Adelaide Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere, transforming the city and greater South Australia across thirty-one summer days and nights from 17 February to 19 March 2023, with a range of eclectic and vibrant events, including cabaret, theatre, comedy, circus, music, visual arts, and workshops.
The visual arts program includes highlights such as emerging Aboriginal artist, Arabana and Kokatha woman Mali Isabel living in her glass studio at Glutton. Creating her trademark contemporary rainbow artworks, Mali draws inspiration from the land that surrounds her, capturing the environments and translating them into magical landscapes. We are invited to view the creation process up close and personal as she captures the spirit of the Adelaide Fringe around her.
Sandra Lepore, The 100 Year Climate Yarn. Courtesy the artist and Adelaide Fringe, South Australia
Similarly, Biophilia at the Majestic Roof Garden Hotel spans both visual arts and performance with an immersive multidisciplinary photography and movement installation work. Artists Fern Mines and Ahlia Sanders explore humans’ relationship with an innate affinity to the natural world – specifically, the Biophilia hypothesis, which suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
Other notable shows include The 100 Year Climate Yarn crochet installation by Sandra Lepore at Gallery Yampu; Eleanor Noir’s intriguing Sublunary – a synthesis of figurative, landscape and floral painting; and Manda-Ngurni Warna-gu, an exhibition by Ceduna Arts highlighting the connection to land and sea, acknowledging Country, culture, and the diversity of their unique heritage in the far west of South Australia.
Go online for more information, and to plan your experience.
adelaidefringe.com.au
