SALA Podcast SALA Festival

In this episode, Steph catches up with Helen Fuller in the artist’s home studio. Steph asks Helen about the range of mediums she has used over the years, what it’s like to have a book published about her career, and Helen gives context to the artwork that featured on the 2023 SALA Poster & program. They also chat about the influence of family on her artmaking, and the joy of coming home from walks with a pocket full of curiosities. Her exhibition Shedding is on at Adelaide Central Gallery until 27 October 2023.
 
Show notes
Interview Transcript (PDF)
Helen Fuller, Samstag Museum of Art, UniSA, Adelaide Festival 2022 / catalogue
Helen Fuller (book) Wakefield press
SALA Feature Artist: Info / Archive
South Australian Living Artist Publication
Shedding, at Adelaide Central Gallery (until 27 October 2023)
 
Music: Raven Warble - Chad Crouch

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Monika Morgenstern. They chat about the overarching theme of mysticism in her work, and what kind of materials she uses to explore something so intangible. They trace spiritual moments across her life, from childhood awe at Europe’s cathedrals, to the natural splendour of Lake Tyrrell in Australia.
 
Monika.Morgenstern.com/biography
Adelaide Central School of Art
ArtsSA fellowship / Arts & Culture Grants Program
Erni Tinesz (glass artist)
Numinous encounter
Wordless Silence at Barossa Regional Gallery, Mon-Sun 11am-4pm, 26 July – 2 October 2023.
Prima materia [wikipedia]
Jerome Lyons / Cheese Factory Studio Gallery, Meadows SA
Strathalbyn, South Australia
Sea Lake, Victoria
Masonic lodge
THRFG - Creative Health Art Prize 2023
@MonikaMorgensternArt
MonikaMorgenstern.com
Monika on Facebook & YouTube
Monika's work on Shop SALA
 
Music: Dark Water by Xylo-Ziko

Steph catches up with artist Ian Gibbins in this special science-themed episode presented in partnership with Inspiring SA. They chat about Ian's work as scientist and how it informs his art, and some surprising parallels between the fields of science and art – from the urge to show your work to others to the tedium of failed experiments.
 
Show Notes
IanGibbins.com.au
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Vincent Buckley
Urban Biology
The Joinery
Ian Gibbins, Beyond the Floodtide
Conservation Council South Australia
Catherine Truman
A Partnership for Uncertain Times: Art + Science + Technology [catalogue]
ANAT / the Australian Network for Art & Technology
Ian Gibbins, dog daze, 2017
 
Image: lo
Music: Ian Gibbins (used with permission)

In this episode, Steph catches up with multidisciplinary artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm. They throw back to his mother's artistic influence, and trace that framing of art as a vehicle for bigger things through to his latest exhibition, Rockamora. Tune in to hear why participatory sculpture isn't at all like sitting in the front row of a comedy show, and what Ursula Le Guin has to do with offering chips to bullies.
 
Show Notes:
Interview Transcript (PDF)
KasparSchmidtMumm.com
@Kaspartness (Instagram)
Koruna Schmidt Mumm
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Kaspar’s Painting works
Kaspar’s Paper works
IMMI / IMEMI
Humboldt Forum
Berlin’s bizarre new museum (Guardian article)
ROCKAMORA over the years
ROCKAMORA at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE)10 June – 12 August 2023, 11am-4pm Tues-Sat, free entry
Porter Street Commission
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – Ursula K. Le Guin
The Bait Fridge
Slowmango.com /  @Slowmango_
 
See also: ABC Art Works Series 3, Episode 19
 
Image: photo of Kaspar by Emmaline Zanelli, courtesy of ACE
Music: Blob Funk – Slowmango, 2023, Hypercolour Miscellaneous, courtesy of Kaspar
 

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Kasia Tons in her cosy Adelaide Hills studio. They talk about her early days in the textile industry, the labour-intensive nature of her work, and how her work calls for a re-examining of the human relationship to nature.
 
Show notes:
Transcript (pending)
One Year Dress project
Guildhouse Collections Project
Biotic Commune at the Museum of Economic Botany
@PussyRiot
GuerrillaGirls.com
Future Materials Bank
@fashion_for_bank_robbers
@Kasia.Tons on Instagram
kasiarosetons.com

In this episode, Steph catches up with artist Chris De Rosa in her home studio in Port Elliot. They chat about how she found her way to art-making, the versatility of paper as a material, her recent exhibition Seaweeding, and how living on the coast informs her practice.
 
Show Notes
Transcript of this interview [PDF]
Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec – French painter, printmaker, illustrator
JamFactory
Paper Mache / Papier Mache
flora (noun): the plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Seaweeding exhibition [art almanac] [inDaily]
beachcombing (noun): an activity that consists of an individual “combing” (or searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest, or utility.
Museum of Economic Botany
Jessie Hussey
Spongia: a genus of marine sponges in the family Spongiidae containing more than 60 species.
Porifera: the phylum that sponges belong to.
Taxonomic rank (phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)
The Drowned World, JG Ballard, 1962
Sea Tulip
bust (noun): a sculpture of a person’s head, shoulders, and chest.
Honor Freeman: artist, performer
Mickey Mason: artist & filmmaker
Susi Benger: eco-conscious swimwear designer @CocoAndShy
Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot
Super 8: type of film camera
Giuseppe Faraone: sound designer
Cath Kenneally: writer, poet.
Rosina Possingham: artist, graphic designerGuildhouse Catapult mentorship program
Trent Walter & Stuart Geddes [artguide interview]
Good Bank Gallery, McLaren Vale
Valerie Taylor: artist, filmmaker, marine conservationist
‘Water People’ exhibition (28 May - 31 July 2023) at Coral St Art Space, Victor Harbor
Flinders University Museum of Art
@Chris_DeRosa on Instagram
 
Music: Monplaisir - The Rise The Walk The Hope via FMA.