The Dog Exhibition

March 27 - April 26, 2026

Dog Fashion Parade - Saturday March 28 at 2pm

Exhibition Opening Event - Saturday March 28 at 3pm

The Dog Exhibition returns for 2026, with a curated selection of works by established Adelaide artists, and a community show in our large upstairs gallery space. We’ll also be holding the Dog Fashion Parade, inviting your dog to dress to impress and compete to win fun prizes. We’re inviting the community to reflect on their relationship with the dogs in their life and express their appreciation through art.

To enter your artwork for exhibition, follow the link below:

Sophie Hann

Heysen Reimagined: Re-reading the South Australian Landscape

May 1 - June 21, 2026

Opening Event: May 2nd, 2pm

Sophie Hann revisits South Australia’s landscape and figurative painting tradition from 1926–2026. Engaging with Hans Heysen, Hann explores conservation, settler mythologies, and landscape as a contested space.

Hahndorf Academy Museum, Curated by Callum Docherty

Connecting Histories – Imagining Futures: Selected Works From the Collection

May 1 - June 14, 2026

Opening Event: May 2nd, 2pm

Discover significant historical and contemporary works from the Hahndorf Academy Museum Collection in this museum exhibition, curated by Callum Docherty. These rarely seen works by local and Australian artists reveal layered narratives, inviting reflection on Hahndorf’s past, present, and future through shared and contrasting perspectives.

India Flint - The Blood Herb: An Exploration of the Social History of St John's Wort

May 1st - June 14, 2026

Opening Event: May 2nd, 2pm

This exhibition by artist India Flint explores the social history of Hypericum Perforatum (St John’s Wort), a medicinal perennial often seen as a weed but traditionally used to treat various ailments, dye fabric and to make ink. Its yellow flowers, blooming in midsummer, trace European landscapes and settler routes in Australia and North America. 

Introduction to Ceramics

This eight-week introductory pottery course offers a welcoming and supportive environment to explore the fundamentals of working with clay. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience, the program provides a broad overview of key ceramic processes, from hand-building through to surface decoration and glazing.

Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques, including pinch, slab and coil construction, while developing their own creative approach to form and function. Time will also be dedicated to introductory wheel throwing, allowing students to gain hands-on experience on the wheel.

Across the course, students will create a series of functional and sculptural pieces, building confidence and technical skills at their own pace.

Eligibility

Ages 15+ welcome

Participants aged 15–17 must attend with a paying parent or guardian

What to Bring

An old towel, an apron, and closed-toe shoes

Details

Start date: May 4

Duration: 8 weeks

Class length: 2.5 hour per session

Bookings Essential | $365 PP

No prior experience is required. All materials provided. Suitable for total beginners or potters with a little experience.

Join master potter Guy Ringwood in our most popular class for beginners and intermediate ceramicists. Learn the fundamentals of clay wheel throwing, and finish your wares with expert guidance in shaping, trimming, painting and glazing ceramics.

Please bring a towel (we supply one but you may need more) and wear clothes you don’t mind being soiled with clay.

After School Ceramics Program (Ages 7–11 and 12-16)

This eight-week after school ceramics program, led by educator Suzanne Healy in our brand new Bukatila Studio, introduces young participants to the fundamentals of hand-building with clay. Designed for curious and creative students, the course explores three foundational ceramic techniques — pinch, slab and coil construction — while encouraging experimentation, observation and creative problem-solving.

Across the program, students will learn how simple clay forms can be developed into expressive vessels and sculptural objects. Beginning with pinch pot techniques, participants will explore form, balance and proportion before moving into slab construction to create geometric vessels and architectural designs. The following weeks focus on coil building, using the method to construct a larger, more ambitious form.

In the final sessions, students will paint and finish their fired works, exploring colour and surface to complete their pieces.

By the end of the course, each participant will have produced a small collection of ceramic objects and gained a strong foundation in traditional hand-building techniques.

Course Outline

• Weeks 1–2: Pinch pot construction

• Weeks 3–4: Slab-built geometric vessels

• Weeks 5–6: Coil building and larger forms

• Weeks 7–8: Painting and finishing fired pieces

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Details

Start date: May 14

Duration: 8 weeks

Class length: 1 hour per session

Bookings Essential | $200 PP

Age Groups

Ages 7–11: 4:00–5:00pm

Ages 12–16: 5:30–6:30pm

No prior experience is required. All materials provided.

Daryl Austin Foundlore

Paintings and Drawings 2023- 2026

June 20 – July 26

Exhibition Launch Saturday June 27 at 2pm

My latest series of paintings and drawings uses imagery which has been primarily sourced from both anonymous and personal family histories, primarily through vintage, vernacular photographs found in antique stores and flea markets. These everyday images now divorced from the original familial narrative are both familiar and strange. There is a democracy of understanding and feeling, a democracy of imagery between ourselves and the hidden narrators of these images.  The same tropes; an image of someone significant to another, a souvenir, a favoured place, our children, an event to be recorded, a touchstone. Though we recognise the tropes, the narratives which bind them have been lost but where narratives are curtailed, possibilities may be opened.

The original images are gradually recomposed, reconfigured and are replaced through the shifting process of painterly material transformation. A broken surface, a pixellated overlay, imagery lost and found. ghosted images, uncertainty, creating a spatial ambiguity of surface and pictorial distance where presence and absence, appearance and disappearance enforce uncanny imagery.

