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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
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...
The Collections Project: Jake Holmes
The Collections Project Jake Holmes Writing the climate Flinders University Art Museum 7 October - 13 November, 2019 Thursday 10 October, 2019 3 - 4pm | Artist Talk in conversation with curator Madeline Reece 4-5pm | Exhibition launch South Australian artist Jake Holmes works across a variety of mediums, including screen printing, mural painting, illustration, audio and collage. Holmes interrogates contemporary social and political issues, and documents place through his...
Arts Day on the Hill
L-R: Mish Grigor, Selena de Carvalho, Rebecca Selleck, Miranda Johnson, Esther Anatolitis, Georgia Mokak, Shaun Edwards, Nadeena Dixon, Emma Fey, Clare Armitage in the House of Representatives, Museum of Australian Democracy. Photo by Penelope Benton (NAVA).Not long after I commenced at Guildhouse in 2017, then Director of Adelaide Central School of Art, Ingrid Kellenbach, invited me to provide the keynote address to the School’s graduating cohort. Considering the significant step these...
The Collections Project: the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia, 2020 Call Out
Kath Inglis, Epiphyte Neckpiece, 2019, cellophane printing on PVC, PVC heat formed with fishing line binding, lollypop sticks, paint, silk thread and stainless steel. Photograph Grant Hancock.The Guildhouse Collections Project Santos Museum of Economic Botany Adelaide Botanic Garden 2020 Call Out Expressions of Interest for The 2020 The Guildhouse Collections Project with the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia is now open. The Guildhouse Collections Project with the...
2020 Lunar New Year Commission
2020 Lunar New Year Commissionwith SKYCITYExpressions of Interest Guildhouse welcomes Expressions of Interest for consideration for the 2020 Lunar New Year Commission with SKYCITY. This rare opportunity will see one artist/artist collective design, create and install an artwork celebrating this traditional cultural event. This commission will be delivered early January 2020 with a project budget of $20,000.Expressions of Interest Expressions of interest to be submitted online.This process is...
CATAPULT Profile: Christopher Williams and Johannes Sistermanns (GER)
Photograph GuildhouseCATAPULT Profile: Christopher Williams and Johannes Sistermanns Guildhouse’s current series of mentorships culminated in dramatic style on 6 May 2019 with a collaborative sound art performance by mentor Johannes S. Sistermanns (Germany) and mentee Christopher Williams (Adelaide). Their performance, at the University of South Australia, emerged from a nine-day intensive program of experimentation and workshopping in which Sistermanns introduced Williams to his use of...
2019 CATAPULT
Kristel Britcher, To Hold, I, II, III, III, 2018, blown, cut, coldworked, firepolished glass. Photograph Michael Haines.2019 Catapult Recipients Catapult is a career development mentorship program for South Australian artists, craftspeople and designers, generously funded by visionary philanthropic organisation, The Ian Potter Foundation. Catapult provides South Australian creative professionals with essential funding and support to allow them to further develop their careers with national or...