Previous Exhibitions - 2011

10 December 2011 – 12 February 2012

Generate ‘11 is the annual exhibition of work by the dedicated emerging artists and designers who have just completed JamFactory’s intensive two-year Associate training program. The Associates are James Edwards, Maria Chatzinikolaki, Adam Cantwell, Sam Bosward. Jessamy Pollock, Andrea Fiebig, Kristel Britcher and Madeline Prowd.

10 December 2011 – 12 February 2012

In this exhibition, South Australian based Glass artist and JamFactory alumnus, Deb Jones explores some of the recurring themes of her practice and how they transform themselves into objects.

19 January - 19 February

The work of South Australian ceramic artist and JamFactory alumnus Tamara Hahn celebrates fertility, motherhood and family. Hahn’s nested vessels formed with deliberate imperfections, create a mutually supportive family of objects.

19 January - 19 February

Glass artist and JamFactory alumnus Laurel Kohut investigates how we form relationships with objects, in particular jewellery and its intimate and symbolic nature. Kohut re-creates aesthetic forms of jewellery in glass to explore their varied emotional significance.

1 December - 14 January

JamFactory Metal Design Studio alumni Kath Inglis, Tassia Joannides, and Erin Keys exhibit together for the first time in Bend, Stitch, Carve. Showcasing their varying approaches to contemporary practice, this exhibtion highlights both material and process.

1 December - 14 January

Inspired by the intricate patterns of the prickly pear cactus skeleton, Metal Design Studio alumnus and jeweller Sorcha Flett replicates these forms and structures in materials such as metal, resin, fabric and timber, developing unique jewellery and objects.

29 October - 3 December 2011

South Australian based Jeff Mincham is one of Australia’s most prominent and influential ceramic artists with a career spanning more than 30 years. His exceptional craft skills and extraordinary body of work are being honoured at JamFactory through this nationally touring exhibition.

Jeff Mincham: Ceramics is an Object Gallery touring exhibition and is part of the Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft Series

29 October - 3 December

Artists from Tiwi Design present a collection of tungas - traditional bark baskets made from the stringy bark tree and unique to the Tiwi Islands. Artists include Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Maria Josette Orsto, Roslyn Orsto and Douglas Vivian Walapini Kerinauia.

3 November - 27 November

Adelaide glass artist Penny Fuller, inspired by Japanese culture and Eastern concepts of nature and spirituality, uses the pâte de verre glass–making process to create delicate and beautiful forms.

3 November - 27 November

Inspired by bakelite jewellery and the Art Deco period, Adelaide jeweller, JamFactory alumnus and current studio tenant, Hannah Carlyle elevates plastic jewellery into therealm of the artistic and precious.

3 September - 23 October

This exhibition highlights the exceptional prototyping skills developed by these designers, demonstrating the journey of some of their most successful products from idea, to sketch, to prototype, to final product. Through the development of prototypes, the hands-on skills of designer/makers and the relationships between designers and artisans are highlighted. The exhibition illustrates how important the prototyping process is to testing and refining a successful product.

Link to Video Interview with Artists

3 September - 23 October

The JamFactory Design Award, open to current JamFactory Associates and 2010 Alumni, asks entrants to design and make a functional object or set of objects for the Hospitality Industry. Selected designs will be exhibited in GalleryTwo with the award to be judged by renowned Australian designer Simone LeAmon, who will be holding a workshop at JamFactory as Designer in Residence.

22 September - 30 October

An exploration of the essential qualities of clay through contrasting approaches to making which in turn heightens complementary parallels and differences in both maker’s elusive search for the perfect in the imperfect.

22 September – 30 October

JamFactory alumnus Mandi King presents a new dimension of glass sculpture and objects that play with forms through time, light, perspective and colour.

18 August - 18 September

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's council enabling women on the lands to sell and showcase their fibre art.

18 August - 18 September

These works have been developed as part of a 12 month Indigenous mentorship program held in JamFactory's ceramics studio.

23 July - 28 August 2011

Format is a loose collective of writers, artists, musicians and technicians based around the Format Zine Shop on Peel Street. Good Job Team is a showcase of some of their favourite work, exemplifying their love of unadulterated craft, backyard publishing, home-made special effects, and shared experience for its own sake.

23 July - 28 August 2011

Adelaide jeweller, JamFactory alumni and current studio tenant, Peta Kruger is fascinated by the early stages of design, where an idea is just a sketch and the finer details have yet to be decided. Kruger attempts to capture the essence of this process, showcasing the initial translation of an idea - where anything is possible.

21 July - 14 August

South Australian artist and JamFactory 2010 SALA Award winner Ilona Glastonbury works with old pressed metal and found objects to develop richly textured nostalgic wall pieces reflecting the landscape and history of the Barossa Valley.

