In this episode, SALA chats to artist Elizabeth Close. Elizabeth talks about the path she took to becoming a visual artist and how her love of art was influenced by her grandmother. She discusses how her work is inspired by other indigenous artists, such as Nyunmiti Burton, and non-indigenous artists like Georgina Hill, and how her practice has become more diverse over the years. She reveals some of her favourite works and the reasons why she holds them in high regard. She talks about her recent recovery from brain surgery and how keen she is to get back into the studio to work on a new cultural sovereignty project that’s in the making.

Finally, she tells listeners where they can find some of her collaborative works around the city of Adelaide, including the mural of Uncle Stevie Gadlabarti Goldsmith on Wright Street.

• APY Lands - https://anangu.com.au/
• Nyunmiti Burton - AGSA
• Yaritji Young - Biennale of Sydney
• Blak Douglas https://blakdouglas.com.au/
• Karla Dickens - https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/education/resources-educators/resources-educators-ATSIart/karla-dickens/
• Reko Rennie - https://rekorennie.com/
• Georgina Hill - https://www.georgiahill.com.au/
• More on the skink Tarutharu at the Adelaide Zoo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtbzgfG9SlY
• A Blanck Canvas - https://ablanckcanvas.com/
• Jack Buckskin – Kaurna language: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCp3_brrD7xr_9N2OxRC1Oz8MfsMok34H
• James Chocran – Jimmy C - https://www.akajimmyc.com/Street_Art
• The Pride and the Profit -https://www.instagram.com/p/CERC2cZDizH/?img_index=4
• Elizabeth and Jimmy C’s mural of Uncle Stevie on Wright Street, Adelaide - https://www.instagram.com/p/CDD3tWvjgD7/
• Elizabeth and Thomas Redett’s mural of frogs - https://www.instagram.com/p/CNEtnuZjv_Y/?hl=en&img_index=1
• https://www.instagram.com/elizabethclosearts/
• https://www.facebook.com/elizabethclosearts

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In this episode recorded at the Adelaide Central School of Art, Suzanne Close talks to 2025 SALA Feature Artist Sue Kneebone, and her monograph writers Nicole Clift, Elle Freak and Andrew Purvis.

They discuss the different approach each writer took in writing their essays, and how each was influenced by different aspects of Sue's work and career, in particular the use of found objects and other materials, and the role her family history has played in her body of work.

Sue discusses her influences and impulses, and reflects on her colonial settler history and the way it informs her practice, and how she wishes to keep vouching for First Nations voices and environmental awareness.

Show notes:

• Sue Kneebone
• Elle Freak talks about the Dangerously Modern exhibition
• Nicole Clift - https://www.nicoleclift.net/
• Andrew Purvis
• James Tylor
• Sue’s exhibitions:
  • Naturally Disturbed
  • The Ceaseless Tide
  • Pamplemousses Garden
• Tamara Baillie
• The Great Australian Silence
• Kerala
• POP Studios
• Julie Gough

Photo by Sam Roberts.

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For this special SALA podcast episode, Elise from Inspiring South Australia talks to scientist and artist Annette Vincent in her studio garage.

Annette talks about her background in science as a myrmecologist (someone who studies ants) and the path that led her to being an artist, and the work that inspired her 2025 SALA exhibition '15 Years On, Arkaroola Wildlife Sanctuary Revisited'.

She explains how she is driven by the threat of climate change to actively sketch during biodiversity surveys in her role as a volunteer with the Scientific Expedition Group, contributing to a visual history of changing landscapes.

• Inspiring SA website
• Annette Vincent
• Gammon Ranges
• Underdale College
• Arkaroola
• Mount Gee
• Scientific Expedition Group
• Myrmecology
• Myrmecia
• Georgia O’Keeffe
• Gawler Ranges
• Sue Kneebone
• A video showing the Chine Collé process

Photo by Eugene Suleau.

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