Inspire. Create. Imagine.
Throughout the month of August
Adelaide Arcade is home to a range of SALA exhibitions celebrating the work of South Australian artists.
The exhibitions are located within Adelaide Arcade and Gay’s Arcade at:
Bearded Dragon Gallery ORGANIC VISIONS
Zu design - jewellery + objects
Zu me & JCB
T’Arts - Textile & Arts Collective CAPE CAPERS MEET THE ARTIST
Kennedy Parker SPOTLIGHTS
Centre of Adelaide Arcade WEARABLE ART CURIOSITY
Adelaide Arcade Tea Rooms SPRING
Two-Bit Villains SHADOWLANDS
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Join us as we
the amazing SALA Exhibitions with a special event on Friday, 9 August 5pm - 9pm
Visit our retailers and explore the exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy light refreshments and nibbles* All welcome.
*At selected exhibitions
ORGANIC VISIONS
Bearded Dragon Gallery
Shop 2G Gay’s Arcade 6pm - 9pm
Meet the makers, enjoy non-alcoholic drinks plus contribute to our collaborative art piece.
Zu me & JCB
Zu design - jewellery + objects
Shop 102G Balcony Level, Gay’s Arcade 6pm - 8pm
Celebrate the ‘Zu me & JCB’ exhibition and meet some of the makers.
CAPE CAPERS +
MEET THE ARTIST
T’Arts - Textile & Arts Collective
Shop 10G Gay’s Arcade 5pm - 9pm
Meet the artists and enjoy nibbles and refreshments.
SPOTLIGHTS
Kennedy Parker
Shop 12G Gay’s Arcade 6pm - 9pm
Enjoy drinks and nibbles and meet the photographer Dave Nettle.
WEARABLE ART
Centre of Adelaide Arcade
Exhibition showcasing work by Costume Students from Tafe SA / Bachelor of Arts
CURIOSITY
Centre of Adelaide Arcade
A curated exhibition by various artists exploring unexpected stories and lived experiences.
SPRING
Adelaide Arcade Tea Rooms
Basement, Adelaide Arcade
A temporary take over of the Adelaide Arcade basement with an installation by artist Elle Dawson-Scott.
SHADOWLANDS
Two-Bit Villains
Shop 150 Balcony Level, Adelaide Arcade 5pm - 9pm
Meet the artists: Tessa Bartholomew, Catherine Nguyen-Hoang, Sarah Keane, Elle Dawson-Scott and Ella Simpson.
Zu me & JCB
Various SA Artists
2 - 31 August 2024
Zu design - jewellery + objects
Shop 102G Balcony Level, Gay’s Arcade
Monday - Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday Closed
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 6.30pm
Saturday 1 - 5pm
Sunday Closed
Other times by appointment
Zu design’s SALA exhibition this year focuses on connections. Makers are invited to exhibit new or historical pieces and will be asked how they connect to Zu design.
Zu design was established in Tarndanya / Adelaide in 1997 and, over the course of 27 years, has represented more than 300 contemporary jewellers from around Australia. It is an inclusive space that offers bench space, practical support, retail opportunities and curated exhibitions to both emerging and established makers.
Jewellery designer and maker Jane Bowden is central to the Zu story. As founder and now owner, Jane supports Australian makers by nurturing their skills, talents, and careers.
This exhibition celebrates both the creative connections forged in the workshop and the makers’ material and technical diversity by presenting a selection of works by Jane Bowden, the current Zu crew, and a selection of contemporary jewellers linked to South Australia.
ORGANIC VISIONS
Empowering Artists with Disabilities in 2024 Exhibition
8 - 31 August 2024
Bearded Dragon Gallery
Shop 2G Gay’s Arcade
Monday Closed
Tuesday - Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday Closed
Rooted in resilience, we amplify artists with disabilities, providing platforms for creativity and community connection.
Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. presents the Bearded Dragon Gallery, a social enterprise designed to give artists with a disability a platform and space to exhibit and sell their artwork. Organic Visions dives into our connection to our environment and what this means for us. We asked our artists- how do you connect to nature? What does being alive mean to you? We will showcase four emerging and established artists with disability living, breathing and connected by nature.
