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James was never at a loss for words and would want us to take this opportunity to say how much he loved and appreciated his many and varied friends from all walks of life and corners of the world; from the Greek Islands he loved so much, from England where he spent formative years, from the artistic hub of Adelaide, from his birthplace Melbourne, from the community he chose to call home in Keith and beyond.
We would invite you all to join us in celebrating the life of a truly original artist, farmer, activist, environmentalist, family man and friend.
James Darling’s Celebration of Life
2pm on Sunday 13th of October.
Norwood Concert Hall
175 The Parade, Norwood
(Main entrance on George St)
RSVP please – https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1296397
All welcome
With our love,
Lesley, Julian and Bernice, Alice and Damien
Pictured: James Darling on Duck Island property, 2018. Photo courtesy of JumpgateVR.
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Ildiko Kovacs
Fallen into Line
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Sam Gold
The Marrow of a Swollen River
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Binygurr Wirrpanda
Dancing Brolgas
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Min Wong
You can’t talk butterfly language to caterpillar people
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Julia Robinson’s solo exhibition ‘Split by the Spade’ and publication launches on 30th July at Adelaide Central Gallery.
Julia Robinson’s ambitious new installation ‘Split by the Spade’ is the latest entry in her ongoing series of odes to the folk horror genre. This exhibition promises to be a finely crafted, immersive experience by Robinson, highly esteemed graduate and staff member of Adelaide Central School of Art and the 2024 SALA feature artist.
Since 2003, Julia Robinson's textile-focused sculpture and installation practice has ruminated on enduring human narratives around sacrifice, sex, and death. Living and working on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia but drawing on the folkloric and, importantly, folk horror traditions of her British ancestry, Robinson conflates humour and horror in ever more unexpected ways. In this, the first major publication dedicated to Robinson's practice, curator Leigh Robb, novelist and poet Hannah Kent, and visual artist Jess Taylor examine her work through their respective lenses and weave together the visual art, literature, folklore, and film most influential to Robinson's practice. The essays and poems contained within are accompanied by reproductions of key works in stunning detail which reveal the artist's keen understanding of historical costuming and sewing techniques. This monograph surveys over twenty years of a prolific and wildly imaginative visual art practice, that combines exceptional technical skill, fantastical invention and thoroughly researched cultural touchstones.
‘Split by the Spade’ will be on display at Adelaide Central Gallery from 30 July to 6 September as part of the 2024 SALA Festival.
Congratulations to Zaachariaha Fielding, Ildiko Kovacs, and Richard Lewer who have been selected as finalists in the 2024 Mosman Art Prize!
Also congratulating previous exhibiting artist Marisa Purcell and Christopher Zanko, who will be exhibiting with us in 2025, for also being named as finalists.
The Mosman Art Prize is the longest running and most prestigious municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries form the basis of the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable and historic collection that surveys Australian painting since 1947. The Mosman Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $70,000 sponsored by Mosman Council.
Finalist works will be on display from 10 August to 6 October 2024 at Mosman Art Gallery, NSW.
Richard Lewer, Let Me Tell You a Story, 2024. Acrylic on found table, 150 x 90 cm
Zaachariaha Fielding, Paralpi, 2024, acrylic on linen, 152 x 122 cm
Ildiko Kovacs, Shine, 2024, oil on linen, 122 x 70 cm.
Launching in tandem with the 2024 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Publication, Julia Robinson’s ambitious new installation ‘Split by the Spade’ is the latest entry in her ongoing series of odes to the folk horror genre. This exhibition promises to be a finely crafted, immersive experience by Robinson, highly esteemed graduate and staff member of Adelaide Central School of Art and the 2024 SALA feature artist.
Robinson’s long-standing themes of death, decay and renewal are explored through her signature blend of historical costuming techniques and archaic found objects. This body of work takes inspiration from Andrew Michael Hurley’s 2019 novel Starve Acre, a text that is emblematic of folk horror with its bleak narrative and sinister pseudo-folklore that challenges the concept of the rural idyll. Motifs from the novel – a gallows tree, a fallow field, and a burial site – are conjured by the artist to haunt the gallery as a series of textile apparitions.
‘Split by the Spade’ will be on display at Adelaide Central Gallery from 30 July to 6 September as part of the 2024 SALA Festival. The project has been supported by Arts South Australia.
Enquiries to mail@ugomichellgallery.com
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Narelle Autio
The Eyes of Her
Across the ocean, under the waves.
Calming the sea gods.
She calls us,
Into the undersea.
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Cassie Thring
Goodbye Toki Hello
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Clara Adolphs has been featured in the most recent issue of Artist Profile magazine.
About Adolphs' painting practice, Elli Walsh writes: "Working mostly from old black and white photographs, Adolphs invents her palette of stormy greys, subterranean blues and smokey greens. As we talk in her studio, I suggest that her colours feel melancholy, stirring, which seems to surprise her. Her relationship to the past, to moments lapsed and people gone, isn’t one of loss. “I like to think that everything exists all at once. Or everything that has existed, still exists,” she explains. She ponders for a second, “I used to think it was nostalgia, but I’m not glorifying the past.” For Clara, time is not linear, for the past replays in the present through a shared thread of humanity, some inexplicable essence that she captures in bucolic scenes of leisure, rest, social gatherings, children playing outdoors. She relates her paintings to the phenomenological reflections of Roland Barthes, who posits photographs as markers of presence; not absence."
Clara Adolphs’ exhibition ‘Silent Reply’ is on display at Hugo Michell Gallery until 20th May.
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