Dreaming Stories

This exhibition is a collaboration between Kiri Kiri Art, Hahndorf Academy and Aboriginal artists from across Australia, bringing together a celebration of art and culture from remote art centres to local suburban artists.

Prior to establishing Kiri Kiri Art Gallery in Victor Harbor, Director Helen Johnson enjoyed 7 years as Art Centre Manager for Iwantja Arts, APY Lands, South Australia.

Kiri Kiri Gallery sources directly from remote art centres all around Australia, particularly within a 500k radius of Alice Springs, reflecting Helen’s passion for the Central Desert Art Movement. On display are some of the most prestigious established and emerging Aboriginal artists in Australia.

Exhibition Dates: Thursday December 13th 2018 - Sunday February 10th 2019

Exhibition Launch: Saturday January 19th 2019 at 6pm

The exhibition Renaissance Goes Pop is a confluence of the art of the Renaissance with Pop Art of the 20th Century, which imbues the portraits of the 15th Century with the carnival aspects of Pop Art and its bold riot of colour and mood of determined optimism.

Each of the large paintings is an unpredictable alchemy of motifs emblazoned in a mix of primary colours enhancing the intrigue and humorous cocktail of this interesting body of work.

John Ashcroft (Senior) is a Melbourne artist, his works are full of colour and vibrancy which matches his passion for art.

THE HEYSEN PRIZE FOR LANDSCAPE 2018

Congratulations to all the artists selected for the Heysen Prize For Landscape 2018 Finalist Exhibition

Daryl Austin, Janet Ayliffe, Alice Blanch, Fleur Brett, Cheryl Anne Brown, Susan Bruce, Ian Burman, Neville Cichon, Dale Collier, Samuel Condon, Lynn Derrick, James Dodd, Ed Douglas, Odette England, Louise Feneley, Zoe Freney, Liss Fenwick, India Flint, Anna Glynn, Scott Hartshorne, Joy Harvey, Philip Heaton, Liz Hetzel, Kate Hughes, Harold Jelfs, Debra Jurss, Mark Judd, Ben Kelly, Heidi Kenyon, Christina Kerkvliet Goddard, Mark Kimber, Sue Kneebone, Janet Koongotema, Brad Lay, Rebecca McEwan, Sarah Merkel, Kathleen Munn, Monika Morgenstern, Jenny Mulcahy, Claire Primrose, Deborah Prior, Jaime Prosser, Cynthia Schwertsik, Megan Seres, Jane Skeer, Andrew Stattman, Lise Temple, Joel Tonks, Catherine Wait, Peter Walker, Jean Walmberg, Amanda Westley, Laura Williams, Dan Withy, Eleanor Zecchin, Paula Zetlein       

Finalist Exhibition dates 6 October to 9 December

Finalist Exhibition Launch October 6th at 6pm

Guest Speaker Lisa Slade, co-acting Director Art Gallery of South Australia

Entries for The Heysen Prize for Landscape 2018 are now closed

The Heysen Prize for Landscape - Acquisitive $15,000

 People’s Choice Prize - Non-acquisitive $1,000

The Hahndorf Academy Heysen Prize was established in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of the internationally renowned, artist, Sir Hans Heysen (1877-1968).

Hans Heysen lived on a property nearby Hahndorf town and documented village life in drawings and watercolours. He had a deep connection with the natural landscape and is best known for his paintings of majestic Eucalypt (gum) trees surrounding his property as well as the vast landscapes of the Flinders Ranges in the mid-north of South Australia.

Heysen actively conserved the mature trees on the land surrounding his home and studio at Hahndorf and, through his art, drew attention to the natural beauty of the Australian landscape and significantly contributed to an awareness of the need to protect the natural environment.

The Hahndorf Academy Heysen Prize for Landscape invites artists to express their deep connection with – or concern for – the Australian landscape and environment. We wish to acknowledge that the word 'landscape' here includes all possible aspects of the natural, rural, and urban landscape.

This contemporary art prize is a biennial event celebrating emerging, mid-career and established artists and their connection to landscape and place.

The prize is open for 2D and 3D works.

