JamFactory’s exhibition program is open, free to the public, throughout the year.
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31 January – 22 February Gallery 1 –Marian Hosking: Jewellery
Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
Living Treasures is an annual exhibition series that celebrates Australia's most respected icons of craft. The third features new work by jeweller Marian Hosking. With 40 years professional experience, Marian Hosking is one of Australia's foremost contemporary jewellers. Working almost exclusively with silver, Hosking has developed a distinctive vocabulary of techniques including casting, drilling and saw-piercing. She translates specific elements of the natural world into the language of silver, creating jewellery and objects of astonishing beauty.
This exhibition is accompanied by a selection of works for sale by Marian Hosking in Gallery 2. image:Casuarina Chain 2001, 925 silver, chemically blackened 11 x 1.2 x 0.8 approx
27 February- 19 April Gallery 1 - Moore is More Tom Moore
Enter a delightfully surreal world inhabited by a beautiful menagerie of hybrid glass creatures floating, flying and cruising through the gallery. Pushing the boundaries of our imaginations, Moore suspends reality to provide a thoughtful escape route into a humorous dream world.
Pliny the elder (23 - 78 A.D.) wrote about gold and silver drinking vessels being abandoned in favour of glass. Little has changed. Come and see what all the fuss is about as over 20 guest artists create special drinking vessels in a myriad of interpretations. Inspired by an associated residency and workshop at JamFactory by contemporary glass Maestro Dante Marioni, this exhibition presents collector glasses in all their forms - from the conventional through to the fantastic.
9 May- 21 April Gallery 1: Figuration Stephen Bird, Michael Doolan, Jenny Orchard and Mark Thompson
To form representations and model figures and semblances in our own likeness is a primordial human impulse. Working principally in clay, these significant artists offer personal slants on this central purpose, with each following distinct motivations and approaches as they map out and explore up to and beyond the boundaries of human figuration image: Michael Doolan, Cautionary tale #1 (rags to riches) 2008 ceramic and platinum lustre.
Gallery 2 – Global Markings Julie Bartholomew
Revealing the body as a site for social and cultural change, Bartholomew investigates how people negotiate their way in the world through superficial or often intrusive body change practices, expressing claims of individuality ethnicity, gender and culture in what is an increasingly commodity driven global culture, where associative ideas of ‘self’ are defined by notions of ‘other’.
27 June- 26 July Gallery 1: A Secret History of Blue and White
Stephen Benwell, Robin Best, Bronwyn Kemp, Vipoo Srivilasa & Gerry Wedd.
Compelling contemporary interpretations of this classic genera show how tradition techniques can be renewed and re-energised through the creative voice of artists. This exhibition focuses on the kind of blue and white that may be described as individual, original and one-of-a-kind. image: Bronwyn Kemp Square Banksia Dish and Grevillea Dish (oval) 1995 Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue pigment Banksia 310 x 305 x 90mm Grevillea 310 x 220 x 45 mm
Gallery 2 –Cool Takeshi Yasuda
One of the most celebrated potters in the world, Yasuda’s work has an Oriental sensitivity tempered by his years in the West and informed by his voracious curiosity and prodigious learning. Like a metaphysical Zen scholar, he quietly combines consummate skills and sharp ideas in a seamless blend, producing pieces that while concerned with design and functionality, go way beyond into realms of poetry and ritual. image: Porcelain Bowl YingQing Glaze Reduction Cone 10 firing Liquid Gold Over Glaze 30 x 30 x 6cm
1 August- 7 September SALA Festival 7-23 August
Gallery 1 + 2- Nyukana Baker- Retrospective Nyukana Baker
A timely and much anticipated survey of the creative life of an important Indigenous artist. Based mostly at Ernabella on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, Nyukana (Daisy) Baker has spent over half a century making exquisite objects. Baker is an imaginative and tireless innovator who has acquired many skills. She has been central to the development of the Ernabella artistic style that has been influential across other Western Desert art movements. This exhibition includes works drawn from her entire career, including batiks, paintings, ceramics, floor rugs, prints, childhood drawings, wood carving, basketry and bead work. from top: Tali Tjuta 2007 Cast Coloured Porcelain with Wiraku pattern painted in black glaze 310 x 95mm
8 August- 26 September
Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool UK
JamFactory will be presenting a survey of South Australian jewellers at Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK- Sun-Woong Bang, Julie Blyfield, Jane Bowden, Christian Hall, Kath Inglis, Michelle Taylor and Catherine Truman.
