Visual Arts
Floating Worlds: Prints from Osaka & Kyoto
Art Gallery of South Australia
When
26 Feb - 05 Mar
Where
Various
Access
Venue & access info here
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Explore a range of free and ticketed events in the calendar below!
Artists’ Week returns to Adelaide Festival in 2027, bringing together leading artists, writers, curators and thinkers for a vibrant program of conversation and exchange. Drawing from the Festival’s visual arts program and the city’s diverse cultural institutions, Artists’ Week invites audiences to explore a dynamic calendar of free talks, exhibitions, openings and in-conversations.
Provocative, insightful and engaging, the program offers a unique opportunity to connect with some of the most compelling artistic and cultural voices in the visual arts today. From contemporary practice and critical debate to creativity, community and culture, Artists’ Week is your window into the big ideas and conversations happening in art now, right here in Adelaide.
Explore the Artists’ Week timetable of events below and plan your Festival experience!
PARTICIPATING GALLARIES & ORGANISATIONS:
Samstag Museum of Art | Adelaide Festival | Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) | Guildhouse | Immersive Light & Art (ILA) | BMG Art | Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) | David Roche Gallery | Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) | JamFactory
What's On
Exhibition Opening: New Religion
Time: 5:30pm-7pm
Venue: FUMA
Artists: Johnathon World Peace Bush, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Drew Connor Holland, Gian Manik, Hayley Millar Baker, Nell, Julia Robinson, Luke Thurgate with works from the FUMA collection
Description: New Religion examines the enduring impulse to search for meaning through visual culture. Curated by Milena Stojanovska with Ngununggula, this iteration draws from the Flinders University Museum of Art collections to bring together devotional works, religious icons, visionary prints and contemporary Australian art.
Exhibition dates: Monday 8 February – Friday 9 March, weekdays 10am–5pm, Thursdays until 7pm. Closed weekends and public holidays.
Season Commences: Arts & Crafts: The Adelaide School of Design 1882-1916
Venue: David Roche Gallery
Exhibition dates: 13 February–15 May, Tues – Sat 10am to 4pm
Description: For the first time the design language of the Adelaide arts and crafts scene is brought back to life through the work of teachers and students across carved furniture, textiles, china painting, metalwork, illuminated work, original designs, and fine art practices.
Talk: Guest curator Dr Jo Vandepeer speaks on Arts & Crafts: The Adelaide School of Design 1882-1916
Time: 6pm
Venue: David Roche Gallery
Exhibition Opening: The Guildhouse Collections Project - 60 Year Archive
Organisation: Guildhouse
Venue: Adelaide Town Hall
Artist: Nat Penney
Curator: Susan Charlton
Description: To mark Guildhouse's 60th anniversary year, South Australian artist Nat Penney has been commissioned to engage with the collection, and in response, develop a new body of work for exhibition. Penney's practice combines processes from timber furniture making and metal fabrication with found and formed objects, to consider the sensory desires in things, looking for subconscious object impulses.
The Guildhouse Collections Project - 60 Year Archive is curated by Susan Charlton, a writer, curator, artist, archivist, specialising in collaborations with artists on archival collections. Charlton was Creative Producer at NSW State Archives & Records, from 2001-15 and curated Museum of Love & Protest for the 40th anniversary of Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Unity! Strength! Justice! for the 100th anniversary of NSW Teachers Federation.
Exhibition dates: 19 February - 30 June, Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm
Season Commences: Cockaigne: The Land of Plenty
Venue: Immersive Light and Art | ILA
Artist: Sam Leach
Description: An immersive interactive installation by Sam Leach, exploring an AI-driven utopia where audience sentiment is transformed into an evolving digital landscape
Exhibition dates: Thurs 25th Feb – Sat 20th March, Wed - Sat 10am - 8pm.
Exhibition Opening: Tactile World: Dark Forest
Time: 5pm -7pm
Venue: ACE
Artist: Artists featured include Antony Abbracciavento, Troy-Anthony Baylis, Boris Dann, Lottie Emma, Simone Kennedy, Shan Michaels and members of the Blind and Low Vision community.
Description: Touch-based exhibition featuring tactile artworks created by leading South Australian artists and students from the blind and low vision community through workshops at the South Australian School and Services for Vision Impaired (SASSVI)
Exhibition dates: 26 February – 10 April, Tues–Sat 11am–4pm plus Mon 1st & 15th March.
Exhibition Opening: within: dhuwi-bray ngaya / I have spirit
Time: 6pm
Venue: JamFactory
Artist: Juanita McLauchlan
Description: Gamillaray/Gamillaroi artist Juanita McLauchlan presents a new series of dyed and stitched blankets, silk and possum fur works that are used to create an environment which wraps, protects and holds people to culture and to place.
Exhibition dates: 12 Feb - 4 April, daily 10am-5pm
Talks: Forum Day
Time: 11am-4.30pm
Venue: Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, Adelaide University
Organisations: Samstag & Adelaide Festival
Description: Join local, national and international artists and thinkers for a day of talks, panels and discussion at Samstag Museum of Art, examining the 2027 Adelaide Festival Visual Arts program through the lens of attention. Afterwards, celebrate the opening of Artists Week at the Artist Party with drinks and music.
Artists’ Week Opening Party: Parnati Season Launch
Time: 4.30 -7pm
Venue: Samstag / Fenn Place, Adelaide University
Artist: Khaled Sabsabi
Description: Celebrate the opening of Artists Week at the Artist Party with drinks and music.
Exhibition dates: 26 Feb – 28 May, Tues - Sat 10am – 5pm
Event: Blind Community Day
Time: 1-4pm
Venue: ACE
Description: Music by blind musicians; touch-based activities and Braille bombing led by the blind and low vision community. Guide dogs and support workers are welcome.
Talk: Facilitated Conversation with Juanita McLauchlan and Dr Lee-Anne Hall
Time: 12.15-1pm
Venue: Jeffrey Smart Building
Gallery: JamFactory
Artist: Juanita McLauchlan
Exhibition Opening: Ned, Giambattista & a few dogs: A visual investigation of Ned Kelly and the works of Giambattista Tiepolo
Time: 6pm
Venue: BMG ART
Artist: Mark Thompson
Description: Influences as diverse as the Kelly Gang, 18th Century painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Vivaldi’s operas and the Australian bush prompt Mark Thompson’s series of exuberant and richly layered works. Dogs, angels, magpies and guys in drag.
Exhibition dates: 4 March - 14 March, Tues - Sat 11-4pm, Sun 12 - 4pm
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