Exhibitions
JamFactory
Tarntanya / Adelaide
19 Morphett St
Tarntanya / Adelaide
South Australia
Kaurna Country
Open Daily
10:00am – 5:00pm
Sales Enquiries
Ali Carpenter
(08) 8414 7225
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
Collect
25 April - 26 May 2024
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Sales enquiries
Contact Ali Carpenter
(08) 8414 7225
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
Liam Fleming, Marcel Hoogstad Hay and Drew Spangenberg: What Is
What Is has evolved from observation and discussion relating to the three exhibiting artists and how their works correlate. Liam Fleming, Marcel Hoogstad Hay and Drew Spangenberg are all JamFactory alumni based in South Australia and each has developed a unique signature over the course of the last decade. Whilst their trademark styles differ significantly, all three artists have progressed from a production background to focus on producing powerful exhibition works that explore the many breathtaking possibilities in working with glass.
Video: Connor Patterson
Gallery One
10 May - 7 July 2024
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Sales enquiries
Contact Ali Carpenter
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
2024 FUSE Glass Prize
Presented by JamFactory, 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$5,000 cash and a professional development opportunity at JamFactory valued at a further AU$5,000.
18 Finalists have been selected and will be exhibited in Adelaide, followed by a tour to Canberra and Sydney.
Finalists are
David Henshall Emerging Artist Category: Madeline Cardone (NSW), Hamish Donaldson (Vic), Alexandra Hirst (SA), Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan (ACT), Ember Satyn (SA) and Carman Skeehan (SA)
Established Category: Kate Baker (NSW), Clare Belfrage (SA), Annette Blair (NSW), Mel Douglas (ACT), Hannah Gason (ACT), Katie-Ann Houghton (ACT), Tom Moore (SA), Ian Mowbray (Vic), Nick Mount (SA), Kirstie Rea (NSW), Layla Walter (NZ) and Kathryn Wightman (NZ)
Annette Blair, In Stillness, 2024, 490 x 470 x 330, Photo: Adam McGrath
Gallery Two
10 May - 7 July 2024
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Eugenie Kawabata:
Botanica Exotica: Unknown Civilisations
Eugenie Kawabata is an independent Naarm/Melbourne based designer and maker whose practice is located at the intersection of art and design. With a strong focus on materiality and sustainability, Kawabata’s work is defined by her skill and innovation in crafting objects from industrial waste, the artist stitching, dyeing, painting and impregnating the materials with resin to transform them into objects of value. She draws inspiration from the transformative power of design and focuses her approach on the tactile experiences of crafting objects, emphasising the design process as a hands-on endeavour.
Botanica Exotica: Unknown Civilisations features a new body of works that are inspired by walks Kawabata took through Naarm/Melbourne’s parks and botanical gardens within a 5km radius from her home under the COVID lockdowns. These walks became a daily ritual and escape. The predictability and rigidity of the gardens’ formal design led Kawabata to examine the disrupters with the Victorian design construct: the messy, unbeautiful, untamed and unintentional.
Captivated by the visual dialogue between exotic and native plant life, she was particularly taken by the often overlooked elements and tensions that coexistence presents: oozing resins and gums, scars and disfigurements caused by invasive micro-organisms, parasitic plants and exotic fungi. The unwanted guests. The vessels featured in this exhibition are manifestations of Kawabata’s botanical observations and provoke imaginings of what lies beneath the surface: the complex unseen networks that form ‘the unknown civilisations’. By inviting the viewer to challenge the disposability of everyday objects, Botanica Exotica: Unknown Civilisations asks us to consider the waste we create and reflect on our interactions with nature.
Eugenie Kawabata, Botanica Exotica: Unknown Civilisations #2 and #5, 2024, resin and textile, 720 x 360 x 190 mm, 390 x 190 x 190, photographer: Adrian Lander