Terrestrial Satellites

September 16 – October 16, 2022

Exhibition launch event Saturday September 17 at 2pm

Gallery 3

Sandra Bartlett, Kristy Margetts, Peter Nenke, Suzanne Opitz, Chris Reynolds, Caleb Rybalka, Jackie Stavrakis, Peter Surguy. Curated by Sam Oster.

Terrestrial Satellites celebrates the local community of Mount Barker District with a wonderful exhibition of photographic works by eight members.

This project was developed as a creative community initiative to connect people and form a group of local photographers. It has been facilitated by Mount Barker District Council in partnership with photographer and arts educator Sam Oster.

Sam Oster loves teaching photography, and she invited the local community to join, engage and learn new photographic skills. Sam worked closely with a group of eight people running regular workshops using photography, video, and satellite / physical mapping systems to create work that reflects time, space and matter. The workshops helped the group develop their skills in photography, timelapse and video capture with a series of in-person and online workshops (during covid times) and the group explored their local landscape and experimented with techniques to create a lively body of work for this exhibition.  

Terrestrial Satellites has three elements to this project.

Hahndorf Academy exhibition September 16 - October 16.

Mount Barker District Library digital slide show display September 16 - October 16

Mount Barker Townhall Wall, Stephens Street Mount Barker night-time slide show September 15 and 16.

This project has been funded by Mount Barker District Council.

Sandra Bartlett

Caleb Rybalka

Kristy Margetts

Peter Nenke

Suzanne Opitz

Chris Reynolds