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Opening night: 6pm Thursday 4 November 2021
An exhibition of photographs that speak to Michal’s neighbourhood.
Opening night: 6pm Thursday 4 November 2021
Wide open spaces are evoked in quite different ways by these artists.
Opening night: 6-8pm Thursday 30 September
Opening speaker: Christine McCormack
Anton Hart, Christian Lock, Henry Jock Walker, Jonathan Kim, Josef Felber, Lucia Dohrmann, Maarten Daudeij, Margaret Worth, Margie Sheppard, Michael Kutschbach, Monika Morgenstern, Nicholas Elliott, Sam Howie, Seiichi Kobayashi
Fourteen South Australian artists engage in a conversation about the place of abstraction in contemporary art.
Held during the darkest part of the Aussie winter, Heat Wave is an ode to summer; long days, hot nights.
Mary-Jean Richardson, Gerry Wedd, Lucy Turnbull, Cassie Thring, Sue Michael, Maxwell Callaghan, Maxie Ashton, Frey Micklethwait, Kelly Reynolds, Rosina Possingham, Brianna Speight, Alice Blanch, Margie Sheppard, Tara Rowhani-Farid
Opening speaker: Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Artist talks: 2pm Saturday 14 August
These are traditional prints with radical intent. By drawing the little bits of natural
environment and wild animals left in cities, suburbs and towns, we recognize that they
are vital to the ecosystem and recovery of our planet.
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.
“Yet even shadows have their shapes
which live where I imagine them to be……..”
Charles Baudelaire.
We live in a matter-like state, in a world dominated by the visible, we do not often come across the invisible - at least, not knowingly……
It is the sub-conscious that acts as a channel enabling the invisible to flow through from the Great Void - where all the un-named things that may yet take shape or form exist suspended among infinities.
“The framework and aesthetic principles of my creative life developed early through intense and frequent contact with my aunt, the artist Dora Chapman. I worked with Dora on the prints in this exhibition, decades ago, scrupulously placing the layered colours and absorbing her instruction. Such memorable exploration of colour is reflected now in my ceramics work. It is an exhibition crossing decades of time and meticulous learning.”
Richard Spoehr
An exhibition of printmaking by three Victorian artists.
Rona Green
The pictures of anthropomorphic figures I create explore ideas about the nature of individuality. Specifically I’m interested in how identity is expressed via the body; physical appearance and the ways it can be altered; the skin and its potential to be the stem point for transformation.
Heather Shimmen
I am an unashamed collector of ‘flotsam and jetsam’ as I am with the ideas behind my work. Many elements are drawn from childhood memories, personal experience, environmental issues, folkloric stories and histories (intrinsically Australian), and from a myriad of other places. They become translated and morph into the images I make.
Deborah Williams
My work currently focuses on the stray dogs I have encountered. These images reflect a mediation of their very being whilst attempting to understand, acknowledge and depict different ways of seeing.
‘Signs and wonders’ occurs numerous times in the bible and refers to miraculous occurrences attesting to the existence/power of that is bigger than us. An omen is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. People in ancient times believed that omens brought a divine message from their gods.
The artists in this exhibition will be creating work that recognises, responds to or translates phenomena – natural or resulting from human activity.
Art students in the 1970s, Killick, Davidson and Turnbull have remained firm friends through the decades, living parallel lives in the arts in a variety of manifestations. Constant Gardener is their third exhibition together and brings together three distinct accounts of being here now - a group of works attempting to divine sense in our times. Stephen Killick's political drawings wrangle ideas of world scale proportions, powerful questions and current controversies. Jo Davidson's landscape paintings come from deep within the heart and spirit of the forests and rivers of her country - mid north coast NSW. Samone Turnbull's ceramic vessels look to the backyard and into the garden, for the leafy rhythms that inform her designs.
Opening night: Wednesday 3 March
Opening speaker: Ross Garnaut
These three distinct solo exhibitions are linked by common sensibilities of restraint, universal meaning and the passing of time.
Painter Sam Howie’s work focuses on the universality of the hand-drawn straight line; Lucia Dohrmann’s practice centres on the connections between pattern and repetition, textile processes and mathematical thinking; and sculptor Deborah Sleeman draws from the natural world as well as archetypal stories using materials that show the harsh exposure to wind, sand and time.
When does the inconsequential become monumental, and when does the monumental become inconsequential? Everyday we pass by both and perhaps recognise neither, perhaps we don’t even see it.
