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Penny Griggs, CEO of the Adelaide Central School of Art, invited some teaching colleagues and friends to a dinner party at her home to celebrate the iconic school’s 40th birthday.
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Julia Robinson realised early on that art was a passion she would pursue at all costs – it’s also how she met her husband, fellow artist Roy Ananda. Julia finds inspiration in folklore and folk horror, and is a keen folk dancer.
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There’s a fine balance between history and development and, in the Adelaide Hills, Tori Dixon-Whittle has mastered it at the stunning Cedars.
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An exhibition devoted to lifting up people with disabilities is helping to tell often untold stories.
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A few months ahead of this weekend's Adelaide opening of Girl from the North Country, SALIFE caught up with South Australian theatre-makers to follow the process from concept to stage.
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Inspiration found in his own boyhood adventures and true tales of lost towns has proven a winning formula for Adelaide debut graphic novelist Jason Pamment.
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London bombing survivor Gill Hicks is reclaiming her life as a talented artist and performer in a powerful act of healing and harmony.
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Featuring works from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists across Australia, Tarnanthi Art Fair goes online from Friday night
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From the mid-1960s, Anne Wills became part of our lives as the wise-cracking glamour girl on TV. After a few quiet years, the 76-year-old performer talks to SALIFE about her new cabaret show that recreates the golden age of television.
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Erik Thomson has stepped away from his funny dad persona to embrace his latest role as a maladjusted, moody chef. Here, he talks television, family life and his love for the Fleurieu.
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There’s an ethereal, mystical quality to artist Clarice Beckett’s work that casts a spell over art lovers, including these South Australians who have loaned their treasured paintings for a major new exhibition at the Art Gallery of SA.
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The festival season kicks off next week – and with it will come a new place to read about the arts in South Australia.
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She got her start at Unley Youth Theatre at age 13, now Kate Box is one of Australia’s most versatile and in-demand actors, drawn to roles with grit and guts.
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Adelaide Writers’ Week has launched its full program for 2021, with an extra 73 Australian and international guests announced as part of the six-day line-up in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.
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Over the past 18 months, Louise Russell has discovered first-hand the life-changing power of art.
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Adelaide’s North Terrace cultural precinct will be alive with the sounds of chamber music on Sunday, with local ensembles performing for free in some of the city’s most treasured spaces.
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This weekend, stop by and say happy birthday to NOLA, tour the SA Museum in a way you've never done so before and take in a comedy at Holden Street Theatres.
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While the $66 million redevelopment of Her Majesty’s Theatre boasts state-of-the-art facilities, it’s the handcrafted elements made by local artisans that reflect the real splendour of this grand old dame.
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JamFactory’s new Icon series exhibition invites you into the wonderfully weird world of Adelaide glass artist Tom Moore – a place full of fanciful hybridised animal-plant creations ranging from a Flaming Stegosaurus to a trio of kookaburra-inspired Hooligans.
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Julian Hobba and Nick Hays both moved to South Australia this year to take up high-level roles in the performing arts sector – at the same time the pandemic forced their companies off-stage.
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Audiences will be treated to an intimate and immersive art experience at the Art Gallery of SA with Seeing Through Darkness, a new performance created by Restless Dance Theatre in response to the works of expressionist artist Georges Rouault.
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A desire to learn to sew led Renate Henschke to a career as a maker and costume and production designer. She’s recently been collaborating with other Adelaide creatives and Windmill Theatre on a new online series called Honey I’m Home.
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The August 2020 issue of SALIFE magazine is out now, featuring our 80-page SALIFE Education Showcase, as well as a peek inside Her Majesty’s Theatre and all your SALA highlights.
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The 2020 SALA Festival opens this weekend, with more than 5500 South Australian artists showing work in 500 exhibitions in venues across the state and online. Here are six highlights.
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A string ensemble of 16 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra musicians will present free concerts at community halls across the metropolitan area next month in a series inspired by the idea that music can provide a sanctuary in unsettling times.
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Artist and recent OAM recipient Nici Cumpston’s journey to becoming a curator at the Art Gallery of SA included many roles – one of which involved processing crime scene photos.
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Music and arts publicist Deb Edwards has worked with big names such as Cold Chisel, Cliff Richard and Tina Turner. She has always drawn inspiration from her late mother, Amy, who was SA’s first Aboriginal primary school teacher, and her trailblazing aunt, Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned this story contains images of deceased persons.)
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From child actor to insurance clerk to Hollywood hot property – Adelaide’s Damon Herriman has taken the long road to success, full of detours, dead-ends and finally dreams come true.
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Support local and brighten up your isolation location with some pieces by talented South Australian creatives.
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From 1970s television commercials and The Sullivans, to bit parts in movies and then finally Hollywood success – Adelaide’s Damon Herriman is the quiet achiever who proves that persistence pays. Read his story in the March issue of SALIFE.
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