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Adelaide SA 5001

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SALA Festival exhibition

Ann Newmarch: Cultural pattern and human fragility (Pandora's Box)


Ann Newmarch_SALA_2010


ANN NEWMARCH will present an exhibition of recent works for the upcoming 2010 SALA Festival.
The exhibition will be launched at the Flinders University City Gallery from 6 to 8pm on Friday 2nd July.
For your invitation to this exhibition go to Member Matters section of this website.


SALA Festival Exhibition

Mixed Doubles:
Lyn Robins & Hugh Adamson


Mixed Doubles


You are invited to the opening of MIXED DOUBLES, an exhibition of PAINTINGS & JEWELLERY by LYN ROBINS, and PAINTINGS by HUGH ADAMSON.

Opening: Sunday August 1
2 - 4 pm
, at Lyn Robins Studio
8 Rodney Avenue, Tranmere.


Or visit from Monday 2 to Sunday 8 August. Opening Hours: 10-4pm.
There will be demonstrations from 10 to 12 on Wednesday 4 (acrylics), Thursday 5 (watercolour), Friday 6 (pen & wash), Saturday 7 (Mixed media).



SALA Festival exhibitions @

HILLSMITH GALLERY


The Hillsmith Gallery (an Institutional member of the Friends of SASA) is featuring the work of three artists during the SALA Festival. The artists are:
LAURA WILLS
WEND LEAR
DANIELLE WALPOLE


Laura Wills_Behind


Laura Wills, Behind, pastel on paper. From the series There in time.

To see more works in pastel by Laura Wills and photographic works by Wend Lear and Danielle Walpole, go to the Current/Upcoming section of this website.

 

 


ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
FRIENDS of SASA

The Annual General Meeting of Friends SASA will be held on Thursday 19th August, 2010, at the Bradley Forum, The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre (5th Floor), University of South Australia, City West Campus, North Terrace,
Adelaide, beginning at 5.30pm.
Click here
for more information about this AGM: the Revised/Amended Constitution of Friends SASA Inc., and the Agenda for the upcoming AGM.

Dr Suzanne Miller

Guest Speaker at the upcoming AGM of Friends SASA

PROFESSOR SUZANNE MILLER
Director of the South Australian Museum.


Nominations for positions on the Council and Committee of Friends of SASA close at 5pm on 12th August. Click here to view current nominations for these positions.

Click here, for more information about past Annual General Meetings of Friends of SASA.

July/August 2010 Issue of the Friends of SASA Newsletter

The July/August issue of the Friends of SASA Newsletter is now available. For your copy go to the NEWSLETTERS section of this site.

SALA FESTIVAL
July 30 - August 22, 2010

Yvonne East_Out of the Shadows invitation

Friends of SASA Committee member, YVONNE EAST, is showing new works in an exhibition titled: OUT OF THE SHADOWS at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre,
1 Goolwa Terrace, Goolwa, SA.
The exhibition, which is being held in conjunction with the SALA Festival, will be opened at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre by Jane Hylton, independent curator and arts consultant, at 2pm, Sunday 1 August, 2010.

Finalists Advertiser Business SA Contemporary Art Prize

Two artist members of the Friends SASA, LOIS TURNER and YVONNE EAST are finalists in the SALA FESTIVAL'S Advertiser Business SA Contemporary Art Prize.
Prizewinners will be announced at the awards presentation at Keith Murdoch House, Tuesday 10 August. Friends SASA wishes both finalists well in this awards event.  

Robert Hannaford : OPEN STUDIO

Robert Hannaford

Friends of SASA member JOHN NEYLON is the Curator of the forthcoming OPEN STUDIO exhibition of works by ROBERT HANNAFORD.

Robert Hannaford is one of South Australia’s best-known and critically acclaimed living artists and one of the nation’s finest portrait painters.

The exhibition will be officially opened on Friday 23 July at 6pm. Dates/ Times:  Friday 23 July to Saturday 28 August.
Where: Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Main Gallery and Jean Sims Gallery.

For more information about the exhibition go to the Country Arts SA website.

Dianne Longley: Fantastic Grotesque

Dianne Longley_Fisher of Dreams
Dianne Longley, Fisher of Dreams, 2009, acrylic engraving on hand-coloured Rives BKF 300gsm paper, 76 x 110cm


Well known Adelaide printmaker (and Friend of SASA), DIANNE LONGLEY, is showing new work as part of the SALA Festival at the Adelaide Central Gallery, Norwood, Adelaide.
The exhibition - FANTASTIC GROTESQUE - will be opened on Friday 30 July at 6pm by Friends of SASA Institutional Council Member, Dr Pamela Zeplin. For more information and the Catalogue to this exhibition go to the ACSA website.

RSASA ALIVE

RSASA ALIVE

SALA is almost here and and there are heaps of exhibitions opening, all around Adelaide and in Regional areas. Hope you all take time to experience the artworks our South Australian artists create.  A time for artists to celebrate and to view the amazing artworks that will bring Adelaide Alive.
The Royal South Australian Society of Arts (RSASA) is celebrating SALA with their Members' Winter Exhibition: RSASA ALIVE.

The exhibition will be opened at
2pm on Sunday 25 July 2010
.
The Guest Speaker at the opening will be
Dr Chris West, CEO SA Zoos (Adelaide & Monarto).


The exhibition will be on view from Sunday 25 July to Sunday 22 August 2010.

CLICK HERE or on the pic above for more information about this and other upcoming events at RSASA.

Links to Friends SASA events/information

LYN ROBINS STUDIO: 2 WORKSHOPS IN WATERCOLOUR

ARTISTS WANTED FOR ODYSSEY FESTIVAL

RESALE ROYALTY SCHEME FOR VISUAL ARTISTS

Royal Show Purchase Exhibition

The 2010 Art Purchase exhibition will be held from 3rd to 11 September 2010 at the Duncan Gallery. Goyder Pavilion, Adelaide Show Grounds, Wayville.
Entries for this exhibition close at 5pm on Friday 9th July 2010.
For more information and a copy of the ART PURCHASE PRIZE SCHEDULE and the ART PURCHASE PRIZE ENTRY FORM, go to the Current/Upcoming Events section of this website.

Friends of SASA display of artworks at the Regency Medical Clinic

A number of Friends of SASA members are offering artworks for sale at the Regency Medical Clinic, 517 Regency Road, SEFTON PARK 5083.

Members and friends at launch of Friends of SASA display at the Regency Medical Clinic
Above: Members and friends at the launch of the display of artworks at Regency Medical Clinic.

For more information about this display go to the Current/Upcoming Events section of this website.

Friends of SASA Inc. Prize

The Council and Committee of the Friends of SASA Inc. is to fund a $1000 prize that will be awarded for creative excellence most likely to a high achieving second year student at the South Australian School of Art. For more information about this initiative see the website for the University of South Australia's School of Art, Architecture and Design.
Jack Condous_Helen Black_John Barbour

Above: Jack Condous, President of the Friends of SASA handing the $1000 cheque to Helen Black, Acting Deputy Director, Development: Marketing and Development Unit, University of South Australia and Associate Professor Dr John Barbour, Director of the South Australian School of Art.