Artist Interview: Tony Kearney

In this episode, Steph caught up with photographic artist Tony Kearney at his home in Port Adelaide. Tune in to hear about his journey to photography, his highly-acclaimed portrait work, competing with pigeons for exhibition space in Hart’s Mill, and that time he took 180 rolls of film through multiple airport x-ray machines en route to Syria.

Show Notes

• Kodak Instamatic
• Reticulation, bas relief
• Bakelite
• Mug Shots
• Fixer, developer, stop bath – photographic chemicals
• Atkins Lab
• Kodachrome
• Marden Senior College
• Tarnanthi Festival
• National Railway Museum
• Olive Cotton Award / 2021 Exhibition Catalogue
• Bowness Prize / finalist images 2021
• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
• National Portrait Gallery London
• David Prichard’s portraits of Australian First Nations stock women win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 [article]
• Tony Kearney, Jacob, 2020
• ‘Dignified, strong, beautiful’: the year’s best portrait photography – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]
• High Ground (2020) imdb
• The 2021 Bowness photography prize selected finalists – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]
• tonykearneyportraiture.com
• 3 of Tony’s portraits in NPG collection
• Vitalstatistix
• Laneway Festival
• Tony’s photograph of @BillieEilish
• Tony’s photograph of @AuroraMusic
• Tony Kearney, Linda Syddick Tjunggkiya Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.2cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017
  Tony Kearney, Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.1cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017
• Tangentyere Art Centre
• Rust, ‘The corrosion of culture and the culture of corrosion’
• ‘Chandie’ by Deb Jones & Christine Cholewa
• Syria Lost
• Hart’s Mill

Artist Interview: Jasmine Crisp

In this episode, Steph catches up with Jasmine Crisp at her home studio in the Adelaide Hills. Jasmine paints across small and large scale, with her narrative paintings discoverable in both gallery spaces and on buildings around Adelaide and beyond. We talk about what drives her work, the ups and downs of working in public space, her time in residency in Iceland, and her painting that won the inaugural Centre for Creative Health Art Prize.

Show Notes:

• Jasmine Crisp (Instagram) (website)
• Adelaide Central School of Art
• SALA Festival Slide Night 2021
• What is an artist residency?
• SíM Artist Residency - Seljavegur, Reykjavík, Iceland.  
• NES Artist Residency - Skagaströnd, Iceland.  
• Kolin Ryyanänen Artist Residency - Koli, Finland
• Centre for Creative Health Art Prize
• Jasmine Crisp, ‘They had to share (a portrait of Ruby)’, 2020, oil on linen, 91x152cm
• Ruby Allegra (Instagram)
• Portrait of Ruby wins new health-focused art prize (InDaily article)
• Religious Icon paintings
• Brisbane Street Art Festival
• Andrew Salgado (Instagram) (website)
• Beers London (website) (Salgado bio)

Transcript on the SALA website.

Music: Sky 5: The Rise, The Walk, The Hope - Monplaisir

Artist Interview: Shane Kooka

In this episode, Steph catches up with Shane Kooka.
Shane’s interest in art started at an early age and became an important way for him to connect with culture. Today, Shane works at small and large scale, making his mark on bodies, garments, buildings, and more. In this interview we hear about the role of collaboration and variety in sustaining his practice, and some of his work in Tarnanthi.

