Compiler

Cath Kenneally

Mark Siebert, Burn, 2005, inkjet print on paper. In Out of circulation at Downtown, Hindley Street, Adelaide, last month. Email downtownadelaide@yahoo.com.au or call the artist on 0403 854 492.

Bide-a-wee

Khai Liew (of Khai Liew Design, in Norwood) has built some much-remarked benches and shades along Adelaide's Riverbank Promenade. Liew began as a specialist dealer and restorer/conservator of furniture – an activity which grew from an initial amateur interest in examining and restoring nineteenth century furniture from secondhand stores. Liew's next project is an exhibition structure at the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. He will also exhibit pieces at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in early 2006 as part of COLLECT.

Bide-a-wee

Khai Liew (of Khai Liew Design, in Norwood) has built some much-remarked benches and shades along Adelaide's Riverbank Promenade. Liew began as a specialist dealer and restorer/conservator of furniture – an activity which grew from an initial amateur interest in examining and restoring nineteenth century furniture from secondhand stores. Liew's next project is an exhibition structure at the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. He will also exhibit pieces at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in early 2006 as part of COLLECT.

Visit APY

Ananguku Arts & Culture is a not-for-profit arts development body owned by
the artists of the region. They are hosting day tours of the APY Lands, beginning in Alice Springs and including Uluru, the Musgrave and Everett Ranges and at least three of the major centres: Ernabella, Minymaku and Kaltiti. The tours are promoted to general-interest and specialist arts groups targetting private collectors, curators and those who wish to learn more about Indigenous art and culture. The tours run once a month until October and resume in April next year. The artists manage the visits and are delighted with the resulting sales, according to the indefatigable Colin Koch, Ananguku Arts & Culture Coordinator. Visit www.waywardbus.com.au. [See AMA #178 April 2005 for Tracey Lock-Weir’s ‘Painted abundance in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia.’]

Smart thinking

The City West campus of University of South Australia is to be embellished by a new Fiona Hall work, Different forms of intelligence, consisting of sculptural elements portraying the human brain and enclosed within a vitrine. It will be an architectural feature of one of the new buildings slated for completion soon, and will join other public works of art in the neighbourhood such as the much-maligned Aleks Danko house in the courtyard of the Lion Arts Centre. (On Bradman Drive, a visitor’s route from the airport to the city, the Danko is a first hint that some serious art and culture lies ahead). Hall will be assisted by Tony Bishop, Paul Westra and Jam Factory Glass Workshop staff. The site is the
new Chancellery, corner of Feen Place and North Terrace.