South Australian Living Artists Festival

The South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA, or SALA Festival) is a statewide, open-access[1] visual arts festival which takes place during August in South Australia.[2]

SALA Festival
GenreArts festival
DatesAugust
Location(s)Adelaide
CountrySouth Australia, Australia
Years active1998–present
Founded1998
WebsiteOfficial website

SALA features a wide range of venues including galleries and non-traditional spaces such as cafes, bookshops, and even cemeteries, which exhibit all forms of visual arts.[3]

Organisation

The SALA Festival was established in 1998 as an initiative of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association, SA Branch, to promote and celebrate visual artists in South Australia.[4] Its aim is to extend audiences for living artists in South Australia, with a policy of inclusiveness which allows all artists at any level and working in any medium to be part of the Festival each August.[5]

Originally called the South Australian Living Artists Week, its name was changed to SALA Festival in 2002.[6]

The SALA Festival is a not-for-profit organisation that relies on government support, private sponsorship and earned income to invest back into South Australian artists and continue its ongoing success.[7]

As of 2019, major sponsors are The Advertiser (Adelaide), the Australian Government, and the Government of South Australia.[8]

Chair
  • Paul Greenaway OAM, founding chair, 1998-2007[9]

Festival prizes

The SALA Festival offers a number of prizes, with the main two being the SALA Festival monograph[10] and The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award.[11]

SALA Festival Monograph

The SALA Festival Monograph is an award launched in 1999 as part of the SALA Festival.[12] With funding provided by the South Australian Government,[13] a monograph (book) is commissioned and written on a leading South Australian artist or craftsperson with potential for national and international promotion and published by Wakefield Press.[12] The first recipient of the SALA Festival Monograph was Annette Bezor.[12] The most recent recipient whose monograph will be published in 2019 is Louise Haselton.[14]

SALA Festival Monograph recipients

Other prizes

Several other prizes are awarded as part of the SALA Festival. Prizes and recipients from notable sponsors are listed below.

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

  • The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award: Derek Sargent with Jess Miley
  • City of Unley Active Ageing Award: Maggie Cecchin
  • Unitcare Services Moving Image Award: Grant Parke
  • Atkins Photographic Award: Lee Walter
  • City Rural Emerging Artist Award: Steven Bellosguardo
  • Don Dunstan Foundation Award: Sue Webb & Deborah Baldassi
  • Centre for Creative Photography Latent Image Award: Joseph Haxan
  • 4th Biennial RSASA / SALA Portrait Prize: Kate Kurucz
  • City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award: Steph Cibich
  • Credit Union SA School Awards WINNERS: St John's Grammar Conversations with Line Riverland Special School Sensory Stars The Heights School The Heights School Art Exhibition Competition St Gabriel's School Gabriel's Gallery
    COMMENDATIONS Bridgewater Primary School The Earth Beneath Our Feet Woodside Primary School We All Smile in the Same Language Bowden Brompton Community School Kill the Streets

2020

  • Country Arts SA Breaking Ground Award: Juanella McKenzie
  • City of Adelaide Incubator Award: Alycia Bennett
  • Unitcare Services Digital Media Award: Tom Borgas
  • City Rural Emerging Artist Award: Amber Cronin
  • City of Unley Active Ageing Award: John Freeman
  • Don Dunstan Foundation Award: Makeda Duong
  • Hither & Yon Venue Award: She is Pop-up Gallery & Collective Haunt Inc.
  • City of Onkaparinga Contemporary Curator Award: Suzanne Close
  • Credit Union SA School Awards Winners: Adelaide High School, Faith Lutheran College, St. John's Grammar School and Wirreanda Secondary School
  • Credit Union SA School Awards Commendations: Nuriootpa High School and Walkerville Primary School

Awards

Statistics
Statistics of past festivals
Year Number of participating artists Number of exhibitions and events Number of participating venues Number of visitors
1998[57] 300 48[58] 52
1999[59][60] 300+ 98[58] 99
2000[61] 400 117[58] 100+
2001[62] 500 138
2002
2003[63] 600 197
2004[64] 700 225
2005[65] 1000 300
2006[56] 1400 330[11] 260
2007[66] 1600 430[67] 400
2008[68] 1000 400
2009[69] 2,773 500
2010[70] 3,000+ 518 383,614[71]
2011[45] 4,000+ 543
2012[72] 3,543 524
2013[73] 4,917 502 ~510,000
2014[74] 4,627 547 500,000+
2015[75] 5,235 617 557 ~600,000
2016[76] 4,699 630 570 ~600,000
2017[77] 6,386 660 560 ~800,000
2018 9,728 716 622 ~850,000
2019 8,000 + 692 581 ~870,000

See also

References
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