Show Notes

• Cherbourg Mission
  'Missions, reserves and stations were reserves of land to which Aboriginal people were forcibly located' – aiatsis.gov.au
• Stolen Gen / Stolen Generation
  Who are the Stolen Generations? (healingfoundation.org.au)
• Jack Buckskin (Instagram)
• Uncle Stevie
  ABC memorial article (please note that this article contains images of people who have died)
• Jamie Goldsmith
  Honored with mural by Jimmy C and Elizabeth Close in the East End of Adelaide.
• Tarnanthi 2021
• LT3 at Hahndorf Academy, 9 Oct – 28 Nov 2021, 10am-5pm daily, free
• LT3 artist talk | 12-1pm, 20 Nov 2021 at Hahndorf Academy
• Elizabeth Close (website) (Instagram)
• Thomas Readett (website) (Instagram)
• Mirdilyayanthi – to Shine Bright at Women’s and Children’s hospital (Blue Heart Gallery, Ground Floor). 15 Oct 2021 – 31 Jan 2022. 9am-5pm daily, free.
• Black Diamond Tattoo
• De Castella’s Indigenous mission in New York Marathon (SMH article, 2019)
• The fight to ‘free’ the Aboriginal flag – BBC article
• Adelaide Crows Football Club 2020 Indigenous Guernsey designed by Eddie Hocking working with Shane Kooka
• UFC Adelaide: Tai Tuivasa’s entrance music honours his Aboriginal heritage (sportingnews article)
• Cold Krush
• Anthony Mundine wearing Shane’s art
• @ShaneKooka_Art

Artist Interview: Gemma Rose Brook

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Gemma Rose Brook. 
Gemma is an emerging artist who paints from life, so it was only appropriate that the interview take place cross-legged on the spring grass of Brownhill Creek Recreation Park. Tune in to hear about the mindfulness of Gemma’s practice, the stories behind some of her works, and her first solo exhibition coming up in November.

Show notes

• Brownhill Creek (Wirraparinga) Recreation Park      
• Tom Carment
• Adelaide Central School of Art
• Melanie Brown
• Plein air painting
• Still life
• Ernabella Arts
• Foodland
• Greta Laundy
• T’keyah Ware
• Hills Hoist
• 'What was it like for Heysen as he saw the light kiss these gums and painted this shady pool', 2019, 20.5 x 25.5, oil on board
• 'Did Sauerbier and Trenerry feel like they were on the moon when they sat and painted these same cliffs', 2019, 20.5 x 25, oil on board
• Horace Trenerry
• Kathleen Sauerbier
• Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga
• Dorrit Black
• Hans Heysen  
• The Cedars, Heysen’s property         
• Heysen Prize for Landscape 2020      
• RSASA Youthscape Art Prize 2020     
• Lois Dodd       
• Gull Rock
• Floating Goose Studios
• Gemma’s website
• Gemma’s Instagram
• Red Earth, Blue Skies and Anangu Smiles by Gemma Rose Brook at Floating Goose Studios [eventbrite ticket link for opening night Friday 5 November]
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2021 Audio Tour - Adelaide’s Public Art

Check out the new do-it-yourself audio tour of public art in the City of Adelaide! Join Steph in this meander around the CBD and find out more about the murals, sculptures, and installations that decorate our city. You can listen from the comfort of home or listen along while you walk the route yourself.

• Stop 1: David Gulpilil mural by Thomas Readett with Laura Paige
  [location: Tandanya, East Terrace, Adelaide]
  • Broadsheet: Screen Legend David Gulpilil Is the Subject of a New Mural in Adelaide
  • Video documentation
• Stop 2: Pigeon by Paul Sloan, fabricated by Iguana Creative
  [location: Rundle Mall/Gawler Place (South)]
• Stop 3: Flow by Laura Wills and Will Cheesman, fabricated by Exhibition Studios
  [location: Rundle Mall/Gawler Place (North)]
• Stop 4: 14 Pieces by Hossein and Angela Valamanesh
  [location: outside the South Australian Museum, North Terrace]
• Stop 5: City of Music mural by Dave Court
  [location: East of the Morphett St Bridge]
  • Documentary Video
• Stop 6: She imaged buttons by Jasmine Crisp

  [location: East wall of the Rockford Hotel, cnr Hindley St and Morphett St]

• Stop 7: Parking Pole by Michelle Nikou

  [location: Hindley St / Leigh St]

• Stop 8: Roy Rene by Robert Hannaford

  [location: Hindley St, opposite McDonalds]

• Stop 9: The Beatles by Algo Mas Marketing

  [location: Adelaide Town Hall balcony]

