This article covers a group of shows, but it also means to be an overview of some recent Adelaide art, all of it installation. To exhibitions by Matthew Bradley, Sarah CrowEST and Nic Folland I have added others, as kindred, similar, coming out of like streams of influence. I have also cast back to earlier…

Michelle Nikou (born in Adelaide in 1967) grew up in small-town rural South Australia—in Yankalilla, on the Fleurieu Peninsula. She gained a Bachelor of Arts in 1989 from the South Australian Art School and a Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts from the university of south Australia in 1990. Nikou’s work began to gain attention after…

Shaun Kirby is one of the dark stars of the South Australian art scene. He has been absent from the capital, Adelaide, for over a decade now, but shows at regular though too-long intervals. His exhibitions are eagerly awaited and relied upon to offer enormous surprise. Because he has been influential locally, and is in…

The following is an account—inevitably one of many possible—of women artists in Australia over recent years.  In fact it is an account of the last 25 years but from a perspective and memory mostly informed by the last decade. Most of the artists I will treat are well-known now. A few are recent reputations.  One…