Art Gallery Of South Australia

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. Castanospermum), 150.0 x 104.0 x 56.0 cm; Gift of Diana McLaurin, Frances Gerard AM, William J S Boyle C.M., John Crosby, Charles Mansfield, Mary Choate, James Darling AM and Lesley Forwood, Shane Le Plastrier, The Hon Justice Mark Livesey through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 20th Anniversary Collectors Club 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Khai Liew.

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 with eucalypts, 1912-14?, Tangier, Morocco, oil on board, 37.1 x 45.0 cm; Gift of Aldridge Family Endowment, Joan Beer, Gwinnett Family, Roger Lang, Nick Le Messurier, Skip and Lilly Lipman, Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith AM, Leo Mahar, John Phillips, Louise Rigoni, The Hon. Ann Vanstone, QC, Dick Whitington QC, Karen Wilson through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 20th Anniversary Collectors Club 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Bronwyn Wright.

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, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, porcelain, underglaze blue decoration, 27.2 cm (diam.); Elizabeth and Tom Hunter Fund 1989, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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, Art Gallery of South Australia; photo Saul Steed

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.au Image: Voitre Marek, born Dolní Oldřichov, Czechoslovakia 1919, died Adelaide 1999, My Gibraltar, 1948, on board the SS Charlton Sovereign, oil on board, 29.0 x 20.5 cm; d'Auvergne Boxall Bequest Fund 1996, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Estate of Voitre Marek

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, Adelaide; photo Saul Steed.

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 canvas, 36.5 x 88.2 cm; Purchased with the assistance of James Agapitos OAM and Ray Wilson OAM 2007 National Gallery of Australia, © Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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 (like a person walking in a river) life so as to transform it into life in a line - word – color (Surrealism je umění které sleduje (jako člověk jdoucí v tok řeky) život tak aby jej přetavil v život v lince - slovĕ – barvĕ), c.1955, Adelaide, pen & ink on card, 30.2 x 38.0 cm (sheet); Gift of the Marek and Sankey families through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Estate of Voitre Marek.

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, 2019-2020, Lenswood, South Australia, wool, cotton, synthetic threads on cotton canvas base, 171.5 x 98.0 cm; Courtesy of the artist, © Kasia Tons, photo: Madisyn Zabel.

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, Adelaide, © 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, Perpetuum mobile, October 1948, SS Charlton Sovereign, oil on board, 121.7 x 91.2 cm; South Australian Government Grant 1972, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Art Gallery of South Australia.

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 the SS Charlton Sovereign, oil on board, 29.0 x 20.5 cm; d'Auvergne Boxall Bequest Fund 1996, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Estate of Voitre Marek

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, with sailing ship, 1700-20, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, porcelain, underglaze blue decoration, 27.2 cm (diam.); Elizabeth and Tom Hunter Fund 1989, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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 work edges of excess; photo Saul Steed.

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: Daniel Boyd, Kudjila/Gangalu people, Queensland, born 1982, Cairns, Queensland, Untitled (TBOMB), 2020, Sydney, oil, synthetic polymer paint and archival glue on canvas, 245.0 x 396.0 cm (2 panels, overall); James and Diana Ramsay Fund 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Daniel Boyd.

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