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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
Happy Holidays from Guildhouse
Images: Saul Steed, Sam Roberts and Lana Adams.Dear Members and Friends of Guildhouse, As we approach the end of 2023, I want to thank you - our community - for your energy, creativity and support. It’s been a mighty year, with the new Guildhouse team continuing the legacy of providing an expansive, ambitious and important program of artistic and development opportunities that places artists and their needs at our core. This year we worked hard advocating behind the scenes to successfully...
2023 Sector Survey
Image: Graphic with the words "Guildhouse Sector Survey"Sector Survey: have your say and win! Contribute to our annual sector survey and help us to shape our program and advocacy efforts. Your feedback is really valuable. It helps us deliver a relevant, engaging program and ensure that our services are meeting the needs of our members and the sector. The survey only takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and by doing so you go into the draw to win one of these fabulous prizes: 3 x...
The Collections Project: Recipients Announced 2024
Images (L-R): Bin Bai, image courtesy the artist; Stephanie Doddridge, photograph Darren Clements Photography; Sue Kneebone, photograph Rosina Possingham; Olga Sankey, image courtesy the artist; Truc Truong, photograph Andre Castellucci.Announcing the recipients of The Guildhouse Collections Project with Flinders University Museum of Art. Five South Australian artists have been selected to undertake The Guildhouse Collections Project with Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) in 2024. We...
Catapult 2023 Recipients
Image: Shirley Jianzhen Wu, Infusion (detail), 2022, Flameworked borosilicate glass, Eucalyptus cneorifolia essential oil, sola wood (Aeschynomene aspera), teak, cotton thread, reed and silicone. Photo by Michael Haines. Guildhouse is thrilled to announce the 15 diverse visual artists, craftspeople and designers who will be supported through the 2023 Catapult mentorship program. Catapult provides South Australian artists with the critical funding and support they need to develop their...
The Guildhouse Fellowship: Kyoko Hashimoto
2023 Guildhouse Fellow announced, artist Kyoko Hashimoto explores a more sensitive and sustainable future. Guildhouse, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation are delighted to announce South Australian contemporary jeweller Kyoko Hashimoto as the 2023 Guildhouse Fellow – a twelve-month fellowship valued at over $50,000. The Guildhouse Fellowship was inaugurated in 2019 with the generous support of leading philanthropists, the James & Diana Ramsay...
ESSAY / Intersection by Anna Zagala
Image: ART WORKS Artist in Residence Callum Docherty, City of Adelaide ArtPOD, 2023, photograph Lana Adams.ESSAY / Intersection By Anna ZagalaA narrow exhibition and residency art space tucked in a breezeway between The Town Hall and the customer centre in the City of Adelaide has been Callum Docherty’s base for the past four months for his evolving and shifting exhibition INTERSECTION, documenting the city centre. Docherty, a visual artist working primarily in photography but incorporating a...
Statement from the Board and CEO on the Voice.
Image: The Uluru Statement. Source: Facebook / The Uluru Statement from the HeartThe Board and CEO of Guildhouse are proud to support the Uluru Statement From the Heart and its call for Voice, Treaty and Truth. We are grateful to live, work and create on what was, is and will always be Aboriginal land. As South Australia’s peak body for visual arts, craft and design, Guildhouse has a responsibility to build awareness and advocate for an arts community that is inclusive and accessible. Our...
Call Out – The Guildhouse Collections Project: Flinders University Museum of Art 2024
Image: Installation view: The Guildhouse Collections Project: After the Fall, featuring Kate O’Boyle, There's something about Mary, Mother wound, 2022, digital video, colour, sound, image; PPE COVID gowns, cotton thread, 450.0 x 900.0 cm, photograph Sia Duff.The Guildhouse Collections Project with Flinders University Museum of Art Research within FUMA’s Australian Political Poster & Print Collection. Responding works curated into an exhibition in the FUMA Gallery Open to individual...
Working at Height Insurance update – good news
Image: Jacob Logos in progress, Aquinas College, Reignite Adelaide project. Photograph Christine Cholewa courtesy Guildhouse. Guildhouse is proud to have worked hard to promote the professionalism of our artists, designers and craftspeople and to help secure important elements of the Guildhouse Accredited Member insurance policy we hold with QBE and brokered by Local Community Insurance Services (LCIS). Working alongside NAVA, Guildhouse has successfully contributed to a reasonable solution...
Insurance Changes: Accredited Membership Working at Heights
Image: Artwork by Tristan Kerr. Photograph Sam Roberts.Guildhouse is seeking an urgent response from our community about a recent insurance policy change for Accredited Members Working at Heights. We want to let you know that we have been notified of updates to the working at height policy by our insurance broker, Local Community Insurance Services (LCIS). These changes are: Artists and arts workers who work at less than 2 metres* will be charged an additional premium of almost $100. Artists...