• Stop 10: Golden Rhombohedron (Obtuse) by Jason Sims

  [location: Grote Street, opposite Her Majesty’s Theatre]

  • InDaily: In the Studio with Jason Sims
  • Golden Rhombohedron (Acute)
• City of Adelaide Public Art Map

Artist Interview: Bridget Currie

In this episode, Steph caught up with multidisciplinary artist Bridget Currie. 
Bridget was the inaugural recipient of ACE Open’s newly formed Porter St Commission, and her resulting exhibition, Message from the Meadow, is at ACE Open for this year’s SALA Festival. Tune in to this gentle discussion of Bridget’s practice of giving form to invisible things, the importance of artwork that ‘resists’ logical understanding, and a hint as to Bridget’s preferred corner of the rabbit hole that is ASMR videos.

Show Notes

• John Barber
• George Popperwell
• Ian North
• Carclew
• Experimental Art Foundation
• Viv Miller  
• Sera Waters   
• Louise Flaherty     
• Chris Flannagan
• Andrew Best
• Downtown Art Space
• Downtown [TV commercial]
• Alison Currie             
• Message from the meadow  
• Porter St Commission      
• ACE Open                     
• Riso print                      
• Person Books              
• Tyrone Ormsby
• Meridian Sculpture (Melbourne)               
• Arts in Health at FMC    
• Koan - Buddhist principle
• The sound of one hand clapping
• ASMR / Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
• Meditation in the gallery       
• Keg de Souza and Lucien Alperstein's salt banquet
• Rupert (Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Dean Toepfer                 
• Mixed Goods Studios [Instagram]  
• BridgetCurrie.com             
• @Bridget_Currie         

Music: Nothing will grow here, Komiko, free music archive

Image: Sam Roberts, courtesy of ACE Open

Artist Interview: Henry Wolff

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Henry Wolff at their studio in Post Office Projects, Port Adelaide. Tune in to hear about Henry’s path from design and fashion to visual art, and the way that empathy and care are explored in their image making - most notably in their new moving-image work ‘CARE’ commissioned by fine print magazine and presented online as part of SALA Festival 2021.

Show Notes

• Post Office Projects / POP
• Georges Antoni [Instagram]

• “The way we choose to share and claim space in relation to those closest to us becomes a way of knowing ourselves.” – Kate O’Boyle

• Presence at Praxis Artspace
• Henry Wolff, 'CARE', 2021, single channel moving image with audio, 16 mins
• fine print magazine
• Arts South Australia / Department of Premier and Cabinet

• Lur Alghurabi

• Jai McGregor
• Henry Wolff, ‘Ourselves’, 2020. Single channel video with audio. 6:00 minutes. Feat. Jasmine Crisp and Jamilla Hujale. Videography by Jai McGregor. Production assistance Ingrid Wolff. Editing by Henry Wolff. Audio by Martin Davies and Henry Wolff.
• Bus Projects
• Henry Wolff, ‘Sibling’, 2020, Feat. Ingrid Wolff, single channel video, 7 minutes: 22 seconds. Videography Jai McGregor, Recal Media.
• Hoda Afshar
• Eugenia Lim
• Hayley Millar Baker
• Jesse Budel
• Henry Wolff, ‘Kin’, 2021, Feat. Ingril Wolff, Two channel moving imag, videography Jai McGregor, Editing and audio by Henry Wolff
• HenryWolff.net
• @Henry___Wolff [Instagram]

music: Nothing will grow here - Komiku via freemusicarchive.org

2021 SALA Feature Artist: Roy Ananda

In this episode, Christina catches up with the 2021 SALA Feature Artist, Roy Ananda. Tune in to hear about the role of fandom and humor in Roy's work, the inspiration behind the 'heart' work that features on the 2021 SALA poster, and the process of creating this year's SA Living Artist Publication.

