Art Auction!

This Saturday 4 August, Friends of the Earth Adelaide will be holding a fundraising art auction! Held as part of the SALA Festival, the auction features over 40 works by accomplished and emerging South Australian artists, as well as Indigenous artists from around the country, including:

- Tjanpi Desert Weavers: Aboriginal women weavers from the NPY lands, as featured at WOMADelaide 2007
- Mitch: Aboriginal artist and activist from Engawala Community, Alice Springs
- Laura Wills: Winner, 2006 Environment Youth Art Prize; Second Prize, 2007 Environment Youth Art Prize, recently closed a successful solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Centre of South Australia and currently on an artist’s residency in Austria, supported by the South Australian Youth Arts Board
- Alisa Teletovic: multi-award winner
- Fleur Elise Noble: multi-award winner, including the 2002 Pro Hart Scholarship, the Vicki Nottage Memorial Youth Art Award, the Mitsubishi Youth Scholarship and the Emerging Artist Award
- Aly de Groot: multi-prize winning weaver, currently based in the Northern Territory
- weaving by Deni Odlum, Judy Grey-Gardner and Amanda King, earthenware by Sam Jeffries, prints by Julia Wakefield and much more.

Date: Saturday 4 August
Venue: North Adelaide Institute, 176 Tynte Street, North Adelaide
Time: Viewing from 4.00pm, Auction from 7.00pm.
Food and drink will be available.

A full catalogue can be downloaded here.
Written bidding forms can be downloaded here.

All funds raised from this event will support Friends of the Earth Adelaide’s ongoing work for a just and sustainable future, in particular, supporting Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory in their campaign to protect their traditional country from nuclear waste dumping.

For more information, feel free to contact Sophie Green on 0422 487 219, or sophie.green[at]foe.org.au - and bring your friends and family!