friends sasa publications

In the years since it was first formed, the Friends SASA has produced a number of publications. These have been produced not only to coincide with fund-raising events, but also to complement and extend our knowledge of the various individuals who have made significant contributions to the work of the School of Art as well as to the South Australian arts community.

South Australian School of Art at the Exhibition Building 1891-1963

Authored by Dr Jenny Aland PSM, the following comes from the publication Adelaide’s Jubilee International Exhibition 1887–1888: The Event, the Building, the Legacy, edited by Christine Garnaut, Julie Collins and Bridget Jolly, Darlinghurst, NSW, Crossing Press, 2016.

This chapter focuses on the post exhibition years wherein the South Australian School of Art was located in the Exhibition Building North Terrace (1891-1963).

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A LOOK INSIDE UNISA CREATIVE


The FSASA Board met with some current students for a closer look at them and their work on Thursday September 9, 2021.

CLICK HERE to read/view a record of this visit, written by Vice President of the Friends of SASA, Deborah Russell.

art saved my life

Here, Deborah Russell writes on the restorative power of creativity in her account of Paul Pearce’s remarkable return to teaching art.

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A WHITE GLOVE EVENT

A White Glove Event was a fund-raising event held at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 27 October, 2010. This event was facilitated by AGSA Curator of Maria Zagala, Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs; Dr Pamela Zeplin, Portfolio Leader, Research, UniSA, and Dr Jenny Aland, Adjunct Research Fellow, UniSA.

A White Glove Event, provided a unique opportunity for participants to view at first hand a wide selection of works on paper by staff and students of the South Australian School of Art (in its various incarnations). These works were created during the School’s first hundred years from 1861 on North Terrace to the early 1960s when the school was on the brink of moving to its Stanley Street North Adelaide campus in July 1963. The event formed part of the broader South Australian School of Art History Project to focus on works that are held among the Art Gallery of South Australia’s magnificent collection of Australian prints, drawings and photographs.

2011 … 150 YEAR SASA/RSASA JOINT CELEBRATIONS

This Brochure was produced by FSASA member and photographer, Bente Andermahr, as part of the celebrations for the 150th year of the South Australian School of Art. The Brochure contains ‘SASA Snapshots’ which lists key dates/events for SASA; ‘SASA Musings’ by sculptor and former staff member Max Lyle; ‘SASA Today’ by Head of the School of AAD, Professor Mads Gaardboe; ‘SASA Memoirs’ by Jeffrey Smart and ‘SASA Friends’ by President Jack Condous. The Brochure also features a number of key art works by Jeffrey Smart, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jacqueline Hick, Nina Rupena and Yvonne East. CLICK HERE to view.

South Australian School of Art:
20 Years of Graduates/Diplomates … 1958 -1978

South Australian School of Art: 20 Years of Graduates/Diplomates … 1958-1978 provides lists those students who graduated from SASA in the twenty-year period between 1958 and 1978. The first diplomas were awarded in 1958 and included those in Fine Art (Painting and Sculpture), Advertising Art and Art Teaching. In 1978, the three Fine Art Diploma courses of Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture were replaced by a Bachelor of Arts course in Fine Arts. In 1979, all diplomas gained prior to that year were converted to a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts) degree and the Diploma in Art Teaching to a Bachelor of Education (Secondary Art).

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Geoff Wilson : ‘On the Couch’ with Winnie Pelz

‘Geoff on the Couch’ was a Friends of the South Australian School of Art Event, which was held at the Bradley Forum, University of South Australia on Monday 24th March, 2009.

CLICK HERE TO READ A TRANSCRIPT OF THIS MEMORABLE EVENT.