Sir Hans Heysen OBE

Exhibition

Historic Hahndorf

2017 Rehang

To Honour the opening of Sir Hans Heysen’s exhibition at the Hahndorf Academy in 1967 and the 50 year celebration of Hahndorf Academy as a gallery and museum.

Exhibition Dates December 14 2017 – January 14 2018

This exhibition is supported by The Cedars, Hans Heysen Foundation, The Nora Heysen Foundation and works on loan from the Heysen family, Lyn and John Nitschke and the Hahndorf Academy collection

The Artist’s Voice Xmas Exhibition

 Exhibition Dates December 6 – January 7

Opening Sunday December 10 at 2pm

"Xmas Presents/Presence"

Christmas is traditionally the time of giving, and works of art make great presents. It has become something of a tradition for the Hahndorf Academy to host The Artist's Voice during the December-January period, thus giving the group the opportunity to speak of the significance presence of art in the Adelaide Hills.

A group exhibition by artists based in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu. The diversity of their practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, glass, photography and new media.

Exhibition Opening Saturday 4 November 2.30pm

Exhibition Dates Saturday 4 November - Sunday 10 December

Hahndorf Academy Adelaide Hills Arts Prize 2017 Finalists Exhibition

Ben Goode, Marek Herbut, Sheila Whittam, Deborah Cantrill, Alan Ramachandran, Jean Kenny, Eugene Casey, Alice Blanch, Anna Durovka, Alison Mitchell, Tim Thomson, Laura Wills, Philip David, Donna Chess, Adrian Headland, Imogen Porteous, Sonya Moyle, Margaret Lillywhite, Bridgitte Williams, Nina Frigault, Susie Riley, Donovan Christie, Ursula Kiessling, Sally Gibson-Dore, Andrea Wyatt

The Hahndorf Academy is proud to present a new arts prize for 2017 to celebrate our region. We invited artists to engage with and to interpret their experience of the Adelaide Hills and the diversity of the landscape, the natural, rural or urban and the ever-changing seasons.

The Adelaide Hills Arts Prize 2017 encourages artists to express their connection with the Hills in ways that highlight and capture their awareness of the dynamic and diverse environment and landscape with works in any medium.

The successful winner of the $2,000 Arts Prize and Highly Commended Prize will be announced at the opening on Saturday 4 November 2.30pm. Judges Naomi Fallon and Hugo Mitchell will be selecting the winners of the prizes prior to November 4.

Arts Prize

$2,000

Highly Commended

$500 Gift Prize from The Paint Box art supplies shop

Entries close 1 September 2017 Entry fee $22 Exhibition Dates Saturday 4 November – Sunday 10 December

The arts prize is open to artists who reside in South Australia. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in any medium are accepted with works created from 2016 to 2017 and with works available for sale. All entries will be presented to a panel of judges and The Hahndorf Academy will host a finalist exhibition from 4 November – 10 December 2017.

More Information and entry forms are on our website www.hahndorfacademy.org.au

Email contact@hahndorfacademy.org.au

refuge

new work by India Flint, in cloth and bone; reflecting on the seeking of refuge. I am the daughter of two displaced Europeans who met in Australia in the 1950s. Both arrived in this country by boat.

India Flint lives on a rural property on the eastern flanks of the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent. She works with windfallen leaves, cloth and paper, stones and bones, words and drawings. Her practice is centred on the use of colour derived from leaves and minerals applied to various substrates, and has previously embraced occasional costuming for dance & theatre for clients including Leigh Warren & Dancers, the West Australian Ballet Company and Miji Dance; as well as collections of sustainable handmade clothing.

Flint is the author of the highly distinctive ecoprint, an ecologically sustainable botanical contact printing process giving brilliant colour to cloth (first published at the White Nights Textile Symposium in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1999). Her book ‘Eco-colour’ was published in March 2008, followed by ‘Second Skin’ in July 2011 and she is represented in museum collections in Latvia, Germany, Australia, Iceland and the USA.

Hahndorf Academy is celebrating 50 years as a museum and art gallery. In 1967 it was opened with an exhibition by Sir Hans Heysen on October 8 (Sir Hans Heysen's birthday).

