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Image: Catapult mentee Anna Gore with mentor Aldo Iacobelli 2021. Photograph Sia Duff.
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,...
Guildhouse appoints Sarah Feijen as Chief Executive Officer
Image: Sarah Feijen, image supplied. On behalf of the Guildhouse Board and staff we are delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Feijen as Chief Executive Officer of Guildhouse. A well respected arts leader committed to furthering the South Australian arts sector, Sarah comes to Guildhouse from the role of Team Leader Arts and Culture at City of Adelaide. Guildhouse Chair Andrew Cohen said “Guildhouse continues to lead meaningful, sustainable and exciting member programs (and...
ART WORKS 2023 Announcements
Image: Sally Parnis, Relic, 2020, oil on rescued board. Image courtesy the artist.In partnership with the City of Adelaide, we are pleased to announce the 2023 ART WORKS program appointments.ART WORKS is a collaborative program of residencies, curatorial mentorship, and creative engagements, designed in partnership with the City of Adelaide to provide a city based platform for artists, curators and writers to pursue new ways of working and engaging with audiences. Emerging curator and visual...
Announcing the first Guildhouse Studios resident artists
Image: Makeda Duong, Mixed Race Sweater, hand knitted merino wool, dimensions variable, 2020. Photograph Morgan Sette & Radhe Osborn; Fru Kenez, Not My Problem, gas-fired stoneware clay, glaze, underglaze, 2ct gold lustre, 28 x 24 x 65 cm Nexus Gallery, September 2021. Photograph Thomas McCammon.The Guildhouse Studios pilot program has commenced with emerging visual artists Makeda Duong and Fru Kenez in residence until late March 2023. Makeda Duong’s practice is informed by the history of...
Kaurna Wirltu Tidna mural celebrates belonging at University of Adelaide
Image: Cedric Varcoe, Kaurna Wirltu Tidna, University of Adelaide, 2022. Photograph Sam Roberts.An original mural is now a permanent fixture of the University of Adelaide’s North Terrace campus, connecting people to Country. The mural, named Kaurna Wirltu Tidna, depicts many links to the University, such as the Southern Cross and a shield, that are also significant to Kaurna culture. Cedric Varcoe, a Ramindjerri yuraldi man of the Ngarendjerri nation, and Narunga artist, created the mural art,...
Welcome to Guildhouse Sturt Street
Image: Guildhouse Sturt Street office. Photograph Lana AdamsSay hello at our new Guildhouse Sturt Street office. To make room for the Guildhouse Studios pilot program, the Guildhouse office has a new home at 178 Sturt Street, Adelaide. Guildhouse are warmly welcomed by internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta and four other creative practitioners working from the building. The move is the result of a commitment to collaboration and trans-disciplinary engagement from both...
2022 Sector Survey
Image: 2022 Sector Survey prizes. Photograph Lana AdamsSector 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: A membership...