Central Studios

24/11/2022

Huge congrats to Studio member, Sera Waters, in another amazing show @ AGSA! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥

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Double flower spoiling occurred tonight 🌸 thanks to and Art Gallery of South Australia]] at the special launch of Future Traditions, my 2020 Guildhouse Fellowship show. They’re so beautiful!!! Truly, I should be giving everyone flowers! I still can’t believe I’ve been so supported in my semi-madness to bring together almost 70 components in gallery 8, borrowing from numerous collections (including and and Art Gallery of South Australia]]) and videos, tear offs (with and ), my own collection, wallpapers, artworks, books and more! Thank you for steering this wild ride with grace and calm, and to for finding all the solutions. The Art Gallery of South Australia]] team, in all of its machinations, have been so supportive and encouraging in seeing this project realised. And of course none of this could have been even conceived of without the generous enabled by the 🙏 📸 by 🙏

16/11/2022

Hi Everyone

I’d like to invite you to a studio sale that I am having on Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th of December.

There will be loads of work available and it will also be great just to check in with everyone and say hi.

If you can't make it but have your eye on a particular piece, send me a message and I will see whether I still have it.

Anyway, hopefully I will see you there but if not have a great Christmas.

All the best

Dan
On Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th of December
From 10am to 3pm
At Central Studios, 78 King William Street, Kent Town 5067

03/11/2022

Posted • The final quilted mammoths and space junk being realised for Future Traditions which opens Nov 26 at .adelaide 🌏 🚀

18/10/2022

Congratulations Datsun Tran!

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I’m very pleased to find out that I’m a finalist in the Heysen Prize for Landscape for my work ‘Passing through oceans of time’.

We went camping in the Southern Flinders Ranges not too long ago, the highlight for me was walking through The Narrows in Alligator Gorge. I felt the weight of time, being surrounded on both sides by such an old formation as we walked along the ravine.
 
Here we were, passing through something that had formed millions of years ago, long before our genetic ancestors had even evolved into our species. And here the formation will remain, long after a time when our species will have faded away.

‘Passing through oceans of time’
Alcohol ink on mulberry paper
2022

11/10/2022

Posted • Glover Prize Finalist 2022

Artist: Jason Cordero
Title: The Resolution of an Absent Day
Oil on linen
122 x 122 cm

From the artist:

With travel being impossible over the last two years, in absentia I have once again been drawn to the immutable Cradle Mountain. A person's perceptions of place are entirely subjective and independent from the object of interest and are subject to the currents of their culture and personal experience. Be it a broad cultural understanding or a personal refection, the experience of an environment is a construct and proximity to that environment does not necessarily affect that experience. Though an individual may gain pleasure from being in a place that has meaning for them, absence does not lessen their understanding and narrative of that place; all is shifted, twisted, constrained, and expanded to fit that understanding and narrative.

Visit our website to view all of the 2022 Glover Prize Finalists: https://www.johnglover.com.au/tag/2022/.

10/10/2022

08/10/2022

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Luci The Giant Caterpillar (Lucia limbaria) has rolled into SA Museum front lawns for .caterpillars and
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There is an augmented reality experience next to Luci, see the herding ants, her caterpillar friend and Chequered copper butterfly
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Thanks to Shem and Dan for install and for the op! projects ishere
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It’s there for one week, get on down if you’d like to meet her 🙌🏼

01/10/2022

Posted • Adelaide Central School of Art and Adelaide Central Studios are both turning 40 this year. and we would love to celebrate this milestone with you.

Join us on Saturday 8 October at the Burnside Ballroom from 7pm for a birthday celebration. There will be a live DJ (current Honours student Georgia Button) and catered party food and a drink included in the event ticket. Head to the link in our bio to purchase a ticket for this event. We hope you see you there.

image: courtesy Adelaide Central School of Art archives

16/09/2022

You are invited to the 40th birthday celebration of Adelaide Central Studios and Adelaide Central School of Art.

13/09/2022

Posted • It's been ages since I last posted, but I have been busy working - this one's nearly done and at 150x300cm or so, It's the largest work I've done.

