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2022 Adelaide Biennial Artists Announced

With the theme Free/State, curator Sebastian Goldspink has announced the line up for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial.

15 Sep 2021 9:15

Giselle Bueti

Dennis Golding, Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay, New South Wales, born 1989, Sydney, Untitled Botany Bay, 2018, photograph, 155 x 87 cm; Courtesy the artist, Photo: Jack Cook.

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Dennis Golding, Untitled, for Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Jack Cook

‘Wild, frenetic and unbound’ – three words to describe the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art according to curator Sebastian Goldspink.

Inspired by South Australia’s history as a place founded by ‘free men’, the theme plays on the two elements of physical and emotional states explains Goldspink.

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Giselle Bueti

Giselle Bueti has written for publications such as The Advertiser, The Adelaide Review, RIP IT UP, BMA magazine and Yewth Mag. Previously, Giselle worked as Arts Editor for The AU Review and Content Growth Editor at ArtsHub. She is based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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