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Giles Bettison on the state of the arts

This year, Giles Bettison was the SA Living Artists Festival's featured artist and the subject of our beautiful monograph. Giles made a speech that brought the house down on opening night, and he's kindly allowed us to share a bit of it with you here … Good evening everyone. Tonight I would like to acknowledge the Kaurna people, whose land our ancestors occupied and on whose land we are standing now. It is an amazing honour to be…

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Adrian Mitchell on writing our early stories

Adrian Mitchell has released two books this year, The Profilist on S.T. Gill (or someone very like him) and From Corner to Corner on Henry Colless. Adrian's written a wonderful meditation on these two characters, and he's given us kind permission to share this insightful essay with you all --   Our past is full of old stories, the kind that go wandering about and are very often just out of sight, or memory. There’s a delight in retrieving these, whenever…

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