JAMFACTORY ICON 2024 JULIE BLYFIELD: CHASING A PASSION
JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Julie Blyfield is a jeweller and metalsmith whose ever-evolving practice is inspired by her research into botanical specimens, historical silver collections and the rich diversity of the Australian landscape. Predominantly working in silver and copper, Blyfield interprets botanical motifs using the traditional metalsmithing techniques of chasing and repoussé to create intricately patterned jewellery and objects.
JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Passion is inspired by Blyfield’s experiences of the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest in far-north Queensland. In developing work for this exhibition, Blyfield has drawn on the marine collections of the South Australian Museum as well as resources she collected during her visit. Serving as a poetic metaphor for life and loss in a time of increasing environmental peril due to climate change, Blyfield’s masterful renderings immortalise the natural beauty of vulnerable species of delicate corals and threatened ancient forests.
JamFactory Seppeltsfield
Seppeltsfield, SA
5 October 2024 – 2 March 2025
Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre
Mount Gambier, SA
8 August 2025 – 26 October 2025
Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Griffith, NSW
7 November 2025 – 18 January 2026
Australian Design Centre
Darlinghurst, NSW
5 February 2026 – 11 April 2026
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
Toowoomba, QLD
8 May 2026 – 2 August 2026
Cairns Art Gallery
Cairns City, QLD
12 September 2026 – 22 November 2026
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum
Gladstone Central, QLD
6 February 2027 – 10 April 2027
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Ballarat, VIC
14 May 2027 – 15 August 2027
NEW EXUBERANCE: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN TEXTILE DESIGN
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.
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Redcliffe Art Gallery
Redcliffe, QLD
3 August 2024 – 18 November 2024
Cairns Art Gallery
Cairns, QLD
30 November 2024 - 25 January 2025
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum
Gladstone, QLD
7 February 2025 - 29 March 2025
Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie yapang
Booragul, NSW
12 April 2025 - 25 May 2025
Australian Design Centre
Darlinghurst, NSW
3 July 2025 - 16 August 2025
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery
Port Macquarie, NSW
29 August 2025 - 30 November 2025
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery
Port Pirie, SA
12 December 2025 - 1 March 2026
Fabrik Arts and Heritage
Lobethal, SA
13 March 2026 - 10 May 2026
JAMFACTORY ICON 2022
JESSICA LOUGHLIN:
OF LIGHT
JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed glass artists and is renowned for her highly innovative technical approach to kilnformed glass. She creates ethereal kilnformed glass artworks that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space. She 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. A studio glass artist for over twenty-five years, Loughlin has dedicated her practice to the pursuit of capturing the transient qualities of light and the quiet sense of contemplation it provokes in the viewer.
JamFactory Icon Jessica Loughlin: of light is a JamFactory touring exhibition assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Jessica Loughlin acknowledges the support of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet through an Arts South Australia Grant.
Design Tasmania
Launceston TAS
8 November 2024 – 12 January 2025
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery
Port Pirie SA
24 January 2025 – 23 March 2025
Millicent Regional Gallery
Millicent SA
4 April 2025 – 1 June 2025