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
Gallery One
15 December - 28 April 2024
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
MAKE Award: Biennial Prize for Innovation in Australian Craft and Design
JamFactory and Australian Design Centre present this major new national award celebrating innovation in contemporary craft and design. Works were submitted by Australian designer makers demonstrating innovation in technique or material use, and the 30 pre-selected finalists form this exciting exhibition.
The winner of the MAKE Award, ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa, received a cash prize of $35,000 with a second prize of $10,000 going to glass artist Jessica Murtagh with a high commendation to textile artists and master weaver Liz Williamson. This is the richest non-acquisitive prize for craft and design in Australia.
The MAKE Award finalists are: Luke Abbot, Kelly Austin, Andrea Barker, Julie Blyfield, Samuel Burns (Sabu Studio), Lisa Cahill, Cobi Cockburn, Csongvay Blackwood, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Evan Dunstone, Gretal Ferguson, Hannah Gason, Minqi Gu, Rowena, Juliana, Angela Foong (High Tea with Mrs Woo), Kumuntjai Napanangka Jack, Cara Johnson, Sherrie Knipe, Korban/Flaubert, Johannes Kuhnen, Ruth Ju-shih Li, Brenda Livermore, Nick Mount, Jessica Murtagh, Kenny (Yong soo) Son, Studio Ventana X Tim Noone, Vipoo Srivilasa, Bic Tieu, Angela Valamanesh, Liz Williamson, Damien Wright and Bonhula Yunupingu.
The MAKE Award showcases designer/makers working across all related disciplines including ceramics, glass, furniture/woodwork, metalwork, textiles and fibre, and contemporary jewellery.
Finalists are designer/makers with a high level of skill either working with materials that are new to their practice, new or traditional materials, or working in new and innovative ways.
The MAKE Award is an initiative of the Australian Design Centre.
Carly Tarkari Dodd, Aunty’s Bag, 2023. Photographer: Connor Patterson
Gallery Two
15 December - 28 April 2024
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Kath Inglis: Immersed in the Offsure
South Australian contemporary jewellery artist Kath Inglis presents a solo exhibition of vividly coloured and intricately crafted wearable pieces that are inspired by her research on marine algae at the State Herbarium in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Epiphytes are plants or algae that grow upon one another, with a single plant hosting one or many others in a rich entanglement of biodiversity. This new body of work reflects Inglis’ admiration of these complex arrangements as a demonstration of a mutually respectful and sustainable way of living together.
In her practice, Inglis transforms flexible Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) sheets from a prosaic material into precious wearable pieces through simple handworked processes such as dyeing, cutting, carving and heat fusing. When observing dried marine algae specimens through a microscope during her research, Inglis frequently referenced their intriguing surfaces to familiar plastic materials — cling wrap, lollypop sticks, cellophane, fishing line and mesh fruit bags. As many of these plastic items are often discarded after a single use, Inglis chose to weave these materials into her explorations upon returning to her jewellery bench. In this way, Inglis explores the rich entanglement of values between the living and non-living, thereby recognising positive natural relationships, creative hope and the seeking of material justice.
Exhibitor: Kath Inglis
Kath Inglis, Stypopium flabelliforme Brooch, 2023, hand cut, carved coloured, and heat fused PVC, cellophane printing, ink, stainless steel pin, 62 x 90 x 13 mm, photographer: Craig Arnold
Collect
5 April - 21 April
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Transformative Repair
Transformative Repair x JamFactory investigates how artists, designers and craftspeople can creatively repair damaged goods to reduce consumption and restore values and meaning to our relationships with objects.
Exhibiting Artists: Jane Bowden, Andrew Carvolth, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Courtney Jackson + Stephen Soeffky, Melvin Josy + Bolaji Teniola, Peta Kruger, Kay Lawrence AM, Jordan Leeflang + Xanthe Murphy, Barry Magazinovic, Tom Moore, Blanche Tilden and Sera Waters.
Transformative Repair is a UniSA led Australian Research Council Project funded by the Australian Government led by Dr Guy Keulemans (UniSA) and Dr Trent Jansen (UNSW) in collaboration with JamFactory, Australian Design Centre and UNSW Sydney.
Xanthe Murphy and Jordan Leeflang x stuff from a shed
The second lot of transformations of stuff from a shed. Designers Xanthe Murphy and Jordan Leeflang demonstrate the range of possibilities for old things to find new functions. Owned by Stephen.
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.
Since it was established in 2016, the FUSE Glass Prize has become the most prestigious platform for celebrating and supporting outstanding glass artists from Australian and New Zealand. The prize evolved from conversations that began in 2014 between passionate glass art supporters and collectors Jim and Helen Carreker and JamFactory, following the conclusion of the Ranamok Glass Prize, which shone a light on glass artists from the region for 20 years.
The FUSE Glass Prize was launched in 2016 through founding donors Jim and Helen Carreker, along with Diana Laidlaw AM, Phil and Diana Jaquillard, Alan and Sue Young, the Thomas Foundation and Sandy Benjamin OAM.
The prize continues to be predominately funded through private philanthropy and sponsorship with ongoing support from the Carrekers alongside Pamela Wall OAM and Ian Wall AM (1931-2022), David McKee AO and Pam McKee, the Hon Diana Laidlaw AM, Susan Armitage, Sonia Laidlaw, Trina Ross, Maia Ambegaokar and Joshua Bishop.
The winners of the Established and Emerging Categories will be announced on 9 May 2024.
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
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