JamFactory’s exhibition program is open, free to the public, throughout the year.
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26 Feb – 31 March
Gallery 1 + 2 Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together
Lucy + Jorge Orta (UK/France)
Paris based Lucy + Jorge Orta’s are presented as part of the inaugural Adelaide International 2010: Apart, we are together. Curated by Victoria Lynn, the Adelaide International 2010 includes 11 contemporary artists over five galleries across Adelaide. Lucy + Jorge Orta collaborative practice explores the ways in which we can connect with diverse communities. They will create a new body of work from their Nexus-Heart project for JamFactory, through a residency by the artists and a workshop with emerging artists from partner schools of the Helpmann Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts.
10 April – 16 May Gallery 1 Mind And Matter: Meditations On Immateriality Masahiro Asaka, Gabriella Bisetto, Brian Corr, Mel Douglas, Deb Jones, Jessica Loughlin, Janice Vitkovsky, Richard Whiteley
– new glass
Curated by Margot Osborne Mind and Matter: Meditations on Immateriality brings together eight of Australia’s most innovative and exciting glass artists in an incisive exhibition that maps important sculptural, poetic and cerebral tendencies within contemporary glass. A revelation to those who typecast glass as bright, shiny and decorative, these artists approach it differently; toning down its colour saturation, emphasizing its quieter dimensions of transparency, surface and depth to draw attention inwards, to concentrate the gaze on the evocative presence of these quiet and meditative forms.
Gallery 2 Some and None: Jewellery as Graphics David Neale - new jewellery
Signs and stories? The body as a site for drawing?...Neale shows how, with this collection of eye-catching contemporary wearables. Borrowing from graphics, painting, collage and line-work, Neale uses these techniques at his jeweller's bench to make signs for the body and to tell wearable stories. Through the considered play of opposites such as flat vs. deep, austere vs. ostentatious, rough vs. refined, precious vs. poor, shiny vs. sfumato, gravel vs. gold and some vs. none, each piece resolves into a striking graphic statement.
22 May - 20 June Gallery 1 Liz Williamson : Textiles Living Treasures : Master of Australian Craft The Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft series celebrates Australia’s most outstanding and influential senior crafts practitioners. Liz Williamson: Textiles provides insight Williamson’s remarkable practice, which has developed consistently over a lifetime of making and research. Featuring a majority of new work this exhibition includes scarfs, wraps and Jacquard woven works, and extends on Williamson’s ongoing research into the uses and qualities of cloth, both as wearable item and object in their own right.
Gallery 2
Future Pass...and other short stories Brendan Scott French – new glass
Glass is a medium that is worked through a process of
accumulation and interpretation. A kiln-former layers and
assembles the medium to develop pattern and form, this
rhythmic secretion reflects our civilisation’s fascination with
stories that evolve into histories. In a continuation of the Predator and Cargo series of works, French investigates the
accretion of time by creating abstracted glass books. Dense
with implied images of the natural world and urban environment
in a cycle of growth and decay, and supported by manipulated
and altered notation these works become palimpsests for our
time or a slight manual as a guide to the future.
25 June – 25 July Gallery 1 Teawares
With a rich history of travel through trade, links to British Imperialism; strong cultural significance through tea ceremonies and countless personal memories of grandmother’s scones and tea service, the enduring properties of Tea have ensured its place as an important beverage within daily life. Tea is a fertile subject for investigation by writers and artists alike. Drawing on the real and the mythic, this stunning exhibition combines compelling contemporary Tea Wares in ceramic and metal in a setting of finely crafted furniture.
Gallery 2 Dreams of Arcadia Stephen Gallagher – new jewellery
Inspired by the symbolic excess and opulent materialism of England’s Elizabethan period, Gallagher questions the role of value within contemporary jewellery practice, asking ‘what makes something precious?’ Historical reference is central to his work; however this is not simply about replicas. The Elizabethan period is fertile ground for Gallagher, who attempts to understand the symbolism of the materials and configurations of the Elizabethans. These coded Tudor allegories, though obscured by time, are retrieved and resuscitated by Gallagher, who recalibrates them and works them with refreshing verve into his contemporary jewellery.
30 July – 5 September Gallery 1 Credenza Credentials Andrew Bartlett, Gareth Brown, Petra de Mooy, Michael Geissler, John Hayward, Takeshi Iue, Gray Hawk, Tom Mirams, Michael Penck, Ken Pfitzner, Julie Pieda, Adrian Potter – new furniture
Leading furniture makers serve up their credentials in a smorgasbord of contemporary credenza design. Derived from credentia, a Medieval Latin term for a 16th Century practice of food and drink tasting by servants to check for poison before being presented to the nobility, the word became synonymous with the fashionable piece of 19th Century dining room furniture from which people were served. Its contemporary resurgence shows how taste and style have evolved. No longer furniture from which to serve imperious lords or pernickety VIPs, today’s credenza is an elegant adaptable form, from which to serve canapés and retrieve wines as easily as to access and display the latest screens of advanced mass technology.
