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A few years ago this work was credited at auction in Sydney as by my father, Wladyslaw Dutkiewicz, but it is not by him but his good friend and colleague, the painter Francis Roy Thompson (1896-1966). It appears to be … Continue reading →

A work-in-progress, 2024 I began this project officially mid-2023, even though I had started compiling information almost 40 years ago, in 1986, when I was working as a historian nearby to my parents’ house. I always had assumed it would … Continue reading →

Eastbourne, United Kingdom Alex Sadlo: Figures in Movement Gallery 42, South Street, Eastbourne, Sussex, UK 3-18 February 2024 I remember former Art Gallery of South Australia director Daniel Thomas once referred to Adelaide’s visual art of the 1950s as “Slavic … Continue reading →

Alexander Sádlo worked in several media, ranging from painting in oils and other media to enamels, jewellery and ceramics. Particular interests were translating into paint movement of the human figure and three-dimensional illusions in abstract forms.In much of the latter … Continue reading →

Silent Depths: An exhibition of artworks by Malcolm Carbins (1921–2002)RSASA Gallery, 18 March – 2 April 2022 Malcolm Carbins was born in Kapunda, probably at his grandparents’ and Aunty Annie’s house in Havelock Street, on 5 March 1921. He died … Continue reading →

The second volume of material pertaining to the Royal South Australian Society of Arts in the 19th century relies again on the Society’s archives and collections, and the digitised newspaper service on Trove. The document compiles the digital and actual … Continue reading →

Over the last few years, as an extension of my projects as RSASA Historian, I have worked with the Collections Manager, Doris Unger, who has been maintaining the RSASA Collection, accessioning donations and revising what’s been done in previous decades, … Continue reading →

Early Settler Artists of South Australia 1836-1856 is a spin-off research project from the Trailblazers exhibition, a collaboration between the RSASA and the Pioneers’ Association of South Australia, mounted for History Festival 2021. Work for this document was undertaken by … Continue reading →