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Kalori: RSASA Magazine

The Friends SASA History Project is working collaboratively with the South Australian Royal Society of Arts (RSASA) to scan issues of Kalori, their quarterly magazine to add to their website.
Many of the items featured in Kalori are critiques of exhiibitions held at the RSASA Gallery and elsewhere in Adelaide. The following is an item by then Art Critic for the Advertiser (and artist), IVOR FRANCIS. The item appeared in the September 1971, vol 9 no 3 issue of Kalori.

Ivor Francis on 'Them Thar Associates'

The article begins:
When I accepted an invitation to open the recent Associates' exhibition and later discuss some of the exhibitors' work with them at a Critic's Evening, my memories went back to that famcus or, should I say, infamous Associates' exhibition of July, 1942.
It was an event for little ol' Adelaide to which you could have applied the
description of a critic on a similar occasion in Paris nearly 70 years earlier when he wrote, "An exhibition has just opened at the Durand-Rue1 Gallery. The inoffensive passer-by, attracted by the posters which decorate the frontage, enters and a strange sight strikes his astonished eyes; five or six lunatics, one of them a woman - a collection of unfortunates tainted by the folly of ambition - have met here to exhibit their works. Yesterday, an unlucky individual, leaving the exhibition, was arrested. He had begun to bite the passers-by."

To read 'Them Thar Associates' in full, go to the SASA History Project section of this site.

Ivor Francis:
Speed, 1931

This painting by Ivor Francis appeared in the Forerunner Magazine, 1931. This magazine was produced between 1930 and 1938 by the staff and students of the South Australian School of Arts & Crafts and the Girls Central Art School (GCAS).

CLICK HERE to read an article by the Head of the GCAS, Gladys Good (this taken from 'A Broader Vision' by Erica Jolly,
Lythrum Press, 2001), titled 'There was only school like it in the world.'

The Board of Friends SASA welcomes visitors to this site and hopes that it will a Happy New Year for all.

Members of the Board met on Monday 6th February to decide a number of matters relevant to the work of the Friends SASA as well as to set in place a Calendar of Events for 2012. This Calendar will be posted to this site shortly.

In the meantime if any Members of Friends SASA have exhibitions coming up, or know of friends or colleagues that are doing so, please contact us on friends@friendsasa.com with all the details/pics, etc. These can then be added to the above-mentioned Calendar.

Further updates to this site will madeover the coming week. The first Newsletter for the year is due for publication by mid March.

President, Jack Condous presents Yvonne Clark, from the Marketing and Development Unit, University of South Australia with a cheque for $2500 for the Friends SASA prize and travel grants for 2011.

The Friends of the South Australian School of Art, Inc Prize, valued at $1,000 is available to full-time or part-time students who are undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Specialisation) or Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) program at UniSA. The prize is awarded to the student with the highest GPA completing the second year of the undergraduate degree program. The Friends SASA Travel Grant of $1500 is also awarded annually.

The winners of the Friends SASA prize and travel grant for 2011 are JOHN PATSAKIOS and LISA HARMS. More information about these awardees will be posted in the New Year.

The last issue of the Friends SASA Newsletter for 2011 is out now. In this issue, you will find:

An invitation to the Tour of SASA Studios (see below); a feature article on 'Asian Fever & Arts Writing' by former SASA student, now Editor of Artlines for the Queensland Art Gallery, Ian Were; President's Report; 'My Year of Painting' by Nicola Semmens; Report on SASA/RSASA 150-year celebrations; SASA History Project Report; 'Remembering Art School': Invitation to respond; 'Some Reflections' by Professor Mads Gaardboe; Samstag Scholars for 2012; Wine & Port Sales.

To access a copy of this issue, go to the
Newsletters Section of this site.

Old Times at the SA School of Art!
The Antique Room @ School of
Design, 1892

Alice Hambidge, The Antique Room at the School of Design [Exhibition Building, North Terrace], 1892, watercolour, 40 x 36cm. The watercolour was exhibited at the 1893 Federal Exhibition organised by the South Australian Society of Arts and held in the SA Institute Building.

This watercolour was recently discovered in a newly acquired book for the SASA History Project. To find out more about this work, go to the SASA History Project section of this site.

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