Events & Exhibitions
Guildhouse End of Year Community Gathering, 2023. Photograph Lana Adams.
Upcoming Events
SALA Artist's Choice Award
- Voting now open!
- Closing 31 August 2026
- Announced at the SALA Finissage 2026
Voting is now open for the Guildhouse Artist’s Choice Award for SALA 2026. Vote now for the SALA award finalist whose artwork impressed you the most this SALA Festival.
The award provides important peer recognition and the winning artist will receive a 12-month Guildhouse Accredited Membership + $1,500 cash prize.
Wrapped yarn art creation workshops at Jurlique Farm
- Sunday 23 + 30 August
- 12 – 2pm
- Jurlique Farm
- $50pp
Artist Swapna Namboodiri will share how the repetitive act of wrapping yarn forms the foundation of her latest collection of artworks, transforming simple fibres and everyday materials into richly textured contemporary artworks.
Participants will then be guided through the same mindful process to create their own small abstract artwork to take home.
Monthly Advice Bank
- First Tuesday of the month
- Sessions between 10:00am–1:30pm
- In-person, online via Zoom, or over the phone
Book in for one-on-one advice with Guildhouse’s experienced arts professionals to discuss a range of topics affecting your arts practice.
Our experienced staff will answer questions from individual financial Members in these complimentary 30-minute sessions, offered on the first Tuesday of each month from 10:00am – 1:30pm.
Guildhouse Exhibitions
50 Years of Deadly at Adelaide Airport
Curated by Lawson Dodd
7 July – 30 September 2026
Adelaide Airport
Presented in partnership with Adelaide Airport and Guildhouse, this exhibition recognises five decades of honouring the achievements, resilience and contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the continent.
Regeneration: Presented by Jurlique and Guildhouse
Lorry Wedding-Marchioro, Sakthivel Eakambaranathan and Swapna Namboodiri
1–31 August 2026
Jurlique Farm
Jurlique and Guildhouse present Regeneration – a SALA Festival exhibition featuring South Australian sculpture artists at Jurlique’s biodynamic farm in the Adelaide Hills. Inspired by the living landscape, the exhibition brings together three artists responding to nature’s transformative cycles of growth and renewal
Past Events
INFORM: Application Writing with Kate Larsen (grants, awards and residencies)
Image: Kate Larsen’s Poetry-athon, at Minor Works Building as part of the ART WORKS program with City of Adelaide. Photograph Daniel Marks. INFORM: Application Writing with Kate Larsen (grants, awards and residencies) Thursday 15 September 2022 4—8pm ACST...
Voice of the Artist: Unceded Seeded (Ngampa)
Image: Unceded Seeded (Ngampa), Brad Darkson in consultation with Aunty Lynette Crocker, Guildhouse, Lion Arts Precinct, 2022. Photograph Lana Adams.Voice of the Artist Unceded Seeded (Ngampa) Brad Darkson in consultation with Aunty Lynette Crocker, Ngangki Burka...
ART WORKS: Life lines
Image: Asha Southcombe, Marker, 2021, Graphite drawing on paper, 59.4 x 84.1cm. Photograph Sia Duff2 August - 4 November 2022 Location: Adelaide Town Hall, Mankurri-api Kuu (Reconciliation room) and First Floor Gallery, 128 King William Street, Adelaide Featuring:...