Exhibitions Archive in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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.
2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & Afte...
Art Gallery of South Australia
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.
Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft & Design
Art Gallery of South Australia
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.
Artistic Personalities
Art Gallery of South Australia
Drawn from the Gallery’s collection, this fascinating new display brings together key examples of Australian printmaking from the last two decades.
Contemporary Australian Prints
Art Gallery of South Australia
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.
Asian Galleries Display
Art Gallery of South Australia
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
The Nuremberg Chronicle
Art Gallery of South Australia
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.
START at the Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
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Making Nature
Art Gallery of South Australia
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).
Shaun Gladwell
Art Gallery of South Australia
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.
South Australian Living Artists’ Festival
Art Gallery of South Australia
Image: Hayden Fowler, Second Nature (detail) 2008.
Colliding Worlds
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
Image: Alexia Sinclair, Marie Antoinette 2005, digital type
Phantasia
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art