Winners & Outcomes
Check out the projects and outcomes from our award winners and opportunity recipients that are scheduled for this year!
City of Onkaparinga SALA Artist Residency
As the 2024 City of Onkaparinga SALA Artists in Residence, Laura Wills & Jackie Saunders will occupy a studio at Sauerbier House in August 2024, culminating in an exhibition in September. We look forward to visiting their studio during SALA Festival and finding out what has emerged as their collaborative focus throughout their residency.
As the inaugural recipients of this residency, collaborating artists Jackie Saunders & Laura Wills will occupy a studio at Sauerbier House in Port Noarlunga during SALA Festival. Sharing a love of drawing and painting, and by working intuitively from the heart, they will create new works inspired by the unique landscape around Sauerbier House, particularly the coastal environment – the river estuary, sand dunes, and beach. Be sure to visit them in the studio and see how their artwork is developing!
The resulting exhibition will take place at Sauerbier House after SALA Festival 2024.
Excited by the energy of earlier collaborative works, the Sauerbier House reference group selected to award the opportunity to Laura Wills and Jackie Saunders. In anticipating their studio outcomes, the panel felt their collective practices, powered by support and spontaneity, would contribute to understanding the possibilities embedded in intuitive site-based explorations.
Arts in Health at FMC Artist Residency
The SALA Arts in Health at Flinders Medical Centre
residency gives a practicing South Australian artist
the opportunity to immerse themselves in the hospital
environment, and respond to this experience in their
work. This residency will culminate in an exhibition in
the hospital during SALA Festival.
As the 2024 SALA artist in residence, Dr Daniel Connell will be focusing his distinctly sensitive and deep understanding within the palliative care units at the hospital, exploring the theme of ‘Humanity in Living and Dying’ through spending time with staff, patients, and families.
Be sure to visit the resulting exhibition Humanity in Living and Dying at Flinders Medical Centre during SALA Festival 2024.
SALA Solo Photographic Opportunity
For an artist exhibiting photographic work in SALA Festival 2023, to support them in presenting a solo photographic exhibition of new work in the following year (SALA Festival 2024).
In Axis Mundi, Sabuncu utilises in-camera, analogue, and digital processes to explore liminal states of being.
This exhibition is the outcome of the 2023 SALA Solo Photographic Opportunity, presented by Atkins Lab, the Centre for Creative Photography, praxis ARTSPACE, and SALA Festival. Through this opportunity, Yasemin Sabuncu was mentored and supported to develop a new body of photographic work for the 2024 SALA Festival.
The panel were impressed by the strength of Yasemin’s story and her desire to share it dynamic ways. Yasemin will be supported to present new work at Praxis Artspace during SALA Festival 2024.
The City of Adelaide Award
This award recognises an artist whose work explores and/or celebrates the experience of the City.
- Cheryl Bridgart
- OAKEY
- Alyssa Powell-Ascura
UnitCare Services Digital Media Award
To encourage experimentation in new media
- Catherine Fitz-Gerald
- Judith Klavins
- Alyssa Powell-Ascura
The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award
For the most outstanding work in any medium in SALA Festival 2024. The finalists will feature in a dedicated finalist exhibition at Keith Murdoch House in Adelaide.
- Eleanor Alice
- Luna Chan
- Carolyn Corletto
- Eliana Della Flora
- Mia Chaau Wa Fan
- Claire Foord
- Yoko Kajio
- Tom Keukenmeester
- Lisa Khan
- Judith Klavins
- Monika Morgenstern
- Jessica Murtagh
- OAKEY
- Taylor Parham
- Liza Savchuk
City Rural Emerging Artist Award
For artists in the early stages of their career with under five years’ professional experience.
- Eliana Della Flora
- Lisa Khan
- Adele Sliuzas
Inspiring SA Science in Art Award
For artists whose work explores/engages with science or scientific issues.
- Claire Foord
- Adele Sliuzas
- Victor Waclawik
City of Unley Active Ageing Award
For artists over the age of 60 to celebrate the City of Unley’s involvement with SALA and its commitment to promoting and supporting an active ageing approach.
- Jiri Bruderhans
- Peter Fitton
- Rose Handke
Don Dunstan Foundation Award
For artists whose work explores social justice themes which align with the objectives and priorities of the Don Dunstan Foundation.
- Mia Chaau Wa Fan
- Catherine Nguyen-Hoang
- Yasemin Sabuncu
Country Arts Sa Breaking Ground Award
For contemporary visual artists from regional South Australia, supporting them to ‘break new ground’ with a mentorship and support to develop a new body of work for exhibition in a major gallery space in metropolitan Adelaide in the 2025 SALA Festival.
The recipient of the 2025 Country Arts SA Breaking Ground Award is regional artist Susie Althorp. Susie will receive $10,000 to develop a body of work for a solo exhibition at Praxis Aartspace during the 2025 SALA Festival. Living in Wallaroo Mines on the Yorke Peninsula, Susie works across the mediums of ceramics, sculpture and installation. She will be mentored by her nominated mentor, artist Catherine Truman, as part of the award prize.
SALA Solo Photographic Opportunity
For an artist exhibiting photographic work in SALA Festival 2024, to support them in presenting a solo photographic exhibition of new work in the following year (SALA Festival 2025).
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Past Winners
Banner image: Kate Kurucz, Haza (still), 2023, single channel video