Gallery 2 The Virgin Saints - The theatre of Catholicism Liz Williams – new Ceramics
Inspired by the dramatic spectacle of Catholic ritual Williams’
works reflects its rich hagiography whilst speculating on
the strange psychological phenomenon surrounding the panoply
of virgin saints. Williams’ fascination with the theatricality
of Catholicism was first piqued when she encountered the
dramatic processions of Semana Santa in Spain, its penitent
citizens dragging their shackled feet and bearing heavy floats
laiden with Easter images, flowers and candles. Intrigued by the
power of this imagery, Williams’ interest was furthered by her
study of the intimate portrayals of virgin saints, leading her to
unlock the histories and mythologies of these women.
10 September – 17 October Gallery 1 Making Waves Peter Walker – new wooden surfboards
If any human artefact can claim to provide a direct sensory interface with the elemental kinetic energy of our planet it is the surfboard. Connecting us to the vast and exhilarating power of oceanic wave energy, surfboards are a means by which one may encounter and engage with nature. Meticulously crafted in selected timbers, Walker’s sculptural and beautifully hand-made boards use traditional furniture and boat building techniques whilst informed by aero dynamic technology. This is eco-design integrated with craft skill to create stunning iconic sculptural forms, some selectively further decorated by chosen artists. A significant showcase of ideas: a balanced resolution of sport, energy, ecology and craft.
Gallery 2 Metonymy - look both ways Linda Hughes – New Jewellery Through the visual noise of street and cityscapes, our gaze is often captured and directed by the urban motif and iconography of street signs. Attention grabbing ciphers, that warn or target our vision by the distinctive feature of line or stripe, punctuate the landscape. Historically favoured as a metonym for danger, barrier and exclusion, “the stripe”, is manipulated by Hughes in her jewellery through shape, colour and texture to shift its iconography into another more fictive and localised zone.
29 October – 5 December Gallery 1 Momentum: 18th Tamworth Textile Biennial
Since the early 1970’s the Tamworth Textile Biennial has provided audiences with exciting and vibrant surveys of contemporary fibre textiles. For the 18th Biennial, curator Valerie Kirk, has chosen a mix of 25 emerging and established artists whose works look at the influence new technology is having on traditional fibre textile arts and hoe artists have incorporated these new techniques into their individual practice. The potency of this exhibition comes from the chosen artists’ ability to respect tradition and history while engaging with the evolutionary momentum of contemporary progress.
Gallery 2 To There & Back Patsy Hely – New Ceramics
Working from photographs and sketches of her travels to and from Adelaide in recent years, Canberra based ceramicist Hely, paints and prints her recollections onto a series of porcelain forms: domestic cups, jugs and vases, creating objects that are souvenir-like, but not souvenirs. Reflecting journal notes made while travelling and diarist in intent, Hely’s appealingly homely pots are also visual records of excursions away, reflecting aspects of the passing Adelaide cityscape, recording elements of the road travelled, recalling echoes of the rhythm of the journey travelled; the path way back and forth.
10 Dec – 10 Feb 2011 Gallery 1 Generate ’10 - JamFactory Annual Graduate Exhibition Associates: Andrew Bartlett, Hannah Carlyle, Caren Ellis,
Sorcha Flett, Susan Frost, Michael Garrett, Nick Koshade, Peta Kruger, Jaan Poldaas, Danielle Rickaby and Vanessa Williams Creative Staff: Robin Best, Christian Hall, Tom Mirams, Tom Moore and Nick Mount
This showcase is a barometer of trends and emerging ideas in contemporary craft and design from within Australia’s leading studio centre for the development of design integration and hand craftsmanship. Capturing these young artists at a crucial moment in the careers, Generate 10 locates their work alongside their more established peers, the Creative Directors and Studio artists who have mentored, guided and influenced their development over the last two years.
Gallery 2 Ernabella Arts Inc. – new ceramics
From the Anangu-Pitjantjatjara lands of north-west South Australia, Australia’s oldest Indigenous arts centre at Ernabella continues its creative and inventive evolution of new work in ceramics. With cross-generational and shared skills, the techniques of artists of Ernabella use ceramics as a fresh contemporary canvas to communicate cultural symbols, patterns and stories. Distinguished by the presence of the rich colours and patterns of the renowned Ernabella ‘walka’ decorative approach, these works also interpret and illustrate narrative strands of traditional and contemporary indigenous culture.
Atrium Program 2010
26 Feb – 31 March – Mariella McKinley –glass
10 April – 16 May – Jane Robertson –ceramics
22 May - 20 June – Emerging Sydney jewellers showcase
25 June – 25 July– Gray Street Workshop tenants –jewellery
30 July – 5 September – Amanda Dziedzic- glass
10 September – 17 October - Italian Centre Design Award
29 October – 5 December – Spices - Humna Mustafa- textiles and ceramics
10 Dec – 10 Feb 2011 Leonie Westbrook and Suzanne Gregor – jewellery and ceramics
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
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.
2010 Calendar
