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Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Glenside, Adelaide, Australia. The school, which was founded in 1982, offers degree courses as well as short courses, workshops and masterclasses.
The school was founded in 1982 by Rod Taylor and Heather Nicholson. [1] Initially occupying a rented space in Bloor Court, Adelaide city centre, it moved in 1988 to a warehouse in Gilles Street, establishing itself as an accredited independent art school. [2]
In January 1994, the school moved to heritage buildings in Osmond Terrace, Norwood, leasing them from the school's founder until they were sold in 2011. Taylor retired in 2008 and was succeeded by Ingrid Kellenbach as CEO. [3] [4]
Adelaide Central School of Art relocated to the old Glenside Hospital site in January 2013, completing the first stage of the renovation of two iconic heritage buildings in May 2013. [5] The South Australian Government granted the school a 50-year lease on these buildings, located adjacent to the Adelaide Studios, home of the South Australian Film Corporation, and related creative enterprises. [6]
In September 2018, the school announced that Penny Griggs, director of the SALA Festival, would succeed Ingrid Kellenbach as the school's CEO in November 2018. [7]
In January 2025, funding was provided by the Government of South Australia for the refurbishment of the Erindale building. [8]
Adelaide Central School of Art is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited higher education provider of tertiary courses in the visual arts, located in Adelaide, Australia. [9]
The new Glenside campus provides facilities in the three-storey teaching and studio building, including spaces for classes, integrated student studios, lecture room, media room, enlarged library facilities and display space for artwork on each level.[ citation needed ]
The school uses the atelier model of visual arts education. [10]
The degree courses are designed to develop technical and conceptual skills. The curriculum includes the disciplines of drawing, painting, sculpture, art history and theory and contemporary studies, for part-time or full-time study. [11] [12] [13] [14]
The School is located on the Glenside campus in two heritage buildings that formed part of the Glenside Hospital. The buildings were renovated by Adelaide-based architects Grieve Gillett in consultation with the School and the renovation received an award from the Australian Institute of Architects for Heritage Architecture in 2014. [15]
The Adelaide Central Gallery was formally opened as part of the School in 1991. At threat of closure in 2002, [16] a restructure in 2003 allowed the gallery to continue. [17] The gallery has hosted two award-winning exhibitions: Façade received the 2018 Adelaide Fringe/BankSA Award for Best Visual Art & Design; [18] and Home Stories received the 2011 Adelaide Fringe Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art & Design. [19]
In the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching survey for 2017, the school was ranked the best art school in Australia for 2017 (second-best in 2016). [20]
The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named The South Australian Advertiser on 12 July 1858, it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. The Advertiser came under the ownership of Keith Murdoch in the 1950s, and the full ownership of Rupert Murdoch in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. Through much of the 20th century, The Advertiser was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, The News the afternoon tabloid, with The Sunday Mail covering weekend sport, and Messenger Newspapers community news. The head office was relocated from a former premises in King William Street, to a new News Corp office complex, known as Keith Murdoch House at 31 Waymouth Street.
The Helpmann Academy is an organisation that provides support emerging artists in the performing and visual arts, located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is named in honour of Sir Robert Helpmann, a famous Australian dancer.
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The Fleurieu Art Prize is a non-acquisitive award open to Australian visual artists aged 18 years and older. The prize encompasses any two- or three-dimensional artwork submissions that follow an annual thematic concept and includes a monetary gift and significant exposure for the artists and their works. Exhibitions for the prize are held in various South Australian locations, including McLaren Vale and Goolwa. The exhibitions are open to the public at places including Stump Hill Gallery, the Fleurieu Visitors Information Centre, the Fleurieu Art House and Hardy's Tintara Sculpture Park.
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Tsering Hannaford is an Australian artist. In 2012 Tsering and her father Robert Hannaford were the "first father and daughter to show concurrently in Salon des Refusés, an exhibition of Archibald entries", and in 2015 they were the first father and daughter selected as finalists for the Archibald Prize. Tsering is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Susannah Hannaford.
Glenside Hospital, as it was known from 1967, previously the Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia, Parkside Lunatic Asylum and Parkside Mental Hospital, was a complex of buildings used as a psychiatric hospital in Glenside, South Australia. Since the 1970s the original site has been subdivided and parcels of land sold off, largely for housing. The large administration building fronting the side was refurbished to house the Adelaide Studios of the South Australian Film Corporation in 2011, and the old P&O Ward now houses Adelaide Central School of Art. The site is sometimes referred to as "the old Glenside Hospital", the "Glenside Hospital historical precinct" or "Glenside Campus". A new building houses Glenside Health Services at the southern end of the site, along with new wards and facilities.
Nicholas (Nic) Folland is an Australian artist and arts educator based in South Australia.
Roy Ananda is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Johnnie Dady is a South Australian artist and arts educator who specialises in installation art entailing sculpture and drawing.
Sandra Maaike Jayne Verschoor is an Australian businesswoman who was the Lord Mayor of Adelaide in South Australia from 12 November 2018 until November 2022. Prior to this, she was Deputy Lord Mayor and a general manager at the City of Adelaide. She is now the chair of both the Art Gallery of South Australia and the South Australian Heritage Council.
Rob Gutteridge is a South Australian artist and arts educator. As well as teaching at Adelaide Central School of Art, Gutteridge runs the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism.
Sue Kneebone is an Adelaide-based artist and arts educator who lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Monte Masi is a South Australian artist, curator and arts educator.
John Neylon is a South Australian arts writer and arts educator as well as being an art critic, curator, painter, and printmaker. He is an art critic for The Adelaide Review, an author for Wakefield Press, and a lecturer in art history at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Margaret G. Worth is an Australian artist, who has worked as a painter, screen printer and sculptor. She studied music, pure and applied math and sciences before she turned to studies in art in 1962. Her art allowed her to seek to combine her wonder in science and spirituality. Her work is represented in the Australian national and state galleries, and in private collections in Australia and the United States.
Julia Robinson is an Australian artist and arts educator based in Adelaide, South Australia. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art and her work has been included in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 2016 and The National in 2019.
