Kerry Packer Civic Gallery guest installations
Location: UniSA City West campus, Hawke Building - Level 3, 50 North Terrace, Adelaide (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace)
Gallery open weekdays 9am - 5pm
Current exhibition
Setting a place at the table
Monday 23 November - Friday 15 January 2010
This exhibition explores the notions of table: to lay for discussion; tabula rasa: to scrape away and erase; and place-setting as premises to reconfigure and reinterpret the table from the 2007 Interior Architecture Kerry Packer Civic Gallery exhibition 'a place at the table'. The table has become the metaphorical setting for narratives and artefacts to describe the 'places' people have made [set] in South Australia. These may be cultural, social, political, commercial, spatial or landscape settings. Explorations of the themes such as "under the table; table talk; table of contents; round table" are used as prompts for the production of provocative artefacts, text and images. Curated by staff of the UniSA School of Art Architecture and Design.
Past exhibitions
Tutti Visual Arts 2009
Monday 2 November - Wednesday 18 November
The exhibition is a showcase of work produced in the Tutti Visual Arts Program by young adults with intellectual disabilities. The styles, themes and techniques are varied and reflect each artist's concerns and interests. Much of the work is delightful and amusing and revels in pattern and colour. Other works hint at the deeper, darker side of life and its struggles. The work is unified by its vibrancy and authenticity. The Tutti Visual Arts Program operates over three days each week and offers the artists the opportunity to practice seriously and participate in the mainstream arts world.
Editing: Words Best Practice
Wednesday 7 October - 29 October
A celebration of the role of editors in assuring quality in all forms of communication.
Readers of novels, poems, government reports, engineering tenders, educational texts, magazines, websites or marketing brochures are generally unaware of how much the words, layout and structure of the work have been changed from the original author's first attempts. By contrast, careful readers and critics are usually well aware when works they read have not been first scrutinised by the rigorous editor's eye.
An associated exhibition, 'Drawing Words and Writing Pictures', showcases the work of two Australian children's book authors and illustrators.
Held in conjunction with the Fourth IPEd National Editors Conference (8-10 October at the Adelaide Festival Centre), the exhibition will demonstrate the many and varied roles played by editors within individual published works, and across a broad spectrum of forms of communication.
FIRST of the Friends
Tuesday
8 September - Friday 2 October
Please note: Friends of SASA will be available in the Gallery at the following times
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday & Sunday 2pm - 5pm
The "First of the Friends" Show features the work of artists, students, former teachers and lecturers, and current staff, who are members of Friends of the SA School of Art (UniSA) - in response to a call to exhibit using any media. The Friends of SASA come from a variety of backgrounds and have been trained in diverse artforms - they are artists, designers and crafts-people and their talent is a rich resource. The Friends say: "By using this beautiful gallery, we would like to show the valuable contribution members make to our contemporary society and culture in Adelaide and the State."
Traces
Thursday 6 August - Thursday 3 September
View images from the Traces exhibition launch here
Traces explores connections and intersections between the work of artists, architects and designers engaging with the key themes of Drawing / Sustainability / Environment.
A part of the SALA Festival, this exhibition celebrates South Australian artists, architects and designers who are working at the School of Art, Architecture & Design (incorporating the South Australian School of Art and Louis Laybourne-Smith School of Architecture & Design), University of South Australia.
The Greenpeace Design Awards Exhibition
Thursday 2 July - Tuesday 4 August
In recognition of the strong role visual communication has played in Greenpeace actions, the Greenpeace Design Awards have been established.
The aim is to motivate the global creative community to develop visually striking artwork that encourages the public to support Greenpeace and take action on critical environmental issues.
The Greenpeace Design Awards are hosted by Greenpeace Australia Pacific and UniLife Inc, in association with the University of South Australia. The exhibition is a display of the shortlisted entries and forms part of a multi-state travelling program.
Doc[u]mentaries
Monday 1 June - Tuesday 30 June
A series of 24 photo essays completed during Wend Lear's placement as a
photographer and photography teacher in Palestine during 2007. Each week
Wend produced a series of five photographs documenting events and
encounters. Each is a small narrative relating to the human condition and
life in Palestine itself. These essays document the everyday events and
occurrences of a displaced people in an occupied land and examines the
nature of how documentary as a visual record on an ongoing basis gives a
different basis for understanding, showing the reality of the situation
through the 'ordinary' rather than sensational highlights.
Project Abraham: A Conversation Between Muslims, Christians and Jews
Monday 27 April - Thursday 28 May
Project Abraham brings together the three faiths of Islam, Judaism and
Christianity to highlight commonalities and build interfaith understanding
and has involved education programs across Australia. This exhibition,
curated for Project Abraham, features photographs of synagogues, mosques,
and churches, calligraphy writings of sacred prayers, and religious
artefacts. Items on display include: holy oil, perfume bottles and spice
boxes, religious head coverings and clothing, Muslim prayer beads and rosary
beads, and copies of the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible and the Holy Qu'ran.
Reform, Fitness and Fun
Wednesday 11 March - Thursday 23 April
The places provided for children reflect society's attitudes towards
them. Reform, Fitness and Fun is an exhibition exploring the intersection of
child development and play theories with the design of public playgrounds in
South Australia. It draws on historical resources and sites from across the
state and overseas, and on the expertise of a multi-disciplinary team of
child development and play specialists, historians, architects, and
landscape architects. Curated through the UniSA Architecture Museum.
Dignity and justice for all of us
Monday 19 January - Friday 6 March 2009
2008 Australian Human Rights Commission Photo Competition.
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Australian Human Rights Commission held a photo competition based on the theme - 'Dignity and justice for all of us'.
The theme reinforced the vision of the Declaration as a commitment to universal dignity and justice, and reinforces how human rights are an inextricable part of our lives - for everyone, everywhere, everyday.
The shortlisted images in this exhibition reflect the theme of the competition and provide a unique approach to a human rights subject. For some, the photograph recorded a moment that celebrates dignity and justice; for others, it captured fundamental rights and freedoms being recognised; and for others it was an observance of what human rights meant to them.
If you are interested in submitting a guest installation suggestion, please look through the Civic Gallery installation guidelines and forward the requested documentation. The Hawke Centre will then liaise with you regarding your request.