Exhibitions
JamFactory
Adelaide
JamFactory’s two main gallery spaces in Adelaide showcase a series of curated exhibitions featuring a cross section of local, national and international contemporary craft and design practice from established and emerging artists, designers and craftspeople.
Our Collect exhibition series featured in the front window of the retail shop presents work for the contemporary collector.
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19 Morphett St
Adelaide
South Australia
Open 7 Days
10.00am – 5.00pm
Open Public Holidays
10.00am – 5.00pm.
Closed Christmas Day,
Boxing Day, New Year’s
Day and Good Friday
Now Showing:
Gallery One
Dates:
26 July - 29 September
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Curated by:
Margaret Hancock Davis
Public Program:
Artist Talk // Sat 24 August
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JamFactory Icon 2019 Angela Valamanesh:
About being here
JamFactory’s Icon series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential artists working in craft-based media. Inspired by the symbiosis between science and poetry Angela Valamanesh’s art works elicits intrigue and a strong sense of personal investigation, as she manipulates seemingly familiar botanical and parasitic forms in beguiling and unusual ways. Primarily known for her biomorphic ceramic sculpture, this exhibition also celebrates the artist’s evocative drawings, watercolours, and mixed media works from her developing style of the late 1990s until present.
This exhibition premieres in Adelaide before touring nationally.
Angela Valamanesh, BHG #2, 2006. Photo: courtesy the artist.
Now Showing:
Gallery Two
Dates:
26 July - 29 September
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Curated by:
Rebecca Freezer
Keramos
The term ‘ceramic’ originates from the early Greek word keramos referring to articles made of clay by the process of burning. Informed by her Hellenic heritage and her recent residency on the Greek Island of Skopelos, Adelaide-based ceramic artist Connie Augoustinos relates to her ancestral history and cultural identity through her keramos.
Connie Augoustinos is a current tenant at JamFactory. She completed JamFactory’s Associate training program in 2017. Keramos is the artist’s first solo exhibition and is shown as part of this year’s SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival.
Connie Augoustinos, untitled works, 2019 .
Coming Up:
Gallery One
Dates:
12 October – 1 December
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Curated by:
Margaret Hancock Davis
Pungungi Marrgu – old and new
Regina Pilawuk Wilson
A celebrated innovator, Regina Pilawuk Wilson extends her repertoire in this solo exhibition, presenting new collaborative ceramic interpretations of Ngan’gikurrungurr traditional Walipan and Syaw (fishnets), Ngangi (message stick) and sun mats. Wilson - the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards winner, has worked closely with ceramic artist Ashlee Hopkins and JamFactory to realise these works.
Presented as part of TARNANTHI
Regina Pilawuk Wilson at work in the Ceramics Studio. Photo courtesy of JamFactory.
Coming Up:
Gallery One
Dates:
12 October – 1 December
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Curated by:
Margaret Hancock Davis
Mother and Child
Gunybi Ganambarr
The inspired maverick of contemporary Yonglu art Gunybi Ganambarr pushes the boundaries by working alongside Stephen Anthony from JamFactory’s Furniture Studio to combine opposing materials to express the meeting of cultures. He has also explored new industrial processes with JamFactory’s Metal Studio to produce beautifully engraved metal works in serial form.
Presented as part of TARNANTHI
Gunybi Ganambarr at work in the Furniture Studio. Photo Saul Steed.
Coming Up:
Gallery Two
Dates:
12 October – 1 December
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Dhigaraa galgaa baa – place of many birds
Penny Evans
Penny Evans draws on her Gomeroi heritage as she investigates issues of identity and colonisation through her ceramic works. For this solo exhibition, Evans – the People’s Choice winner of the 2016 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards – has developed endearing sculptural dhigarra (birds), which evoke her Country and respond to its desecration and exploitation through land clearing, mining and cotton farming.
Presented as part of Tarnanthi.
Presented as part of TARNANTHI
Penny Evans, Dhigayaa (Feathered Tribe) – detail, 2019.
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Coming Up:
Collect
Dates:
12 October – 12 November
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Wanapari- in a line, following one another
Ernabella Arts
In a shift in direction for artists at Australia’s oldest Aboriginal art centre, emerging female ceramicists at Ernabella Arts have produced ceramic jewellery for the first time. The works were created by artists as part of a series of JamFactory jewellery design workshops in Adelaide and Pukatja (Ernabella) in northern South Australia. The works are exhibited alongside ceramics and paintings by senior Ernabella artists.
Artists: Jayanna Andy, Alison Milyika Carroll, Roxanne Carroll, Atipalku Intjalki, Marceena Jack, Imitjala Pantjiti Lewis, Vennita Lionel, Yurpiya Lionel,Nicole Rupert, Renita Stanley, Tjariya Nungalka Stanley, Tjunkaya Tapaya, Anne Thompson, Carlene Thompson, Marissa Thompson and Margaret Inyika Wells.
Presented as part of TARNANTHI
Ethel Doolan wearing Liritja I by the artists of Ernabella Arts Inc. Photo courtesy Ernabella Arts Inc.
Coming Up:
Atrium/Retail Shop
Dates:
12 October – 12 November
Location:
JamFactory Adelaide
Walka Waru: Ninuku Kalawatjanga ungu painta
Warm Works: Ninuku painting inside glass
Ninuku Arts
This collaborative project explores new materials and forms, with artists who normally paint on canvas transferring their skills to glass for the first time. The artists at Ninuku Arts, in Kalka in the far northwest of South Australia, have painted their characteristically bold and colourful designs onto glass ‘starter bubbles’, which have then been blown into larger forms by JamFactory glass artists. The resulting works present ancestral stories in a striking new medium.
Artists: Jayanna Andy, Roxanne Carroll, Ruth Fatt, Marceena Jack, Vennita Lionel, Nicole Rupert, Anne Thompson, Marissa Thompson, and Rita Watson (other artists TBC David Miller, Carol Young and Katrina Connolley.
Presented as part of TARNANTHI
Nyanu Watson, Tjulpu, 2019
Photo: Grant Hancock