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Australian Art
Our Australian collection presents a comprehensive survey of Australian art, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, from around 1800 to the present. Among its strengths are its nineteenth-century works (including Australian Impressionist paintings and colonial silverware and furniture), its twentieth-century Modernist collection (which includes a renowned selection of works by female artists) and the work by South Australian artists. The Australian Prints, Drawings and Photographs collection includes 2,000 drawings by Hans Heysen, bequeathed by the artist, and the R.J. Noye collection of 6,000 early South Australian photographs.
In 1939 the Gallery became the first Australian art museum to acquire a work by an Aboriginal artist and today, the traditional and the contemporary unite a diverse collection which includes desert paintings on canvas, bark paintings in ochre, photography, video, textiles, ceramics, glass and sculpture. Highlights of the contemporary Australian collection include Lindy Lee’s Life of Stars at the Gallery entrance and the Kulata Tjuta collaboration, made by Aṉangu artists working in the north of the state.
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Artist in Focus
Lidia Groblicka
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Artist in focus
Barbabra Hanrahan
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Artist in Focus
Tracey Moffatt
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Curator's Insight
Albert Namatjira’s radiant landscape depicts an ancestral site on his father's country
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Curator's Insight
The vigorous post-impressionist style of Bessie Davidson is examined by Elle Freak
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Curator's Insight
Tracey Lock introduces a new addition to AGSA'S Australian sculpture collection
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Curator's Insight
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Curator's Insight
Delve into Ben Quilty's series of paintings dedicated to the lost lives of asylum seekers
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Curator's Insight
Leigh Robb celebrates Margaret Dodd, a South Australian icon
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Curator's Insight
A look at two paintings by artist Ethel Carrick Fox
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Curator's Insight
A look at a new acquisition by Ngarrindjeri artist Trevor Nickolls
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Curator's Insight
AGSA's acquisition of two paintings by Judy Watson from Tarnanthi 2019
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Assistant Director's Insight
Dr Lisa Slade discusses Aboriginal sovereignty featured by Ali Gumillya Baker
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Curator's Insight
Tracey Lock examines Goodchild’s charming portrait
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Curator's Insight
Dorrit Black’s critically transformative period is discussed by Tracey Lock
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Curator's Insight
Gloria Strzelecki shares a major acquisition by Schulim Krimper
Curator's Insight
Leanne Santoro writes on six acquisitions of South Australian woodcarver Maud Baillie (née Golley)
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Assistant Director's Insight
Lisa Slade looks at the work Wittgenstein’s brush with vorticism by Gareth Sansom
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Curator's Insight
Tracey Lock celebrates the Evening Shadows Phenomenon
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Curator's Insight
Tracey Lock discusses a rare, early example of a domestic longcase clock