SALA Podcast

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
501st 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).

Curator Interview: Steph Cibich

In this episode, Steph Fuller chats to Steph Cibich about her practice as an independent curator, and what it was like to win the City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award as part of SALA 2019. Tune in to hear about how Steph found her way to this role and how she curated an exhibition in the midst of a pandemic.
 
Show Notes:
Art History Curatorship Alumni Network (AHCAN)
City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award
SALA Awards
Material Connections at Floating Goose Studios
Sam Gold
Harriet Mckay
The Bait Fridge
Arlon Hall
Sauerbier House
Thingness of Stuff
"That’s good squishy" – The Simpsons
Art Vending Machines Australia
Art-o-mat
Carly Snoswell
ART WORKS emerging curator Guildhouse x City of Adelaide
Approaching Midnight at FELTspace
Doomsday clock
Emilija Kasumovic
Steph Fuller

Artist Interview: Jenna Pippett

In this episode, Steph asks artist Jenna Pippett about her practice and her new exhibition ‘From Czechoslovakia with Love’ at Post Office Projects. Jenna’s work explores at her maternal family history through moving image, photography, installation and performance. Tune in to this episode to hear about the incredible discovery that inspired her exhibition, and how she makes very personal subject matter accessible through humour.
 
Show Notes
Post Office Projects website
Post Office Projects Instagram
Jenna Pippett website
Prague Spring
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
Beránek / Little Lamb Cake
Holy Rollers Studios – Psychache exhibition
FELTspace
Jenna Pippett Artist Talk at POP - Tue 13 April 2021
music - 'Pinky' by Blue Dot Sessions on freemusicarchive.org

Artist Interview: Jingwei Bu

In this episode, Steph visits multidisciplinary visual artist Jingwei Bu at her home to talk about her arts practice, and the work in her exhibition ‘Life Maps’ at the Mill.
 
Show Notes
Adelaide Central School of Art
Life Maps at the Mill
Life Maps – Jingwei’s website
Hairy Tales
Jingwei Bu - website
Dare Hair exhibition review

Artists in Schools: Louise Flaherty & Jane Mant

In December 2020, Steph caught up with artist Louise Flaherty and educator Jane Mant to talk about their experience of the Schools Artist in Residence Program, presented by SALA Festival in partnership with Credit Union SA. Louise worked with Jane’s students in the wake of the December 2019 Adelaide Hills bushfires, connecting the students to their local landscapes through drawing.
 
Show Notes
Louise Flaherty - website
Fabrik
2020 Schools Artist in Residence Program
Credit Union SA
Bushland Park
Friends of Lobethal Bushland Park - Flora species of conservation significance
Visualcom
Solastalgia exhibition
Music: Nothing will grow here - Komiku

Revisit: Social engagement and working with communities

This episode takes us back to the 2018 SALA Forum for the second session of the day: Social Engagement and working with communities, a panel discussion featuring Daniel Connell, Laura Wills and Paul Gazzola.
 
Show Notes:
Youtube video of this talk
Christopher Orchard
Daniel Connell Instagram
Laura Wills website / Instagram
Paul Gazzola website / Instagram
OSCA
Sauerbier House
Onkaparinga Estuary
Naomi Keyte
Collectors/Collections: Waikerie Films
 
Music: Pinky - Blue Dot Sessions