2023 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
NEW EXUBERANCE
New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design is a major touring exhibition project reflecting on current directions in textile practice through art, design and fashion. Curated by Meryl Ryan in consultation with the JamFactory team, the exhibition presents the work of more than thirty diverse multidisciplinary creatives and includes ten commissioned furniture pieces produced by designers associated with JamFactory.
Dates
17 February - 16 April 2023
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SIXTY: THE JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN CERAMICS 60TH ANNIVERSARY 1962-2022
Presented by Australian Design Centre in partnership with The Australian Ceramics Association, SIXTY: The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary 1962–2022 features twenty-two acclaimed ceramic artists from across Australia in a major touring exhibition to acknowledge this significant anniversary.
Dates
5 May - 9 July 2023
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GOLD: 50 YEARS 50 JAMFACTORY ALUMNI
Since JamFactory’s establishment in 1973, hundreds of highly acclaimed artists, craftspeople and designers have permeated its studios in their journey to successful and sustainable careers. On the occasion of JamFactory’s 50th anniversary, this exhibition celebrates the history and achievements of JamFactory’s Associate Program through the work of 50 of its most outstanding alumni.
Dates
21 July - 17 September
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Five Minutes with Amanda Diedzic
ERNABELLA ARTS: CERAMIC WARKA WIṞU 20 YEARS-KUTU (20 YEARS OF CREATING CERAMICS)
In celebration of 20 years of creativity at the Ernabella Arts Ceramic Studio, JamFactory and Ernabella Arts present a co-curated exhibition of new ceramic artworks by the art centre’s current artists. Founded in 1948, Ernabella Arts is Australia’s oldest continuously running First Nations art centre and is an important part of the lives of the Aṉangu people of Pukatja community.
Presented as part of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Dates
30 September - 3 December 2023
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GALLERY TWO
BUILT WORLDS
Built Worlds features the work of five contemporary ceramic artists who use clay to explore architectural themes and are inspired by the forms and aesthetics of our built environments.
Dates
17 February - 16 April 2023
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CERAMIC SOCIETY
In celebration of JamFactory’s 50th anniversary, Ceramic Society shines a light on the valuable practices and artistic contributions of the JamFactory Ceramics Studio through a selection of works by its current and former Studio Heads and Creative Directors. Displaying the immense talent and diversity of these makers, this exhibition charts the evolution of the JamFactory Ceramics Studio while presenting the ways in which these mentors have shaped the local and national ceramics community over the last 50 years.
Dates
5 May - 9 July 2023
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LEWIS BATCHELAR: REFRACT
In celebration of the talented Alumni from the JamFactory Associate Program, each year during the South Australian Living Artist Festival, JamFactory presents a solo exhibition of work by a selected early career artist. New Zealand-born glass artist Lewis Batchelar completed the Associate Program in the Glass Studio in 2016 and has since forged a rich glass-blowing and cold-working practice. In Refract, Batchelar presents a new collection of glass-based furniture, lighting and objects that focus on form and colour application. Drawing inspiration from the Fresnel Lens, Batchelar combines the refractive qualities of glass with a distinctly mid-century modern aesthetic in the creation of his furniture and lighting collection.
Dates
21 July - 17 September 2023
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JAMES TYLOR: MUDLIRNA
James Tylor is a multidisciplinary artist of Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa), and European ancestry. In his solo exhibition, Mudlirna Tylor showcases a new body of carved Kaurna objects placed within Southern Kaurna landscape imagery. It celebrates the living culture and design of the Kaurna community in South Australia, while also addressing the past misrepresentation of their culture by non-indigenous individuals in museums and galleries. By exploring the Kaurna culture and art from a Western perspective, this exhibition aims to challenge racial stereotypes and give proper recognition to their culture and signifies the revival of Kaurna cultural arts in a contemporary art context.
Presented as part of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Dates
30 September - 3 December 2023
COLLECT
KERRYN LEVY:
ATTENTION IS THE BEGINNING OF DEVOTION
Inspired by an essay/poem by the American poet Mary Oliver, South Australian ceramicist Kerryn Levy further explores her signature hand built decorative and functional vessels
Dates
17 February - 2 April
WALKA WALTJA NGANAMPA: THESE ARE OUR OWN DESIGNS
Walka Waltja Nganampa: These are our own designs showcases ceramics and textiles that serve to strengthen Anangu artists’ connection to their homelands. Through a series of workshops at the Iwiri Wellbeing Centre in Port Adelaide, senior Anangu cultural leaders have shared their inspiring stories rooted in homelands, culture and language with emerging Anangu artists. The exhibited works beautifully capture and convey these stories through intricate walka (marks) adorning textiles and ceramics.
Presented as part of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Dates
30 September - 3 December 2023
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Exhibition Catalogue
SUSAN HIPGRAVE: NATURE STUDIES
Paintings on porcelain by Sydney based artist Susan Hipgrave.
Dates
5 May - 4 June 2023
LITTLE CREATURES
Tjanpi Desert Weavers is an initiative started by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council with the goal to help support Aṉangu women with culturally appropriate employment in remote central communities. TDW works with over 400 women across the NYP Lands, which spans over 350,000km across the tri state boarder of SA, NT and WA.
The exhibition Little Creatures features a menagerie of woven animals and birds by 17 TDW artists using Tjanpi combined with brightly coloured raffia and wool. Many of these playful and quirky creatures are those you find wandering the vast desert mountains and flying high in the sky.
Dates
15 June - 16 July 2023
MATERIALS WITH MEANING
To coincide with JamFactory’s 50thAnniversary celebrations Materials with Meaning will feature works suggestive of materials detailed in the traditional anniversary gift giving list.
Dates
21 July - 20 August
ADELAIDE RAILWAY STATION
GILES BETTISON
Giles Bettison is an Adelaide-based artist renowned for his masterful approach to the ancient Venetian glass technique called murrini. This technique involves the careful layering and fusing together of hundreds of small glass canes, which are stretched then sliced to reveal an intricate, mosaic-like pattern within. In this luminous display, Bettison presents a series of glass objects, including vessels, sculptures and standing panels that bear the hallmarks of his unique murrini style. Some works resemble lace suspended in animation, while others simmer with the warm crimson and rich ochre of the South Australian landscape.
Dates
21 March - 20 June 2023
NINUKU ARTS: STORIES FROM KALKA
Since 2019, Indigenous arts centre Ninuku Arts has partnered with JamFactory's Glass Studio to create exquisite handcrafted glass artworks. Ninuku Arts is located in the remote community of Kalka in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia. The collaboration between the two organisations has produced pieces that blend contemporary glassmaking techniques with traditional Indigenous design. The partnership allows for an exchange of knowledge resulting in the creation of unique pieces that celebrate collaboration and respect for each other's cultures. This shows the potential for diversity and skills to collaborate and create something truly special.
Dates
29 June - 12 September 2023
SONYA RANKINE: SPACES BETWEEN
Ngarrindjeri, Ngadjuri, Narungga and Wirangu artist and weaver Sonya Rankine shares the truth of her country's history and the impact of colonization on traditional practices. Weaving is not just art for her, but a crucial practice for cultural revival and maintenance, an integral part of her identity as an artist.
Presented as part of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Dates
18 October 2023 - 22 January 2024
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SEPPELTSFIELD
MATERIAL METAMORPHOSIS
In a world grappling with the growing environmental impact of discarded plastic and waste materials, practical solutions to the impending crisis are sorely needed. While recycling is not necessarily the answer to our environmental concerns, the staggering surplus of waste across industry and domestic life has highlighted the need for innovation and creativity in finding ways to manage such materials more responsibly. Artists and designers play a key role in reshaping the public perception of waste by transforming previously discarded and devalued refuse materials into treasured craft and design objects. Inspired by their collective fascination with transforming waste, the nine artists featured in Material Metamorphosis are guided by the material possibilities of their chosen refuse in the creation of exciting new works of art.
Dates
25 February - 23 April
NEW EXUBERANCE
New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design is a major touring exhibition project reflecting on current directions in textile practice through art, design and fashion. Curated by Meryl Ryan in consultation with the JamFactory team, the exhibition presents the work of more than thirty diverse multidisciplinary creatives and includes ten commissioned furniture pieces produced by designers associated with JamFactory.
