Look - Adelaide Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Adelaide's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Adelaide's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Faceless: Dead & Desirable, Jason Sweeney & Fiona Sprott
So, this one guy I know, flirts with girls by playing online Scrabble with them. Hanging out on Facebook waiting for someone's green dot to appear is the 2010 equivalent of ‘waiting for him to call'. Can you imagine having only having a landline? Analogue sex is such a bore. I should probably talk about the art now.
Small
Maybe it's just because I've reached a certain time in my life, but there seem to be an awful lot of artist-run initiatives in Adelaide right now. You've got your Format Festivals, your FELT Spaces, your Merge Magazines... so much youthful initiative, so many bright young impresarios applying for liquor licenses.
'Songs To Dance To / Songs To Die To'
Alanna Lorenzon (the Melbourne-based archivist and indexer of strange and fantastical imagery) asked visual artists to conceptualise and create a sound work for installation or performance. Rather than a curatorial directive or set of rules for the exhibition, the artists interpreted and worked from the ponderous title (both thrilling and dark) delving into new creative territories.
'Mythologies'
Marlaina Read always manages to discover artists whose work is both incredibly gorgeous and intelligent. Her online art magazine Invisible City is is like a really delicious and soul satisfying art meal. There is always a touch of dreaminess in the work, and a leaning towards the esoteric, but it is never fey or light of content.
Format Festival Visual Arts Stream
Coordinating the visual arts part of any festival is inevitably challenging. Brigid and I certainly haven't avoided any of the arts sector hazards. You know, the personality quirks of curators and artists alike, the tricky budgeting of dollars. However - we have attempted to put together a program based around the ideas of "accessibility, and the notion of artists embracing multiple entry points to let friends and strangers into their work".
Helpmann Academy Grad Show 2010
From what I can gather (little, I admit), the Helpmann Academy go out of their way to sort out artists who have a talent for arting, as opposed to those whose chief skills lay in the artful compilation of grant applications. For this reason you know that Helpmann’s annual graduate show will be worthwhile (and not just for the splendid array of cheeses they always manage to secure).
Outsider Art
That's right - outsider art is an actual thing, not just a Simpsons reference. Put crudely, outsider artists are people who didn't go to art school, or otherwise follow the conventional young-emerging-established career path that has become so entrenched in the world of art. Their art is typically naïve (but not always), easily accessible (but not always) and rarely taken seriously by the establishment.
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