AGSA Podcasts

In honour of Adelaide Climate Action Week, join Tansy Curtin, Assistant Director, in conversation with Dr Zoe Freney, artist, writer and academic, as they discuss the intertwined relationship of artists and the environment. 

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Image: Isaac Whitehead, born Ireland 1819, died Melbourne 1881, In the Sassafras Valley, Victoria, 1875, Melbourne, oil on canvas, 99.2 x 132.9 cm, 133.0 x 167....

Hear from Exhibition Curator and Assistant Director, Artistic and Collection Programs, Tansy Curtin as she introduces Monet to Matisse: Defying Traditions through an Educational lens.

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Image: George Hitchcock, born Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America 1850, died Aalsmeer, Netherlands 1913, Flower Field Near Leiden, late 19th–early 20th century, oil on canvas, 43.5 × 55.4 cm...

Hear from Tansy Curtin, Assistant Director, Artistic and Collection Programs and Exhibition Curator as she introduces Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition.

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Image: detail Claude Monet, born Giverny, France, 1840, died France, Giverny 1926, Water Lilies, oil on canvas, 200.7 x 213.4cm; Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, Uni...

Hear from Camille Bitton as she discusses Australian artist John Russell and his relationship to the French Impressionist movement in celebration of Bastille Day.

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Image: John Russell, born Sydney 16 June 1858, died Sydney 30 April 1930, A clearing in the forest, 1891, Antibes, France, oil on canvas, 61.0 x 55.9 cm; A.M. and A.R. Ragless Bequest Funds 1968, Art Gallery of South Australia,...

Join artist Damien Shen and curator Carly Dodd to discuss the new display CIPX Kaurna Miyurna in conversation with Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art in Gallery 7.

CIPX Kaurna Miyurna (Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange with the Kaurna Community)  is a collaborative project by artists James Tylor and Damien Shen, curated by Carly Dodd and Leigh Robb.

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Image: Ngarrindjeri and Ka...

Join Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, as she discusses the work of May Morris in Gallery 18.

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Image: Morris & Co., manufacturer, operating 1861 - 1940, May Morris, born Bexley, Kent, England 1862, died Kelmscott, West Oxfordshire, England 1938, Erlistoun Mitchell, born Adelaide 1868, died Adelaide 1913, Vine leaf table cover, c.1900, designed London, silk embroid...

Hear from Maria Zagala, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, as she discusses the work of Georg Baselitz.

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Image: Georg Baselitz, born Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany 23 January 1938, died Salzburg, Austria 30 April 2026, Eagle, plate 1 from the portfolio First Concentration (series 1), 1981, Derneburg, near Hildesheim, Germany, woodcut on paper, 99.8 x 80.2 cm (sheet); Sout...

Join Rebecca Evans, Curator of Decorative Arts & Design as she explores the Gallery's significant collection of craft objects made by German émigré to South Australia in the nineteenth century.

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Image: Barossa Valley, South Australia, Bench, c.1850, Barossa Valley, South Australia, pine, Australian red gum, 84.0 x 178.0 x 51.0 cm; Gift of Janet and Jack Grace 2003, Art Gallery of Sou...

Join Annabel McGowan, Assistant Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs, as she speaks on the work of Hilda Rix Nicholas on display in Gallery 3.

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Image: Hilda Rix Nicholas, born Ballarat, Victoria 1884, died Delegate, New South Wales 1961, The pink scarf, 1913, Paris, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 65.0 cm; Gift of Mrs Roy Edwards through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 1993, Ar...

Hear from Tansy Curtin, Assistant Director of Artistic & Collection Programs, as she discusses French Impressionism and the father of impressionism movement, Camille Pissarro (1830–1903).Bridging Impressionism with Neo

Impressionism, Pissarro was known for his independent spirit, refusing to conform to the strict rules of the Paris Salon. His commitment to painting rural life, came with a radical social perspective.

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Join Dr Catherine Speck as she explores Adelaide's politically charged Progressive Art Movement of the 1970s through the prints of Robert Boynes, Ann Newmarch, Mandy Martin and Pamela Harris in AGSA's collection.

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Image: Robert Boynes, born Adelaide 1942, The morals of money, 1974, Adelaide, colour screenprint on paper, 56.2 x 50.0 cm (image), 101.4 x 64.1 cm (sheet); South Australian Gov...