We have a display of information that tells our story from the 60's when Walter Wotzke bought the building saving it from being demolished and being turned into a service station.

We are celebrating these 50 years and we thank all the people in the community who have supported the Hahndorf Academy, we appreciate everyone's passion for this beautiful iconic heritage building sitting proud on the Main Street of Hahndorf.

Exhibition dates October 6 - October 29

Exhibition Opening Wednesday October 11 at 6pm

Opening Speaker and artist talk Helen Johnson

Supported by TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia in partnership with BHP and with support of the Government of South Australia.

Curated by Helen Johnson with local Aboriginal artists from the Fleurieu Peninsula, Ngarrindjeri and Ramindjeri peoples and artists of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of South Australia and the Central Desert.

The theme of Tjukurpa is fundamental to Aboriginal culture. Stories tie people to land, place and ancestors, they provide a way of passing on knowledge of lore, culture, ancestry, land, totemic sites, hunting and gathering, flora and fauna.

Contemporary Indigenous artists will exhibit new work that is both vibrant and unique and visually breathtaking. A rare chance to learn something of Aboriginal culture through this vital art form. Including original paintings, weaving and ceramics.

Tjukurpa-Story is an exhibition celebrating the Aboriginal culture of story and connection to land. Curated by Helen Johnson the owner of Kiri Kiri Art in Victor Harbor. After studying Fine Art in Brisbane Helen was appointed Art Centre Manager for Iwantja Arts Aboriginal Corporation working with the traditional owners of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of South Australia in the Central Desert.

“I was Art Centre Manager at Iwantja Arts form more than seven years and was privileged to become part of a fantastic, vibrant, energetic and successful Art Centre”.

Kiri Kiri Art sources artwork ethically directly from art centres such as Papunya, Mimili, Kaltjiti, Tjungu Palya, Tjala, Hermannsburg, Warlukurlangu, including of course Iwantja.

The artists on show are some of the most prestigious established and emerging Aboriginal artists of Australia including local Ngarrindjeri and Ramindjeri artists also represented.

Tjariya Stanley - photogrpah by Alex Craig

Tarnanthi, pronounced tar-nan-dee, is a Kaurna word from the traditional owners of the Adelaide Plains. It means to come forth or appear – like the sun and the first emergence of light. For many cultures, first light signifies new beginnings.

Building on the popular and critical success of the 2015 Festival, TARNANTHI returns in 2017, presenting the art of Australia’s oldest living culture on an unprecedented scale. A platform for artists from across the country to share important stories, TARNANTHI sheds new light on contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art.

The Festival’s artistic vision encourages new beginnings by providing artists with opportunities to create significant new work. TARNANTHI works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to extend the practices they have been developing in studios, art centres, institutions and communities.

TARNANTHI is led by Artistic Director Nici Cumpston. Of Afghan, English, Irish and Barkindji Aboriginal heritage, Nici is a descendant of the Darling River people of northern NSW and culturally affiliated with the River Murray people around Berri in the South Australian Riverland. She is also the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, the Gallery’s first Aboriginal curator, and in 2014 she was appointed as Artistic Director of TARNANTHI. Nici’s career has been characterised by working closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to bring new work and new ways of seeing to broad audiences.

TARNANTHI includes a series of exhibitions, artist talks, performances and events, presented in partnership with key cultural institutions across South Australia. At its heart is an ambitious exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the TARNANTHI Art Fair.

A group exhibition that showcases traditional handicraft techniques in a contemporary art context such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, felting, enamelling and hand dying with artists Louise Byrne, Annabelle Collett, Cindy Durant, Robyn Finlay, Wayne Mcara, Deborah Prior, Patricia Rose, Sera Waters,  Meg Wilson. Curated by Polly Dance

Curated by Polly Dance as part of Adelaide City Council’s 2014/15 Emerging Curator Program Craft Anonymousbrought together South Australian regional and metropolitan textile, glass, metal and ceramic artists for an exhibition in the iconic Adelaide Town Hall in 2015 and now a tour of regional South Australia throughout 2016-17.