Beverley Southcott:  ‘Energy  Matters’

August 1 - September 16 2018

EXHIBITION OPENING SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH 2PM

GUEST OPENING SPEAKER Greg Ackland, Principal Lecturer - Adelaide College of the Arts

Beverley Southcott captures images from the world news on television with her iPhone 6 which has a quick shutter exposure. There is a strong body of work with these abstract photographic images which look at the media’s focus on war and devastation in the world and here we are reminded of the positive good news and hope with ‘Energy Matters’.

Beverley says ‘the daily world news feeds seemed to me, mainly a 24/7 steady stream of misery of heightened states of war and conflict or; the looming of such, that includes inter-related, interdependent world suffering. It seemed relentless and unchanging. These world events, broadcast daily are mainly over orchestrated by large media corporations and 'others', that seemed designed to keep us in fearful and captive states within their never ending pursuit of propaganda and misery.

Somehow I wanted to take all of this and 're-bundle' this endless data and 're-stream' this into a re-newed meaning of ‘hope’, 'love' and understanding from these daily disasters and scenes of misery that occur throughout the world. Simultaneously goodness, joy, 'resistance' and happiness within daily events continue to occur and are largely unreported.  It reinforces that old adage, if 'there's no news, its good news' and what may be the reasons for this’.

Beverley Southcott 2018

Beverley Southcott 'Re Looking, Energy Matters Two' 2017

Hans Kreiner: ‘Isthmus’

 SALA August 1 - September 16 2018

EXHIBITION OPENING SUNDAY AUGUST 4 AT 2PM

GUEST OPENING SPEAKER Greg Ackland, Principal Lecturer - Adelaide College of the Arts

‘Isthmus’ is a new body of mixed media sculptural installation artwork for SALA 2018.

Kreiner's visual art practice is diverse and interesting and includes a variety of hand crafted materials. His art practice is labour intensive often using intricate detailed cut outs that are finely crafted, he uses a variety of materials, lino, metals, plastics and paper, often working with recycled materials. This adds an interesting element to his cut out works of negative and positive spaces – the left over and off cuts.

Originally trained as a carpenter he followed onto to art school studying printmaking, drawing and sculpture and has since exhibited his work in various galleries and spaces. There is such precision to his work and his training led to highly developed skills which he uses in his art-making today.

Kreiner is interested in his audience, not just the contemporary art viewer but also the general audience and their engagement with his artworks.

Hugh Freytag: Places and Spaces 2018

August 1 - September 16 2018

EXHIBITION OPENING SATURDAY AUGUST 4TH 2PM

GUEST OPENING SPEAKER Greg Ackland, Principal Lecturer - Adelaide College of the Arts

Hugh Freytag traverses the streets of Adelaide fascinated by the lines and shapes of spaces. With a keen eye for composition and depth of field he focusses on the contrast of light and dark with shadows and linear structures. This exhibition will take you to familiar spaces and some unknown in the city of Adelaide with large format photographs.

From taking photographs to processing them in his own darkroom Hugh enjoys the creative process as much as the technical side and you will see him carrying a camera everywhere he goes documenting what and who he sees along the way.

His top two cameras are a Rolleiflex and a Hasselblad, he prefers analogue cameras to digital however does use both and he has a substantial collection of old cameras dating back to the 1950’s. Hugh studied at art school in Adelaide in the 80’s and has a wealth of experience as a photographer and cinematographer and has worked in various roles in the SA film industry.

Irina Nazarova ‘In the Garden’

July 2 – 29 2018

"My art is a response to the plethora of beauty existent in our gardens and natural environment that many may take for granted.

My floral artworks on wood represent imagined and re-envisaged flowers. There is a breadth of vision and space that hints at middle era tapestry art, two dimensional mythical art, and concoctions of dreamed up plants from another planet, and or, of existing in distant time. There is also the direct observation of the here and now planted and stamped on wood. Painting on wood creates a warm feeling and brings you one step closer to the flora depicted on my paintings." Irina Nazarova 2018

Alison Mitchell   STILL EVEN  - STILL

Exhibition Dates June 28 - July 29 2018

Exhibition Opening July 7 at 2pm

Opening Speaker Hugo Shaw

Alison Mitchell is a visual artist based in regional South Australia.

Her work encompasses a broad range of materials – water colour, oils and sculpture but is consistent in always working directly from life.   “ It is often some visual nuance that entices me to paint, a particular combination of colour, of light, or an unusual tonal contrast. It is the roundness and sheen of fruit, the compositional possibilities of a landscape or a particular twist or angle in a model’s body. It is seeing the world anew, with fresh eyes.”

