Art Gallery Of South Australia

Tracey Lock, curator of Australian art and curator of 'Clarice Beckett: the present moment' speaks about the fortunate and unfortunate events associated with Clarice Beckett. As author of the book, curator and designer of the exhibition Lock shares highlights and challenges in the assembly of the exhibition during the time of a global pandemic.

Thank you for listening to this track produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Join us as Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts, speaks on the Rhianon Vernon-Roberts display in Gallery 6. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Photo: Sven Kovac

Thank you for listening to this talk produced by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Tracey Lock, Curator of Australian Paintings and Sculpture, makes closing remarks on the exhibition, Clarice Beckett: The present moment For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Evening landscape, c1925, Melbourne, oil on cardboard, 35.5 x 40.7 cm; Purchased 1974 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

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 Janet Dawson’s abstract lithograph Grand bruit from 1960 in Gallery 6. 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 academic and poet Jill Jones, who is also short listed for the 2021 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards discusses the influences of Theosophy and other 19th century spiritual movements on developments in modern art. For more information please visit agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Saturday, n.d., Melbourne, oil on pulpboard, 30.5 x 23.7 cm; Private collection.

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, 56.7 x 73.4 cm (sight); Gift of Richard Phillips 1994, 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 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 Andwell, early 1670s, Hampshire, oil on canvas, 73.0 x 60.0 cm; Gift of Helen and John Bowden in memory of Mary Overton 2003, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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; Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of Elizabeth through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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), c.1750, Kyoto, tsuitate screen, wood, silk, ink and pigments and paper, 131.3 x 148.0 cm (image), 143.0 x 159.8 cm (overall); Gift of Frances Gerard and Mark Livesey QC with the assistance of the Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2014, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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 - 1962, A blizzard, from the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911–14, 1912, Cape Denison, blue-toned carbon print, 35.1 x 41.7 cm (image); Gift of Joan Beer, William J.S Boyle C.M, Peter and Sandra Dobson, Gwinnett Family, Roger Lang, Shane Le Plastrier, The Hon Justice Mark Livesey, David McKee AO and Pam McKee, Peter and Pamela McKee, Dick Whitington QC and Peter Wilson through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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, c1925-30, Melbourne, oil on canvas on board, 47.5 x 58.0 cm; Anonymous Gift under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme 1993 Bendigo Art Gallery, photo: Ian Hill Photography.

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; Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of Elizabeth through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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, St Kilda, c1931, Melbourne, oil on canvas on board, 35.0 x 39.8 (image); Gift of Lady Drysdale 2001 Newcastle Art Gallery, New South Wales, photo: Tobias Spitzer.

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, Anglesea, 1929, Anglesea, Victoria, oil on board, 29.3 x 39.0 cm (sight); Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of Elizabeth through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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 morning, c.1927, Melbourne, oil on canvas on board, 54.7 x 44.4 cm; Gift of Alastair Hunter OAM and the late Tom Hunter in memory of Elizabeth through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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 Skeoch. Image: Clarice Beckett, Australia, 1887 - 1935, Beach scene, c.1932, Beaumaris, Victoria, oil on canvas on board, 24.2 x 29.5 cm (sight); Gift of Douglas and Barbara Mullins 2003, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

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 visit: agsa.sa.gov.au Image: Olafur Eliasson, Denmark, born 1967, Dark matter collective, 2018, Berlin, 217 partially silvered glass spheres, paint (black), stainless steel, 171.0 x 169.0 x 67.5 cm; James and Diana Ramsay Fund 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © 2018 Olafur Eliasson, photo: Jens Ziehe.

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