Five regional South Australian and four Adelaide-based artists whose practices employ traditional handicraft techniques such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, felting, enamelling and hand-dying are showcased within a contemporary art context; where old meets new.These artists have dedicated numerous hours to perfecting and finely crafting handmade works of art in what is often a painstaking but pleasurable process of making and through making with one’s own hands, the artists tell their story. Craft Anonymous addresses ideas around the body: approaching themes of adornment, embellishment, desire/disgust, and identity: public/private, femininity/masculinity, domesticity, place, family history and a sense of belonging.

Presented in partnership with Country Arts SA, Eleanor Scicchitano, Visual Arts Coordinator, Craft Anonymous aims to extend exhibition and professional development opportunities for artists and to encourage further exchange between metropolitan and regional artists.

Polly Dance is a curator, arts writer and artist currently based in Adelaide. Her practice is concerned with modes of communication, curation and materiality. In 2012 she graduated from the University of Adelaide with Masters in Curatorial and Museum Studies. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours), specialising in History and Theory at UniSA. In 2014-15 she was employed as the Emerging Curator at the Adelaide City Council and established a number of partnerships and collaborations including working with Country Arts SA to present Craft Anonymous

Monika Morgenstern researches mystical experiences and encounters with the numinous; she endeavours to bring to light something that does not exist in an accepted paradigm.

The ambition for her work is to uncover and reveal how the mystical exists in contemporary society, and how she - as an artist - can approach these issues through art making.

"My work addresses the ambiguous realm of the spirit world".

Caption: Rapture 5          

Digital Image on Photographic paper 2017

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SALA Exhibition

Exhibition Opening Friday August 4 6pm-8pm

With guest DJ Driller Jet Armstrong

Opening Speaker Caroll KarpanyNgarrindjeri Elder

Addoriginal Artworks by Driller Jet Armstrong and others.

Driller Jet Armstrong has been painting over paintings by other artists for many years, (Daubism), often reworking Australian landscapes to include indigenous symbols.

Driller continues his investigations into Terra Nullius as unwittingly depicted by artists whose paintings show the Australian landscape painted in the European style, empty of, and devoid of any signs of an existing culture.

Caroll Karpany is a Ngarrindjeri Elder and he is a renowned guitarist who was a founding member of Us Mob who along with No Fixed Address were the first two contemporary indigenous rock bands ever recorded through their appearance in the film “Wrong side of the Road” and in 1981 were nominated for an AFI award for best original music for the film. Most recently he appeared as an actor in Charlie Hill Smith’s film “Motor Kite Dreaming”

Ant Williams is kindly sponsoring the opening event by supplying the sound system for the DJ set with Driller.  Easy AV is a local Adelaide Hills Company that specialise in sound and visual systems.

SALA 2017

Exhibition Opening Friday August 4 6pm-8pm

Opening Speaker Greg Donovan

With guest DJ Driller Jet Armstrong

‘Both, and Neither’ is a visual arts exhibition by Adelaide Hills Artist Wendy Dixon-Whiley. In addition to already completed works, there will be multiple new works to be completed during the month of August and progressively installed in the exhibition space. The artist will be located and working onsite on Sundays and Mondays within the Gallery. Creating these works onsite will allow the public to engage with the creative process and as a result understand the act of making, however, the main highlight of this exhibition will be a large scale painting installation to be hung on the western tower of the building.

 The layers of this external work on the building, to be painted on a sheet of vinyl measuring approximately 8m high x 2m wide, will reference but also cover what is underneath. This style of painting hints at form but also retains a lack of recognisability and shape. The act of obscuring an element serves to highlight its partial absence; it strains to break through and be seen. In this way, this is also why the works take on forms somewhat reminiscent of creatures released from the subconscious. This process of responding to the underlying layers and brushwork will result in unexpected forms and pictorial scripts as harsh edges are softened, texture added and forms altered or obscured. What was originally present still exists, albeit in a corrupted form.

 An internal visual universe unconfined by rules or restraints, my imagination is captured by the absurd, the silly and irreverent. Somewhere in the space that exists between contemporary and street art exists my work;  characterised by a bright& bold style with a sense of humour, but which also contains just a hint of menace and cynicism, which hides behind a friendly outward appearance.

