BOWERBIRD | Ian Hamilton

COHABITATION CHRONICLES | FARSISS
Collaborative Prints by Fanny Retsek and Sandra Starkey Simon

17 June - 18 July 2021

Opening night: 6-8pm Thursday 17 June
Speaker: Professor Andrew Hill, University of South Australia

Bowerbird | Ian Hamilton

In 1978 Ian was awarded an Arts SA grant to “study the art of the golden bowerbird”. Over a two-month period in the summer of 1978-79 he completed the first of several field studies in world heritage rain forests. He has been making art based on those field trips ever since.

The works in this exhibition build on work done over many years, starting with early field drawings and leading to increasingly abstract forms.

Cohabitation Chronicles | FARSISS
Collaborative Prints by Fanny Retsek and Sandra Starkey Simon

Fanny Retsek and Sandra Starkey Simon collaborate to create traditional prints with radical intent. Along with a shared love, respect and concern for living things and the environment, Fanny and Sandra share a passion for traditional printmaking techniques, and print’s history of activism. These prints not only tell personal stories, but also address climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, and the sixth extinction.

Gallery opening times: 11am-5pm Thursday to Saturday & 1-5pm Sunday

Stair access only