Following a national call out, New Light 2023 will feature commissioned work that explores compelling and complex concepts, with artworks being exhibited on the media screens at the entrance to the Adelaide Festival Centre as part of Illuminate Adelaide’s City Lights program.

This year we are delighted to announce that we have three successful artists commissioned for New Light 2023!

Congratulations to: Chantel Bates, Elizabeth Close, and Jonathon Saunders.

The New Light program has considerable lineage. A series of moving image works were first commissioned by ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology) in association with the City of Adelaide for the 2017 TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art. Four contemporary First Nations artists created short experimental projection works, which screened as part of the East End Moving Image program in Adelaide.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia went on to support the work to screen at the Enlighten Festival, Canberra in 2018. In 2019, two of the New Light artists were selected to present their work at ISEA2019 in Gwangju, South Korea.
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ARTISTS:
Chantel (Shonny) Bates – Project Title: Echoes
Elizabeth Close – Project Title: Beneath
Jonathon Saunders – Project Title: One Minute to Midnight
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Free event
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Presented with ANAT in association with Adelaide Festival Centre’s Moving Image program.
‘Beeyali’ by 2021 New Light commissioned artist Lyndon Davis
Image credit: Frankie The Creative