Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art

This exhibition publication is conceived as an offering, an integral yet autonomous object that presents eleven speculative approaches to the ideas presented by the art and the exhibition. This full colour publication mirrors the structure of the exhibition yet is not designed as a true representation.

Catalogue to accompany exhibition of installations; vol. 1 includes biographical and background information to the artists and their work; vol. 2 includes photographs of and further information on the installations; Gordon Bennett included in the Negotiating history section; Fiona Foley , David Malangi, Molly Napurrula Martin, Dora Napurrula Long and (Gwanbany) Paddy Carlton combine to mount an exhibition of grand paintings called Moving sands; forward momentum.

The flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science assembles 22 of the nation's most innovative and exciting contemporary artists and artist groups, to present a wondrous and unsettling vision of our world, where mystery and the unknowable wrestle with order and reason. Inspired by the concepts of alchemy and transformation, independent Melbourne curators Sarah Tutton and Charlotte Day have selected cutting-edge new works which, through their use of media, theme or narrative, change the humble into the precious, the old into new, and the mundane into the magical. Installation and sculpture using traditional and non-traditional materials feature strongly alongside collage, film and painting to create an extraordinary exhibition experience.

This full-colour publication features the work of the twenty-four participating artists and collaborations in the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, as well as insightful texts on the practice of these leading Australian artists by curator Leigh Robb. Senior Curator Julie Robinson charts the history of monsters in art and award-winning author Claire G. Coleman explores their contemporary manifestations.Monster Theatres invites artists to make visible the monsters of our time. Leigh Robb says 'Monsters ask us to interrogate our relationships with each other, the environment and technology. They force us to question our empathy towards difference across race, gender, sexuality and spirituality'.Monster Theatres proposes an arena of speculation, a circus of the unorthodox and the absurd, a shadow play between truth and fiction. The title is inspired by a group of provocative Australian artists. Their urgent works of art are warnings made manifest. These theatres are theirs.