Group exhibition at SALA LA LA LAND: Arthurs Art Bar, 66 Currie St, Adelaide 1-31August 2025

KATHLEEN PATITSAS: Personal art statement SALA August 2025—I’m still alive, and back in SALA!

Only my two hands could make this artwork (see below).

I challenge AI to draw a nude in the style of Kathleen Patitsas.

When I die, these hands will be gone.

Yet the Art Gallery of South Australia, which should represent all serious artists working out of this State, has refused to accept a single donation of my work, and I have worked in South Australia all my life.

According to the Australia wide Know My Name project, which celebrates unknown female artists, I may be celebrated when I am dead. (At 72, I am an “emerging“ artist NOT painter).

This is unlikely, because I am not trained in art, I mostly draw rather than paint or create installations, I do not use gimmicks, and I draw the naked human being in its natural form, although in little old Adelaide,

I have had great resistance even to this–including physical resistance. (When did you last see a non-historical exhibition of drawing? Of nudes? Of nudes which are not conventionally pretty? Of self-taught artists?)   Let my work speak for itself, and come and see it at Arthur’s Art Bar, 66 Currie St Adelaide, opening this Friday 1st August (Swiss National Day) for SALA

“Please Respect All Life Anew: The Muses in an Australian Context”.
Until June 2, 2022, at Box Factory Community Centre

“Please Respect All Life”: February 2017
South West Corner Community Centre, 171 Sturt St Adelaide

“Please Respect All Life2 “: April 2017
Minor works Building 22 Stamford Ct, Adelaide SA 5000

 “The Olive and the Eucalypt”

Hope to see you soon, or receive feedback on my Facebook page ” Kathleen Patitsas Photos” or via my email address :<kathleen@kathleenpatitsas.com>

Thank you,

Kathleen