Ambridge and Fitz-Gerald are looking at the ‘every day-ness’ of the world at our feet through very different eyes, extracting detailed, poetic, humorous and at times melancholy images of a landscape most people barely notice.
Lesa Farrant & Chris De Rosa both live on the coast. Their artwork is influenced by the walks they take along the shoreline, which is littered with natural and unnatural objects, both rich and strange.
This exhibition will include individual and collaborative pieces.
This year has afforded me time to revisit my numerous sketch books, or pieces of paper scribbled upon as a passenger on car trips, and endless notes written in the early hours of the morning in some lonely, arid outpost.
The recent months of quiet meditation and isolation in the wide open spaces of a remote seaside town on the west coast of SA have been the source of these recent paintings.
Jonathan explores the relationship between internal and external structures through refined three-dimensional wall works and a series of small, minimalist paintings - a direct outcome of time spent in studio lockdown with limited access to found materials.
It feels as if the environment I am exploring has turned itself inside out and is looking back at itself and wondering…
Opening night: 6-8pm Friday 8 November
Barrie Goddard, Betty Smart, Brigid Noone, Christine McCormack, Deborah Sleeman, Helen Fuller, Llewelyn Ash, Olga Sankey, Nick Dridan, Samone Turnbull, Silvana Angelakis, Sue Michael and Yasmin Grass.
Each of the 13 artists has responded to the title of the exhibition in a way that is reflective of their artistic practice. The exhibition consists of works on paper - drawings and prints - paintings, ceramics and sculpture.
Opening night: 6-8pm Friday 8 November
All’s a Mirror pairs renowned Australian ceramicists with a 2D artist of their choice. The exhibition is an opportunity to find synergies between their work, which will be exhibited side by side.
Artist pairings: Stephen Bird & Michael Bell, Ulrica Trulsson & Chris de Rosa, Kirsten Coehlo & Helen Fuller, Bruce Nuske & Christine McCormack, Gerry Wedd & John Foubister, Richard Spoehr & David Rosetzky and Samone Turnbull & Margie Sheppard.
Lucia Dorhmann’s works speak of the connections between pattern and repetition, textile techniques and mathematics, within the field of painting.
Image courtesy of Adelaide Central School of Art. Photography by James Field.
Multiple records of successive weather conditions and atmospheric pressure might find echoes in human emotional turbulence. I mimic the immediacy of these parallel processes; adding, subtracting, leaving it open and abstracted to reflect scientific evidence and the layered and integrated maps of an unsettled world.
As for a dancer embodying a poetic cluster of actions; moment/movement change, liveliness, the semiotic language of art amongst objects comes from their sensory agency; their material proclivities, the qualities that move us.
West Gallery Thebarton’s 2019 SALA exhibition features a group of exciting and emerging artists including Steve Bellosguardo, Max Callaghan, Nicholas Elliott, Thomas Folber, Joel Gailer, Anna Gore, Sam Howie, Jonathan Kim, Eric Loeschmann, Monika Morgenstern, Loren Orsillo, Tara Rowhani-Farid and Joshua Searson.
Kyoko Imazu's recent prints and small sculptural works explore our overlooked neighbours such as the weeds, bugs and pebbles that fill our everyday lives.
Opening night: Thursday 13 June
Gracia & Louise are besotted with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature. In their artists' books, prints, zines, drawings, and collages, they use an armoury of play, humour, and perhaps the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you in.
Opening night: Thursday 13 June
To find out more about Gracia & Louise, please visit the following links:
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison: http://www.gracialouise.com
Marginalia (blog): http://www.graciahaby.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracialouise
John’s work is sustained by consideration of ideas about the nature of human reality. He uses painting and drawing to attempt to approximate the way the world fits together and forms in his mind.
Opening night: 6-8pm Friday 3 May
Opening speaker: Rob Brookman
While there are obvious synergies between the work of Margie Sheppard and Llewelyn Ash, with their common transparent layers of bold colour and simple shapes, their exhibition is more than just putting two complementary artists together.
Opening night: 6-8pm Friday 3 May
Opening speaker: Rob Brookman
In a show exploring the idea of relationship, works by two artists are brought into conjunctions that variously interfere with each other in order to create new and expanded readings.
Betty and Greg live and work together in Torrensville, Adelaide.