Dates
29 April - 2 July 2023
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BAROSSA BIEDERMEIER
Presented annually at JamFactory Seppeltsfield, this exhibition period is devoted to exploring contemporary South Australian artists’ responses to an aspect of the rich food and wine culture, history and natural landscape of the Barossa. In Barossa Biedermeier, seven JamFactory Alumni and Associates working in furniture and ceramics explore Biedermeier, a style of making that German and Prussian migrants brought to the Barossa in the early nineteenth century. The Biedermeier style significantly influenced the manufacture and design of furniture and domestic objects in the region, with many fine examples held within private, local and state collections. Isolated from its origins in Germany, the Barossa Biedermeier style flourished and evolved, taking cues from the Australian surroundings and the needs of the migrant settler community to develop unique characteristics in its own right. In focusing on the Biedermeier and asking artists to develop responsive new works, Barossa Biedermeier celebrates the significant contributions that German migrants made to the cultural and material heritage of the region through a distinctly contemporary lens.
Dates
8 July - 2 October 2023
LAYERS OF BLAK
Layers of Blak showcases more than fifty pieces of jewellery from eleven Victorian First Peoples artists – the creative outcome of the Koorie Heritage Trust’s second year of the Blak Design program. Blak Design is the first program of its kind nationally, marking a crucial step in recognising and reclaiming space for First Peoples design in the wider Australian design landscape. It aims to foster First Peoples cultural innovation in the Victorian design sector and provide a platform for nurturing sustainable, collaborative First Peoples design practices. Blak Design is presented by the Koorie Heritage Trust in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria and RMIT University, with support from the Ian Potter Foundation.
Presented as part of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
Dates
7 October - 26 November 2023
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Exhibition Catalogue
2022 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
BLANCHE TILDEN - RIPPLE EFFECT: A 25 YEAR SURVEY
This 25-year survey of contemporary jeweller Blanche Tilden’s work showcases the evolution of her practice from her time as an undergraduate to now. Developed by Geelong Gallery, and featuring historical and contemporary works loaned from public and private collections, Ripple Effect speaks to Tilden’s labour-intensive practice and her endless fascination with the essence, feeling and materiality of glass.
Dates
3 March - 1 May 2022
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2022 FUSE GLASS PRIZE
The FUSE Glass Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists. The winner of the FUSE Glass Prize will receive a cash prize of AU$20,000. In addition, the winner of the David Henshall Emerging Artist Prize will receive AU$2,500 cash and a professional development opportunity at JamFactory valued at a further AU$2,500.
Dates
13 May - 3 July 2022
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View the 2022 Finalists
Read the FUSE Glass Prize Catalogue
Media Release
Exhibition Pricelist
JAMFACTORY ICON 2022: JESSICA LOUGHLIN: OF LIGHT
JamFactory’s annual ICON exhibitions celebrate the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s leading and most internationally acclaimed glass artists. A studio glass artist for over twenty-five years, Loughlin creates ethereal kiln formed glass works that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. Known for her understated aesthetic, Loughlin takes her artistic cues from the vast, flat landscapes and salt lakes of South Australia and is particularly drawn to the inherent quietness and stillness of the land.
JamFactory ICON Jessica Loughlin: of light is a JamFactory touring exhibition.
Presented as part of the 2022 SALA Festival.
Dates
15 July - 18 September 2022
PETER WALKER: TANGLEWOOD
Peter Walker is a visual artist, furniture designer, surfboard builder, and an esteemed educator with an extending influence. Throughout Walker’s creative practice he encourages audiences to reflect on the nature of wood and its origins. In this exhibition he draws our attention to trees and their surrounding ecology in the Australian bush. Through a series of three-dimensional works, he combines sculptural composition with elements of design to explore the inherent abstract qualities of timber. Each chaotic tangle of fallen eucalyptus branches is spliced together using fine furniture techniques that blur the boundary between naturally formed occurrences and human-made structures. Peter Walker: Tanglewood documents the material poetry of a master craftsperson grounded in curiosity, dexterity and a commitment to making the impossible, possible.
Dates
30 September - 27 November 2022
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FRENCH EXCHANGE: REFLECTIONS ON THE JAMFACTORY BOISBUCHET SCHOLARSHIPS
Nestled in the lush countryside of Lessac, France, Domaine de Boisbuchet is Europe’s prime destination for innovative, hands-on workshops in architecture, design and art. With a focus on the integration of nature and the hand-made, Boisbuchet draws an international contingent of professionals and students seeking new ways of thinking, designing and making. Since 2017, JamFactory has partnered with Boisbuchet to provide a JamFactory Associate with the opportunity to travel and participate in Boisbuchet’s renowned Summer Workshops Program. French Exchange features recent works by the five previous recipients of the Boisbuchet Scholarship and offers their personal reflections on how their experiences at Boisbuchet have impacted the trajectory of their creative practices.
Exhibitors: Andrew Carvolth, Gretal Ferguson, Luca Lettieri, Jake Rollins and Dean Toepfer.
Exhibition Design: Claire Markwick-Smith.
Dates
9 December 2022 - 5 February 2023
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GALLERY TWO
KYOKO HASHIMOTO: BIOREGIONAL BODIES
Concerned with environmentally sustainable practices, Kyoko Hashimoto creates objects that address existential threats posed by globalised resource extraction and the materials that dominate urban experience: plastic, concrete and fossil fuels.
In Bioregional Bodies, the Japanese-born Australian designer presents contemporary jewellery made from materials found in the Sydney Basin bioregion.
Dates
3 March - 1 May 2022
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CONTINUUM
Continuum brings together different generations of Indigenous artists to share their stories and journeys though ceramic sculptural objects and vessels. The connection and practice of traditional culture has been challenging for many Indigenous people since colonisation, with the harsh and rigid life on Missions and concentrated efforts to eradicate culture and language causing significant cultural loss.
This exhibition acknowledges both the hardship that Indigenous people have endured since colonisation and the strength and resilience they have sustained for over 60,000 years. Through their ceramics practices, the exhibiting artists connect with their diverse cultural backgrounds, spanning from Arrernte Country in the Northern Territory, the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in north-west South Australia and Wailwan Country in north-east New South Wales.
Exhibitors: Alfred Lowe, Uncle Kevin ‘Sooty’ Welsh and Carlene Thompson and Anne Thompson from Ernabella Arts
Dates
13 May - 3 July 2022
DREW SPANGENBERG: DEPARTURE TO GRACELAND
Adelaide-based glass artist Drew Spangenberg creates stand-alone pieces with practical possibilities. In Departure to Graceland he is inspired by the colours and forms of the Italian design and architecture collective known as The Memphis Group, founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981. As a musician, Spangenberg feels a connection between playing music and the rhythm and coordination required in the glass blowing process. He arranges glass vessels into complementary compositions as he would a piece of music. In this exhibition he juxtaposes softer transparent works with the radical, funny and outrageous style of Memphis.
Presented as part of the 2022 SALA Festival.
Dates
15 July - 18 September 2022
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Media Release
Exhibition Insight
5 Minutes with… Drew Spangenberg
PEARLESCENT
Inspired by the rich cultural significance and symbolism of pearls throughout history, Pearlescent is a celebration of the timeless allure and luminous materiality of these naturally occurring ‘jewels of the sea’. This exhibition features the work of nine contemporary jewellers who harness the natural beauty and radiance of pearls in exquisitely distinctive ways. Featuring Danielle Barrie, Seb Brown, Bobby Corica (Sguscio Studio), Melanie Katsalidis, Katheryn Leopoldseder, Gabriella Luchini, Victoria Mason, Nina Oikawa and Julia Storey.
Dates
30 September - 27 November 2022
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
Central Craft is a not-for-profit organisation based in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) that supports and promotes traditional and contemporary craft and design practice in Central Australia. During 2021-2022, four previous and continuing JamFactory Associates from its glass, ceramics, and jewellery and metal studios journeyed to the Australian Centre to each undertake a 4-week residency at Central Craft. Straight from the Heart showcases the outcomes of these residencies.
Exhibitors: Katherine Grocott, Alexandra Hirst, Xanthe Murphy and Sarra Tzijan.
Dates
9 December 2022 - 5 February 2023
COLLECT
JESS DARE: SEEN. COLLECTED. KEPT
An exhibition about memory, family, moments shared, treasured, innocent, reflective, tender and brief. Through observation, collecting and remaking Dare processes, relates and connects with the world around her and soothes her fear of forgetting. Dare makes new treasures to keep and hold, long after the moment has passed.