21 July - 14 August

Ceramic artist and JamFactory alumni, Charmain Hearder explores the subtlety of human expression and social interaction through her animated terracotta figures in an attempt to understand the implicit meanings of verbal and non-verbal communication.

21 May - 10 July 2011

At a time when the Gothic is all around us, curator Wendy Walker has invited craft practitioners, designers and visual artists Roy Ananda, Kirsten Coelho, Nico Kelly, Khai Liew, Jessica Loughlin, Sean O’Connell, Amy Patterson, Mary-Jean Richardson and Julia Robinson to create new works based on historical and contemporary Gothic Literature.

Imagining Interiors is initiated and produced by Craftsouth and presented in partnership with JamFactory, funded by Arts SA and the Australia Council for the Arts.

21 May - 10 July 2011

New Zealand born, Melbourne based jeweller Julia deVille in her first South Australian solo exhibition. deVille explores life and death working with traditional gold and silversmithing techniques combined with materials that were once living such as jet, human hair and taxidermy.

19 May - 19 June

Inspired by the ancient Australian landscape, Adelaide based sculptor and woodworker, Peter Carrigy uses wood collected from coastal and outback regions combined with earth pigments and resin to develop distinctive sculptural works.

23 June - 17 July 2011

South Australian ceramicist Phil Elson draws inspiration from his travels through Spain, developing simple ceramic forms reflective of those discovered in the Basque region, with architectural influences from Barcelona informing the composition of his ceramic tableaux.

19 May - 19 June

An exploration of the possibility of form without function. JamFactory alumni and current studio tenant, Clare Wilson uses her experience with production glass as a bridge to explore the aesthetic potential of functional forms.

23 June - 17 July 2011

As partners, JamFactory alumni and studio tenants, John Quan and Kumiko Nakajima share similar tastes when it comes to art and design. After working independently as a glass artist and a furniture designer, it seemed natural for the two to collaborate and take their work to a new level.

26 March - 8 May 2011

Eight contemporary Australian glass artists use the medium of glass as a conceptual tool to mine subjects as diverse as family, humanity, the environment and the everyday. Works by Nicholas Folland, Jacqueline Gropp, Timothy Horn, Deb Jones, Tom Moore, Ian Mowbray, Trish Roan and Neil Roberts. Curated by Megan Bottari.

26 March - 8 May 2011

Scientists within the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide join forces with glass artists Nick Mount, Danielle Rickaby and Janice Vitkovsky and the JamFactory Glass Studio in a dynamic display of art meeting science.

17 March - 17 April 2011

Interpreting and understanding glass through profile and proportion Jaan Poldaas’ form based approach to making is showcased in this collection of works, employing colour, texture and structure to unify or differentiate the forms in each composition.

21 April - 15 May 2011

Buildings, structures, man-made, collision-made, eroding, collapsing, re-forming. Adelaide glass artist Dale Roberts focuses on the structural elements of any given object, particularly the manner in which layers of material can reveal or conceal the foundations beneath the surface.

21 April - 15 May 2011

Internationally renowned glass artists and JamFactory alumni, Clare Belfrage and Tim Edwards, present a collection of significant new works created since their relocation to Canberra. Inspired by the natural world, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see these two high calibre artists together.

5 February - 20 March 2011

Celebrating 20 years of exquisite making by this acclaimed South Australian jeweller, this exhibition showcases breathtaking new work and a carefully selected collection of earlier pieces. Curated by Elisha Buttler and Wendy Walker. Presented as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2011.

5 February - 20 March 2011

Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young delight in finding expression of the natural in the unnatural (and vice versa). Focusing their work on botany and the body both jewellersexploit the potential of found

5 February - 13 March 2011

The outcome of a partnership between Gilles Street Primary School and the JamFactory Metal Design Studio. This initiative saw three artists work at the school witha group of talented students to produce jewellery, sculptural worksand artist-made toys. Presented as part of the Adelaide Fringe 2011.

10 February - 13 March 2011

New works by Catherine Aldrete-Morris, Stephanie James-Manttan, Peta Kruger, Kate O'Leary, Bettina Smith, Janice Vitkovsky and Patricia Wise. Presented as part of Adelaide Fringe 2011.

JamFactory's shops are staffed by friendly and experienced salespeople, many of them skilled and acclaimed makers in their own right. This exhibition proudly showcases the talent of this team.

17 March - 17 April 2011

Working under the collective moniker of Edols Elliott, the Sydney-based duo – Ben Edols and Kathy Elliott – have been at the forefront of contemporary Australian glass for almost 20 years. Their works are in major public collections across Australia and around the world.