First Fridays: Pleasance

Celebrate all things nature this First Friday. Programmed in collaboration with Nature Festival, you'll explore the theme of Awe through talks, live music and the opening of Pleasance - an immersive plant installation work by Superbloom + Fallow.

From 5pm
Nature Festival - Pleasance Opening

Inspired by the meandering, tranquil flow of the nearby Karrawirra Parri/River Torrens, Pleasance is an immersive architectural folly conceived of as a collaboration between Superbloom + Fallow. Located in the courtyard sculpture garden of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Pleasance is a living artwork that extends from the marquee into a living artwork, where plants and sculptures frame intimate moments of connection. Designed using unexpected combinations of species, this plant-forward experience invites the viewer to pause and revel in a journey through a rich tactile field of colour, beauty and awe.

Pleasance is open during Gallery hours from 27 September - 19 October.
Courtyard

5pm & 7pm
Guided Tours

Join our Gallery Guides for a nature inspired tour of the collection.
Meet at the Atrium Information Desk

5.30pm & 7.45pm
Tom Borgas

In addition to being the designer of ‘Pleasance’, multidisciplinary artist Tom Borgas takes to the AGSA stage to bring the sonic essence of ‘Pleasance’ to life with a masterfully crafted DJ set.
Courtyard

6pm
Panel Talk: Awe in Nature

Join an esteemed panel of thinkers, makers and gardeners to consider how awe plays a role in our relationship with the living world.

This panel will feature renowned horticulturist and Super Bloom author Jac Semmler, South Australian artist Bridget Currie- launching her new body of work 'Each One a World' at Carrick Hill in partnership with AGSA, Tessa Leon co-founder of Human.Kind Studios, student/teacher of mindful practices, psychotherapy, and eco-dharma, and Danni Zuvela, curator and artistic director of ACE, and facilitated by artist and Nature Festival's arts curator, Amber Cronin.

Free, book here
Radford Auditorium

6.45pm
Plastiq

Comprising of vocalist/producer Abbey Howlett (aka Quartz Pistol) and instrumentalist/producer Moses Carr, Plastiq create an immersion of sound with forward thinking lyricism weaved into a tapestry of surrealist pop.
Courtyard

7pm
Superbloom Book Launch and Book Signing

Celebrate the transformative power of flowers with renowned horticulturist and Super Bloom author Jac Semmler at First Fridays.

Flowers bring beauty, joy and sustenance. The cultivation of flowers is a creative gateway, allowing us to discover profound and surprising truths about ourselves. Everyone needs flowers in their life.

With a focus on abundant flora, Semmler’s book Super Bloom and its companion, The Super Bloom Handbook, offers a how-to guide for gardening that emphasises the critical role flowers play in our lives.

Super Bloom is a field guide to flowers and a reinvention of the flower and gardening encyclopedia. Containing 75 plant profiles of the most beautiful flowers and foliage, to bring shape, colour and beauty to any garden, it’s perfect for the current time and trends, and also shows readers how to create their own super bloom.

For more information on the book visit: www.thesuperbloom.com.au
Outside the AGSA store