Dates
3 March - 3 April 2022
EXPLORING FORM
A collection of works displaying real and suggested form through the use of ceramic, paper, metal and textiles. These works explore new and intriguing shapes - some strong and dynamic, others soft and sensual. Select pieces feature forms deconstructed and transformed into new works, while others imply forms in the shadows they cast from lively linear emphasis.
Exhibitiors: Emily Hamann, Jenna Lee, Asahi So, Mali Taylor, Philippa Taylor, Anna Varendorff
Dates
13 May - 12 June 2022
NASCENT GLASS
Nascent Glass showcases functional and decorative works new to JamFactory. The seven exhibiting artists explore the material qualities of glass through a range of techniques and finishes.
Exhibitiors: Elida Akie, Hamish Donaldson, Bailey Donovan, Noah Hartley, Tala Kaalim, Rita Kellaway, Jessica Murtagh
Presented as part of the 2022 SALA Festival.
Dates
15 July - 14 August 2022
WOVEN STORIES
A collection of woven fibre artworks by artists from four Arnhem Land Art Centres – Anindilyakwa Arts, Injalak Arts, Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts, and Numbulwar Numburindi Arts.
Presented as part of NAIDOC Week 2022.
Dates
3 July - 10 July 2022
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RITUALS OF COMING HOME
An exhibition celebrating the spaces, objects, and rituals we associate with home. Featuring Andrew Eden, Daniel Emma, Joslin Koolen, Ivana Taylor, Real Non-Real and James Walsh.
Dates
30 September 2022 – 30 October 2022
SERVE
Serve… a delicious display of unique plates, platters and dishes.
Exhibitors: Araceli Adams, Ayesha Aggarwal, Stephen Bird, Teval Guner, Nicola Hart, Bonnie Hislop, Chimerical Homewares, Annabel Hume, Geoff Mitchell and Debbie Pryor.
Dates
9 December 2022 - 8 January 2023
ADELAIDE RAILWAY STATION
CLAIRE BELFRAGE
This exhibition explores Belfrage’s fascination with the industry of nature, its rhythm and energy, and the contrasting dramatic and delicate sensibilities found in the details of the landscape. Divided into the five aesthetic themes of Ironbarks, Lichen and Moss, Understory, Majesty and Monolith, the sculptures have been arranged so that each historic phone booth brings into focus a singular scene and experience of the natural world. This intimate and distinct framing echoes the rapidly shifting views that a traveller experiences from within a moving train as it travels across and through the landscape, encouraging the viewer to find beauty and wonder in the abstracted patterns, shapes and textures glimpsed fleetingly in nature.
Clare Belfrage is an Adjunct Professor with UniSA Creative at the University of South Australia.
Dates
30 November 2021 - 4 April 2022
IVANA TAYLOR: LINES OF AFFECTION
South Australia-based object artist and designer Ivana Taylor presents a selection of continuous textile loop sculptures that explore her fascination with the rhythmic and meditative process of wrapping and the expressive presence of a single line. Taylor’s soft sculptures bring her playful observation of how interlacing, weaving, knotting and stitching can interact with and reconfigure rigid forms and structure.
Presented in partnership with Renewal SA.
Dates
5 April 2022 - 27 June 2022
TIM EDWARDS: PERCEPTION DECEPTION
Millicent-born and Adelaide-based artist Tim Edwards creates works with visual complexity that play with depth of field and dimensionality. A glass artist renowned for his linear vessel or vessel-like sculptures, Edwards came to the medium by way of ceramics. During his career spanning four decades, Edwards has refined a bold sense of design and surface manipulation. In Perception and deception Edwards creates a series of topographical wooden sculptures displayed as a sequence of mini installations in the Adelaide Railway Station’s historic photobooths. This body of work defines, describes, and distorts our perception of form in two and three-dimensional space.
Dates
28 June – 27 September 2022
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CHANTAL HENLEY: FOR THE ANCESTORS
Chantal Henley is a textile designer and weaver from South East Queensland and has connections to the Nughi and Mununjali language groups. The coastal area of South East Queensland also known as Quandamooka country which includes Moreton Bay Islands, Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) / Curragi (South Stradbroke Island) and crosses over to the mainland up to the mouth of the Brisbane River. Henley is based in Tarntanya/Adelaide her work showcases her painted Yunggarie (swamp reed) designs and woven adornments with feathers and sea shells.
For the Ancestors pays homage to the people that walked before us, the people that looked after and cared for the land. We acknowledge the intergenerational teaching and learnings from elders so that we now have that understanding and respect to pass on.
This show also features carved objects by Kaurna and Narungga man Jamie Goldsmith.
Dates
11 October – 19 December 2022
HONOUR FREEMAN: LOST FLAVOUR
Lost Flavour explores the seemingly insignificant and disposable – a recurring theme in Freeman’s work. The porcelain casts of used chewing gum act like talismanic totems or trophies from the urban landscape. The small single use plastic pieces are both beautiful and slightly repellent in their used and discarded state.
Dates
20 December 2022 - 21 March 2023
SEPPELTSFIELD
AUSTRALIANA
Australiana is a collection of ceramic functional ware and figures containing visual motifs that are inherently Australian. Continuing the history of handmade Australian pottery, which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, contemporary studio artisans create ornaments and practical homewares which contain artistic interpretations of native flora, fauna and folklore. Together they celebrate our daily rituals and reoccurring affinity to the bush.
Dates
19 February - 15 May 2022
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GATHER: SIX CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GLASS ARTISTS
Coinciding with JamFactory’s 2022 FUSE Glass Prize and the UN International Year of Glass, Gather is an assembly of six masterful South Australian contemporary artists working in the medium of hot glass. The term ‘gather’ in glass blowing, refers to the placing of molten glass on the end of a pipe or punty for the further development of a glass project. This selection of six artists, who vaunt different styles of working with hot glass, have furthered the heritage and importance of this material on a global scale.
Exhibitors: Clare Belfrage, Marcel Hoogstad Hay, Gerry King, Nick Mount, Madeline Prowd, and Brenden Scott French.
Dates
21 May - 24 July 2022
DEBORAH PRIOR: ON THE THIRD DAY
South Australian artist Deborah Prior transforms recycled textiles into craft objects that explore bodily agency, Feminist modes of production, and the personal and social histories of domestic work. She meticulously knits, stiches, and unpicks threads to address the deeply anxious state of attempting to live well on an un-well planet
Grindell’s Hut Artist Residency program is supported by Country Arts SA in partnership with the Department for Environment and Water, through the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges
Dates
30 July - 25 September 2022
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JAMFACTORY ICON 2022: JESSICA LOUGHLIN: OF LIGHT
JamFactory’s annual ICON exhibitions celebrate the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s leading and most internationally acclaimed glass artists. A studio glass artist for over twenty-five years, Loughlin creates ethereal kiln formed glass works that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. Known for her understated aesthetic, Loughlin takes her artistic cues from the vast, flat landscapes and salt lakes of South Australia and is particularly drawn to the inherent quietness and stillness of the land.
The exhibition is accompanied by Jessica Loughlin: from here, a 183-page hard-cover monograph co-published by JamFactory and Wakefield Press, featuring essays by Julie Ewington and Tina Oldknow.
JamFactory ICON Jessica Loughlin: of light is a JamFactory touring exhibition.
Presented as part of the 2022 SALA Festival.
Dates
8 October - 11 December 2022
Manymak girri’ ngarraku
Something good that I can use
First Nation people have been this country’s foremost designers and craftspeople. Since time immemorial Yolŋu have been making objects for everyday use that are functional, sustainably made and beautiful. Yolŋu hand skills and knowledge of the material they use is unparalleled. This exhibition is designed to showcase how Yolŋu objects and designs can be incorporated into the everyday lives of Australians. Manymak girri’ ngarraku features new and traditional utilitarian objects by artists from Bula’bula Arts alongside works made in collaboration with JamFactory’s Furniture Studio.
Dates
17 December 2022 - 19 February 2023
2021 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
IN-HOUSE
The University of South Australia’s fourth biennial research exhibition to be hosted at JamFactory,
In-House delves into the social, functional and cultural value of chandeliers as a source of inquiry and research, investigating the object’s significance in a contemporary context.
Exhibitors: Matt Huppatz, Stephen Atkinson, Chris Boha, Mark Kimber, Michael Kutschbach, Peter Schumacher, Peter Walker, Hanah Williams, Joanna Majchrowska + Ron Corso, Julie Collins + Louise Bird + Melanie Cooper.
