Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens in her Lismore studio. Photograph: Mick Richards.
In 2020, the Adelaide Biennial celebrates a 30-year milestone as the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. Since 1990, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art has created career-defining opportunities for more than 350 artists and presented to close to one million visitors.
Titled Monster Theatres, the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art invites artists to make visible the monsters of our time. Curator 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’.
The Adelaide Biennial features the Indigenous artists Megan Cope, Karla Dickens, and Yhonnie Scarce.
Yhonnie Scarce with her work In the Dead House (2020). Photograph: Saul Steed/AGSA.
A Dickensian Circus: Cruel Buffoonery (2019) by Karla Dickens. Photograph: Mick Richards.
‘Colonisation is the monster’: Study for Untitled (Death Song) (2020) by Megan Cope. Photograph: AGSA.
SOURCE: Art Gallery of South Australia.