This project has been assisted by ArtSA and is presented in partnership with Bluecoat Display Centre. More information
image: Julie Blyfield
12 September-11 October Gallery 1 –Resonance Troy Anthony Baylis, Gerry Wedd, Giles Bettison, Irmina Van Niele, Sun Woong Bang, Erin Lykos and Kumiko Nakajima
With every generation comes change. In the conversation between past and present, old stories become new stories. Exploring the relationship between innovation and tradition, contemporary craft practitioners present new perspectives on individual, cultural and national identities. Resonance is part of Nexus Multicultural Arts ‘Old stories, New stories’ program. image: Kumiko Nakajima, Jelly Blocks, 2008
Gallery 2 –The Infinite Fold Zoe Veness
Veness’s jewellery combines elements of pattern, overlay and repetition to achieve rhythm and harmony in her carefully balanced forms and compositions. Using the ‘concertina fold’ as a fundamental construction element, Veness creates her pieces by careful wrapping, twisting, and knotting of multicoloured strands of paper. image: Brooch v from transformation series ii 2008, light blue paper, light blue ink, varnish, oxidised sterling silver, stainless steel cable 55 x 55 x 17mm
13 October- 29 November Gallery 1 –Resource- Re-source Gareth Brown, Craig English, Nico Kelly, Takeshi Iue, Tom Mirams, Julie Peida, Adrian Potter, David Potts, John Quan, Lou Turner and Peter Walker.
Furniture design, manufacture and creative studio practice is increasingly driven by reassessment and revaluation of materials and processes. There is discernable shift towards a greater valuing of the worth (capital) instilled within finite resources and the need to find new ways of working with them. This exhibition showcases the diversity of design approaches to materials once considered non-precious.
Image: Alucius Turner, Jello Lamp , 2007 acrylic perspex, low energy light fitting.
Gallery 2 –Idol Moments Tegan Empson
Touching on themes as broad as notions of ‘self’, emotion and human gestures through to ideas about nostalgia, science fiction and contemporary society, Empson’s narratives find their voice in her sophisticated glass sculptural figures of android animals, robots and humanistic rabbits. image: Scanner, 2008 34.5 x 15.5 x 9.5 hand sculpted solid glass with hot-joined and UV laminated components.
5 December 2009- 24 January 2010 Gallery 1 – Generate '09: JamFactory Annual Graduate Exhibition
Highlighting the achievements of JamFactory Associates alongside the staff who have guided the development of their work for the past two years, this exhibition presents graduate work from JamFactory’s four outstanding design studios in ceramics, furniture, glass and metal. image: Robin Best, Oriental Kangaroo, 2008
Gallery 2 – Cook & Co; Antiquities for the Future Octavia Cook
Cook and Co was self consciously established in 2003 as a fictitious and irreverent family jewellery company for the aggrandisement of Cook and her ideas. This it has proven to be, and it has become what is more, a valuable tool by which she mines the themes of beauty, decay, providence and value within contemporary jewellery practice. image: Death of a Ponytail, 2007, brooch; acrylic, sterling silver, stainless steel pin. 35 x 100 x 8 mm.
Artist talks accompany exhibitions and usually take place at 11.00 AM of the first Saturday following each exhibition opening. For more information on talks, as well as news and collector updates check our website www.jamfactory.com.au
Atrium Program 2009
Atrium
30 January – 22 February
Links – Helena Bogucki, Claire Brooks, Kim Christian, Carolyn Gorman, Jessica Jubb, Nicole Lance, Beth Linton, Carrie McDowell, Claire Moody, Leah Tarlo, and Fern Valessi - jewellery
27 February –29 March JamFactory Glass Studio
1 April – 30 April JamFactory Ceramics Studio
9 May – 21 June Susie Duggin – textiles
27 June – 26 July Kumiko Nakajima - glass
1 August - 30 August Erin Lykos - ceramics
12 September – 11 October Italian Centre Design Awards
17 October - 29 November Jess Fisher and Erin Keys – glass, jewellery and objects
5 December – 14 February 2010 Takeshi Iue and John Quan – furniture and objects Open Hours Mon – Fri: 9-5
Sat: 10-5
Sun + Pub Hols: 1-5
Car Parking
Ticket parking is available adjacent JamFactory and street parking is available on Hindley Street and North Terrace.
Public Transport
The city free bus stops outside JamFactory every 15 minutes
Gallery Enquiries Margaret Hancock - Gallery Manager
08 8410 0727
JamFactory acknowledges the support and assistance of Arts SA.
JamFactory is assisted by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
JamFactory Gallery Program 2009 is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
JamFactory acknowledges the generous support and assistance of its sponsors Envestra, Health Promotions through the Arts, Digital Monkey, Malaysia Airlines and Radio Adelaide.
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