Dates
26 February - 26 April 2021
LIVING TREASURES: MASTERS OF AUSTRALIAN CRAFT: PRUE VENABLES
Prue Venables is the ninth artist in the Australian Design Centre’s Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft, a series of solo exhibitions which honours eminent and highly respected craftspeople, celebrating their mastery of skill, their achievements, their contribution to Australian craft, and the unique place they occupy in the national design culture.
Dates
7 May – 18 July 2021
JAMFACTORY ICON 2021: KUNMANARA CARROLL
JamFactory’s annual Icon exhibition celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Concerned with passing on cultural knowledge Luritja, Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara artist Kunmanara Carroll’s paternal homeland was an unwavering source of inspiration and the recurring subject within his work. Based in Pukatja and working from Ernabella Arts, Mr Carroll's captivating paintings and ceramics merge his deep knowledge of country with his beautifully intricate yet minimalist style.
Links
Buy the Kunmanara Carroll Monograph
Read the Ngaylu Nyanganyi Ngura Winki (I Can See All Those Places) Exhibition Insight
Kunmanara Carroll and the Australian Tapestry Workshop Photo Diary
ANNIEBELL MARRNGAMARRNGA: NGALKUNBURRIYAYMI (YAWKYAWK DREAMING)
Anniebell Marrngamarrnga is a senior Kuninjku artist from Maningrida in western Central Arnhem Land. She is renowned for her large-scale, flat fibre depictions of her late-husband’s Dreaming of the Yawkyawk. Symbolising the female water spirits who live in freshwater streams and rock pools in west Arnhem Land, Yawkyawks are often closely compared to mermaids, depicted with the torso of a woman and the tail of a fish. This is Anniebell’s first solo exhibition.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi 2021 with Maningrida Arts.
Dates
14 October - 24 November 2021.
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YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS: NURNA YAARNA ILTJERRAMA. NURNA KUTATHA MPAARAMA! (WE CAN'T REST. WE ALWAYS/CONTINUE MAKE!)
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (YAA) are renowned for their vibrant, playful sculptures made from recycled wool and natural dyes. For this exhibition, artists from YAA have transferred their stitching skills from soft sculptures to create a collection of fashion garments in their inimitable quirky style.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi 2021.
Dates
14 October - 24 November 2021.
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GALLERY TWO
POP MART
An evocation of an ordinary supermarket, Pop Mart presents verisimilitude works by artists working in ceramics, glass and yarn. While considering the mimetic qualities of craft-based media, the artists in this exhibition play with multiples and scale, irony and nostalgia, and the intersection of luxury and essential. These familiar yet subversive objects provide a commentary on our consumer world, still haunted by a global pandemic.
Exhibitiors: Kenny Pittock, Emma Young, Sofia Nuskie and Phil Ferguson (ChiliPhilly).
Dates
26 February - 26 April 2021
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Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with.. Kenny Pittock
Media Release
CRAFTED TECHNOLOGY
Crafted Technology brings together a juxtaposed group of contemporary craft and design practitioners who utilise digital processes to explore the complex ways in which the technological evolution has impacted both their craft-making and their role as designers/makers.
Exhibitors: Jane Bamford, Bin Dixon-Ward, Leah Heiss, Zhu Ohmu and Jess Taylor.
Dates
7 May - 18 July 2021
ZOE GRIGORIS: SOCIAL MEDEA
Zoe Grigoris presents her first solo exhibition, which is inspired by the nostalgic ideals associated with jewellery and the ways that memory slips and transforms. The exhibition will feature a collection of jewellery and large-scale objects that bear the hallmarks of Grigoris’ whimsical aesthetic, including her ornately embossed patterns, romantic feminine forms and painterly surfaces.
Dates
23 July - 19 September 2021
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MARUKU ARTS: MINYMANGKU PUNU PALYANI (WOMEN DOING PUNU)
A celebration of the traditional practice of punu, this exhibition features bowls incorporating diverse stories and designs by senior and emerging Anangu women in different communities.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi 2021.
Dates
14 October - 24 November 2021.
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Exhibition Insight
STEPHANIE JAMES-MANTTAN: SORT SOL
Head of JamFactory’s Ceramic Studio Stephanie James-Manttan is a ceramic artist who creates sculptural porcelain objects that challenge light and balance by changing the hard visual exterior of the forms to the soft, rhythmic repetition of weaving. In this exhibition, James-Manttan explores challenging new ways of making that enhance the visual effects of her mark-making.
Dates
10 December 2021 - 13 February 2022
Links
Five Minutes with… Stephanie James-Manttan
SEPPELTSFIELD
2020 JAMFACTORY ICON TOM MOORE: ABUNDANT WONDER
JamFactory’s Icon series is an annual solo exhibition celebrating the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in craft-based media. Our 2020 Icon exhibition celebrates the work of Tom Moore. In this exhibition Moore, through his hybridized creatures and installations, critiques the current human condition and the impact humans have wrought on our environment.
Dates
6 February 2020 - 25 April 2021
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
Buy Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder book
Buy Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder Colouring book
CERAMICA MAXIMA
Ceramica Maxima is a flamboyant showcase of colour, shape, form, pattern and texture as explored by nine contemporary Australian ceramic artists. Heavily decorated, haphazardly glazed and layered with colour, the artworks in this exhibition celebrate the painterly aesthetic and underscore the unusual beauty that can be found in decorative maximalism and deliberate imperfection.
Exhibitors: Ryan Hancock, Claire Johnson, Tessy King, James Lemon, Bruce Nuske, Luke Ryan O'Connor, Kirsten Perry, Nadia Robertson and Ebony Russell.
Dates
1 May – 11 July 2021
Links
Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with.. James Lemon
Media Release
FORTIFIED
A robust blending of South Australian talent, Fortified combines the new guard of JamFactory artists and designers with the next generation of producers evolving from and challenging the Barossa Valley’s long-held identity. Dedicated to the reinvention of craft, Fortified is the collaborative pairing of 12 craft-based practitioners and producers.
Exhibitors: Danielle Rickaby, Angela Giuliani, Jordan Gower, Danielle Barrie, Ivana Taylor, Dean Toepfer, Matt Pearson, Alison Smiles, Drew Spangenberg, Ashlee Hopkins, Alexandra Hirst and George Criollo.
Dates
17 July - 10 October 2021
Links
Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with... Alison Smiles and Yetti and the Kokonut
DJARRAMI (MIRROR, GLASS)
Yolngu artist Djirrirra Wunungmura presents a series of bark paintings depicting traditional dreaming stories. For this exhibition, Wunungmurra will be working with JamFactory’s Glass Studio to produce a body of new work of paintings on glass that will be presented alongside her bark paintings.
Dates
16 October - 13 December 2021
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Exhibition Insight
NGAYUKU KAMIKU NGAYUKU TJUKURPA (MY GRANDMOTHER, MY STORY)
Selinda Davidson presents a series of paintings translated onto glass vessels, the result of her mentorship with renowned South Australian glass artist Clare Belfrage in JamFactory’s Glass Studio. Davidson, from Ninuku Arts, is known for her muted palette and beautiful linear patterns. Her new glass works are displayed alongside paintings by her grandmother, Molly Miller.
Dates
16 October - 13 December 2021
MADE/WORN: AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY
From intimate pieces to large scale works, the contemporary jewellery in Made/ Worn explores the act of making and how jewellery is worn on the body, telling stories that start with the artist and continue through the life of the object worn or experienced, creating new resonances with owners into the future.
Dates
17 December 2021 - 20 February 2022
COLLECT
VITREOUS
Vitreous... small in scale, large in presence, intriguing in texture & form. New works by emerging & established glass artists.
Exhibitors: Alex Hirst, Joy Levin, Alex Valero, Janice Vitkovsky, Ayano Yoshizumi, Emma Young, Madisyn Zabel.
Dates
7 May - 6 June 2021
SURFACE STILLS BY ULRICA TRULSSON
Ceramic artist Ulrica Trulsson explores nature’s shifting shapes and surfaces in her signature stoneware and porcelain vessels.
Dates
26 February - 28 March 2021
REKKAN / TAMUWU / NYINAKATI
(SIT/SIT DOWN)
Rekkan / Tamuwu / Nyinakati (sit/sit down) showcases the vitality and exuberance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander textile design by interpreting Indigenous fabric onto contemporary upholstered furniture. For this exhibition, three Indigenous textile artists from diverse art centres across the Northern Territory have collaborated with local South Australian furniture and product designers to produce a series of chairs that are upholstered in the artists’ fabrics.