Michelle Chiles has developed unique craftsmanship working with ink and wood to create stunning and dynamic varnished wooden wall pieces.
Sonja Garnaut works with acrylics, painting exquisitely intricate mandala designs. Using natural elements for inspiration, she balances themes and colours in her works to express her changes and experiences in life.
Robert Eckert is an abstract colourist, working with acrylics and watercolours to create works with depth and intensity.
John Bannerman, or Bundy, has previously exhibited at SALA and the Bearded Dragon Gallery. An injury forced him to leave the outback and a life driving trucks, so he swapped grease splatters on his shirt for paint splatters. Using acrylics on copper sheets, Bundy emphasises bold, vibrant colours and life in country Australia.
Known for our diversity and unique perspectives, the Bearded Dragon Gallery is not one to miss this SALA festival!
Capes come in all shapes and sizes, including some felted from Australian merino wool. The exhibition will feature unique handmade wool felt capes inspired by the diverse landscapes around South Australia.
Carol Bath works mostly with fine Australian wool, often mixing it with silk and other natural fibres to create felt fabric, which she uses to produce bags, jackets, shawls, and brooches.
Carol began felting in 1987 as a form of stress management away from her work as an international software company executive. It quickly became an obsession.
Transforming fleece into a new fabric still strikes her as mysterious and magical. Carol starts with a concept and then works backwards to create the felt she needs, using both traditional and innovative techniques. This frees her imagination and provides opportunities for happy accidents to influence the finished product. Carol joined the Collective in 2013.
“Meet the Artist” offers lovers of fine art and craft the unique opportunity to meet the 33 contributing local artists in person. Over the 28 days of the featured display, the artists on shop duty will feature their works in the gallery window. T’Arts is an eclectic mix of practising artists who have successfully combined to form a collective, which has had 21 years of operation from the same premises in Gay’s Arcade.
T’Arts offers a range of bespoke work found nowhere else in Adelaide and has cultivated a strong following from local, interstate and overseas patrons over the last 21 years.
CAPE CAPERS
Carol Bath 18 August - 14 September 2024
MEET THE ARTIST
18 August - 14 September 2024
T’Arts - Textile & Arts Collective Shop 10G Gay’s Arcade Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 12pm - 4pm
SPOTLIGHTS
Dave Nettle
1 - 31 August 2024
Kennedy Parker Shop 12G Gay’s Arcade
Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday Closed
Small random beams of hope: photographs capturing the interaction of natural hard sunlight in the dark lines of the urban environment.
Who is important and how is this decided? Philosophers such as Kant, Hegel and Singer have ruminated on the validity of these ideas, but for Dave Nettle, the application of their ideas is useless. Increasingly, people are defining themselves as important and using social media to create that significance, fabricating and expanding their spotlights. However, these perfect, curated images of self inevitably lead to others feeling that they are not enough or important.
The natural spotlights and the people in these images are random, seemingly appearing out of nowhere in unexpected places. At that moment the individual may not realise that they are important or even be aware that they are in the spotlight: they have emerged from the shadow and for a brief time are immersed in light.
Dave Nettle is a visual artist based in Adelaide living on Kaurna land. Working mostly with photography, watercolour, and ink, he is interested in capturing life in the urban landscape, such as national parks in view of cities or forgotten corners of the city and the suburbs. Dave likes familiar scenes that can evoke a special memory.
After a career as a scientist and geologist, Dave Nettle found himself in an unexpected place in life in 2020battling a brain injury after surgery to remove a tumour. This surreal experience caused him to reflect on his mental health and that of those around him, themes that are reflected in his “Spotlights” photographic exhibition as part of the SALA Festival.
