Garden Instinct

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Projects

Stories and photography celebrating the gardening pursuits of 8 City of Tea Tree Gully community members

Garden Instinct mosaic image

Don’t forget to visit Gallery 1855’s Garden Instinct exhibition, a community project that celebrates 8 City of Tea Tree Gully residents, businesses and one school whose programs and lives have been enriched by their gardens. Their commitment and passion for your respective gardens, whether ornamental, business or produced based is acknowledged through a series of stunning photographic prints and heart-warming stories, all presented as part of SALA Festival 2017.

Also showing at Gallery 1855 are garden inspired artworks by:

Alison Main, Christine Pyman, Holly Marling
Lucy Timbrell, Michal Kluvanek, Rebecca Cooke
Robert Habel and Yve Thompson

Exhibition concludes: 16 September 2017

The doll redefined

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by Projects

Evocative and playful figurative forms

Curated by Annabelle Collett

This group exhibition is curated by South Australian visual arts dynamo Annabelle Collect and features artworks by more than thirty artists who are based in the City of Tea Tree Gully, metropolitan Adelaide, regional South Australia and interstate.

This exhibition explores the doll as a representation of the human figure, a cultural symbol or a curious object with an interesting story or tradition behind it. Over the years artists have turned to the doll as a medium of creative expression and they have often pushed the limits of doll design.

For The Doll Redefined some artists have produced new creepy or cuddly dolls. While others have transformed old dolls or assembled discarded doll components to create unconventional artworks that will inspire, delight or even perplex gallery audiences.

Artists in The Doll Redefined are Angela Bannon, Caitlin Bowe, Catherine Buddle,
Gary Campbell, Olga Cironis, Deb Drake, Melissa Gillespie, Tom Harris, Lynn Elzinga Henry, Karina Eames, Tash Evele, Melissa Gillespie, Leah Grace, Annabel Hume, Russell Leonard, Susie McMahon, Alison Main, Hanna Mancini, Maggie Moy, Samuel Mulcahy, Eija Murch-Lempinen, Helen Petersen, Vesna Petiq, Jenny Ramos, Koruna Schmidt Mumm, Jane Siddall, Jane Skeer, Ewa Skoczynska, Deb Sleeman, Trevor Smith, Niki Sperou, Wendy Springhall, Sarah Tickle, Kerry Youde and Annabelle Collett.

The Doll Redefined will be launched at Gallery 1855 on Sunday 15 April from 2-5pm and will be open to the public from Wednesday 18 April until Saturday 26 May 2018.

Bringing issues to life through art

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Projects

Under The Weather
Images of climate change from the streets

Exhibition duration: Ongoing

The photographs on display at Surrey Downs Community Centre show the risks posed by climate change through the lens of people experiencing homelessness.

The 12 photographs were produced as part of the Under the Weather project, a series of workshops and larger exhibition presented last May by Hutt Street Centre in the City of Adelaide.

The participants from Hutt St Centre’s Pathways to Education and Aged City Living programs were provided with cameras and taught the skills to photograph their immediate environment and their everyday experiences of rain, wind, storms and heat. They produced a wide range of images that revealed how the changing weather patterns are impacting on the homeless.

They produced a wide range of images that revealed how the changing weather patterns are impacting on the homeless.

Shoes and Can image by Salvador — ‘Shoes and Can’ by Salvador

It's a long way from the top by Karen — ‘It’s a long way from the topy’ by Karen

We hope this smaller exhibition at our community centre will encourage thoughtful conversations about climate change and a deeper awareness of living rough in a changing climate.

This exhibition was facilitated by the City of Tea Tree Gully through Gallery 1855. These 12 photographs are a part of the Under The Weather project. It was supported by The University of Central Queensland and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility’s (NCCARF) Vulnerable Communities Network, who all worked in collaboration with Hutt St Centre.

Gallery 1855 and Surrey Downs Community Centre would like to thank Danielle Every, Senior Research Fellow, The Appleton Institute, CQ University, Adelaide and Hutt St Centre for the loan of these 12 poignant images.

The Surrey Downs Community Centre is located at 6 Zanoni Cres, Surrey Downs SA 5126.

Telephone: (08) 8397 7423

Through Kaurna Miina

Posted on August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 by Projects

Paul Herzich

Kaurna Caves detail — Image: Paul Herzich, Kaurna Caves (detail), 2017, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120cm

The local landscape as seen through a Kaurna / Ngarrindjeri artist’s eyes

Exhibition Launch: 2pm, Sunday 25 June 2017

Opening speaker: Aunty Lynette Crocker
Senior Kaurna Elder

Artist floor talk: 10:30am – 12noon, Wednesday 5 July
RSVP ESSENTIAL by 5pm, 3 July
Email: arts@cttg.sa.gov.au

Exhibition Description:

Through Kaurna Mena (Through Kaurna Eyes) by contemporary Kaurna/Ngarrindjeri landscape architect and visual artist Paul Herzich is an exciting and new body of visual art that respectfully acknowledges and celebrates various aspects of the local landscape as seen through a Kaurna persons eyes.

One of Paul’s major works of art that he is well known for is the award winning Kardi Munaintya (Emu Dreaming) Tram Super Graphic. Nevertheless, Paul is truly pleased to showcase to you his artistic skills within his local community by exhibiting a collection of new works at Gallery 1855 that reflect his connections to Kaurna culture and his knowledge of the Kaurna landscape.

