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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
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...
Reflection: Looking back on a trilogy
Life lines, installation view, featuring the work of Sera Waters. Photograph Lana Adams.Reflection: Looking back on a trilogy By Erin O’Donohue, ART WORKS Early Career Curator 2022In the role as Early Career Curator as part of the Guildhouse and City of Adelaide ART WORKS program I curated a trilogy of exhibitions, Memory Bank, Life lines and Introspection. These exhibitions were the product of my need to explore ideas relating to how we experience feelings and by extension how differently...
Five questions with: Chira Grasby
Image: Chira Grasby. Photograph Sia Duff.Five questions with ART WORKS Early Career Curator & Writer in Residence Chira Grasby In her role, Chira will facilitate broad cultural engagement and audience development through a program of artist in residence, exhibitions, public programs, various written response to the ideas and themes being developed and supported through embedded professional mentoring with Guildhouse staff. Her first exhibition, Greetings From My Living Room, will run from...
SA’s iconic Popeye to become a floating work of art
Image: Carly Snoswell, Good Job, The Popeye, 2023. Photograph Sam RobertsFor the first time in its 88-year history, one of Adelaide’s iconic Popeye boats will become a floating work of art, receiving a unique artistic and lighting makeover in time for festival season. The James and Diana Ramsay Foundation has commissioned local artist Carly Snoswell to create the artwork in celebration of the 100th anniversary of James Ramsay’s birth, featuring colour, sequins, stars and lighting, which will...
CATAPULT + Tarnanthi 2023: Elizabeth Close
Image: Elizabeth Close, Take Nothing; Leave Nothing, installation view, Yungondi UniSA Business, 2022. Photograph Lana Adams. The Catapult + Tarnanthi 2023 mentorship saw Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara artist Elizabeth Close undertake mentorship opportunity to further her creative practice. Elizabeth was mentored by multidisciplinary Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens. Known for her use of found and recycled objects/materials, Dickens utilises her multidisciplinary practice, spanning painting,...