Dates
14 October - 24 November 2021.
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2020 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
BROACHED GOULDER
Broached Goulder is a collection of limited edition furniture by Jon Goulder that recounts, through artisanal making, a deep connection between a fourth-generation Australian furniture maker and the generations that came before him. Each piece in the collection riffs on a different design period covered by one or another member of the Goulder family and these styles have been synthesized with Goulder’s contemporary craftsmanship.
Dates
28 February - 3 May 2020
FUSE GLASS PRIZE 2020
The FUSE Glass Prize finalist exhibition showcases 18 outstanding glass artists. This biennial non-acquisitive prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists is Australasia’s richest prize for glass. The prize provides a platform for artists to push themselves and their work to new limits.
Exhibitors: Madisyn Zabel, Alexandra Hirst, Ayano Yoshizumi, Erica Izard, Hamish Donaldson, Billy James Crellin and Bastien Thomas, Hiromi Tango, Jeremy Lepisto, Kate Baker, Madeline Prowd, Clare Belfrage, Cobi Cockburn, Penny Byrne, Nadege Desgenetez, Yusuke Takemura, Wendy Fairclough, Marcel Hoogstad Hay, Kathryn Wightman.
Dates
15 May - 5 July 2020
Links
Media Release
Media Release - 2020 FUSE Glass Prize Winners Announced
Exhibition Insight
Videos
2020 FUSE Glass Prize
2020 FUSE Glass Prize Winners Finalist Exhibition Tour
2020 FUSE Glass Prize Winners Announcement
2020 JAMFACTORY ICON TOM MOORE
JamFactory’s Icon series is an annual solo exhibition celebrating the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in
craft-based media. Our 2020 Icon exhibition celebrates the work of Tom Moore. In this exhibition Moore, through his hybridised creatures and installations, critiques the current human condition and the impact humans have wrought on our environment.
Dates
9 October - 22 November 2020
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
Buy Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder book
Buy Tom Moore: Abundant Wonder Colouring book
GENERATE 2020
Generate 2020 is the tenth and final curated exhibition of work by the last cohort of artists and designers to complete the two-year JamFactory Associate training program. This exhibition celebrates the next generation of furniture and object designers, ceramic artists, glass practitioners and jewellers.
Exhibitors: Michael Carney, Emma Cuppleditch, Katherine Grocott, Noah Hartley, Calum Hurley, Tala Kaalim, Jordan Leeflang, Xanthe Murphy, Bart Rentmeester, Ivana Taylor and Ayano Yoshizumi.
Dates
4 December 2020 - 14 February 2021
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Exhibition Insight
GALLERY TWO
MEL ROBSON: INTERSECTIONS AND BOUNDARIES
Alice Springs-based ceramic artist Mel Robson presents a new body of ceramic works that explore the idea of place through the lens of mapping and cartography. Using material, form, surface and mark-making, Robson investigates the meaning of both ‘home’, ‘sense of place’ and how we position ourselves in the landscape.
Dates
28 February - 3 May 2020
MODERN MYSTICISM
Modern Mysticism is a group exhibition of contemporary jewellers and ceramicists whose work explores the imagery and ritual materiality of idols, icons, totems, talismans, symbols and religious practices.
Exhibitors: Peta Armstrong, Juan Castro, Emma Homfrey, Vikki Kassioras, Tara Lofhelm and Vipoo Srivilasa.
Dates
15 May - 5 July 2020
PETA KRUGER: USED
Adelaide based artist and jeweller Peta Kruger redefines the waste matter of our material culture in her new body of needlepoint works. Otherwise discarded soft plastics are imbued with new value as Kruger responds to our current global plastic crisis.
Dates
24 July - 27 September 2020
KRISTEL BRITCHER: COALESCENT: DESIGN AND ARTEFACT
Enamoured by the seemingly endless possibilities of glass design, South Australian artist Kristel Britcher uses her solo exhibition, Coalescent: Design and Artefact, to explore historical glass aesthetics and processes while engaging in a dialogue between past style and contemporary design.
Dates
4 December 2020 - 14 February 2021
COLLECT
STEPHEN BOWERS
South Australian artist Stephen Bowers presents a series of new works inspired by the flora found within his local neighbourhood alongside a collection of existing iconic works.
Dates
28 February - 29 March 2020
Links
Five Minutes with Stephen Bowers
Buy Stephen Bowers: Beyond Bravura
WRAPPED, WOVEN AND WOUND
Contemporary female artists present a mix of sculptural, decorative and functional pieces that explore the use of interlaced or wrapped components.
Exhibitors: Dianne Ungukalpi Golding, Cynthia Burke, Ivana Taylor, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Julie Anderson, Michele Morcos, Siân Boucherd.
Dates
15 May - 14 June 2020
MAKING SPACES
Contemporary ceramic works presented alongside intricate lino prints illustrating the studios in which they were created.
Exhibitors: Connie Augoustinos, Ebony Heidenrich, Ashlee Hopkins, Kerryn Levy and Georgia Cheesman.
Dates
9 October - 8 November 2020
SALUTE!
An exhibition of exquisite one-off drinkware pieces - perfect for the festive season.
Exhibitors: Exhibitors: Llewelyn Ash, Lewis Batchelar, Clare Belfrage, Kristel Britcher, Ben Edols & Cath Elliott, Tim Edwards, Tom Moore, Nick Mount, Madeline Prowd, Bettina Smith and Drew Spangenberg.
Dates
4 December 2020 - 3 January 2021
SEPPELTSFIELD
JAMFACTORY ICON 2019
ANGELA VALAMANESH: ABOUT BEING HERE
Inspired by the symbiosis between science and poetry Angela Valamanesh’s artworks elicit intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation as she manipulates seemingly familiar botanical and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways.
Dates
15 February - 26 April 2020
Links
Buy Angela Valamanesh : About Being Here book
Videos
Jam Factory Icon 2019 Angela Valamanesh
AUTUMNAL COLOURS
Autumnal Colours showcases the exquisite beauty of the changing of the seasons and the colours of our natural landscapes as captured by artists who share their interpretations across the mediums of ceramics, glass, jewellery, metal and textiles.
Exhibitors: Tara Shackell, Giles Bettison, Holly Grace, Vicki Mason, Cathy Franzi, Melinda Young, Greybox Design, Sonya Moyle, Gordon Studio, Maningrida Arts and Tiwi Designs.
Dates
2 May - 26 April 2020
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with Melinda Young
OBSESSED: COMPELLED TO MAKE
Obsessed: Compelled to Make explores
the preoccupations that drive the creative process, providing an insight into the working practices of fourteen artists from across Australia.
Exhibitors: Gabriella Bisetto, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Honor Freeman, Jon Goulder, Kath Inglis, Laura McCusker, Elliat Rich and James B Young (Elbowrkshp), Kate Rhode, Oliver Smith, Vipoo Srivilasa, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Louise Weaver and Liz Williamson.
Dates
26 September - 22 November 2020
Links
Media Release
SERA WATERS: DOMESTIC ARTS
In Domestic Arts, Sera Waters delves into her own family history to unravel the complexities of settler colonial home-making and the contemporary significance of traditional home-crafts. Large-scale sculptures and intricate embroideries are used to re-imagine the familial home, celebrating the knowledge and creativity of ‘women’s work’, while interrogating its complicity in forms of colonisation and privilege.
Dates
11 December 2020 - 31 January 2021
2019 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
CONCRETE: ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE
This exhibition explores innovative ways that concrete is being used by 21 Australian artists, designers and architects. It provides an extensive cross-section of current creative practices, modes of thinking and relationships to this essential material.
Exhibitors: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Adam Goodrum, Alexander Lotersztain, Anna Horne, Baldasso Coretese Architects, Candalepas Associates, Christine Cholewa + Deb Jones (CHEB), Convic, Durbach Block Jaggers, Edition Office, Elvis Richardson, Glen Murcutt, Inari Kiuru, Jamie North, Kyoko Hashimoto + Guy Keulemans, Megan Cope, Rhiannon Slatter, Sanné Mestrom, Smart Design Studio, Tom Borgas, WOOD Melbourne.
Dates
1 March - 28 April 2019
Links
Media Release
Buy CONCRETE: Art Design in Architecture book
Five Minutes with Tom Borgas
MATERIALS MATTER: A BAUHAUS LEGACY
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, JamFactory presents a new exhibition highlighting the influence of the Bauhaus School and its philosophies on JamFactory and the thriving
craft and design culture.