“STILL EVEN – STILL has emerged, in part, from experiencing the exhibition ‘…the Dutch Golden Age, masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum’(AGNSW) last year. The unparalleled wealth, power and cultural confidence of 16th century Dutch society seems echoed in our own current global context. Great power, great wealth, but always at someone or something’s expense. Most resonant were the still life and interior paintings. Their ‘’tranquil scenes of domestic life and careful studies of fruit and flowers” emphasised the particularities of a secular materialism. Objects were important in and of themselves – and not just for the stories they told. 

“My main focus, in the past few years, has been still life painting. I tend to paint objects that I am familiar with, that are embedded with memories and meaning, or are fresh and unfamiliar but have caught my eye.  Often they have lost their original utilitarian functions and yet are ubiquitous, and they occur and reoccur throughout the works – it is their placement within the plane of the painting - the space between and the spaces within – that is beginning to have more resonance.”

Alison graduated from the University of Adelaide with a first class honours in Anthropology and this, along with studies in Asian art and decades of life drawing, informs her practice.

She lives with her husband Robert Hannaford on their property near Riverton SA and it is the fruit and produce of their garden that often becomes the subject of her work as well as regular ‘en plein air’ painting trips.

She has been a finalist in a number of art awards including the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, the EMSLA, the Heysen Landscape Prize, the Whyalla and Tatiara art prizes and in the Fleurieu Art prizes, and exhibits regularly in and around Adelaide.

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June 28 - July 29 2018  

Artist’s Voice Wintering

Winter can be a contemplative time and this group exhibition by artists from the Adelaide Hills capture the essence of the season with mixed media works.

The ‘Artist’s Voice’ was formed in 1997 and is an association of visual artists based at the Hahndorf Academy where it holds regular exhibitions in the upstairs gallery.

Group and solo exhibitions are also held at other venues throughout the state.

The Artist’s Voice was formed so that local artists might share resources, ideas and enthusiasms and to raise awareness of local art and artist’s within our community.

Most members are established artists with many enjoying considerable reputations throughout Australia.

http://www.theartistsvoice.com.au/

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Ngayuku Ngura - My Country

May 30 - June 24 2018

Exhibtiion Opening June 1 at 6pm

Opening Guest Speaker Sara White, Curator, writer and lecturer on Indigenous Art History

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.

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.

Exhibition Dates May 4 – May 27 2018

Exhibition opening May 6 at 2pm

Exhibition Opening Speaker Lyndell Davidge O.A.M. Local Historian and Museum Manager

A Contemporary group exhibition that engages with our History

Beverley Southcott, Rachel Harris, Dave Archer, Marie Littlewood, Stephanie Radok, Annabelle Collett, Ryan Sims, Debbie Pryor, Sera Waters, Lauren Simeoni, Wendy Dixon-Whiley, Deb Twining,  Andrew Dearman,

The Hahndorf academy has invited artists to explore our museum collection and heritage, to re-interpret our history with a body of work for an exhibition in May 2018 as part of the History Festival.

It is such a good opportunity for us to embrace our historical background with the artists and our audience who visit the galleries and museum.

Hahndorf Academy is rich with heritage, the building itself has had many guises. Originally a school that embraced art and science which was very ‘different’ in the day, 1000 babies were born here when it was a maternity hospital and the dentist used to pop teeth between the floorboards. We have graffiti from the early days and Hahndorf itself has many stories that can be retold.

Our museum collection is hidden away it replenishes our museum with various displays and it stores beautiful laces, photographs, objects, perambulators, pipes, ceramics, paintings, drawings and clothing.

We have invited the artists to explore our collection, heritage or historical background with the help of Lyndell Davidge our local historian who loves sharing her knowledge.

Exhibition Dates April 9 – May 13 2018

Artist in Residence at the Hahndorf Academy. To walk, paint and breathe a small part of Australian Master Painter Hans Heysen's home town; to visit and paint in places he painted and made famous a hundred years ago while listening to stories of the people who live and work in Hahndorf now. The colours of autumn, the cool climate and the atmospheric light are intriguing to one who lives in Queensland. This residency gives me the opportunity to study and learn from the master of light.

