In this three-part project, Eugenia Lim takes on a Mao-like persona who sits halfway between truth and fantasy, dressed in a gold lamé suit. ...
Eugenia Lim: The Ambassador
Tag Archives: Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
Aldo Iacobelli: A Conversation with Jheronimus
‘A Conversation with Jheronimus’ by Aldo Iacobelli features a range of objects: installation, drawings, sculpture, and paintings....
2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds artists announced
Thirty leading Australian contemporary artists and collectives have been selected for the next instalment of the Adelaide Biennial – the country’s longest-running survey of contemporary Australian art....
Trent Parke and Narelle Autio: The Summation of Force
Trent Parke and Narelle Autio have taken the notion of backyard cricket to a new ‘batting average’ with their first collaborative project, and their first undertaking into moving image and sound installation....
Troubled Waters
‘Troubled Waters’ completes a triptych of exhibitions at the Samstag Museum of Art exploring humanity’s relationship with rivers and oceans. ‘The Ocean After Nature’ and ‘Countercurrents’ were exhibited earlier this year for the Adelaide Festival....
The Samstag Legacy: an artist’s bequest
Split into two parts, this scholarly publication documents the journey that led American artist Gordon Samstag and his wife Anne to move from America to Australia....
Fleurieu Art Prize 2016
The winning work, The Hand You’re Dealt (2015), references Western popular and Australian Aboriginal culture through a careful arrangement of vintage playing cards. In interrogating his immense collection of “Aboriginalia”, Albert asks us to engage with our landscape: tangible, social and political...
Revealed3: someone’s and everyone’s
With contemporary jewellery, a private acquisition becomes a public display. We are rarely privileged, however, to view a collection in its entirety - a treasure trove of pieces chosen over time and with great personal attention, reflecting interests, experiences and relationships....
2016 Fleurieu Art Prize
The ‘Fleurieu Art Prize’ is the world’s richest landscape art award and it is about to become even richer. In 2016, the South Australian initiative will relocate from the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, to the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide, where...
Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape
Curated by Barry Pearce, the extensive survey exhibition ‘Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape’ recognises the lifetime achievement of this exceptional South Australian artist – whose long career has, until now, remained largely uncelebrated in the public eye....
Roy Ananda: Slow crawl into infinity
Ananda’s processed-based sculpture investigates cause and effect with a touch of exaggerated physicality, anchored by the comic, and an abiding interest in the visual language of pop culture....
Daniel Crooks
Daniel Crooks takes what we know about time and space, disrupts it, and gives it back to us pieced together in a different order. The effect is truly mesmerising, and his works have rightly distinguished him as one of the leading contemporary artists working in moving...