Feature Artist
Every year, an established South Australian artist is celebrated as the SALA Feature Artist.
This artist’s work features on the SALA poster and printed program, and will be exhibited during the SALA Festival.
Sue Kneebone - 2025 Feature artist
Sue Kneebone is an interdisciplinary visual artist with an exhibition practice spanning more than twenty years. Her creative practice encompasses the processes of assemblage and montage to evoke new associations and contexts about memory, history and place.
Informed by in-depth research, Sue’s art works seek to to stir up the spectre of what has been overlooked or suppressed in Australian historical memory. Sue has been known to describe her haunting aesthetic as a kind of ‘Feral Aussie Gothic’.
Celebrating the work
Sue’s work will feature on the 2025 SALA Poster and Program, and will be the subject of a book by Wakefield Press (South Australian Living Artist Publication).
About the artwork
Sue Kneebone, Hardboiled, 2018, photograph on metallic paper
The official 2025 SALA Festival Poster features an artwork by Sue Kneebone. This will also feature on the cover of the 2025 SALA Festival Program.
The selection of this artist is tied to the outcome of the South Australian Living Artist Publication – the successful recipient becomes the SALA Feature Artist. The publication is produced by Wakefield Press and is intended to profile the work of an established South Australian visual artist with a track record of achievement in their area of practice. Applications for this opportunity are facilitated by Create SA.
PAST Feature artists
Past SALA feature artists include: Julia Robinson (2024), Helen Fuller, (2023), Mark Valenzuela (2022), Roy Ananda (2021), Kirsten Coelho (2020), Louise Haselton (2019), Clare Belfrage (2018), Christopher Orchard (2017), Catherine Truman (2016), Giles Bettison (2015), Nicholas Folland (2014) and many more.
Discover more by exploring our Feature Artist Archive.
Banner Image: SALA Festival Finissage at the The Lab, 2024. Photo by Sam Roberts
