Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, Design for Adelaide Festival 1968
2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the Polish-born artist Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz’s birth. A commemorative exhibition of 40 works was mounted at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in May-June 2018. Although a large exhibition, it was thought more could be shown – hence a second exhibition of another forty works – large, medium and small paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculpture – was mounted at the Royal SA Society of Arts Gallery in Adelaide.
The exhibition was opened by Christine Garnaut, Associate Professor, Planning and Architectural History and Director, Architecture Museum, School of Art, Architecture and Design at University of South Australia on Sunday 20 January 2019 at 2 pm.
There was also a book launch by arts writer Samela Harris of Adam Dutkiewicz’s latest monograph on the Adelaide sculptor Andrew Steiner OAM, Past President and Honorary Life Member of the Society. Steiner was a long-time friend of Wlad, getting to know him through his amateur theatrical group The Art Studio Players. Steiner acted in Wlad’s second production, Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths, presented as a fringe production for the inaugural Adelaide Festival in 1960. Samela’s father, Max Harris, described it as a “theatrical tour de force”.
Adam also made a limited edition of his biography of his father available as a paperback for the first time throughout the exhibition. It is available from the Society and the publisher for $60 plus postage and handling.
2019 also marked the 20th anniversary of the artist’s passing.
The Dutkiewicz Archive 