To get your work into the SALA program you must organise an exhibition or arts event, complete a registration form and submit it before 14 May, 2025. 

For more guidance on the process of organising an event and registering check out the resources page of our website. 

• An in-person art exhibition. This is the most common way that artists participate. An exhibition can be indoors or outdoors.
• An online visual art exhibition 
• An artist talk (which can occur without an exhibition)
• A forum about art 
• A virtual or physical tour
• An open studio

Don’t see your event type here? Get in contact with us to discuss your idea.

All visual artists living and working in South Australia are eligible to be part of SALA. You can work in any visual art medium, be of any skill level, and be any age. 

Any South Australian venue can host a SALA exhibition, including private residences, as long as the exhibition can be safely viewable by the public at least once during August.

If you are unsure whether your activity falls within ‘visual art’ don’t hesitate to contact the SALA team to discuss.

To participate in SALA Festival, organisers must find an artist to exhibit or a venue to exhibit in.

We created the SALA Artist & Venue Noticeboard to help artists and venues find each other. 

Artists can list themselves as an artist seeking a venue for the Festival, and can browse the Available Venues List (please note that this list is not exhaustive, and is constantly changing).

Venues interested in taking part can create a venue profile to show their available exhibitions space to interested artists. They can also brows the Available Artists List (please note that this list is not exhaustive,  and is constantly changing).

We also strongly encourage artists to use their personal and/or professional networks to find a venue that they might have a connection to (and vice-versa).

The visual arts encompass painting, drawing, sculpture, glass, textiles, ceramics, printmaking, photographic art, (and more!) But it does not include theatre, music, or dance. These mediums are unable to be part of our Festival unless these activities support a visual arts event. 

If you would like to hold a physical exhibition in SALA, you will need to find a venue to host the exhibition. We recommend that you approach any venues that are appropriate for hosting your work to see if they are interested, and you can also view a list of venues seeking artists for SALA on the SALA Artist & Venue Noticeboard. You can also create an artist profile on this platform to help venues to find you. Approaching a venue that might align with your kind of artwork can work really well too (eg, a petshop for animal portraits). 

If you would like to hold an online exhibition, you do not need to find a venue, and can hold the exhibition on a website or web platform instead.

In either case, a registration form will need to be submitted for the exhibition.

Online exhibitions are a valid form of display in the SALA Festival. 

Please note that online exhibitions will need to be hosted independently (just like a physical exhibition does). Registering in the SALA Festival gets you a listing in the SALA Program, which acts as a directory rather than a host site.

If you’re wanting to put on an online exhibition but not sure which platform to use, think about what you actually want to do first. If you’re presenting a body of work through photographs/images, maybe you could use Wix or a virtual gallery like artsteps. If you want to make an artist talk, maybe a narrated PowerPoint slideshow on YouTube or an audio recording on Soundcloud is more appropriate. 

As every venue is different, SALA is unable to give blanket advice about how best to adhere to State Government restrictions.

We recommend that you/your venue keep up-to-date with information from the State Government of South Australia.