Art Gallery of South Australia

Big Mother - Patricia PiccininiGallery 11 | Admission: Free

Meet our newest acquisition, Big Mother, a monumental sculpture of a genetically-engineered primate breastfeeding a human baby, by leading contemporary Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, now on display.

Patricia Piccinini

Monday 01 February 2010 to Thursday 01 January 2015
Art exhibition in Australia.

Contemporary Australian and International ArtGallery 9 | Admission: Free

Recent acquisitions of Australian and international art. Some of the works included explore the representation of race: from African–American artist Kara Walker’s screenprint Emancipation Approximation scene #5, to British-born, Trinidad-based artist Chris Ofili, whose prints Black Kiss represent the Biblical story of Judas betraying Christ with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Friday 19 February 2010 to Sunday 01 January 2012
Art exhibition in Australia.

A Tribute to Doreen Reid NakamarraSantos Atrium | Admission: Free

Doreen Reid Nakamarra was an extremely talented artist and a highly regarded ambassador for the Pintupi people. This display pays tribute to her and the other Pintupi women artists who are gaining worldwide recognition for their unique and sophisticated style of painting.

Saturday 13 February 2010 to Sunday 01 January 2012
Art exhibition in Australia.

Ex Libris: The Printed Image and the Art of the bookGallery 8 | Admission: Free

This display pays tribute to the beauty and artistry of the book, presenting works that are vital to its historical development. From early austere woodcut illustrations of the northern Renaissance to elaborate plates produced by artists in private presses of the early twentieth century, the works comprise three kinds of book-related artwork: illustration, bookplates and artists’ books.

Saturday 13 February 2010 to Sunday 01 January 2012
Art exhibition in Australia.

Tracey Moffatt: narratives

Tracey Moffatt: narratives features three important photographic series by the internationally recognised Australian photographer Tracey Moffatt that each engage story telling: Up in the sky (1997), Invocations (2000) and the searing 1994 series Scarred for life.

Friday 25 February 2011 to Sunday 20 March 2011
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Candid Camera: Australian Photography 1950s–1970s

A survey of Australian documentary photography from the 1950s to the 1970s, Candid Camera comprises more than eighty photographs by renowned Australian photographers, including Max Dupain, David Moore, Jeff Carter, Robert McFarlane, Mervyn Bishop, Rennie Ellis, Carol Jerrems and Roger Scott.

Friday 28 May 2010 to Sunday 01 August 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Reflections of the Lotus: The Art of Thailand, Burma and Laos

Reflections of the Lotus presents an opportunity for Art Gallery visitors to become acquainted with rare masterpieces of art from Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos.

Friday 21 May 2010 to Sunday 04 July 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science

This flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, assembles 22 of the nation’s most innovative and exciting contemporary artists and artist groups, to present a wondrous and unsettling vision of our world, where mystery and the unknowable wrestle with order and reason.

Saturday 27 February 2010 to Sunday 02 May 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft & Design

Bravura examines Australian contemporary decorative arts in the twenty-first century from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, including acquisitions from the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Art Prize Purchase Awards 2009. The exhibition encompasses the practices of textiles, ceramics, glass, furniture, metalware and jewellery by Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners.

Friday 04 December 2009 to Sunday 31 January 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

John Brack

More than any other artist of his generation, John Brack (1920-99) was a painter of modern Australian life. Unlike his contemporaries, Brack painted neither myth nor history and when he focused on the landscape, it was the sprawl of suburbia that caught his attention rather than the ubiquitous Australian bush.

Friday 02 October 2009 to Tuesday 26 January 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Artistic PersonalitiesGallery 6

The recent acquisition of a group of photographs by Adelaide-born photographer Robert McFarlane provided the impetus for a new display of portrait photographs in gallery 6.

Friday 31 July 2009 to Friday 01 January 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Contemporary Australian PrintsGallery 8

Drawn from the Gallery’s collection, this fascinating new display brings together key examples of Australian printmaking from the last two decades.

Friday 31 July 2009 to Friday 01 January 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Asian Galleries DisplayGalleries 17, 19, 20 and 21

The Asian Art galleries present a new and exciting view of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collections and testify to its growing reputation as one of the leading collections of Asian art in Australia. Even the regular visitor to the Art Gallery is certain to be astonished by the range of works of art from the permanent Asian collection, first established just over one hundred years ago.

Tuesday 01 May 2007 to Friday 01 January 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

The Nuremberg Chronicle-

Published more than 500 years ago in 1493, the 600 page Nuremberg Chronicle was the world’s first elaborately-illustrated book. It presents the history of the world (in Latin) from creation to the 1490s and is accompanied by over 1800 woodblock printed illustrations of historical figures, biblical and historical scenes

Tuesday 04 February 2003 to Friday 01 January 2010
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

START at the Gallery Presented by The Balnaves Foundation

October 4, November 1 (Annual Family Fun Day) and December 6. START is an exciting introduction to visual art for children and families offered on the first Sunday of the month, between 12 noon and 3pm. And it’s free! The START program includes children’s tours, art and craft sessions, family trails, live music and entertainment. All activities are suitable for children aged 5-10 years.

Sunday 04 October 2009 to Sunday 06 December 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Making NatureMasters of European Landscape Art

Making Nature explores the way in which European artists since the Renaissance have represented the landscape according to different ideologies: the ideal, the sublime, the picturesque, the romantic and the realistic. Through superb oil paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints and drawings, visitors to this exhibition experience the emotive powers, serenity and poetry of nature.