Karol paints both "en plein-air" and studio work, in pastel, oil and pen and wash in the locality of Hahndorf.

There is a series of workshops covering a range of subjects for artists in oils and pastels, mixed media, pen and wash. The style of work is representational, that is to say it represents the subject. A special highlight is a day painting at The Cedars. These workshops and events are a way for me to give back to the arts community.

Special Events have been planned for artists and friends at different cafés in Hahndorf each Friday morning. This is a social time for locals and visitors alike to get to know each other and have work with Pen and wash drawings.

   

https://www.oakleyfineart.com/artist-in-residence.html

CBS Disability Arts Group Eye to Eye 

Exhibition dates March 30 to April 29 2018  

Exhibition opening Wednesday April 4 at 1pm

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.

The paintings in this exhibition 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.

 "Cockatiels" Daniel Tsatsaronis 2017, acrylic paint, paint pens on canvas

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Exhibition dates March 30 - April 29

Exhibition opening Wednesday April 4 at 1pm

"I was drawn towards DADAism because of the idea that art is an everyday occurrence and an accidental spill of liquid can be “art”.

My disability made me turn to my passion, art, and my love of it, to research Art as a socialistic message.  From Assyrian clay tablets and Egyptian Hieroglyphs to the 20th century Dadaist’s. All so pertinent.

I ventured into abstraction for a few reasons while doing my Masters in 2000. For one I called upon aspects of my disability. That is, I used my disability as my muse, it was the most prevalent part of me. One of the major aspects of my disability, at that time, was speaking.

Letters and words appear in most of my artworks, which is because I look at letters as graphical images rather than pure guttural communication. Also, one of the early symptoms of my disability is slurring words and voice weakness". Bryan Tingey 2018

The work of multi-award winning artist and designer Joanna Roberts embraces the colour and sculptural possibilities of contemporary materials and industrial processes. Passionate about Australian flora and fauna, Roberts uses these techniques to explore the garden and its inhabitants. Inspired by colour, form and textures she magnifies micro worlds for her audience to explore and admire.

Sally Gibson-Dore and Robyn Finlay are Adelaide Hills artists.

"Absence" is an exhibition of printmaking, mixed media and ceramics with two artists coming together to explore notions of loss and what comes with it.

Nina Frigault ‘At a Distance’

Embroidered works on linen and natural fibres relate to land and reflect glimpses of memories. The connections between the every-day and my past from my home town in Canada which feels like a cloud I can feel it but I can’t touch it.

Winners of the Royal Adelaide Show Art Prize

A group exhibition with the first class winning artists from all the classes 1-11 that were in the Royal Adelaide Show 2017. The Hahndorf Academy has sponsored the artists and Royal Adelaide Show by offering the winners an exhibition.

Artists include: Jutta Prus, Betty Anderson, Robin Hicks, Trevor Hancox , Samantha Tipler, Alan Ramachandran,, Kathryn Brook, Kerryn Hocking, Margaret Thomas, Susan Woenne-Green, Gerard Mignot   

Painting by Betty Anderson

Mike Barr:  'Rain and Shine'

Exhibition dates January 19 - Feb 11 2018

Mike is combining his two painting passions into one unique exhibition. 

For Mike, both subjects represent the excitement and difference to every-day life that rain in the city and life at the beach represent.

 Mike's painting style doesn't concern itself with photographic details, because he believes the camera can do that better. Rather, he records the feelings and atmosphere of the day, sometimes with a limited palette that captures the vision without the distraction of too much colour.

Come and enjoy the bracing sea air at the beach or the exhilaration of sweeping rain on the city streets in this exhibition of large and smalls works - Mike's first solo exhibition in Australian for nearly four years.

 A Blaze of Light - Waymouth Street  60x60cm oil on canvas

 Toward Henley from Grange Jetty  65x55cm oil on linen

Roe Gartelmann Red to Blue              

January 11 - February 11 2018

Meet the artists Roe will be painting and drawing in the gallery Saturday January 20 at 11-3

Roe is known for her vibrant use of colour using various mediums from oil, watercolour, acrylic, pastel, print making, pen and ink and pencil.

Taking her travel kit everywhere she goes and sketching on site all around Australia including beach scenes, Flinders Ranges, Robe, Central Desert, Mid North SA and the Riverland.

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.