Exhibitors: Frank Bauer, Gabriella Bisetto, Lilly Buttrose, Liam Fleming, Susan Frost, Kay Lawrence, Christian Hall, Ebony Heidenreich, Jake Rollins, and Lex Stobie.
Dates
17 May - 14 July 2019
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
News - Susan Frost residency
2019 JAMFACTORY ICON ANGELA VALAMANESH: ABOUT BEING HERE
JamFactory’s Icon series is an annual solo exhibition celebrating the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in craft-based media. Valamanesh’s artworks elicit intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation, as she manipulates seemingly familiar botanical and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways.
Dates
26 July - 22 September 2019
Links
Media Release
Buy Angela Valamanesh : About Being Here book
Videos
Jam Factory Icon 2019 Angela Valamanesh
REGINA PILAWUK: PUNGUNGI MARRGU (OLD AND NEW)
A celebrated innovator, Regina Pilawuk Wilson extends her repertoire in this solo exhibition, presenting new collaborative ceramic interpretations of Ngan’gikurrungurr traditional Walipan and Syaw (fishnets), Ngangi (message stick) and sun mats. Wilson has worked closely with ceramic artist Ashlee Hopkins and JamFactory to realise these works.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Dates
12 October - 1 December 2019
GALLERY TWO
GUNYIBI GANAMBARR: MOTHER AND CHILD
The inspired maverick of contemporary Yolngu art Gunybi Ganambarr pushes the boundaries by working alongside Stephen Anthony from JamFactory’s Furniture Studio to combine opposing materials to express the meeting of cultures. He has also explored new industrial processes with JamFactory’s Metal Studio to produce beautifully engraved metal works in serial form.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Dates
12 October - 1 December 2019
GENERATE 2019
This curated exhibition of work by Associates completing JamFactory’s Associate Program is an annual showcase of outstanding work and new ideas. Celebrating JamFactory’s role in nurturing emerging artists and designers this exhibition is a launch pad for these artists’ businesses as they make the transition into professional practice.
Exhibitors: Hamish Donaldson, Gretal Ferguson, Hannah Vorrath-Pajak, Scott Van Manen, Sean Prentis, Sarra Tzijan, Luca Lettieri
Dates
13 December 2019 - 9 February 2020
LUMINOUS: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN PENDANT LIGHTING
Luminous features pendant lighting by eight contemporary Australian artists, makers and designers. The exhibition showcases dynamic designs that have been conceived across a range of different materials, forms and processes.
Exhibitors: Adrian Lawson, Alex Fitzpatrick, Barry Magazinovic, Darren Fry, Geoff Cameron Marshall, Nicholas Fuller, Porcelain Bear, Ruth Allen.
Dates
1 March - 28 April 2019
Links
Media Release
SYNERGY
Synergy showcases cross-medium collaborations that have taken place as a result of JamFactory connections, past and present. The exhibition looks at how new processes and designs come to fruition by pushing boundaries and working with new materials and across skill-sets.
Exhibitors: Andrew Carvolth x Damon Moon, Daniel To and Emma Aiston (Daniel Emma) x Yuro Cuchor, Jon Goulder x Liam Fleming, Jordan Gower x Danielle Lo, James Howe x Thomas Pearson, JamFactory Ceramic Studio x Waringarri Aboriginal Arts.
Dates
17 May - 14 July 2019
COLLECT
CONNIE AUGOUSTINOS: KERAMOS
Informed by her hellenic heritage and recent residency in Greece, we celebrate the exciting hand-built works of emerging ceramic artist Connie Augoustinos in her first solo exhibition
Dates
26 July - 29 September 2019
PENNY EVANS: DHIGARAA GALGAA BAA (PLACE OF MANY BIRDS)
For this solo exhibition, Penny Evans has developed endearing sculptural dhigarra (birds) which evoke her Country and respond to its desecration and exploitation through land clearing, mining and cotton farming.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Dates
12 October - 1 December 2019
SARAH ROTHE: STRENGTH IN FRAGILITY
JamFactory’s celebrated alumna Sarah Rothe creates a new body of work in her signature material of titanium. Her bold, wearable pieces reference science ction, historical fashion and an array of arthropods.
Dates
13 December 2019 - 16 February 2020
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with Sarah Rothe
CLAY
Exhibitors: Ebony Heidenreich, Tania Rollond Stephanie James-Manttan, Mel Lumb, Jane McKenzie.
Location JamFactory Adelaide Collect
Dates
1 - 31 March 2019
PROCESS
Nicole Ayliffe, Lewis Batchelar, Drew Spangenberg, Bastien Thomas, Zoe Woods.
Dates
17 May - 16 June 2019
FROM LEFT FIELD
Alice Potter, Liam Fleming, David Pedler, Andrew Carvolth.
Dates
26 July - 25 August 2019
WANAPARI - IN A LINE, FOLLOWING ONE ANOTHER
Ceramic jewellery produced by emerging female artists from Ernabella Arts during a series of JamFactory workshops, alongside ceramics
and paintings by senior Ernabella artists.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Exhibitors: Jayanna Andy, Alison Milyika Carroll, Roxanne Carroll, Atipalku Intjalki, Marceena Jack , Imitjala Pantjiti Lewis, Vennita Lionel, Yurpiya Lionel, Nicole Rupert, Renita Stanley, Tjariya Nungalka Stanley, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Anne Thompson, Carlene Thompson, Marissa Thompson, Margaret Inyika Wells.
Dates
12 October - 10 November 2019
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
SURFACE
A group exhibition of artists across multiple disciplines who use texture and surface treatment in their work.
Exhibitors: Makiko Ryujin, Sam Gold, Kath Inglis, Thomas Pearson, Zoe Grigoris.
Dates
13 December 2019 - 15 January 2020
SEPPELTSFIELD
ATRIUM
KINDER, KÜCHE, KIRCHE
Kinder, Küche, Kirche features artwork by contemporary female artists and craft practitioners in response to the historical folk crafts and cultural traditions of the German migrant women who settled in the Barossa Valley.
Presented as part of the SALA Festival.
Exhibitors: Joy Day, Makeda Duong, Ilona Glastonbury, Ursula Halpin, Dianne Hedger, Brigitte Jeanson, Brigitta Keane, Rita Koehler, Deborah Prior, Rose-Anne Russell, Kylie Waters.
Dates
13 July - 15 September 2019
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
Five Minutes with Deborah Prior
TAMWORTH TEXTILE TRIENNIAL: OPEN HOUSE
Tamworth Textile Triennial showcases the best of textile art from across Australia. Open House the third triennial celebrates the open-ended, porous nature of textiles practice today.
Exhibitors: Sally Blake, Ema Shin, Julie Robinson, Meredith Woolnough, Rebecca Mayo, Joy Ivill, Treahna Hamm, Carol McGregor, John Brooks, Raquel Ormella, Noongar Doll Makers, Gomeroi Gaaynggal, Jeanette Stok, Sue Ryan Ghost Nets.
Dates
20 September - 24 November 2019
PICTURESQUE
The traditions of Australian landscape painting are rede ned by a diverse range of artists who share their interpretations of this genre through ceramics, glass, jewellery
and textiles.
Exhibitors: Belinda Reid, Brenden Scott French, Gerry King, Hermannsburg Potters, Judith Pungarta Inkamala and Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka, Jeffery Mincham, Ninuku Artists Carol Young, Cassaria Young-Hogan, Nyanu Watson, Phyllis Watson, Ruth Fatt and Samuel Miller, Sally Blake, Thomas O’Hara, Zoe Grigoris and Zoë Veness.
Dates
29 November 2019 - 9 February 2020
Links
Exhibition Insight
WALKA WARU: NINUKU KALAWATJANGA UNGU PAINTA (WARM WORKS: NINUKU PAINTING INSIDE GLASS(
This collaborative project explores new materials and forms with artists from Ninuku Arts. The artists who normally paint on canvas transfer their skills and colourful designs to glass for the first time.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Exhibitors: Tara Brady, Selinda Davidson, Jimmy Donegan, Ruth Fatt, Samuel Miller, Nyanu Watson, Phyllis Watson, Rita Watson, Carol Young and Cassaria Young-Hogan.
