Guildhouse Professional Services

Image: Fabrication of Sundari Carmody’s One: all that we can see at Exhibition Studios, Adelaide. Photograph Exhibition Studios.

Guildhouse Professional Services:

Harnessing South Australian creative excellence

Trusted for its in-depth understanding of visual arts practice, sector knowledge, professional networks and experienced team, and with a directory of 1,200+ members from diverse artistic practices, Guildhouse is a not-for-profit peak industry body for the visual arts sector in South Australia.

Guildhouse Professional Services (GPS) is Guildhouse’s social enterprise. GPS is uniquely qualified to connect South Australian artists, designers and craftspeople with custom public, commercial and private art opportunities.

By reinvesting profits into the arts ecology, GPS projects deliver wide-reaching community benefits such as employment creation, skills development and individual capacity development.

Maintaining a collaborative approach to working alongside creative thinkers and leaders of all kinds, GPS taps into the extensive Guildhouse community to deliver art projects to any scale in Adelaide and regionally across South Australia. We work with emerging and established artists and pride ourselves on the diversity and strength of projects we have delivered with First Nations and non-First Nations artists.

From consultation and strategy, research and scoping, through to artistic brief development, artwork budgets, artist engagement, contracting and concept generation, project management, stakeholder consultation, detail design development, engineering, fabrication, installation, artwork documentation and audience engagement, Guildhouse can offer significant experience and capability to your project.

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Our Work In Action

Guildhouse has partnered with a diverse range organisations to deliver projects that are tailor-made for them. Explore the outcomes below to see our work in action.

University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide engaged Guildhouse to commission a sculpture of eminent female scholar Fay Gale as a celebration of female scholarship. The bronze sculpture was crafted by Meliesa Judge of Liquid Metal Studios.

The Queen's Theatre

Commissioned by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and delivered by Guildhouse, this stunning 32-metre artwork was created by acclaimed visual artist Mary Moore in collaboration with interactive media specialists Sandpit.

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Artist at Work Taskforce: Report Cover Artwork

The Department of Premier and Cabinet invited Guildhouse to facilitate the commission of a new artwork by Rosina Possingham for the front cover of the Artists at Work Taskforce final report to the South Australian Minister of the Arts.

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Ramsay Art Boat

Commissioned in 2023 by the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation in celebration of the 100th anniversary of James Ramsay’s birth, the Popeye became a floating work of art. Following on from the success of the first Ramsay Art Boat, a second artwork was commissioned in 2024.

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Hindley Street

Artist Sam Songailo’s LED artwork Snowflake was commissioned by City of Adelaide and Forza Capital with support from Urban Climb.

Clinpath

Clinpath invited Guildhouse to facilitate the commissioning of a Kaurna artwork for the foyer in their new state of the art Mile End laboratory. Artist Brooke Rigney (Kaurna/Ngarrindjeri) was selected via a limited commissioning process to create an artwork representing Kaurna Country.

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Reignite Project

In partnership with the City of Adelaide for the Reignite Adelaide initiative, Guildhouse delivered eight new public artworks to enliven and activate key city precincts.
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Lot Fourteen

Guildhouse was engaged to provide advice and recommendations to the Department of the Premier and Cabinet on a series of commissioning and loan options that would enable the installation of a large public artwork at the North Terrace gateway to Lot Fourteen. Learn more.

City of Port Adelaide Enfield

Guildhouse worked closely with WAX Design and the CPAE Council Project Team on an upgrade to areas of Prospect Road in Kilburn and Blair Athol. Sam Songailo’s designs included the integration of light poles, paving designs and murals.

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Department of Infrastructure and Transport - First Nations ceiling design

Guildhouse commissioned Elizabeth Close, an Anangu artist from Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara language groups to work on a ceiling design for the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s new offices in Pirie Street.

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ANZ

Guildhouse was invited to join the design team (Studio Piñata and Woods Bagot) in facilitating the artwork designs for ANZ’s new workplace on level 18, 83 Pirie Street. Through a limited commissioning process, Lawson Dodd (Kaurna/Narungga/Ngarrindjeri) was invited to create designs illustrating the dreaming story of Tjilbruke for the client facing boardroom and entrance spaces.

Department of Infrastructure and Transport - Tjanpi Desert Weavers woven sculptures

Working alongside Multiplex and Woods Bagot, and in consultation with the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s Aboriginal Engagement team, the Department sought Guildhouse’s expertise in commissioning four public artworks for their new Pirie Street offices.

Department of Infrastructure and Transport - Ngarrindjeri woven sculptures

Working alongside Multiplex and Woods Bagot, and in consultation with the Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s Aboriginal Engagement team, the Department sought Guildhouse’s expertise in commissioning five public artworks for their new Pirie Street offices.

University of Adelaide

Commissioned by the University of Adelaide, and in consultation with Kaurna Cultural Advisor Uncle Rod O’Brien, Wirltu Yarlu Aboriginal Education, GuildhousLe worked with Ngarrindjeri/Narangga artist Cedric Varcoe on a design for vinyl. Learn more.

Voice of the Artist

Supported by the City of Adelaide, the Guildhouse Voice of the Artist commission is an opportunity to inspire, comfort, subvert, and respond to the times we are living in, signalling solidarity to the artistic community and inspiration to pedestrians and passers-by.

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BHP

Engaged by BHP, and in consultation with Woods Bagot, Guildhouse commissioned artist Lawson Dodd to create a design for the main wall of the Adelaide office’s Family Friendly Room.

The Rundle Carpark

Guildhouse was engaged by The Buchan Group to commission a mural artwork on the North-Eastern ground entrance wall of The Rundle Carpark located at 90-100 Grenfell Street.
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The Wyatt Trust

The Wyatt Trust invited Guildhouse to commission low-income South Australian artists to create designs for integrated artworks in their new Frome Street office, Inparrila.

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University of Adelaide

Working alongside landscape architects Oxigen, Guildhouse was engaged to steward an art installation that would create a day and night entrance statement for the northern entrance to campus, with artwork design by Kaurna/Ngarrindjeri artist Paul Herzich.
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Meaningful places

A strong sense of place is fundamental to wellbeing and human flourishing. Public art is a unique way to explore and express the rich complexity of the human condition and build belonging, meaning and connection in our shared public spaces.

Guildhouse can offer best-practice public art advice from initial research and scoping, through to project brief development, artist engagement in the preparation of concept designs, detailed design development, fabrication and installation of artworks.

Captivating spaces

Quality artworks and objects can enrich interior spaces and architecture to create innovative and captivating corporate environments.

We can provide the specialist curatorial, installation and project management advice and expertise you need to successfully transform spaces into visually extraordinary experiences.

Creative Experiences

Creative and interesting encounters and experiences enrich our cultural life and stimulate our imagination to think in new ways. While it may seem elusive, creativity can be strategically nurtured, curated and embedded.

Creativity is recognised as one of the most powerful and important corporate leadership competencies to drive innovation.

Guildhouse partners with large and small organisations to scope and deliver rich artistic experiences for employees, clients and customers through artist-in-residence programs, professional forums and workshops, co-presented by South Australia’s most highly respected practicing artists.

Bespoke commissions

Commissioning a bespoke artwork or object is a genuinely meaningful way to acknowlede and honour significant relationships as well as celebrate or commemorate some of life’s more remarkable moments.

Guildhouse provides guidance and advice regarding the selection and commissioning of unique and bespoke artworks and objects, hand crafted by South Australia’s diverse professional artists, and contemporary craft practitioners.

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