                                                                Wendy Dixon Whiley - 2017

Exhibition Dates June 23 to July 30

Exhibition Opening Saturday June 24 2pm

Opening Speaker Mandy Brown

SINGING COUNTRY prelude

 Ngankiparinga | Women’s River | O­­­nkaparinga

Nganki-paringa (Onkaparinga) The Women's River—its hidden, ancient, gorges once a refuge, sheltered bodies warmed by the sun;  its once-pristine sheen, lit by reflected moonlight, stars, echoes-spirits-singing; rich and brimming with life; its periodic ebb and flow to-the-sea—for thousands of years the custodial responsibility, and reflection, of Aboriginal Women (Nganki) singing songs of the water; for the water; from the water.

  SINGING COUNTRY... bringing together NGANKI (women) on/for ‘country’ 

 … mending, moving: from the mouth of the river at Port Noarlunga (Southern Kaurna/Patpa Yerta); the banks/ranges/cliffs/dunes; the scant stands of remnant vegetation, scrub; the springs; the swamps cleared-drained-over-taken de-spoiled… spirit-places

This project will offer a window into an ancient way of understanding—and caring for—'country'... an Aboriginal understanding in which singer-song-and-country become one, in the place of their creation, where:

. . . the ancestors first sang . . . their journeys across the land . . . the word land “being too spare and meager. We can scarcely use it unless with economic overtones, unless we happen to be poets" (Irene Watson quoting Bill Stanner, 2002, 27)

 Decades of “sorry business” (grief and colonial trauma) are tied to the fact that colonialism, from the earliest pastoralism up to recent mining developments, agriculture, and urbanization, has inhibited Aboriginal people from protecting… country… The incapacity to care for country contributes to the cycles of Aboriginal trauma and loss. (Watson, 2009, 34) 

As my ancestors walked over the land, they walked in the law. Today it is difficult to walk that law in a carpark [playground; sweat-track... cycle-path; over-taken by private housing; highly constructed landscaping; and public amenities] that lie... on your ancestors’ graves or in a derelict and toxic mine site that has replaced ceremonial and gathering places where songs were sung across the land. (Watson, 2009, 44-45)

In the upstairs gallery at Hahndorf Academy June-July 2017 a video and sound installation will be assembled. This exhibition—a prelude—will draw on research currently being undertaken to support SINGING COUNTRY—a long term program-in-development reviving the connection of women and girls to water and song led by Senior Narrunga/Kaurna women, Independent Artist, Performer and Producer, Waiata Telfer—with custodial mentorship from Ngankiburka-mekauwe (Senior Woman-of Water) Georgina Williams, Traditional Owner and Female Elder Clan-to-Country Custodian Narrung’Kaurna Yerta (country). 

 Here: collected objects, contemporary beaded sculpture, video and sound-recordings will come 'into conversation' with archived ‘colonial’ images and citations (from the State Library of South Australia and the National Library's online digital archives) to make a poetic 'timeline'… 

calling for a reservation: of space, silence; calling for re-generation; care, repair; calling for song. 

Watson, Irene, 2002. “Kaldowinyeri - In the Beginning.” Looking at You, Looking at Me: Aboriginal History and the Culture of the South East of Australia, Vol. 1. Nairne: Watson.

 Watson, Irene, 2009. “Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples.” South Atlantic Quarterly 108:1, 27-51.

Exhibition Dates June 23 - July 30

Exhibition Opening Saturday June 24 2pm

Opening Speaker Mandy Brown

"First I didn’t know how to paint, but I’ve watched my mother how she paints. When she used to paint here, I came here like every now and then and painted some. But I just didn’t have the patience because I always thought it was boring. Ever since my parents have passed away, I had a long time to get over the sadness that was in me. Now I’ve found a way to make myself happy by painting and having the time to just sit, think and paint. I’ve had the confidence but I didn’t know that I had it. I’m really enjoying what I’m doing right now, because it has helped me a lot. Also, I’ve got all my family and friends around me and the Minyma Kutjara Arts Centre is where I’ll always be.”

Exhibition Dates June 23 to July 23

Exhibition Opening Saturday June 24 2pm

Opening Speaker Mandy Brown

Cedric Varcoe tell stories about his land with dreamtime stories, his paintings are energetic and depict the flow of the landscape. He has been painting since he was very young, inspired by watching his family paint and by the stories from Ngarrindjeri country and culture told to him by his grandfather and other elders of the Ngarrindjeri language group.

