Jane Llewellyn

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2025 Adelaide Festival promises a whole lotta love

Nov 3, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Graham Strahle |Katherine Arguile

Brett Sheehy had to hit the ground sprinting when returning to the helm of the Adelaide Festival, with the 2025 program sent to the printers less than two months after he started as artistic director. Sheehy, who was AD of the event from 2005-08, was brought back to finalise and oversee the delivery of next year’s Festival after his predecessor Ruth Mackenzie left in early August to take up a new role within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.
Triple threat: First Nations stars on show in Mackay

Oct 20, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Louise Martin-Chew |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier

Mackay might be best known for sugarcane and mining but it has long punched above its weight also as a cultural powerhouse. Put that down, in part, to Mackay’s diverse population. Its first inhabitants and custodians were the Yuibera peoples and since colonisation South Sea Islanders, Italians, Maltese and Filipinos have also created communities in this North Queensland city. This cultural strength is visible in the quality of the city’s public art and the programming of Artspace Mackay since 2003.
Food for the soul with a side dish of art at Night Feast

Oct 17, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier |Louise Martin-Chew

Brisbane Powerhouse artistic director and CEO Kate Gould was interrupted by otherworldly sounds during her speech opening the venue’s Night Feast, but more on that later …Set within the lush surrounds of the creative hub, Night Feast invites food and culture fans to dine under the stars by the Brisbane River.
Step into Bridget Currie’s world - and the world of Carrick Hill

Oct 16, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Heidi Maier |Louise Martin-Chew

Bridget Currie: each one a worldCarrick HillBridget Currie’s exhibition, each one a world, invites audiences to interact with her work and explore our relationship to nature. Co-presented with the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) for the Nature Festival, the exhibition at Carrick Hill celebrates the stunning house and its expansive gardens. Through works developed over two years, Currie presents a series of varied responses to the environment.
School-shooting opera leads first 2025 Adelaide Festival announcement

Aug 25, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Jane Llewellyn |Graham Strahle |Katherine Arguile

Today’s program announcement – which includes Club Amour by Pina Bausch’s German dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal, and Australian Dance Theatre’s 60th anniversary show A Quiet Language – comes just three weeks after it was revealed that Adelaide Festival artistic director Ruth Mackenzie was leaving the event midway through her tenure to take up a new role with the State Government.
Sliding into the artist’s world

Aug 21, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Brooke Ferguson |Gillian Wills |Jane Llewellyn

Nine artists had the opportunity to present to a captivated audience last Thursday at the annual Slide Night, hosted by Luke Wilcox and this year taking over The Lab space at SALA’s new Light Square hub ILA. Each presentation consisted of 20, 20-second slides, which the artists used as their backdrop in a storytelling format known as PechaKucha. The strict time parameters led to a diverse range of innovative responses.
Thriller about Peter Greste’s jail nightmare to open 2024 Adelaide Film Festival

Aug 19, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Gillian Wills |Jane Llewellyn |PHIL BROWN

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Have a whale of a time at Minjerribah

Aug 19, 2024 | inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Nance Haxton |Gillian Wills |Jane Llewellyn

The Quandamooka Festival is defying the recent trend of festivals collapsing. Instead, it promises to be bigger and better when it returns this month as the first full-scale Quandamooka Festival since 2022. Celebrating First Nations arts, music, food and culture, the festival will run on North Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah this Friday (from 4pm) and Saturday, August 30-31.
A fitting finale for an Adelaide gallery whose swagger will be hard to replicate

Aug 15, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |John Neylon |Michelle Wakim |Jane Llewellyn

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Raw emotion: Tom Phillips’ Running on Empty

Aug 15, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Michelle Wakim |Jane Llewellyn |PHIL BROWN

Six oil paintings face each other in Gallery Six of the Art Gallery of South Australia. They are all in conversation, despite depicting loneliness and isolation. “I’ve always been interested in the human struggle,” says the artist, Tom Phillips. The two recurring figures in his Running on Empty solo exhibition are described by Phillips as a collage of many people’s stories, rather than being inspired by one person in particular.