SALA Forum with 2025 Feature Artist Dr Sue Kneebone, and monograph writers Nicole Clift, Elle Freak & Andrew Purvis

In this episode recorded at the Adelaide Central School of Art, Suzanne Close talks to 2025 SALA Feature Artist Sue Kneebone, and her monograph writers Nicole Clift, Elle Freak and Andrew Purvis.

They discuss the different approach each writer took in writing their essays, and how each was influenced by different aspects of Sue's work and career, in particular the use of found objects and other materials, and the role her family history has played in her body of work. 

Sue discusses her influences and impulses, and reflects on her colonial settler history and the way it informs her practice, and how she wishes to keep vouching for First Nations voices and environmental awareness.

Show notes:

• Sue Kneebone
• Elle Freak talks about the Dangerously Modern exhibition
• Nicole Clift - https://www.nicoleclift.net/
• Andrew Purvis
• James Tylor
• Sue’s exhibitions:
  • Naturally Disturbed
  • The Ceaseless Tide
  • Pamplemousses Garden
• Tamara Baillie
• The Great Australian Silence
• Kerala
• POP Studios
• Julie Gough

Photo by Sam Roberts.

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