Cedric has won multiple local awards and has been exhibiting since 1997.  In 2015 Cedric received a grant from Arts SA for professional development workshops with Better World Arts.  During these workshops Cedric studied colour theory, life drawing and did a lot of research into Ngarrindjeri history and culture at the South Australian Museum. 

The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Artist’s Voice: A Celebration of Diversity

The Artist's Voice are exhibiting in all three galleries at the Hahndorf Academy with works from 1997 to present. They will take the viewer on a retrospective journey from their initial years with stories about artists and exhibitions, news articles, artworks and photographs that celebrate the groups achievements over the years. The Artist's Voice was established in 1997 by Helen Lyons and the members have chosen to honour her vision: 

“Stay an individual but reap the benefits of a collective voice. Our aims are many, but primarily to have a voice in community events, both practically and as an advisory body to get more public exposure for the wealth of talent that exists in the Adelaide Hills area.”  Helen Lyon 1997

Exhibition opening Wednesday May 3 at 1pm

Opening Speaker Jan-Claire Wisdom, Adelaide Hills Councillor

Opening Speaker Marie Barbaliopoulos, artist

Community Bridging Services (CBS) provides support to people with a disability in employment, education, recreation and art.

Three time winners of SALA Festival Rip it Up and Adelaide Review Special Artist Award, CBS Art Group’s new exhibition “Altitude” will showcase their paintings in our main gallery.

The paintings in the exhibition will range from narrative pictorial images, through to symbolic representations and broad abstractions. Vibrant colour, surprising forms and distinctive personal styles will be featured in the work of the many talented artists, living with disability, who attend CBS art groups.

For more information go to www.communitybridgingservices.org.au

"Puppies"  Marlene Postacrylic paint, paint pens on canvas2016

"The Bridge"  James Rogersacrylic, paint pens on canvas2017

Artist Talk Sunday May 21 at 3pm

Enjoy a discussion with Silvia Stansfield and Nici Cumpston about Silvia's work and her journey. With a wealth of experience Silvia will share some of her stories, ideas and techniques.

With wine and nibbles in the upstairs gallery space with Silvia's beautiful exhibition.

Exhibition Opening Saturday April 29 at 2pm   Opening Speaker Nici Cumpston, Curator of Aboriginal and Torrens Strait Islander Art, Art Gallery of South Australia

Silvia Stansfield showcases her work from her early years to the present day, this exhibition is a celebration of her career as a ceramicist where you can experience her stories and incredible talent.

“Clay became a canvas and my hands and mind came together to express my ideas. It is a full life to explore clay and all of its possibilities. I make many objects with different purposes. From the bowl thrown on the wheel, to the enjoyment of exploring hand building to develop larger forms, all incorporating personal experiences of landscapes, villages, streets and people”. Silvia Stansfield

Through the evocative ceramics of Silvia Ines Stansfield, we are taken on an intimate journey through an extraordinary life. Embedded within her lifelong work are memoirs of her travels, encounters with inspirational people, her love of nature and most importantly, the optimism and joy she has for life.

Silvia was born in the south of Chile and came to Australia in 1969and throughout her career Silvia has continually developed her work, exhibiting extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. She has generously shared her skills and knowledge with other artists, schools and community workshops, including teaching ceramics for twelve years at Tauondi Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide. Nici Cumpston

Bravest of the Brave tells the story of eight South Australian men who were awarded the Victoria Cross for their heroic deeds during the First World War (1914-1918).

Bravest of the Brave is the story of eight ordinary men - Arthur Blackburn, Phillip Davey, Roy Inwood, Jorgen Jensen, John Leak, Arthur Sullivan, Lawrence Weathers and James Park Woods - who on one day of their lives, under extraordinary circumstances, demonstrated extraordinary heroism for their comrades and country.

The exhibition gives an introduction to the First World War and South Australia's part in the conflict, as well as a brief history of the Victoria Cross, a short profile of each of the eight men and a final concluding section.

