine: Love and Devotion in Asian Art . agsa.sa.gov.au Image: India,  Akbar enthroned , 1595-1600, possibly Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 37.0 x 22.0 cm; M.J...

Hear from Tarnanthi Artistic Director Nici Cumpston as she introduces Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi, highlighting the connections, convergences and contrasts between works on display. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Garawan Waṉambi, Marrakulu clan, Yolŋu people, Northern Territory, born Miwatj Region, Northern Territory 1965,  Springwater bubbles up through a larrakitj on the...

Join Ngugi Quandamooka artist Libby Harward and Gamilaroi artist Dominique Chen as they introduce  The Blak Laundry,  part-sculptural installation, part-functional laundromat, and part-site for community gathering ahead of it's presentation as part of  Too Deadly: 10 Years of Tarnanthi. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Ketakii Jewson-Brown

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Ku Arts Symposium 2025 brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators, industry advocates and Ku Arts’ founding board directors for three panel discussions exploring the intersections of art, culture and Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP). In this session, Protecting Cul...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Ku Arts Symposium 2025 brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators, industry advocates and Ku Arts’ founding board directors for three panel discussions exploring the intersections of art, culture and Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP). In this session, Collaborations...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Ku Arts Symposium 2025 brings together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, curators, industry advocates and Ku Arts’ founding board directors for three panel discussions exploring the intersections of art, culture and Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property (ICIP). In this session, Sharing Storie...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Tarnanthi Artistic Director Nici Cumpston presents an insightful floor talk introducing Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi , highlighting the connections, convergences and contrasts between works on display. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers Jessyca Hutchens, Zena Cumpston, Dominic Guerrera and Sophia Sambono as they discuss Artlink magazine’s 2025 Indigenous issue, Trace, in the context of First Nations art writing, editing and publishing. Trace – celebrating fifteen years of Artlink’s Indigenous-le...

Hear from Craig Wilkins, National Director Murray Darling Conservation Alliance, in discussion with Tansy Curtin, Acting Assistant Director, Artistic Programs, as they talk about our states reliance and long term relationship with water. Craig provides national leadership for an alliance of peak conservation groups covering every basin in the state. The Alliance recently released a five-point plan...

Russell Kelty, Curator of Asian Art, speaks about Krishna in his infinite cosmic form known as Vishyarupa, in Touching the Divine. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: India,  Krishna in his universal form (Vishvarupa) , 1900-50, Kotah, Rajasthan, India, cotton cloth, pigment and gold, 150.0 x 94.0 cm; Barrie and Judith Heaven Collection. Van Dam Bequest Fund 2012, Art Gallery of South...

Hear from Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, discusses the work of mid-century cabinet maker Schulim Krimper. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Schulim Krimper, born Sereth, Romania 1893, died St Kilda, Victoria 1971,  Cocktail Cabinet , c.1965, Melbourne, teak, 158.0 x 101.5 x 43.0 cm; Gift of William J. S. Boyle, Mary Choate, Kathy Crosby, Dr Peter Dobson, Bar...

Join artist and 2023 Guildhouse Fellow Kyoko Hashimoto as she discusses her exhibition, Eight Million Deities (Yaoyorozu no Kami), the outcome of her Guildhouse Fellowship.  The Guildhouse Fellowship is presented by Guildhouse and the Art Gallery of South Australia, with the generous support of the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation. Image: Kyoko Hashimoto, born Japan 1980, Large paper collage, 2...

Join Exhibition Curators, Tracey Lock and Elle Freak, as they give their closing remarks on Dangerously Modern. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Installation view: Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940, featuring A letter from the front (Girl on couch), The letter, Woman reading by Agnes Goodsir, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; photo: Saul Steed

At the turn of the twentieth century, an unprecedented wave of women artists left Australia to travel to Europe in pursuit of modern art, forging international careers and exhibiting widely at the salons and academies in London and Paris. These women embraced modern ideas and achieved creative and professional success abroad, yet many remain little known in Australia. In fact, they were mostly ign...

Dangerously Modern is a podcast from the Art Gallery of South Australia about the unprecedented wave of women artists who left a conservative Australia to pursue modern art in the early 20th century. On this episode, we're following the journey of the magnificent Dorrit Black. Dorrit arrived in London in 1927 and embraced modernism in the new medium of lino cut printmaking. She went on to start he...

Dangerously Modern is a podcast from the Art Gallery of South Australia about the unprecedented wave of women artists who left a conservative Australia to pursue modern art in the early 20th century. In this episode we follow the story of Stella Bowen, who left Adelaide when she was 21 to study art in Europe. There she met the British writer Ford Maddox Ford, and moved to Paris with him and their...

Dangerously Modern is a podcast from the Art Gallery of South Australia about the unprecedented wave of women artists who left a conservative Australia to pursue modern art in the early 20th century. Margaret Preston is a household name in Australian art, best known for her bold paintings and woodcuts of native wildflowers. But to achieve this level of visibility she had to inhabit a bullet-proof...

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Sue Kneebone, this years South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Feature Artist, as she discusses her work on display as part of SALA. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Saul Steed

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Exhibitions Manager Jillian Jackson as she discusses The Ramsay Art Prize in the context of the Australian art prize landscape. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join Maria Zagala, Curator of Prints Drawings & Photographs as she introduces the work of three women photographers - Doris Barnes, Esther Baylis and Gwendolyn Morris working in the 1930s and 1940s. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Detail: Doris C. Barnes, born Kent Town, South Australia 1894, 1994...

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Hear from Exhibition Curator, Tracey Lock, as she discusses the work of Nora Heysen in Dangerously Modern. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Bri Hammond

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Hear from Tansy Curtin, Curator, International Art Pre-1980, as she discusses Margaret Preston and Bessie Davidson: South Australian vanguards. For more information visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Installation view: Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adela...