13/09/2022

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Adelaide Central School of Art and Adelaide Central Studios are both turning 40 this year. and we would love to celebrate this milestone with you.

Join us on Saturday 8 October at the Burnside Ballroom from 7pm for a birthday celebration. There will be a live DJ (current Honours student Georgia Button) and catered party food included in the event ticket. Head to the link in our bio to purchase a ticket for this event. We hope you see you there.

image: courtesy Adelaide Central School of Art archives

06/09/2022

Congratulations Datsun! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Posted • I’m feeling very humbled to be a finalist in the $25,000 Maritime Art Prize this year. The theme for 2022 was ‘humanity and the sea’, and as a child from a family of people who had to escape their home country, this theme is very important to me.
 
I think a lot of people forget about the humanity of people whose only option is to seek asylum in another country. The refugee becomes a number and an ‘issue’, and what has happened to asylum seekers can only happen to ‘others’.
 
But one of the strongest impulses we all share, is the will to survive. To keep yourself and your loved ones safe. So imagine the desperation one must feel to have to make the decision to leave everything they have ever known and escape across the oceans.
 
And while the seas can be treacherous, for some it is a dangerous path that must be undertaken in the hopes of delivering them ultimately to safety and freedom.

‘The humanity burns bright’
Alcohol ink on mulberry paper
2022

25/08/2022

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So pleased and honoured to have been selected for SALA Festival’s 25th anniversary exhibition SILVER, an exhibition which celebrates SALA’s significant milestone and the legacy of South Australia’s iconic festival. And I got to pull out one of my fave works from the archives, celebrating megafauna, giant eucalypts, green minerals and histories of the south east: Bunganditj Country 💚

Curated by Carollyn Kavanagh, this exhibition features South Australian artists Roy Ananda, Kirsten Coelho, Margaret Dodd, Tsering Hannaford, Sue Kneebone, Juanella McKenzie, Ian North, Christopher Orchard, Tom Phillips, Sonya Rankine, Darren Siwes, James Tylor, Angela Valamanesh, Sera Waters, and Laura Wills.

This exhibition will be on display from 19-31 August at the Queens Theatre, Adelaide.


Pictured L-R: Sera Waters, South Australian cross-sections (in three parts); mega-fauna, red-stump & finite vastness, 2013, hand-dyed linen, beads, felt, cotton, velvet, kangaroo fur, wood veneer, trims, card, 80 x 80 x 25 cm
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09/08/2022

Posted • ρraxis ARTSPACE Gallery] ‘Becoming Invisible?’
Opens Thursday 25 August
Margaret Ambridge returns to Praxis Artspace with new work.
Read about it in Art Edit + Interior Design]

Posted • Art Edit + Interior Design] We bring you our artist of the week Adelaide-based artist Margaret Ambridge .
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“I am moved by the intensely personal aspects of life...the subjects and experiences often avoided or ignored."
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​Art has the power to provide a pathway or opportunity for people to have difficult but much needed conversations.” By refusing to shy away from the parts of life – and death – that are often endured in silence, the works of Ambridge constitute deeply powerful and acutely moving contemplations of humanity.
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​Ambridge is currently working on an upcoming exhibition titled Becoming Invisible?, on show at Adelaide gallery praxis ARTSPACE ρraxis ARTSPACE Gallery] this month, which epitomises her practice. Utilising intimate conversations with a range of women about their personal experiences navigating aging, youth, and mortality, her work aims to confront her audience with the stark realities women face as they age in a society that often objectifies them. 
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​See comments for artwork details.

@ Bowden

04/08/2022

Posted • Becoming Invisible? RADIO interview today on ABC afternoons with Deb Tribe

A little window into the upcoming exhibition...very exciting for me to start sharing this work with everyone

04/08/2022

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Now that we have your attention we would like to remind you that our SALA exhibition ‘Animal House’ opens this Friday night!

Join us at the gallery from 6-8pm (this Friday the 5th of August) to celebrate the work of twenty two South Australian artists in what is sure to be a fun and colourful exhibition!