Opening Saturday March 25, 2017 at 3pm

Opening Speaker Tullio Rossi, marine biologist, graphic designer

Curated by Julia Wakefield

Today our oceans are more important to us than they have ever been, but they are also far more vulnerable. However, we also know more about our oceans than ever before. And when we communicate globally, our messages cross the oceans. This print exchange represents that coast to coast communication, and its subject evokes the watery communication highway that embraces every coast.

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living”. 
David Attenborough from his three part documentary'state of the planet' 2000
 

Exhibiting artists include Jen Conde, Camilo Esparza, Sally Heinrich, Sarah Mitchell, Trudi Rice, Julia Wakefield.

Tullio Rossi, marine biologist, graphic designer and citizen of the world https://www.tulliorossi.com

Follow the shoal at https://www.facebook.com/globaloceansAIPE/ and https://globaloceansblog.wordpress.com/

Image by Trudy Rice 'Two Majestic beauties'

image by Louise Scammell 'Terabyte'

Exhibition Opening Sunday March 26 at 2 pm

Opening Speaker Lynn Collins

On Sunday 2nd April, at 2pm, Julie will give an illustrated talk on her unlikely journey from pastoral illustrator to portrait painter with a message.

This exhibition of paintings and mosaics will take you on a wonderful journey with artist Julie Corfe who brings vibrancy and dynamic colour to the canvas. Both a landscape and a portrait artist, critics have argued whether Julie is expressionist or post-expressionist, and her work has been compared with both Hockney and Matisse.  Overwhelmingly her social conscience bursts through, irrepressible expressions of life which cannot be ignored.

Edward Gibbon might well have been thinking of this prize winning artist when he wrote, “Sculpture, and above all, painting, propose themselves the imitation not only of the forms of nature, but of the character and passions of the human soul.  In those sublime arts, the dexterity of the hand is of little avail, unless it is animated by fancy and guided by the most correct taste and observation."

Lynn Collins was a painting lecturer at the SA School of Art during the 1970s, and was Julie’s painting lecturer there in 1978.  He was an art critic for the “Advertiser” during the 1980s. More recently he has been curator of historical buildings in Sydney.   

Fringe 2017 Exhibitions

Exhibition Opening Sunday 19 February at 2pm
Opening Speaker Sculptor Silvio Apponyi

3 artists bring the environment to the Fringe with sculptures & installations in 3 galleries & outdoor spaces

Tim Thomson Bronze Sculptures

I am fascinated by minutiae, things under my feet.    
Moss growing on the weeplines of the water tank. Lichen, diverse forms and colours, on the bark of trees.
Fungus on rotting logs.
The skeletal grey beauty of weathered wood shards, indicators of bushfires past.
A cicada casing attached to a leaf. A well rounded rock. 
Form and texture.
My workshop companion’s despair as yet more detritus is laid on the table for further inspection. Add to this the background interior hum that colours my day. Family, friends, work, joy, grief,  impending doom, compulsion, song, the evening meal, laughter.
Stir then let rest.
Some work arrives quickly, some takes an age.
I am pleased that it continues to arrive.

David Kerr Installation

Stick Structures musing.                                           

Sticks are a ubiquitous element in our environment. We all pick up sticks, they are a raw material to be used for all manner of purpose… sometimes as a tool, sometimes for defence, sometimes for building structures, sometimes to create some order in our environment, sometimes to contemplate their unique shape, sometimes to be processed as aids to our creative nature. This exhibit is a musing on sticks.
See David work on site as he explores our building from the inside to the outside.

Deborah Cantrill

Function evolving from the archetypal garden forms.

The woven forms create a new status and function to garden materials that are largely discarded. The materials have a rhythm and a season which isreflected in the four elements earth (roots) water (leaves) air (flowers) and fire (fruit and seeds) then add the human element (Quinta essentisa). The ordering principle to collect the materials and to create woven magic either practical or whimsical from the beauty that is nature.

See Deborah weave sculptural forms in the upstairs gallery.

A conversation with David at the Opening on Friday January 20 at 6pm

An engaging chat with David who will tell you about his art practice & show you his art works & contraptions, he will open up some of them so you can see how they work

Workshops for children are available see below for more details

Roll up roll up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, all the fun of the fair is here as artist, and now impresario,  David presents us with the results of his latest foray into the world of the automata. His glitzy fabrications see art and mechanics combine to animate the inanimate.

