UniSA Business: Yungondi Gallery

Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of innovation.

UniSA Business has partnered with Guildhouse to present works by contemporary South Australian artists to encourage reflection and inspire new ideas.

UniSA Yungondi Exhibition Series

2024

Exhibitions

Callum Docherty

Collages: Collected Constructions 

Callum presents a series of collages creating during the covid lockdown, using materials such as discarded books, magazines and journals. 

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Roy Ananda

Excerpts from ‘The Pale Dossier’

Roy Ananda is a visual artist, writer, and educator practicing on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). His objects, installations, drawings, collages, and texts variously celebrate popular culture, play, process, and the very act of making.

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Simone Kennedy

Changeling a, c & b, The Pulchritudinous (beautiful) Fly

In Simone Kennedy’s studio-based practice she works with several interconnected themes, the translation of ‘self’, the brain, a symbolic mother figure and the common housefly. 

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2023

Exhibitions

Lisa Vertudaches

Connection

A collection of works that touch on the theme of connection, either with ourselves, our relationships or our communities.

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Louise Flaherty

Plants and Plant Carers

An exhibition of recent works over the past few years including Resurface and a selection of Plant Carer drawings by Louise Flaherty.

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Michael Carney

The Persistence of Nature

Contemporary artist michael Carney presents a series of forest scenes with tranquil melancholy and underlying unease, creating a layered emotional experience.

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Max Ballard

Structure

Contemporary artist Max Ballard presents a series of paintings exploring structure and composition within snapshots from his everyday life. 

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2022

Exhibitions

Jay Lord

Social 2.0

Social 2.0 documents Jay Lord’s observations of the designed language used by social media. Saturating our surrounding digital landscapes, the use of intentionally engineered written language in social media and online is an especially unique change in how we perceive and interact with written text.

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Elizabeth Close

Take Nothing; Leave Nothing

Take Nothing; Leave Nothing speaks the enduring nature of Country and the fear that many Anangu have that our sacred ancestral landscape will be exploited without regard for the Songlines and Tjurkurpa that lie beneath the landscape that can be seen as opposed to the Country that can be felt. 

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Steph Fuller

Portraits of the Elderly

Steph Fuller is a South Australian artist working with still and moving images. Her camera-based works examine her surroundings, exposing the lesser-known vulnerabilities of creatures and objects.

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2021

Exhibitions

Fran Callen

Selected Works

A selection of works by Fran Callen, documenting personal and family relationships with domestic spaces and their impact on the natural world. 

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Donovan Christie

Selected Works

A selection of works by Donovan Christie that focus on capturing and immortalising the nostalgic urban landscape as it slowly fades.

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Brad Darkson

Tremendously very very very beautiful

Brad Darkson’s work Tremendously very very very beautiful encourages a reflection on preconceived notions surrounding Aboriginal art, and in doing so highlights the diversity and complexity of Aboriginal culture and experience. 

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Brooke Walker

Our Great Barrier Reef

The ‘Great Barrier Reef’ series discusses the state of our oceans due to pollution and climate change. Single use plastics are a convenience item that society has become accustomed to using with only recently founded action to consider the long term environmental impacts.

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2020

Exhibitions

James Dodd

Transformer

The exhibition Transformer is part of the Painting Mill project, and has been presented in a number of forms since 2015. It has grown out of my interest in simple machines and how they might be considered within a visual art context.

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Jess Taylor

Good Mother

Jess Taylor explores her fascination with fictional horror primarily through digital methods of making. Using her own image and body exclusively, Taylor’s work presents transgressive and repressed feminine experiences, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.

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Alice Blanch

Gentle A Path

Gentle A Path is an exhibition of photographic works exploring the humble gestures of the Ngangkiparingka Onkaparinga River. The artwork stems from observing and contemplating the quiet fluidity of the river in its passage over the land; the elements of earth and water are seamlessly balancing and equally compromising to allow for the continuous existence of the other.

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White drawing on black background creating detailed concentric circles.

2019

Exhibitions

Laura Wills

Planting Plants

Planting Plans is a selection of recent map drawings by Laura Wills. The works reference plant properties and botanical drawings, and explore food diversity and food plant relationships.

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Alice Potter

Parent Guilt Yo

In the days after her second child was born, and feeling pangs of responsibility and failing, contemporary jeweller and artist Alice Potter constructed a survey on the theme of parental guilt. The artworks in Potter’s installation were made as a direct response to quotes taken from the survey analytics asking over 100 mothers and fathers of new and older children to reflect on the theme.

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Tom Borgas

Image/Objects

Tom Borgas’ suite of sculptural sketches fuse the language of digital media with the intimacy of analogue materials and processes.

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Arlon Hall

Up Over Down Out In Around

The work presented explores a level of vulnerable experimentation from Hall. In contrast to the emphasis on clean lines and shapes present in his previous works, he has delved deeper into exploring intuitive mark-making, with the indecisive lines mimicking the trajectory of an artist’s practice.

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White drawing on black background creating detailed concentric circles.

2018

Exhibitions

Nathan Finch

With All The Travail

Often unable to put these emotions into words, Finch uses his works as a tool to translate the complex responses we have to living. The works serve as an interpretation to the gritty complexities of the human condition, increasingly encountered in day-to-day life in an ever-connected world.

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Lucia Dohrmann

Pattern and Repetition

“I have undertaken a strategy of limiting myself to using the raw materials of artists’ canvas and paint, employing unconventional painting processes to these. My honours body of work consists of abstract paintings that emphasis materiality and process. They have been constructed by unravelling the canvas, crocheting these unravelled threads and hand stitching and weaving. These traditional skills were taught to me as a child by my mother and have become part of my visual language.” – Lucia Dohrmann.

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UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Simone Kennedy

UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Simone Kennedy

Image: Simone Kennedy, Changeling (a)The Pulchritudinous Fly (detail), 2021, Oil on linen, 200 x 100cm.  Photograph Iain Bond.Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of innovation. Since 2018 UniSA Business has partnered with Guildhouse to present works by...

UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Roy Ananda

UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Roy Ananda

Image: Roy Ananda, The Pale Dossier, Post Office Projects, photograph Sam Roberts.Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of innovation. Since 2018 UniSA Business has partnered with Guildhouse to present works by contemporary South Australian visual artists to...

UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Callum Docherty

UniSA Yungondi Gallery: Callum Docherty

Image: Callum Docherty, Collected Constructions, installation view, 2024. Photograph Lana Adams.Creativity and collaboration are at the heart of innovation. Since 2018 UniSA Business has partnered with Guildhouse to present works by contemporary South Australian...

Images (L-R): Tom Borgas, Image/Objects (installation view), photograph courtesy UniSA; Lisa Vertudaches, Connection (installation view), 2023, photograph Lana Adams; Elizabeth Close, Take Nothing; Leave Nothing (installation view), 2022, photograph Lana Adams; Brad Darkson, Tremendously very very very beautiful (installation view), 2021, photograph Guildhouse; Jess Taylor, The Consumate Ruin (installation view), 2018. Image courtesy the artist; Alice Potter, installation image of exhibition Parent Guilt Yo, 2019. Photograph Guildhouse; Nathan Finch, installation image of exhibition With All The Travail, 201, photograph Guildhouse.