Exhibitions
JamFactory
Tarntanya / Adelaide
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19 Morphett St
Tarntanya / Adelaide
South Australia
Kaurna Country
Open Daily
10:00am – 5:00pm
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Gallery One
18 July - 14 September 2025
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
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Contact Ali Carpenter
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
JamFactory ICON 2025 Aunty Ellen Trevorrow:
Weaving Through Time
JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Aunty Ellen Trevorrow is a proud Ngarrindjeri woman and a prolific, internationally acclaimed weaver with over 40 years of weaving experience. Weaving through Time is a celebration of Aunty Ellen’s unwavering dedication to culture, community and innovation in contemporary Ngarrindjeri weaving.
Curated by Kaurna, Narrunga, Ngarrindjeri woman Carly Tarkari Dodd, Weaving Through Time showcases predominantly new works by Aunty Ellen, produced with her long-time collaborator, Dr Jelina Haines. The exhibition visually and textually documents Aunty Ellen’s evolution as an artist, from her early traditional baskets and fish traps to her recent large-scale sculptures and wearable works, including dresses, jewellery and textiles. These more recent works highlight her two-decades-long collaboration with Dr Haines and demonstrate the depth and breadth of her artistic practice.
In Weaving Through Time, Aunty Ellen carries tens of thousands of years of knowledge, passed down from her Elders. Her work continues an essential legacy: the transmission of culture to future generations, ensuring the continuation of culture.
The exhibition will be launched at JamFactory Adelaide as part of SALA Festival before touring to JamFactory Seppeltfield for Tarnanthi, followed by 6 venues nationally across SA, VIC, NSW and QLD. It is accompanied by a 120-page monograph, supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and written by Carly Tarkari Dodd with contributions by Dominic Guerrera, Jelina Haines, and Aunty Ellen Trevorrow.
JamFactory ICON Aunty Ellen Trevorrow: Weaving Through Time is a JamFactory touring exhibition supported by the Visions of Australia touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians.
Exhibitors: Aunty Ellen Trevorrow with Jelina Haines
Curated by Carly Tarkari Dodd
Display furniture designed and fabricated by JamFactory’s Furniture and Metal Studios
Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Swamp Weed (Selliera radicans) Woven Bag, 2024, Sedge grass, quandong seeds, Photo: Connor Patterson
Gallery Two
18 July - 14 September 2025
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
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Contact Ali Carpenter
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
Weaving the Machine
Paying homage to the Lakun (weaving) of his Great Grandfather Milerum, Robert Wuldi invigorates traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving with new material approaches, transforming salvaged copper wire into objects of lustrous beauty.
I strip the guts and hearts of machines destined for landfill and scrap, transforming discarded metal into woven Tangani treasure. – Robert Wuldi
When Wuldi began weaving with galvanised wire, it was in reference to how unceded land was divided, fenced and cordoned, preventing his ancestors from accessing the land with which they had thousands of years of intimate connection. Wuldi has reframed wire as a resource for his practice, subverting the wire from a tool of control into an item of culture and beauty. In this exhibition he uses wire from truck alternators, washing machines and the 90-year-old shearers quarters where he lives at Narrung, on Ngarrindjeri territory.
Each work carries culture through form and language, with many referencing his connection to ancestors and family. Works echo the Kuranji basket’s woven by Milerum held in the collection of the SA Museum, while his Lakwunami Punawi (woven bag) bears his Mother's name, honoring consistent practice across hundreds of years.
Through Weaving the Machine Wuldi draws our attention to the dynamic between traditional and innovative, pragmatic and sculptural, and between what he calls the ‘guts of the colonial machine’, and the inherent beauty of the intricate objects he has woven.
This exhibition is presented as part of SALA Festival.
Exhibitor: Robert Wuldi
Robert Wuldi, Kuranji 1, 2025, recycled copper wire Shearer's Quarters, 910 x 450 x 270 mm; Kuranji 2, 2025, recycled copper wire Shearer's Quarters, 690 x 310 x 210 mm
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31 July - 31 August 2025
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
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Contact Ali Carpenter
ali.carpenter@jamfactory.com.au
Fabric, Fibre, Form
Fabric Fibre Form observes the endless ways in which the time-honoured crafts of stitching and weaving continue to influence artists. Clay, fibre, paper and glass all feature in this exhibition, investigating the myriad potential of textiles in storytelling and cultural celebration, as well as decorative ornamentation associated with traditional women’s work or the gentle arts.
Exhibitors: Sally Blake, Claudia Bloxsome, Jamie-Lee Garner, Elishia Jackson, Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM, Clare Unger
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello OAM, Long Golden Reeds Eel Trap, 2012, blown glass with canework, 350 x 1070 x 350