Pictured here ‘Coco Cat’ (detail) by Dan Withey.

02/08/2022

Posted • So pleased to have reawakened this 2019 work, Bitumen, as one of two works curated into Life Lines by Art Works early career curator Erin O’Donohue. Life Lines opens today at and runs until November with an enviable line-up of artists. 🌟Bitumen, first shown in Dazzleland at , was made with the lovely assistance of 💗 Image: Bitumen, 2019, 170 x 160 cm, repurposed wool, sequins, cotton. Photograph

01/08/2022

Posted • Join us in the “Animal House”!

Art Images SALA exhibition opens
Friday 5th August from 6-8pm.

22 Artists involved across multiple mediums!

Registration for a preview can be found on the exhibitions page on our website
www.artimagesgallery.com.au/exhibitions

28/07/2022

Congratulations to our studio artist Datsun Tran! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Posted • Very happy to be a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize at the . There’s some killer artists in the prize, so I’m very proud to be showing with them later next month. Good luck!

21/07/2022

Posted • Becoming Invisible?
Opening 25th August

I have been working solidly on this exhibition for over a year and now rapidly approaching an end point....

though these conversations are never finished...
Being visible should be life long

18/07/2022

Congratulations Sera! Wonderful news 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Posted • Eeep! It’s official- I’m off to Busan, Korea! So excited to be included in the We, on the Rising Wave 🌟 curated by Haeju Kim . Opens September 3 🌟✈️🌟Biggest thanks and gratitude to .adelaide for all the hard work, organization and making things happen behind the scenes 🙏

14/07/2022

Central Studios welcomes Maria Tomasic as our Ed Tweddell Residency studio artist. Maria, a recent BVA (Honours) graduate from Adelaide Central School of Art will be in studios until December 2022 and working towards two exhibitions during her time with us. We are delighted to have you on board Maria! 👏🏻

07/07/2022

Posted • Healing the memory: Art by Healthcare Workers
Opening tomorrow night, Friday 8th July 6pm

Artwork: Knitting Care Squares

03/07/2022

Save the date!

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Lil’ detail of a print I’ll have in a show opening this coming Friday 8th July, 6pm
Curated by & .floor.prints 🖤🖤
This will be a printy feast with 17 other printmakers on the bill so come check it out!
Kindly supported by

01/07/2022

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Inspired by the magic of minerals, artists Jackie Saunders, of Tutti Arts, and Laura Wills have created works in response to the mineral sciences collection at the .

Their exquisite exhibition Mineral Lines opens today at the Museum and features stunning colour palettes and dynamic patterns. Entry is free. The exhibition is open until 18 September.

Mineral Lines is one outcome of Reaching Out, a Tutti Arts project, and is the result of a partnership between Tutti Arts and the South Australian Museum.

[Image description: Laura Wills and Jackie Saunders in front of their mural at SA Museum]

Photo by Sam Roberts

24/06/2022

Join us this August for a five day intensive life drawing marathon, led by the luminary artist Chris Orchard. Co-presented by SALA and .
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During the Marathon participants will be immersed in a number of different life drawing exercises with clothed models, including scale and perspective. Across the five days participants will expand their skills in observational drawing and benefit from 2017 SALA feature artist Chris's wealth of knowledge. Revel in Chris' years of drawing experience and breadth of knowledge alongside other artist participants.

Best suited to participants who have some experience with the fundamentals of life drawing. Upon registration participants will receive a materials list.
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​Book today to secure your place!

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/366452648737?utm_content=sked_62b124797ac38a0d7fbffe5d&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook

21/06/2022

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It’s been such a pleasure being part of the latest issue of - issue 27. We’ve spoken, shared and written from numerous places around the globe on ideas of unsettlement. All of this is orchestrated adeptly and with care by 🙏 For my part, I’ve written some words on pugholes and embroidery; reflections on one sail from my recent work, Storied Sail Cloths, shown at .adelaide for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 🕳 🧵 visit www.garlandmag.com