EXHIBITION 1:

THE CONTEMPORARY 20 April–6 May

EXHIBITION 2:

THE HISTORICAL 18 May—3 June

 

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, making it the longest running contemporary art space in Australia. Over the past decade the CACSA has become recognised nationally and internationally as a lead contemporary art organisation and publisher, presenting annual programs of commissioned exhibitions, publications and associated public events through national and international partnerships, with the aim to promote and develop contemporary visual art practice, debate and critical analysis of national and regional cultural development. These aims have been strategically complemented by the publication of CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART+CULTURE Broadsheet magazine, published quarterly by the CACSA, distributed throughout Australia and internationally.

In recognising this historical and cultural milestone the CACSA is presenting CACSA@70 MEMBERS EXHIBITION NO. 2, after the successful opening of the 'contemporary' members exhibition 20 April. This additional Members presentation focuses more on the 'historical'–with artworks from original and early Contemporary Art Society members, and those artists who have both long been members and/or extensive art practices in South Australia. Some of the organisation's instigators and first members who subsequently became famous historical figures in the Australian cultural landscape are reprsented in this exhibition–Ivor Francis, Jacqueline Hick, Douglas Roberts, Ruth Tuck, Dusan Marek, Stan Ostaja-Kotowski and Ludwik Dutkiewicz, alongside later members Geof Brown, Max Lyle, Ron Rowe, Loene Furler, Ann Newmarch, Marea Atkinson, Ken Orchard and Ian North amongst many others, echoing the long and diverse local representation of South Australian visual art practice.

Collectively these artist-members of the CAS/CACSA reflect both the history of the organisation's visual art activities and its contribution to the South Australian cultural landscape over the last seven decades, many of these artists being in the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

 

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