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Catherine Truman's SALA Opening Address

One of the biggest pleasures of the SALA festival is hearing the keynote address from the featured artist. Last year it was Giles Bettison on the importance of art. This year, Catherine Truman spoke to a packed house about the joys of 'tadpoling', and how important a sense of adventure and a strong work ethic are as an artist – or, indeed, a scientist. Catherine's very kindly shared her speech with us here. We agree…

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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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