South Australian Living Artists Festival


The South Australian Living Artists Festival is a statewide, open-access visual arts festival which takes place during August in South Australia.
SALA features a wide range of venues including galleries and non-traditional spaces such as cafes, bookshops, and even cemeteries, which exhibit all forms of visual arts.

Organisation

The SALA Festival was established in 1998 as an initiative of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association, SA Branch, to promote and celebrate visual artists in South Australia. Its aim is to extend audiences for living artists in South Australia, with a policy of inclusiveness which allows all artists at any level and working in any medium to be part of the Festival each August.
Originally called the South Australian Living Artists Week, its name was changed to SALA Festival in 2002.
The SALA Festival is a not-for-profit organisation that relies on government support, private sponsorship and earned income to invest back into South Australian artists and continue its ongoing success.
, major sponsors are The Advertiser, the Australian Government, and the Government of South Australia.

Governance

Chair

The SALA Festival offers a number of prizes, with the main two being the SALA Festival monograph and The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award.

SALA Festival Monograph

The SALA Festival Monograph is an award launched in 1999 as part of the SALA Festival. With funding provided by the South Australian Government, a monograph is commissioned and written on a leading South Australian artist or craftsperson with potential for
national and international promotion and published by Wakefield Press.
The first recipient of the SALA Festival Monograph was . The most recent recipient whose monograph will be published in 2019 is .

SALA Festival Monograph recipients

Several other prizes are awarded as part of the SALA Festival. Prizes and recipients from notable sponsors are listed below.

2008

2019
COMMENDATIONS Bridgewater Primary School The Earth Beneath Our Feet Woodside Primary School We All Smile in the Same Language Bowden Brompton Community School Kill the Streets

Awards