SPRING
Elle Dawson-Scott 9 - 31 August 2024
Adelaide Arcade Tearooms Basement Level
Monday - Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday 9am - 5pm
A temporary take over of the Adelaide Arcade basement for SALA. The basement room was originally the Adelaide Arcade’s Tea Rooms. Unexpected installation art in an underused space, bringing a pop of colour into the Arcade. The exhibition’s name comes partly from the natural spring used to make tea when the Tea Rooms were built in 1885.
Based in Adelaide, Elle Dawson-Scott operates under the banner ‘Saskia and Shadow’ and creates and exhibits art in various mediums, including illustration, digital illustration, sculpture, painting, and textiles.
She works with private and corporate clients, creating family and home portraits as well as branding illustrations. Elle also specialises in mural painting, creating large-scale artworks, and photography.
WEARABLE ART -
Bachelor of Creative Arts (Costume)
Tafe SA Students
5 - 18 August 2024
Centre of Adelaide Arcade
Monday - Wednesday 9am - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday 9am - 5pm
The exhibition showcases wearable art and dancewear created by secondyear Flinders Bachelor of Arts Costume Students. For the wearable art, students were tasked with creating costumes using sustainable materials such as thrifted, second-hand, or recycled materials. They designed the garments, patterned, made, and embellished them within a limited time frame, creating a character along the way. The tutus are part of the students’ dancewear project and serve as a learning experience in the art of creating classical tutus.
Examples of previous exhibitions shown here.
Life is a journey of twists and turns. Curiosity is a curated exhibition that explores the unexpected stories and lived experiences of each artist.
Catherine Nguyen-Hoang is a selftaught emerging contemporary artist with a focus on painting and drawing. She paints metaphors and imagery that tells her story. Recently, Catherine was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2024 Ravenswood Art Prize for Women, 2023 National Emerging Artist Prize and the 2023 Revival Emerging Art Prize. She is also a finalist in the SALA festival Don Dunstan Awards.
Tessa Bartholomew is a self-taught abstract landscape artist and muralist residing in the scenic Adelaide foothills. Her profound connection to the natural world fuels her creative vision, guiding her to explore vibrant unexpected colour palettes that inject new life into her compositions.
Sarah Keane is an artist and designer based on Kaurna land (Adelaide, SA). She enjoys creating works inspired by colour, nature and pattern. Sarah is passionate about sustainability and loves to recycle and repurpose. She works in mixed media - including acrylic, aerosol, watercolour, gouache, ink, pastel and resin.
Ella Simpson is a local mural artist who works under the name of Ink & Ruby Studios. Growing up on Kangaroo Island, Ella is inspired by nature and much of her work features a botanical theme. She seeks to create a connection between people and place.
Courtney Mikaela is an artist from the Adelaide Hills, recognised for her vibrant mixed media artworks. Her work is a delicate balance of detail and abstraction, reflecting nature’s harmonious blend of playful movements and moments of stillness.
CURIOSITY
Catherine Nguyen-Hoang, Tessa Bartholomew, Sarah Keane, Courtney Mikaela, Ella Simpson 1 August - 31 August 2024
Centre of Adelaide Arcade
Monday - Wednesday 9am - 6pm Thursday 9am - 9pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday - Sunday 9am - 5pm
“Shadowlands” invites viewers on a journey through light and darkness, exploring the interplay between illumination and shadow.
This exhibition delves into the metaphorical depths of what a shadow represents, offering a contemplative reflection on presence, absence, and the subtle nuances of life’s contrasts, revealing beauty within obscurity.
Tessa Bartholomew will be live painting on Wednesday,14 August 12:00pm - 4:00pm and Wednesday, 28 August 12:00pm - 4:00pm
SHADOWLANDS
Catherine Nguyen-Hoang, Tessa Bartholomew, Sarah Keane, Elle Dawson-Scott, Ella Simpson
1 - 31 August 2024
Two-Bit Villains
Shop 150 Balcony Level, Adelaide Arcade
Tuesday 11.30am - 3pm
Wednesday - Thursday 11.30am - 3pm / 5.30 - 8pm
Friday 11.30am - 9pm
Saturday 11.30am - 8.30pm
Sunday - Monday Closed