Dates
12 October - 10 November 2019
Links
Media Release
Exhibition Insight
2018 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
ADELAIDE BIENNIAL
Extending across Adelaide’s cultural precinct, North Terrace, the 2018 Adelaide Biennial will be presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Anne & Gordon Samstag Musuem of Art at the University of South Australia, JamFactory and Santos Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Delivering new and unexpected visions in mediums such as photography, painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image. JamFactory presents Kirsten Coelho and Maria Fernanda Cardoso.
Location
JamFactory Adelaide Gallery One and Two
Dates
2 March - 6 May 2018
FUSE GLASS PRIZE
The FUSE Glass Prize finalist exhibition showcases 18 outstanding glass artists. This biennial non-acquisitive prize for Australian and New Zealand glass artists is Australasia’s richest prize for glass. The prize provides a platform for artists to push themselves and their work to new limits.
Exhibitors: Kate Baker, Verity Burley, Mel Douglas,
Mark Eliott, Liam Fleming, Brenden Scott French, Holly Grace, Jessica Loughlin, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, Tom Moore, Nick Mount, Kathryn Wightman, Lewis Batchelar, Madeline Cardone, Hannah Gason, Ursula Halpin, Thomas Pearson, Bastien Thomas.
Dates
18 May - 8 July 2018
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
17 July - 17 September
Links
Catalogue
Media Release
2018 JAMFACTORY ICON
CLARE BELFRAGE: A MEASURE OF TIME
JamFactory’s Icon series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in craft-based media.
Clare Belfrage has maintained a vibrant studio glass practice and is known for her distinctive artworks in which complex patterns of fine glass lines trace her forms. Inspired by repetitious patterns found in nature and the woven lines of textiles, Belfrage is particularly drawn
o the layered rhythms that mark growth, change and the passing of time.
Presented as part of the 2018 SALA Festival
Dates
28 July - 16 September 2018
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
22 September - 25 November 2018
Links
Media Release
Buy Book
Education Kit
On Tour - Q&A with Clare Belfrage
ADELAIDE MODERN
Adelaide Modern invites six Contemporary Designers and six teams of UniSA students and JamFactory Furniture Studio Associates to respond to six pieces of mid-century furniture produced by six South Australian manufacturers.
This exhibition continues the partnership between JamFactory and the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia.
Exhibitors: Takeshi Iue, Enoki, Caren Ellis, Studio Gram, Peter Walker, and Williams Burton Leopardi; JamFactory Furniture Studio Associates and University of South Australia design students; TH Brown, Noblett, Macrob, Kerby, Fler and Council.
Curatorial and Project Team
Brian Parkes, Joanne Cys, Margaret Hancock Davis, Andrew Wallace, Peter Walker, Jon Goulder and Anna Brown.
Dates
5 October - 2 December 2018
Links
Catalogue - Essay
Catalogue - The Past
Catalogue - The Present
Catalogue - The Future
Media Release
GALLERY TWO
GENERATE 2018
This annual exhibition of work by JamFactory second year Associates showcases future directions in ceramics, glass, furniture and jewellery.
Exhibitors: Ashlee Hopkins, Kerryn Levy, Ebony Heidenreich, Dean Toepfer, Andrew Carvolth, Danielle Lo, Billy Crellin, Bastien Thomas, Aubrey Barnett and Renato Perez.
Dates
14 December 2018 - 10 February 2019
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
16 February - 1 May 2019
ANDREI DAVIDOFF: THE GOLDEN CALF
Ceramic artist Andrei Davidoff presents a series of vessels that transform mundane utilitarian forms into objects of ominous intent. Guided by the Biblical tale of the Golden Calf, a false idol deemed unworthy of worship, Davidoff investigates the tension between an object’s high art cultural value and its everyday social.
Dates
18 May - 8 July 2018
Links
Media Release
LESA FARRANT: AN (UN)NATURAL SELECTION
Using slip cast porcelain’s mimetic qualities, Lesa Farrant creates delicate specimens of indigenous and introduced plants. Cast from the flotsam and jetsam she collects from her local beac, Port Willunga, these works are a meditation on the Anthropocene.
Presented as part of the 2018 SALA Festival
Dates
28 July - 16 September 2018
Links
Media Release
BOTANICA IMMORTALUS
An exhibition of five contemporary jewellers whose work features botanical forms cast in precious metals.
Botanica Immortalus explores the way in which flowers and foliage can be transformed from living entities whose beauty is fleeting and ephemeral to inanimate objects that are eternal and unchanging
Exhibitors: Shimara Carlow, Yuko Fujita, Michelle Kelly, David Neale and Olivia Spark.
Dates
5 October - 2 December 2018
Links
Media Release
COLLECT
MADELINE PROWD": REFRACT, REFLECT
Glass artist Madeline Prowd presents a body of new work exploring pattern, repetition and density of simple line work while highlighting the optical qualities of the material. In her practice, Prowd utilises the layering of clear glass canes to bend light and the perception of underlying patterns.
Dates
14 December - 28 January 2018
Links
Media Release
VESSEL
Curated by the 2018 Adelaide Biennial curator Erica Green and JamFactory’s CEO Brian Parkes this exhibition reflects the calibre and diversity of South Australian craft and design practitioners.
Exhibitors: Clare Belfrage, Jess Loughlin, Jeff Mincham, Deb Jones, Gerry Wedd, Gabriella Bisetto, Helen Fuller, Nick Mount, Bruce Nuske, Honor Freeman.
Dates
26 February - 29 March 2018
JUNKO MORI: VISITING NATURE
As part of the residency by this world leading metalsmith JamFactory presents a selection
of new and loaned artworks.
Dates
5 April - 3 May 2018
SURFACE REVISIONS
Responding to an invitation from JamFactory to work collaboratively, sculptors Anna Varendorff and Alana Wilson have combined two materials very different in nature - brass and ceramic - and created a group of pieces that use light as a common focal point.
Exhibitors: Anna Varendorff and Alana Wilson.
Dates
28 July - 26 August 2018
SEPPELTSFIELD
ORMOLU
In an inspired contemporary interpretation of ormolu, silversmith Julie Blyfield and ceramicist Kirsten Coelho have collaborated to create a suite of porcelain containers with intricate silver lids and an accompanying collection of jewellery.
Exhibitors: Julie Blyfield and Kirsten Coehlo
Dates
5 October - 5 November 2018
SYLVIA NEVISTIC, SONYA MOYLE,
KRISTEL BRITCHER
This exhibition sees three artists working within three different areas at JamFactory create works that respond to their three mediums; glass, jewellery and ceramics.
Sylvia Nevistic / Jewellery / Alumnus & Studio Tenant (Adelaide)
Sonya Moyle / Ceramics / Studio Tenant (Seppeltsfield)
Kristel Britcher / Glass / Alumnus, Glass Studio Program Manger & Studio Tenant (Adelaide)
Dates
14 December 2018 - 6 January 2019
THINKING OUTSIDE
Thinking Outside brings the outside in. Presenting a collection of Australian furniture, ceramics and textiles this exhibition alludes to notions of the outdoors, from the natural world to the dense urban scape.
Exhibitors: Lilly Buttrose, Stephanie James-Manttan, Max Hunt, Matt Pearson, Tania Rollond, Marcel Sigel for GoHome, Matt Taylor, Willy Weston.
Dates
5 May - 9 July 2018
Links
Media Release
IN THESE HANDS (MARA NYANGANGKA)
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF ERNABELLA ARTS
An exhibition celebrating Australia’s two oldest craft and design centres - Sturt Gallery & Studios
(1941) and Ernabella Arts ( 1948).
A Sturt Gallery touring exhibition.
Exhibitors: Kunmanara Carroll, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Unurupa Kulyuru, Yurpiya Lionel, Imiyari (Yilpi) Adamson, Katrina Tjitayi, Rachael Mipantjiti Lionel, Carlene Thompson, Rupert Jack, Thomas Ilytjari Tjilya, Janelle Muwitja Nakamarra Thompson, Derek Jungarrayi Thompson, Elizabeth Dunn, Alison Milyika Carroll, Lynette Lewis, Tjariya Stanley, Amanyi Haggie, Atipalku Intjalki, Langaliki Lewis, Margaret Winton, Nancy Thompson, Niningka Munkuri Lewis.
Dates
1 December 2018 - 28 January 2019
Links
Media Release
2017 EXHIBITIONS
GALLERY ONE
STEEL: ART DESIGN ARCHITECTURE
STEEL art design architecture showcases 29 outstanding projects by contemporary Australian artists, designers and architects. It represents a cross-section of current creative practices and relationships to this versatile material. This exhibition comprises of a 16 venue national tour from 2017 - 2020.