Daryl Austin BIO

Daryl Austin is an artist and lecturer, who has taught painting at Adelaide Central School of Art since 2001. His work hovers between realism and abstraction, exploring states of visual flux.

Born in Lincoln, England, Daryl Austin came to Australia and settled in Adelaide. He completed a Bachelor of Art (Visual Arts) at the University of South Australia in 1986 and began exhibiting widely across Australia. Through his work he is trying to create a tactile sense of form whilst searching for a way to integrate differing degrees and shifts of pictorial reality within the same image. 

Daryl was included in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1992. He has received numerous awards includng the EVA Award, Adelaide (1993), University of Adelaide – Vice Chancellor Portrait Commission [2003), Parliament of South Australia – President of Legislative Council Portrait commission (2005) and the State Library of South Australia, Portait commission (2019). He has won a number of art prizes including the Kernewek Lowender Art Prize (1993), Whyalla Art Prize (1997 and 2002), Victor Zhang Portrait Prize (2015) and the Heysen Prize for Landscape (2018). He has also been a finalist in other major prizes including the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in Sydney and the Black Swan Art Prize at the the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Daryl’s work is collected by the Art Gallery of South Australia, the University of Adelaide and Legislative Council, Parliament of South Australia in addition to several corporate collections in Australia. He is currently represented by GAGPROJECTS (Greenaway Art Gallery) in Adelaide.

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Rose Perkins, Taliesin Ryan, Marian Sandberg, Susan Wakefield

June 27 – July 26

Exhibition Launch Saturday June 27 at 2pm

This exhibition presents four artists exploring different affect systems.

Each practice begins from a distinct point of orientation - love, collaboration, construction, perception - and unfolds through its own visual language. Across these works, feeling operates as both material and method.

Together, they form a set of parallel approaches to understanding how experience is shaped, mediated, and made visible.

Rose Perkins

Flickers of intuition translate into shapes and colour.

Visions that feel true before they are named.

I paint to translate emotion into visual language, my own kind of synaesthesia. I draw on memories of joy, ease and play. The images are created in a single session to preserve immediacy. Those images later become oil paintings, or prints, as the work requires. The forms refuse symbols yet feel familiar, like memories you never had. In a culture that often scripts pain as profundity, I offer brightness and ease without apology, playful and ceremonial at once. Please linger and breathe. The pictures may change as you do.

Rose Perkins Bio

Rose Perkins is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and creates on Kuarna Land, South Australia. Her practice begins instinctively, using colour and shape to give form to feelings that arrive prior to language. Working from memories of happiness, she creates compositions in single sittings, preserving the energy and spontaneity of the emotion. These initial impressions are then translated into both prints and oil paintings on large canvases. Perkins is a recent BVA graduate from Adelaide Central School of Art for which she was awarded the Pro Hart Scholarship.

 Taliesin Ryan

Directly responding to the themes and concepts present in my graduating body of work, my paintings follow a lifelong love of the fantasy genre. Rituals and small moments of domestic living are brought to centre stage, representing the magic of slow work and the restorative power of community. References to ‘The Borrowers (1997)’ are integrated with characters from my own life, drawing particular attention to their scale, and the changed way we perceive this depicted world. Our altered perspective within the painting is comparable to the state of the transformed tiny characters. It is a change in state wherein both we and these characters, now see the world anew.

Taliesin Ryan Bio

Taliesin Ryan is a South Australian multidisciplinary artist working across the fields of painting, installation and sculpture. Her artful fictions respond to contemporary living, and through us, they examine make-believe's potential to change our experience of the world. Upon finishing her Bachelor of Visual Art in 2025, she was awarded with the Hahndorf Group Exhibition and the Hill Smith Art Advisory Award for painting. Currently she is undertaking further study in the Honours program at Adelaide Central School of Art.

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Marian Sandberg

In Small Language Model (2025), Sandberg imbues a glowing life-size recreation of herself with a year’s worth of words exchanged with ChatGPT in an effort to reclaim both the words and her own sense of self.

Marian Sandberg Bio

Marian Sandberg is driven by a need to feel human. Through multidisciplinary arts practice, she explores what being human feels like in a world where technological systems continually shift and normalise new ways of being. By creating quirky new technologies that sit at the edge of the societal norms they shape and uphold, Sandberg offers opportunities to consciously engage with and reshape the technologies that shape us.

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 Susan Wakefield

 My inability to express the depth of emotions I’ve felt within my romantic relationship through words has been a source of ongoing frustration. Using metaphorical associations has allowed me to process the ineffable through art, capturing what lies beyond language alone. Research in the fields of science, philosophy, psychology, literature and poetry becomes an investigation through which romantic love is processed, understood, and then communicated visually. Drawing from visual associations inspired by this research, I present emotional and theoretical ideas in material form. The devotional aspect of the materials I use is integral in representing ‘love’. Intricate textile elements such as sequins and beads demand steadfastness, reflecting the state love naturally induces

Susan Wakefield Bio

Susan Wakefield is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Land, South Australia. Her practice explores the emotional complexities of intimate relationships. Influenced by psychoanalytic thought and her own lived experience, she creates poetic visual works that attempt to give form to feelings that are difficult to articulate. Embracing her own fallibility, she uses art as a way of understanding herself and others.

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