NOW SHOWING // X KEULEMANS
NOW SHOWING // Power Surge - Into the Grid
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Tarntanya / Adelaide
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Gallery One
26 Sept 26 - 10 Jan 27
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
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X KEULEMANS
An exhibition of creative works by South Australian designer, artist and researcher Guy Keulemans in collaboration with leading Australian designers. This is the third iteration in the biennial series of solo exhibitions presented by JamFactory in partnership with Adelaide University to highlight the artistic achievements and knowledge of key members of the creative faculty.
For many, the material world has never been more abundant, while planetary existence has never been more perilous. In the face of an interconnected crisis – waste, pollution, climate change and the unease of accelerating production and consumption – Keulemans and his collaborators ask, what is the role for design and craft? What is it that should be made, or remade? The works in this exhibition attempt to bring into the senses new aspirations for the manufactured world. Themes of transformative repair, localism and collaboration explore the agency in studio practice. The collaborations are signified by the X in the title; a symbol of a multiplying force for the consensus required to change material culture.
Presented as part of Adelaide Design Week
Presented in partnership with Adelaide University
Guy Keulemans, Bolaji Teniola and Melvin Josy, Repaired Red & Blue Chair, 2026. Photo: Connor Patterson.
Gallery Two
26 Sept - 10 January
Location:
JamFactory
Tarntanya/Adelaide
Kaurna Country
Power Surge - Into the grid
Power Surge – Into the Grid features prototype lighting designs created by JamFactory Studio Associates working across glass, metal, timber and ceramics. The prototypes were developed as part of JamFactory’s annual product design challenge ‘Design a Thing’, led throughout 2026 by JamFactory’s Creative Directors.
As part of their training, Associates accepted the challenge to develop a functional light fixture or lamp which incorporated a metre long LED strip into a product design suitable for the marketplace.
Within the limits of time, skill, material cost and pliability, Associates have created a body of work which highlights the role of playfulness, experimentation and innovation in the process of product design and production. The works displayed delight in their functionality, their assertiveness, their whimsy and technical mastery. Each creation reveals the a unique design signature through each Associates carefully considered aesthetics and skilled material manufacture, as evident here with ceramics delicately pressed with linen to give texture and warmth, glowing faceted timber, blown glass forms, cold worked and made gestural with light, finely detailed brass paired with paper screen, and a running metal ribbon as scaled-up jewellery for the wall.
JamFactory’s Studio Associate training program has been operational for over 50 years and across that time has provided training and employment for over 400 artisans. The two-year program attracts outstanding emerging artists and designers from across Australia and around the world and is led by some of Australia’s most skilled artisans. With access to JamFactory’s exceptional workshop facilities, Associates work in a supportive environment alongside their peers, studio mentors and visiting resident artists in developing extensive material knowledge, and technical, conceptual and entrepreneurial skills.
Featuring: Renee Becker, Chloe Burton, Hugo Curtis, Bradley East, Riley Hearn, Teegan Horat, Alexis Mason, Lily Morin, Ember Satyn, Ciara Steggerda, Lily Trnovsky, Eden Wellings and Megan Wilkinson.
Presented as part of Adelaide Design Week
Renee Becker, Ribbon Light, 2026. Photo: Connor Patterson