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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
Guildhouse releases industry-led Craft Sector Strategy in response to State Government Growth State Agenda
Guildhouse has worked closely with practitioners to identify the opportunities and barriers to economic growth for South Australia's craft sector and develop a strategy to see us through the next 10 years. South Australia’s craft sector is inter/nationally renowned for the strength of its community, its conceptual and technical rigour and the quintessentially South Australian work it creates. The sector makes a vital contribution to South Australia’s identity, with craft helping to...
Work with us: Programs Administration Officer
We’re hiring. Be part of our small powerhouse team. Do you have experience in arts administration and a desire to develop your programming/producer experience within the arts? Are you a self motivated, sector-engaged person with excellent attention to detail? We have a part-time 6 month contract for a Guildhouse Programs Administration Officer assisting within the Programs team. Reporting directly to the Artistic Programs Manager, this position will assist with artist liaison, collation of...
Announcing the 2020 Guildhouse Fellowship: Sera Waters
Image: Sera Waters with her work Falling: Line by Line, 2018 for the Ramsay Art Prize. Photograph: Nat Rogers.Announcing the 2020 Guildhouse Fellow: Sera Waters Guildhouse, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation are delighted to announce South Australian visual artist Sera Waters as the 2020 Guildhouse Fellow. The Guildhouse Fellowship, valued at over $50,000, was inaugurated in 2019 with the generous support of South Australian philanthropists, The...
Catapult 2020 Recipients
Image: Gus Clutterbuck, Mirimar Lotus (detail), 2018. Photograph: Josef Muller. Catapult 2020 sees 12 exceptional South Australian artists undertaking $5,000 mentorships to expand and investigate their practice with nationwide mentors. Catapult provides South Australian artists, craftspeople and designers with the essential funding and support they need to develop their artistic practice by engaging in a funded, process-led mentorship with practitioners from all over Australia and beyond. This...
Creative Industries Growth Strategy Survey
Image: Geoff Mitchell's studio Photograph: Aise Dillon Contribute to the development of the Creative Industries Growth Strategy by completing this survey and win one of five $50 vouchers for the AGSA store and the JamFactory. Now open, closing Sunday 15 March, midnight. Your voice matters! The Creative Industries Growth Strategy is an industry-led response to the Department of Innovation and Skills Growth State Discussion Paper. We want to hear from artists across the...
ART WORKS 2020 Artists in Residence
Delivered by Guildhouse in partnership with the City of Adelaide, ART WORKS 2020 is a program of residencies and creative engagements, designed to provide a city-based platform for artists and writers to pursue new ways of working and engaging with audiences. This is the third year of the ART WORKS program, which delivers on the City’s Cultural Strategy 2016-23 for Adelaide to be recognised as a cultural incubator where people, enterprises and audiences flourish. ART WORKS 2020 Artists in...
ART WORKS Emerging Curator
This is the third year of the ART WORKS program, which delivers on the City’s Cultural Strategy 2016-23 for Adelaide to be recognised as a cultural incubator where people, enterprises and audiences flourish. The introduction of an Emerging Curator role to the ART WORKS program enables emerging cultural practitioners to develop and thrive. The Emerging Curator role will facilitate broad cultural engagement and audience development through a program of artist and writers in residence,...
The Collections Project: Laura Wills and Louise Flaherty
Laura Wills and Louise Flaherty: Plant Notes The Guildhouse Collections Project with The Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia, at the Santos Museum of Economic Botany 15 August – 30 January 2022 Researching within the SA Seed Conservation Centre and the Botanic Gardens Laura and Louise investigate the personal and environmental effects of losing vulnerable flora. The duo celebrate flora and highlight human and plant relationships with a focus on vulnerable and threatened...
The Collections Project: Ray Harris
Ray Harris: Ritual Nature The Guildhouse Collections Project with Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) Curated by Nic Brown 22 February – 16 April 2021 Exhibition launch: Thursday 11 March 2021, 3pm - 5pm Ritual Nature features a new series of evocative performative videos by South Australian artist Ray Harris, that explores the unsettling edges of physical and emotional existence in connection to ritual acts and the natural world. Her meditative time-based actions that situate the body...
CATAPULT + TARNANTHI 2019
Sandra Saunders, film still by Jess Wallace, 2019. 2019 Catapult + Tarnanthi Catapult + Tarnanthi sees two exceptional Aboriginal artists undertake mentorship opportunities to further their creative practice. Spanning 2018 and 2019, Sandra Saunders and Damien Shen collaborated with their respective mentors to strengthen technical and critical skill, culminating in the showing of works in the 2019 Tarnanthi festival. Both artists have undertaken ambitious mentorships. Wangary-based Ngarrindjeri...