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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
Announcement: Catapult Mentorship 2025 Round 1
Image: Rebecca Palmer, Cherished Memories, Jamestown Mural Festival, image courtesy the artist. Guildhouse is delighted to announce South Australian artists Meg Mader and Rebecca Palmer as the recipients of the first round of Catapult Mentorships for 2025. Catapult is an artist-led, career transforming professional development program for South Australian visual artists, craft practitioners and designers at any stage of their career. The program provides a flexible and paid opportunity for...
Announcement: The Guildhouse Collections Project + City of Adelaide
Image: Crista Bradshaw, Yawara Muku Nara-language graveyard, 2022, plaster casts, sand, gold flakes, dimensions variable, photograph Simon McClure. Guildhouse announces Crista Bradshaw as the selected artist for The Guildhouse Collections Project + City of Adelaide Guildhouse and the City of Adelaide are proud to announce Crista Bradshaw as the selected artist for The Guildhouse Collections Project + City of Adelaide. The Collections Project is a unique visual art, craft or design program that...
Announcement: The Guildhouse Collections Project with FABRIK
Image: Dai Trang Nguyen, courtesy the artist. Guildhouse announces artist Dai Trang Nguyen for The Guildhouse Collections Project with FABRIK Guildhouse, in partnership with FABRIK Arts + Heritage and supported by Create SA, is delighted to announce Vietnamese-born, Adelaide-based artist and designer Dai Trang Nguyen as the 2025/26 artist for The Guildhouse Collections Project with FABRIK. As South Australia’s leading organisation supporting visual artists, craftspeople and designers,...
Call Out: City of Charles Sturt Public Art Opportunities
Image: City of Charles Sturt Pocket Parks site map.Guildhouse has been engaged by City of Charles Sturt to deliver two significant public artwork opportunities for South Australian artists: EOI Drayton Street Pocket Park Sculpture EOI Chief Street Pocket Park Pavement Design City of Charles Sturt is currently developing two small-medium plots of vacant land on Drayton Street, Bowden and Chief Street, Brompton into pocket parks. Drayton Street Pocket Park and Chief Street Pocket Park (yet to be...
Funded Campaign – ILA Major Artist Commission
ILA, image supplied.ILA is commissioning a landmark, site-specific artwork to transform the entrance foyer and stairwell of its building. This major public artwork will serve as a bold gateway into ILA’s immersive environments and become a lasting cultural statement in South Australia’s creative landscape. Guildhouse is delighted to support this exciting opportunity to create a site-specific artwork and nurture South Australian creatives. We are currently seeking philanthropic and partner...
Call Out: The Guildhouse Collections Project with Fabrik
Image: Vic McEwen, Weaving Stories, 2019, projection, photograph Sam Oster, image courtesy Fabrik.Applications are now open for The Guildhouse Collections Project with Fabrik. The Guildhouse Collections Project with Fabrik provides a paid opportunity for an artist, craftsperson, or designer to explore and research Fabrik’s extensive historic, cultural, and living collections, and in response, develop new work(s) for presentation at Fabrik in February 2026. Based in Lobethal, Fabrik manages...
Announcement: The Collections Project with Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium
Image: Giuseppe Matteo Pappalardo, Herbarium x046, 2024, Majolica Vase, Natural Rope, photograph Sam Roberts.South Australian artist Giuseppe Matteo Pappalardo will explore the cultural and ecological dualities at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium for The Guildhouse Collections Project. Announcing Australian-Italian artist Giuseppe Matteo Pappalardo as the successful recipient of The Guildhouse Collections Project with the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium. The Guildhouse Collections...
Annual General Meeting 2025
Image: Guildhouse Sturt Street office Wednesday 30 April 2025 5:30 — 6:45pm Guildhouse, 178 Sturt Street, Adelaide 5000 Free 2025 Guildhouse Annual General Meeting Please join us as we reflect on the challenges and wins of 2024 and excitingly look toward our 60th year of servicing the arts community. This AGM offers the opportunity to meet our new CEO, Beth Neate, and connect with the Guildhouse staff and community over drinks and nibbles after the formalities. AGM Agenda: Welcome Members...
Announcing the recipient of Catapult + Tarnanthi 2025
Shane Cook announced as 2025 Catapult + Tarnanthi mentorship recipient, with mentor Jo-Anne Driessens The Catapult + Tarnanthi 2025 mentorship, presented in partnership between Guildhouse and the Art Gallery of South Australia, will see multidisciplinary artist Shane Cook, (Wulli Wulli, Guwa Koa), mentored by artist, arts worker, community facilitator and advocate Jo-Anne Driessens, (Guwa Koa, Gungarri, Kuku Yalanji). A significant career development opportunity for South Australian Aboriginal...
Sculpture of Professor Fay Gale
Bronze sculpture of Professor Fay Gale made by artist Melisea Judge. Photograph courtesy Andre Castellucci.Meliesa JudgeSculpture of Professor Fay Gale, 2024 -2025Bronze on engraved Mintano slateCommissioned by University of AdelaideDelivered by GuildhouseThe bronze sculpture of Professor Emerita Fay Gale AO, created by figurative sculptor Meliesa Judge of Liquid Metal Studios, stands as a tribute to female scholarship at the University of Adelaide. A pioneering cultural geographer, Professor...