Works of his exhibition are expressed through a combination of materials like laser cut and bead blasted sheet metals suitable for gardens and entertainment areas. As well as hand-painted acrylic on canvas works which are suitable for indoor environments and are well worth a look.

Image: Paul Herzich, Across Kaurna Plains, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 1500 x 1050mm
Photo Credit: Ben Searcy

Exhibition concludes: 29 July 2017

Gallery 1855, 2 Haines Road, Tea Tree Gully

ANEW

Posted on March 13, 2018March 26, 2018 by Projects

Rethinking the ready made

Jane Skeer

Anew 3b — Image: Jane Skeer, Of Nature 3b (detail), discarded festival flyers
Photographer Grant Hancock.

Exhibition launch: 2pm Sunday 25 February 2018

Opening speaker
Christopher Orchard – Artist and Lecture, Adelaide Central School of Art

Exhibition concludes 29 March

Associated activity – using discarded materials, create an artwork alongside Jane on
14 and 15 March at Gallery 1855. Registrations essential. Email: niki.vouis@cttg.sa.gov.au

Jane’s artist statements:

My art practice is predominantly based in sculpture and installation, involving material in a state of flux. I work with the discarded materials of the everyday, making audiences re-think relationships with the familiar ready-made objects and their associated sensory/haptic memories.

Jane works with discarded materials of the everyday and presents them anew, making audiences re-think relationships with the familiar ready-made objects and their associated memories.

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Golden Grove Backyard Plant and Produce Exchange

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Projects

Exchange your surplus garden produce. Bring your plants, seeds, fruit and veggies

When: Saturday 17 March from 10am – 12.30pm
Where: Golden Grove Arts Centre, The Golden Way, Golden Grove SA
Cost: Free

Backyard plant and produce exchange is presented in conjunction with the City of Tea Tree Gully exhibition ‘Garden Instinct’, which celebrates our local gardeners and their passion for gardening.

REGISTRATIONS ESSENTIAL: http://bit.ly/2F8wlRG

Further information about this event contact: arts@cttg.sa.gov.au

Please note: Backyard plant and produce exchange is a cashless environment. Only fresh produce will be accepted. No preserves, processed or dried food products please.

Bloom

Posted on November 1, 2017August 1, 2019 by Projects

Celebrating Gallery 1855’s fifth anniversary

Amalgamated Bloom — Images (top left & clockwise): John Foubister Flowers, clouds and other lives (detail), 2016, oil on board, 61 x 81cm; Roseanne May, Under the Sakura (detail), 2016, pigment print on archival paper, 31 x 45cm; Mirjana Dobson, Synthetic Growth (detail), 2017, ceramic, glass, mixed media, 8 x 60 x 60cm

A presentation of ceramics, video creations, photography, jewellery, painting, pastels, textiles and glassware.

Works by Alana Preece, Alison Main, Ann Whitby, Annabelle Collett
Annette Dawson, Barbara Davis, Belinda Keyte, Brianna Burton, Bridgette
Minnuzzo, Cassidy Burton, Catherine Buddle, Cathy Brooks, Charlotte Guidolin
Christine Pyman, Dan Monceaux, Diana Mitchell, Eija Murch-Lempinen
Ellen Schlobohm, Emily Lauro, Emma Monceaux, Ervin Janek, Ewa
Skoczynska, Frances Griffin, Gary Campbell, Jack Ladd, Jessamy Pollock
Joanne Crawford, John Foubister, Judith Carletti, Judith Rolevink, Keith Giles Lee Cornelius, Margie Kenny, Melanie Fulton, Melissa Gillespie, Miriam Hochwald, Mirjana Dobson, Neal Powell, Nerida Bell, Niki Sperou, Roseanne May, Sally Goldsmith, Sally Heinrich, Sonya Moyle, Sophie Dunlop, Stefanie Giese, Sue Garrard, Susan Bruce, Susan Long, Talia Dawson, Victoria Paterson

Exhibition Launch: 2pm, Sunday 5 November 2017

Opening speaker: Kevin Knight
Mayor, City of Tea Tree Gully

On the same day
Gallery 1855 Open Day, 11am – 5pm
workshops | children’s activities | food | DJ and more

Exhibition concludes: 9 December

Whoopee, we won a Fringe Festival Weekly Award for Hills Edge Clay

Posted on April 3, 2017August 1, 2019 by Projects

Congratulations to all the artists!

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ART IN OUR CITY

Posted on June 5, 2016August 1, 2019 by Projects

Our Arts and Culture team have been working with a number of artists to develop a range of temporary and not so temporary outdoor artworks for Modbury. Look out for woven fences, urban jewellery, turf drawings and a number of murals. Over the next few weeks, we’ll publish project updates.

Here’s a few examples

Urban jewellery by Jessamy Pollock and Tea Tree Gully Youth.

Outside the Library, City of Tea Tree Gully Civic Centre, 571 Montague Road Modbury.

Jessamy is a contemporary jewellery and object designer/maker with a broad practice that includes community art and small public art projects. For this skills development and public art project she taught local youth to create and install a range of jewellery pieces for the outdoor environment.

Here’s some images from the workshops at Gallery 1855 Studio