'Flight of Souls' (still), Sue Kneebone

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. 

2025 Feature Artist

Sue Kneebone

Sue Kneebone, photo by Sam Roberts

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.

About The Book

As the recipient of the Arts South Australia South Australian Living Artist Publication grant, Sue’s art practice will be the subject of a high quality book published by Wakefield Press and to be written by Elle Freak (Associate Curator, Australian Paintings & Sculpture, Art Gallery of South Australia), James Tylor (Kaurna & Māori multi-disciplinary visual artist), Andrew Purvis (curator at Adelaide Central School of Art gallery) and emerging artist and writer Nicole Clift.

Where to see Sue Kneebone's work

In SALA Festival 2025, Sue Kneebone’s work will be on display at Adelaide Central School of Art and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

SALA Monograph Writers Panel

Join Sue Kneebone and writers of her new monograph. Sue Kneebone’s new exhibition, The Last Tidewaiter, will also be open for viewing at Adelaide Central Gallery.

Elle Freak, Andrew Purvis, Sue Kneebone, and Nicole Clift. photo: Daniel Marks

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