All performances and exhibitions listed here are at Higher Ground Inc, 9 Light Square, Adelaide.

South Australian Living Artists Festival 2010
(SALA)

The record breaking, 2010 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival showcases the diversity, colour and depth of over 3,000 South Australian visual artists throughout 518 metropolitan and regional wineries, cafes, galleries, boutiques, hotels and other unique, colourful and collaborative spaces throughout our state.

Higher Ground is proud to be a part of this wonderful and inspiring festival in two ways. Firstly we have an amazing exhibition up in the ArtCafe that expolores addiction in all its incarnations. Also we are behind a major project, with the support of ArtsSA and the Adelaide City Council, to replace the Night Train billboard above 9 Light Square with the West End Mural - a giant 40m x 4m artwork dedicated to the history, culture and vibrancy of the West End of the City.

West End Mural


One of the boards making up the 40m x 4m mural being painted at the old bus depot on Franklin Street

Higher Ground Inc and Community Arts Network, with assistance from ArtsSA and the support of ACC, is uniting the West End through the creation of the West End Mural which will be situated on the eastern boundary, second story of No. 9 - 15 Light Square and will replace the redundant and dilapidated “Night Train’ Billboard.

Adelaide Artists Bob Daly & Kalyna Micenko are overseeing the project and have spent the last few months researching the history of the West End, before involving as many local creative people as possible in May-June workshops to produce a final design. The Mural will be unveiled as part of the SALA Festival on Saturday 7 August at 6pm. It’s the biggest canvas we are ever likely to work on!

The very aim of the West End Mural is to pictorially illustrate the standard and breadth of artistic/cultural activity within the West End. The piece will stand as testament to the daily creativity in the area and highlight the West End as the wellspring from which a huge amount of South Australian artistic endeavour originates. The resulting image will instil community pride, advertise South Australian creative resources, enhance the environment with its aesthetic beauty, replace a tired and banal image and bind the community with a sense of solidarity, history and current value.

Addiction
South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Exhibition 2010

Grand Opening - Wednesday 4 August - 6pm - Refreshments provided
Hanging 4 August - 22 August in the ArtCafe

Eleven artists share their views on addiction through all of its incarnations to be compared, reflected upon and enjoyed.

The record breaking, 2010 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is proud to showcase the diversity, colour and depth of over 3,000 South Australian visual artists throughout 518 metropolitan and regional wineries, cafes, galleries, boutiques, hotels and other unique, colourful and collaborative spaces throughout our state