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.

Our Work In Action

Guildhouse has partnered with a diverse range organisations to deliver projects that are tailor-made for them. 

Images: Guildhouse Professional Services projects. Photographs Andre Castellucci, Sam Roberts, Lana Adams, University of Adelaide.

Our Expertise

Our Services

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.
Guildhouse also brokers exclusive brand collaborations between artists and brands to develop unique expressions of brand identity.