SALA Podcast

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

Revisit: The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs

This episode takes us back to the 2017 SALA Forum for a Q&A session from The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs. Andrew Purvis and Sasha Grbich take us through what non-corporeal means, and what necessitates a paranomal research office in the City of Adelaide.
 
Show Notes:
City Messenger – Why has a paranormal research office popped up at Adelaide City Council?
SAnews – Paranormal research office cracks open Adelaide’s ghost tales
Ouija Board
Fleetwood Mac
Sera Waters
Allen Tiller on Twitter
Haunted Adelaide
Richard Dawkins
Artpod
Sasha Grbich - website

Artist Interview: Sundari Carmody

In this episode, Kate interviews artist Sundari Carmody about her practice, which gives sculptural form to unseen phenomena. Carmody is drawn to research in the areas of dark matter, sleep and the study of nocturnal creatures, and in her work considers how to engage with universal systems and aspects of being using materials such as concrete, textiles, mist and neon. See her work at ACE Open as part of If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey.Show Notes:
BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' - Bird Migration
Sundari Carmody, One: all that we can see, 2017, neon light with 95% painted black, electrical components, 40 x 40cm
Sundari Carmody, white white (summer and winter solstice), 2017, neon light, electrical components, 70 x 100cm
 ‘Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams’ Dr Matthew Walker
Sundari Carmody, Milky Way, 2018
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 AD) in ‘Confessions’.
Sundari Carmody, The Black Swan Suite, 2014
Sundari Carmody, The Build Up – masks, 2014
Sundari Carmody, The Build Up, 2014
ACE Open - If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey
Sundari Carmody at ACE Open, 2020
Jantar Mantar
SundariCarmody.com
Transcipt available
Music: 'Nothing will grow here' by Komiku via freemusicarchive.org

Artist Interview: Juanella McKenzie

In this episode, Kate interviews Port Augusta artist, Adnyamathanha and Luritja woman, Juanella McKenzie. Juanella is the recipient of the Country Arts SA Breaking Ground Award, and speaks to her next steps in developing this work.
 
Show Notes
Juanella McKenzie wins Breaking Ground Award (Country Arts)
Jessica Clark
Family campaigns to stop the nuclear waste facility in Hawker
The McKenzie Powerhouse
@woven_dreaming (Instagram)