Exhibitions

Anna Austin, Dorota Pomagalska, Faith Porter, Georgina England, Kristin Stone, Kylie Musgrave, Kristy Bennets, Lisa Ingerson, Maria Cmielewski, Margaret Ambridge, Michael Shrapnel, Nicholas Elliott, Ramona Chryssidis, Sharifah Sorayya Mahmood Martin Jamalullail, Sue Belperio, Susan O’Brien, Swee Wah Yew, Vartu Ertonga, Vivian Hall.

Healing the memory is the goal of creating a new and positive memory of what has been a difficult time in the last two years of the pandemic. The exhibition highlights the importance of work-life balance by using art as a way of refocusing and healing.

BRENTON HILL

What is left behind when everything is removed –

What or who holds and binds us together –

Relationships, memories, words, experiences, promises, forgiveness, Grace?

What is written in ink and blood that entangles or frees us?

These paintings, monotypes, drawings, and collages are distilled from reflections, emotions, and memories.

Hopefully, they speak to that elusive area of the heart and mind.

There is beauty out of ashes.

ALAN TODD

It is in our nature to create stories from the input of sensory information available to us. Some narratives are written down, some are carried by word of mouth and some exist only as ideas. This series of paintings is both myth and memory. My recollections of a river are clouded, faulty and selective with suggestions of wood, water and an existence long faded into history. The myth I am creating here is ephemeral in that the river and its history undergoes continual metamorphosis leaving only faint and increasingly indecipherable traces.

FRED BEEL // CHERYL DUNDAS // ALEX FRAYNE // JONATHAN KIM // FANG-YI KUANG // IRENE MESSIA // MONIKA MORGENSTERN // OZLEM YENI

BEYOND connects artists from South Australia, Queensland, and China, working in various media, and asks audiences to look beyond geographical and other barriers.

SALLY PARNIS

This body of work started when Australia was burning and has been making its way
through the upheaval and uncertainty of the pandemic. It traces gratitude for
regeneration, home, family and beauty.
Each work began with an iPad finger drawing or painting made from life. Many were made whilst hurtling along the highway in a car. The iPad drawings are like taking notes and the finger marks embody the time spent immersed in that drawing, searching for colour or form. Some images remain in their original state, others are re-explored as paintings. In many of the paintings, the subject has become the finger marks themselves. In others, quick line drawings about a loved one are filled with colour from memory and imagination.

GRETA LAUNDY //  SARAH MCDONALD // ROMANY MOLLISON // AMBER STOKIE // SONYA UNWIN

This exhibition was conceived through discussion by five landscape painters in their informal underground art group The Friday Fridas, with the intention of expanding their skills and pushing the limits in their own practice.

Inspired by the picturesque orchards, rolling hills and valleys of Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills – and with a nod to the historical landscape painting tradition a la Heidelberg school – each artist produced a body of work from the same location, some resolving their work in the studio, others completing work on site.

With five professional studios, the group’s ideas sometimes pollinate each other yet remain individual, bringing unique perspectives to local histories and storytelling.

ASLI CANPOLAT //  ESRA KAVCI OZDEMIR // FIRAT NEZIROGLU // HANDE KILICARSLAN // MAHIR KURTULAN // OZLEM YENI

Each artist creates a contemporary feel to the traditional Anatolian art techniques by utilising materials more associated with western approaches. Therefore, it is important not only to preserve these techniques but to give them a contemporary context for a modern world.

Mirjana Dobson, Joe Felber, Yasmin Grass, Georgina Mills, Margie Sheppard, Rosemary Warmington, Sheila Whittam

After a year or more of the pandemic restricting our ability to gather together, this exhibition is a celebration of our collective need to communicate and carries with it hope for the future.

THE MAIN GALLERY

The exhibition focuses on the fear of loneliness, isolation, and human struggles. In this series of paintings entitled ‘Another day, another lonely night’, I examine the culture and identity of living within urban society, focusing on fear of loneliness and isolation. I want to express vulnerability, anxiety, and our fragile existence in this modern world. I see my figures as outsiders, aliens or people forgotten by our society, which struggle to exist in this municipal environment. I try to catch my raw feelings about these issues, and my paintings have always been about human struggles and the urban experience.

Tom Phillips is a finalist in the Don Dunstan Foundation Award.

01 // 31 AUGUST 2021

GALLERY B // AUDIO VISUAL ROOM

The evil eye is the negative energy used to inflict harm upon others and an emblem to protect against bad vibrations. ‘Evil Eye’ explores many dichotomies, such as the gloom of the pandemic, the rape of the natural environment and the queer experience. Connecting these ideas together is this feeling of a continual curse and the absence of change and hope. It references Picasso’s Blue Period, Tom of Finland, Ophelia, Narcissus, Venus and the Virgin Mary. ‘Evil Eye’ is a fashion film experience through the process of deconstruction and reformation.

01 // 31 AUGUST 2021

A phenomenon is an event, and as such, our lives consist of moments, however small, that become phenomena through recording and interpretation. The painting, as with the film frame, can realise such moments, however inadequately, as image and text where neither tells the whole story while coexisting in the same space at the same time.  This exhibition is the result of several years of investigation into the possible relationships between image and text.

5 // 17 JULY 2021

An artistic collaboration occurs when two parties decide to work together to create something which is facilitated by an exchange of value.

Elizabeth and Linda have been studio partners for several years, formerly at Yellow Door Studio and currently at Praxis Art Studios. In 2020 a grant awarded by Richard Llewellyn Deaf and Disability Grants enabled them to embark on the creation of a body of collaborative work.

Essentially this prosses was an ongoing visual dialogue between the two artists, an exchange of ideas, conversations and experimentations. A variety of subject matters and motifs are woven through the works, they reflect on contracts of beauty and perceptions of identity from a female perspective. They strove to produce works that depicted their different painting styles synthetising to create unique pieces which are unified by the selected colour palettes.

31 MAY // 12 JUNE 2021

Zonta Club Adelaide Torrens Fundraising Exhibition by Ozlem YENI.

23 APRIL // 22 MAY 2021

Alan TODD, Elizabeth WOJCIAK, Fırat NEZIROGLU, Georgina MILLS, Hayal INCEDOGAN, Linda LEE, Nevin GUVEN, Olcay ATASEVEN, Ozlem YENI, Steven CYBULKA.

The Main Gallery is delighted to present Barbara KRAJEWSKA, her favourite subjects, portraits, nudes and landscapes with her initial technique, watercolour, and recent works with oil on canvas. 

5-30 JANUARY 2021