First Fridays: At Home with Nature

Home is a place to connect with family, community and all things creative. Make yourself at home at AGSA this First Friday with a program that explores the nature of home through our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual attachments to homemaking and place.

5pm & 7pm
Guided Tours

Explore highlights in the collection with a Gallery Guide.
Meet at the Atrium Information Desk

5.30pm
Discussion: On Collaboration, Consumption & Care

Join South Australian visual artists Heidi Kenyon and Henry Wolff for a discussion with nationally acclaimed author and plant studies researcher Prue Gibson. This conversation will explore the inseparability of humans from nature as they consider the nature of home. Together Prue, Heidi and Henry will explore the subjective life cycles of plants, unpack our collaborative and consuming relationships with the natural world (with attention to neuroactive plant rituals), and examine how care as a methodology brings us closer to nature.
Location: Radford Auditorium

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5.30pm & 6.30pm
Performance - Kayla Ikeeboh

Adelaide singer-songwriter Kayla Ikeeboh brings a unique blend of indie-pop and soul to her music. Inspired by the likes of Beabadoobee, Ravyn Lenea and Steve Lacy, she is able to entice listeners using just her voice and a guitar. With unfiltered lyrics and soft metaphors Kayla has a way of connecting emotions to her music and allowing people to feel it alongside her.

6pm
Book Launch - The Adelaide Art Scene: Becoming Contemporary 1939-2000 by Dr Margot Osborne

Join us for the launch of The Adelaide Art Scene: Being contemporary 1939-2000, a new art history that charts the development of modern and contemporary art across six decades in Adelaide. The publication examines the roles of key artists and of landmark exhibitions, the place of maverick art criticism and art activism and the competitive roles of art societies including the rise and fall of key art galleries and the changing role of the city’s flagship art museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia.

The Adelaide Art Scene: Being contemporary 1939-2000 by Dr Margot Osborne is published by Wakefield Press in partnership with Guildhouse and Carrick Hill, with financial support from the Department of Premier and Cabinet, through Arts South Australia.
Location: Elder Wing of Australian Art

6.30pm & 7.30pm
Wellness with Art with Tanya Voges

Wellness with Art is a movement and mark making workshop centred around embodying ideas of spaces that connect to personal and universal meanings of home. Using processed based practice, participants are invited to capture the ephemerality of dance and practice mindfulness through movement and mark making in connection to works of art in the Art Gallery collection. Small groups explore the nature of home through physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual attachments to home and place with interdisciplinary artist Tanya Voges. Presented as part of WellFest 2023.

Tanya engages with community through site-specific performances, workshops, and choreography for diverse groups, from mothers with their babies, youth dance practice, professional performers through to the elderly.

Meet in The Studio
Members $10, Non-Members $15
6.30pm Book Here
7.30pm Book Here

7.30pm
Performance - African Soul

African Soul was formed in February 2009 by Ghanaian born, master drummer, dancer and singer Bortier Okoe. Revered as one of the most electrifying talents in the African music genres, Bortier performs his songs in English, and his native languages of Ga, Twi, and Ewe from Ghana, West Africa. Intense and intricate rhythms blend traditional kpalogo drums, djembe, kora, and balafone with brilliant vocals, guitar riffs, and horn lines - creating a new musical force brought to you by Bortier and his band—connecting with audiences and inspiring even the most reserved listener to get up, dance and sing.