Exile on Stanley Street: new history retraces 170 years of the South Australian School of Art

Hard on the heels of Margot Osborne’s broad-sweeping narrative, The Adelaide Art Scene, Becoming Contemporary 1939 – 2000 (Wakefield Press) comes Jenny Aland’s historical tour de force , South Australian School of Art: 170 Years shaping South Australian Visual Art and Culture .

Adelaide now has two pyramids of scholarly research to record Adelaide’s aspirational journey to lay the foundation of an exceptional visual art culture. As with both publications there are multiple entry points depending on the reader’s shared history with some era of the Adelaide art scene or studies. For many who associate with the so-called ‘golden era’ of the School’s residency in Stanley Street, North Adelaide, the book fires up in Chapter 6, ‘Dynamic Adelaide Art Scene Reflects National Artistic Social