Friday 26 June 2009 to Sunday 06 September 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Shaun GladwellGallery 11

This display focuses on the work of Shaun Gladwell, one of five artists representing Australia at the prestigious international exhibition, the 53rd Venice Biennale in Italy (7 June–22 November).

Thursday 09 July 2009 to Wednesday 02 September 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

South Australian Living Artists’ FestivalGallery 9

South Australia is home to some of the most dynamic and talented of the nation’s artists. This special display coincides with the South Australian Living Artists’ Festival, which celebrates the skill, dynamism and imagination of some of these artists.

Friday 07 August 2009 to Sunday 23 August 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

The Divine ImaginationSpiritual Art in the 20th Century

Drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, this selection of prints, drawings and watercolours examines the central importance of spirituality to the work of twentieth-century artists.

Saturday 04 April 2009 to Monday 06 July 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

The Golden JourneyJapanese Art from Australian Collections

The Golden Journey is a stunning display of almost 300 diverse objects revealing the astonishingly rich heritage of Japanese art held in Australia’s major public and private collections. The first comprehensive survey of its kind in Australia, tells the story of Japanese art from prehistoric times until Japan opened its doors to the West at the commencement of the Meiji era (1868-1912).

Friday 06 March 2009 to Sunday 31 May 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Hans Heysen-

Born in Germany in 1877, Hans Heysen emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia with his family at the age of seven and became a popular national figure during his seventy year career. This timely exhibition will be the first comprehensive survey of Sir Hans Heysen’s work, since the Gallery’s own centenary retrospective of 1977.

Friday 14 November 2008 to Sunday 15 February 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Recent AcquisitionsAustralian and International Art

This exhibition presents recent acquisitions made in the area of prints and photographs. The works include a suite of photographs by Paul Strand The Mexican Portfolio1932-33, Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Framework houses: Industrial District of Siegen 1959-1973, Chris Ofili’s most recent suite of prints Black Kiss 2006, and prints by Kiki Smith.

Kiki Smith Chris Ofili Hilla Becher Bernd Becher Paul Strand

Saturday 15 November 2008 to Sunday 01 February 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

MultiplicityPrints and Multiples

Multiplicity explores the development of prints and multiples in art from the 1960s through to the current day. The exhibition tracks the history of innovative prints, photographs and objects, from the studio-made to limited editions and the mass-produced, which have been at the core of contemporary art practice.

Friday 17 October 2008 to Sunday 01 February 2009
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

The wandering linethinking thorough drawing

This exhibition explores the unique ability of drawing to communicate an artist’s internal processes with the external world.

Wednesday 06 August 2008 to Wednesday 12 November 2008
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Misty ModernsAustralian Tonalists 1910 -1950

The Art Gallery of South Australia is staging the first major exhibition of the Australian tonalist painter, Max Meldrum and his school. Despite being regarded as one of the most authorative teachers and theorists of the interwar period, the breadth of Meldrum’s influence is yet to be fully assessed.

Friday 15 August 2008 to Sunday 19 October 2008
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

David Murray Bequest Centenary1908 – 2008

The name David Murray is synonymous with the Gallery’s fine collection of prints and drawings. This year marks the centenary of his bequest to the Gallery – some 5,000 old master prints, which totally transformed the Gallery’s print collection.

Thursday 14 August 2008 to Sunday 19 October 2008
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Culture Warriors2007 National Indigenous Art Triennial

The Art Gallery of South Australia is delighted to showcase the inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial. Traveling from the National Gallery of Australia, Culture Warriors provides a highly considered snapshot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contemporary art practice.

Friday 20 June 2008 to Sunday 31 August 2008
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Prints -

The new display in gallery 8 features a selection of Indigenous and Torres Strait island prints, including works from the Warlayirti portfolio published by Northern Editions in 2006. The large coloured etchings by artists Jumpo Tjapanangka, Eubena Nampitjin, Elizabeth Nyumi and Kathleen Paddoon have a remarkable intensity.

Monday 26 May 2008 to Monday 04 August 2008
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Empires and SplendourThe David Roche Foundation

For more than forty years, Adelaide collector and Art Gallery benefactor, David Roche has been developing an outstanding, internationally important private collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century French, Russian, German and British decorative arts. Exquisite porcelain, metalware, furniture and other luxury objects will go on show for the first time publicly in this special exhibition.

Friday 06 June 2008 to Sunday 27 July 2008
Art exhibition in Australia.

The Ballets Russes in AustraliaOur Cultural Revolution

Between 1936 and 1940 the Australian public was introduced to a brilliant and exotic company of dancers, productions, stage designs, costumes and music, the likes of which had never been seen or heard here before. The Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev’s dazzling company of artists, revitalised the art form of ballet and had a profound effect on Australian cultural life.

Friday 02 May 2008 to Sunday 06 July 2008
Art exhibition in Australia.

S.T. Gill-

Samuel Thomas “S.T.” Gill was one of the first professional artists to work in South Australia and worked prolifically here in the 1840s. Many of his vivid depictions have now become iconic images of colonial South Australia.

Wednesday 09 April 2008 to Sunday 29 June 2008
Art exhibition in Australia.

2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian ArtHandle with Care

Curated by respected Sydney-base curator, Felicity Fenner, Handle with Care examines both in thematic content and in material form, the fragile nature of our relationships with the socio-cultural and natural environments in which we live, through a range of media from paintings to video art.

Saturday 01 March 2008 to Sunday 04 May 2008
Art exhibition in Australia.