Show Notes

• Untitled, 2006, Fabric, coat-hanger, fibreglass, dimensions variable
• Bugs Bunny – ‘The Grey Hounded Hare’
• Aether Drift, 2013, timber, acrylic paint, fixings, aluminium trestles, 300x600x500cm
• Monograph – Roy Ananda
• Roy Ananda: Further Annotations at the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA)
• Annotations series
• Olafur Eliasson, Dark matter collective, 2018, 217 partially silvered glass spheres, paint (black), stainless steel
• Peter Booth, Painting 1982, 1982, oil on canvas
• formalism
• Sol LeWitt
• MF Doom (member of hip-hop duo Madvillain) / Madvillain – ALL CAPS
• Fransisco Goya in the AGSA collection
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the AGSA collection
• Albrecht Dürer in the AGSA collection
• Deviantart.com/fan-fiction
• Death notice, 2016, digital print on newsprint paper, 15x7cm
• SA Living Artist Publication
• Christopher Orchard: The uncertainty of the poet, Peter Goldworthy, Margot Osborne, Roy Ananda, Julia Robinson, Rod Taylor
• Peter Goldsworthy
• Andrew Purvis
• Bernadette Klavins
• Sean Williams
• D&D / Dungeons & Dragons
• Wakefield Press
• A house falls on Buster Keaton
• The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars: Episode V)
• affirmational fandom vs transformational fandom
• Roy Ananda 2004 SALA Keynote speech
• ACSA / Adelaide Central School of Art
• Adelaide Central Gallery
• Supreme Library at Adelaide Central Gallery
• FantasyNameGenerators.com
• Slow crawl to infinity, 2014, Plywood, timber, fixings, 550x700x1050cm
• Thin walls between dimensions, 2018, MDF, timber, acrylic paint, fixings, Dimensions variable
• Wookie
• ‘Easter egg’ (noun) 1: a chocolate egg given at Easter, (2) an unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or bonus.
• CACSA / Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
• (Dueling rapiers): Roy Ananda, Untitled, 2015, swords, steel, springs, motor, and micro-controller, dimensions variable
• Alexander Calder
• Inigo Montoya vs Man in Black
• 501^st legion
• Darth Vader
• Boba Fett
• Roy Ananda, Autobiography series
• Melvyn Bragg
• RoyAnanda.com
• @roy.ananda on Instagram

Music:

Galactic by Seb Jaeger

Hungarian Rhapsody No2 by Hans Liszt performed by Brent Tucker

Interview: 100 Barossa Artists

In this episode, Steph caught up with Renee de Saxe, Kirsty Kingsley, and Rebecca Reynolds, who are the driving force behind the 100 Barossa Artists project that took place in SALA 2020. Tune in to hear about how they managed to put on such a big project, the importance of the ‘clubhouse’ in art, and what they’re planning to do next.

Show Notes

• Renee de Saxe [Instagram]
• Kirsty Kingsley [Instagram]
• Rebecca Reynolds [Instagram]
• 100 Barossa Artists [website]
• @SheIs_art_barossa [Instagram]
• @100BarossaArtists [Instagram]
• 100 Barossa Artists exhibition: An unveiling of self-reflection [article]
• 2020 SALA exhibitions mentioned:
  • 100 Barossa Artists at She Is gallery
  • Future Artists at She Is gallery
  • 10 Digital Artists in the main street of Tanunda
• Barossa Regional Gallery [website]
• Over 3,000 people at Greenock’s Wanderlust [article]
• Clarice Beckett at the Art Gallery of South Australia
• Jane Skeer
• Uki, The country town with the hippest post office in Australia [article]
• Buy Grapevine Charcoal
• Steinborner & Reynolds family vineyards [website]
• Barossa Grape Vine Charcoal Workshops
• 100 Barossa Artist book
• She is pop up gallery receives SALA award [article]
• Passage exhibition at Karrawatta

Music: Pinky - Blue Dot Sessions via freemusicarchive.org

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property with Charisma Cubillo

In this episode, Steph talks to Charisma Cubillo, a solicitor at Terri Janke and Company, about Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

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