In his endeavours artist Archer is seldom found in the typical well-lit studio in cap and smock, but rather, boiler-suited, tinkering deep in the bowels of discarded gadgetry and domestic junk. In a veritable sea of scrapped machinery he searches for that elusive part which he knows will drive his latest imaginings.

David Archer is a contemporary Automata maker from South Australia, influenced by scenes from carnivals & seaside’s of the Victorian & Edwardian era.

David Archer - Archers Arcadia 

 “Wacky Wire Critterbug” Workshop

The workshop involves each participant creating their own personalized interactive sculpture that they can take home; using some recycled materials, integrating ideas of environment, science (kinetics/physics) and design…. but mostly it’s fun!

There are limited spaces available for this popular workshop. Suits participants aged from 8 to 14yrs old

“Critterbug”: A morphed insect animal that wobbles and flaps.

Multicolored and bright. No two are the same in the entire Universe.

   Workshop outline                                                                                          

- Welcome and introductions from the artist and pupils

- Outline of the day’s activities and possible results

- Short video on the artists practice

- Explanation of what automata is

- Look at several art works and the mechanisms used

- The use of recycledmaterials                                                                                                                 - Examination of working mechanisms                                                                                        

- Tour of David’s exhibition in the gallery space

- Selected books on the subject on view for ideas                              

-  Each participant will have a kit to use

Workshop process

- Selection of materials for individual bugs, involving a lucky dip!

- As a group, guided step by step construction of the Wacky Wire Critterbug

- The drawing and designing of individual elements; template making

- Assembly of parts, fitting of mechanism and decoration of bug

10am-3pm on Wednesday January 25 $60 pp

Bookings are essential, 8388 7250 rachel@hahndorfacademy.org.au

Although there is great diversity in wilderness areas throughout the world, it is the similarity in their emotional impact that captures Peter is seeking to develop a deeper relationship with the natural environment. He aims to freeze the essence of a wild place in time and mood, to find and reflect its wisdom, and perhaps proclaim our responsibility for ensuring that wild places will remain forever.

These images, captured in the arid northern Flinders in South Australia, the harsh tundra of Iceland, the wild coast of South Australia and the remoteness of New Zealand will hopefully demonstrate that, despite the their obvious differences, wild places all evoke a similar response deep within us.

A Collaboration of book art & illustration

The meanings of the book are explored as a symbol of knowledge, with a shift in our access to information with the internet.

Gabi embraces the pages of books with intricate illustrations.  Pages tumble from the wall in her installation piece in our wing gallery which is a small and intimate space, a place where Gabi can create her installation as a work in progress. The book has become liberated, able to celebrate the tactility, functionality, and authority which only a real-live book can.

The Artist's Voice is an Association of professional visual artists. Based in the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu, the group provides support and inspiration to each other, whilst still maintaining and further developing their individual practice. The diversity of their practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, glass, photography, and new media.

Opening December 10 at 3pm

Opening Speaker Joan Clayton

image by Margie Hooper

Kath Inglis

Exhibition opening Friday December 9 at 6.30pm

Projected Surface                                                                                               

When it comes to our own identity, we are all makers.           

cutting away                                                                              

adding                                                                                      

layering                                                                                   

blending                                                                                

concealing and revealing

A new body of colourful sculptural and wearable pieces in PVC that explore the notion of constructed identity and the projected surface.

Biography

I am an established contemporary jeweller working from a studio at ʻThe Barnʼ located in the Adelaide Hills. Through my craft practice I have developed a distinctive range of jewellery by working with my signature material, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The PVC is sourced as a clear flexible sheet and is prosaic in itʼs ʻnatural stateʼ. Simple hand worked processes such as colouring, cutting, carving and more recently, heat fusing layers, elevates this material into the precious.

The relationship between the material, maker and tool is significant element to my practice. This approach continues to push the material in creative ways and forms a self portrait of observations, concerns and issues.

Adding, removing, staying in motion, instinctive and flexible                                   

Thinking of the past - looking toward the future                                                     

Reflective - responding