This exhibition has been researched, developed and toured with assistance of grants funds from the Australian Federal Government through Visions of Australia.
Exhibitors: Alison Jackson, Anthill construction, Barry Gardner, Brodie Neill, BVN, Christian Hall, CODA Studio with Mark Philips Architecture, Collins Turner, Cox Architecture with Walter Brook and Hames Sharley, Craig Hiron, Dan Lorrimer, DesignbyThem, Geo rey Nees, Gunybi Ganambarr, Kensuke Todo, Korban Flaubert, Lorraine Connelly Northey, Mari Funaki, Matthew Harding, Maureen Faye Chauhan, Misho and Associates, Oliver Smith, Sabine Pagan, Sean O’Connell, Seaton McKeon, Simon Cottrell, Sue Lorraine, Tony Hobba Architects, and Trent Jansen for Tait.
Dates
17 February - 23 April 207
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
20 May - 23 July 2017
Links
Visit STEEL website
Buy STEEL Book
View STEEL Education Kit
RESOLVED: JOURNEYS IN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN
Presented by the Australian Design Centre in collaboration with Workshopped, a design organisation nurturing and supporting designers in bringing their products to the marketplace. This major design exhibition showcases the winning designs of the past 12 annual ‘Workshopped’ exhibitions.
Exhibitors: Matt Conway, Adam Cornish, Fukutoshi, Gary Galego, Alex Gilmour, Adam Goodrum, Chris Hardy, Marc Harrison, Zoe MacDonell, Ben McCarty, Kate Stokes and Bic Tieu.
Dates
5 May - 9 July 2017
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CATHERINE TRUMAN: NO SURFACE HOLDS
Catherine Truman: no surface holds is an intriguing and diverse solo show of objects, installation, images and film that investigates Truman’s 20 years of research and collaborative practice at the nexus of art and science. This exhibition is the first time that Truman’s collaborative practice with artists and scientists is presented as a whole.
Presented as part of the 2017 SALA Festival.
This exhibition has been supported with a Contemporary Touring initiative Grant from The Australia Council for the Arts.
Dates
21 July - 17 September 2017
JamFactory at Seppeltsfield
16 December 2017 - 11 February 2018
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CONFLUENCE: CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER DESIGN
Confluence brings together contemporary design in an exhibition that celebrates strong partnerships and collaborative practices. Featuring Nicole Monks Marlu Collection alongside celebrated works of the Yolngu weavers of Elcho Island with Sydney based design company Koskela.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Exhibitors: Nicole Monks and Verity Burarrwanga, Margaret Dhorrpuy, Beth Djarrupi Wunungmurra, Sharon Djalambarr, Ruth Lulwarriwuy, Judy Manany, Mavis Warrngilna Ganambarr, Megan Yunupingu.
Dates
29 September - 26 November 2017
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GALLERY TWO
GENERATE 2017
This annual exhibition of work by JamFactory second year Associates showcases future directions in ceramics, glass, furniture and jewellery.
Exhibitors: Jake Rollins, James Howe,
Pantea Roostaee, Thomas Pearson, Cole Johnson, Emma Young, Danielle Barrie, Antonia Field, Madeline McDade, Connie Augoustinos, Jordan Gower.
Dates
8 December 2017 - 18 February 2018
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ALTERFACT: SCAPE
Ceramic artists Alterfact ( Ben Landau and Lucile Sciallano) , Roderick Bamford and Kenji Uranishi, look to urban-scapes and architecture to create works contemplating the tension between built and broken, natural and unnatural, intention and chance.
Dates
17 February - 23 April 2017
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NORTHCITY4
Curated by Laila Marie Costa and Anna Gray this exhibition highlights the intensely productive, varied and creative practices cultivated by a community of jewellers and artists within the shared work space of Northcity4 in Brunswick, Melbourne.
Exhibitors: Laila Marie Costa, Pamela Camille, Anna Davern, Cass Partington, Jin Ah Jo, Emma Grace, Marcelle Thomas, Amanda Croatto, Kathleen O’Neil, Georgie Brooks, Anna Gray.
Dates
5 May - 9 July 2017
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ALEX VALERO: A GREY MIRROR
Since his first encounters with glassblowing in his studies at the University of South Australia, Alex Valero has been fascinated by the material and the challenges of working with it. Valero’s practice is known for its strong conceptual drive whilst technically, he is inspired by science and aims to expand the sculptural possibilities of the material, pushing and combining traditional techniques in unconventional ways.
Dates
21 July - 17 September 2017
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COLLECT
MELAA THALDIN (STANDING IN THE SEA)
Artists from Mornington Island Art Centre (MIArtS) in collaboration with renowned artist Grace Lillian Lee, present pieces inspired by strong cultural ties to their island home and the sea.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Exhibitors: Allira Charles, Shonnelle Thompson, Ezekiel Dick, Aiden Kohler, Lynniesha Charles, Dolly Loogatha, Ethel Thomas, Elsie Gabori Dibirdibi, Amanda Jane Gabori, Grace Lillian Lee, Netta Loogatha, Amy Loogatha.
Dates
29 September - 26 November 2017
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KAREN CUNNINHAM:
QUANTUM COLOUR: CAPTURING THE MOVEMENT OF LIGHT
Creative Director of JamFactory’s Glass Studio, Karen Cunningham collaborates with the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) and Centre for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) to explore nanoparticles as a primary constituent of how light may be subverted or augmented in hand-made glass art.
Dates
8 December 2017 - 11 February 2018
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RITUAL OF TEA
A selection of emerging and established ceramic and metal artists create objects that they use in their daily tea ritual.
Exhibitors: Susan Frost, Ghostwares, Alison Jackson, Sylvia Nevistic, Bruce Nuske, Sophia Nuske, Yoko Ozawa, Studio Kyss and Ulrica Trulsson.
Dates
5 May - 4 June 2017
GEMS
This collect exhibition sees 8 contemporary jewellers both emerging and established explore the use of gems in their work.
Each artist has responded to the brief in their own way resulting in a varied and surprising outcome, that highlights the beauty and uniqueness of these natural wonders.
Exhibitors: Zoe Grigoris, Kate Sutherland, Regine Schwarzer, Courtney Jackson, Sylvia Nevistic, Suzi Zutic, Melanie Katsalidis, Anna Varendorff.
Dates
21 July - 20 August 2017
WARRINGARRI
Peggy Griffiths and Jan Griffiths of Waringarri Aboriginal Arts in Western Australia present exciting new ceramic works created during and following a residency within JamFactory’s Ceramics Studio alongside their striking paintings.
Dates
11 October - 12 November
SPATIAL REACH
A collection of new work by Furniture Designer Rhys Cooper and Glass Artist Brenden Scott French.
Dates
8 December 2017 - 7 January 2018
SEPPELTSFIELD
ONE + THREE: THE DISTRACTED OBJECT
One + Three seeks to demonstrate the dialogue that is possible between four artists in one space, and is an ongoing acknowledgement of the ever-growing JamFactory family.
Curated by Phil Hart, this ruminative yet playful exhibition showcases Hart’s works, alongside fellow ceramicists Jo Crawford, Maria Parmenter and Alison Smiles, and collectively explores the abstraction and subversion of what could be perceived as the ‘standard’ domesticated pottery object.
Exhibitors: Phil Hart, Jo Crawford, Maria Parmenter, Alison Smiles.
Dates
5 August - 1 October 2017
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CLAY STORIES
Clay Stories: Contemporary Indigenous Ceramics from Remote Australia is a survey exhibition of contemporary works of art that have been created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in remote parts of Australia. Presented as part of 2017 TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art, the exhibition presents both sculptural and vessel-based works representing the artists’ connection to country.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Exhibitors: Tjulapi (Alison Milyika) Carroll, Elizabeth Dunn, Rupert Jack, Lynette Lewis, Carlene Thompson, Derek Jungarrayi Thompson, Thomas Tjilya, Jimmy Kenny Thaiday, Ellarose Savage, Theresa Beeson, Nephi Denham, Philip Denham, Abe Muriata, Emily Murray, Sally Murray, Eileen Tep, Hayley Coulthard, Judith Pungkarta Inkamala, Rona Rubuntja, Rahel Ungwanaka Dawn Wheeler, Jock Puautjimi.
Dates
7 October - 10 December 2017
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