SASA Gallery
UniSA Creative -
experimental lab space
SASA Gallery, located in Adelaide’s West End, is a student-focused space that exhibits the work of UniSA Creative graduating students and researchers, along-side academic engagement programs and workshops.
It provides exhibition, research and integrated learning experiences for UniSA undergraduate and HDR candidates.
SASA Gallery welcomes all visitors, including school and group bookings.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Training Ground: Past and present students of the South Australian School of Art
2 October -7 November 2025
SASA Gallery
The South Australian School of Art has nurtured and trained generations of South Australian artists. In the closing months of the University of South Australia, and on the eve of a new epoch for the South Australian School of Art, Training Ground at the SASA Gallery draws together works by past and present students – from current students to industry luminaries – in a group exhibition that celebrates the excellence and legacy of the institution. From painting to prints, glass to ceramics, moving image to sculpture, installation and jewellery, Training Ground unearths key works and new talent, affirming the pivotal role of training in shaping artistic practice.
Syd Ball Andy Best Jane Bowden Max Callaghan Sarah crowEST Aleks Danko Brad Darkson Margaret Dodd Nic Folland Helium L Barbara Hanrahan Pam Harris Anton Hart Louise Haselton Andrew Hill Aidan Hughes Matt Huppatz Aldo Iacobelli Shaun Kirby Kay Lawrence Christian Lock Michelle Nikou Trevor Nickolls Bruce Nuske Deborah Paauwe Yhonnie Scarce Jeffery Smart Briana Speight James Tylor Angela & Hossein Valamanesh Gerry Wedd Simon Williams Geoff Wilson Min Wong Lucy Zola
Opening event: Friday 3 October 2025, 5-7pm – All welcome
Past Exhibitions
THE ARCHITECT’S DREAM, THE SLEEP OF REASON
The Architect’s Dream, The Sleep Of Reason looks at the opportunities that AI tools provide to architects and designers imagining and designing worlds through the hallucinogenic lens of generative AI imagery. Questions surrounding the authorship and legitimacy of AI art miss the point that engaging with the ‘picture worlds’ of AI is only the start of the journey. If we reverse engineer our aesthetic encounters with AI, we can find hidden narratives that speak of other ontologies.
The exhibition by students and staff at UniSA and RMIT brings together a collection of artefacts, drawings, AI-generated images, and digital environments, each responding to theoretical prompts drawn from architectural texts. These works explore how AI can mediate between abstract design thinking and concrete architectural expression—revealing unexpected, provocative, and sometimes even ‘buildable’ possibilities.
Presented by Sean Pickersgill, Andrew Lymn-Penning, Patrick Macaset, Vei Tan, Nathan Crane. This exhibition is supported by AASA (Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia).
short notice (#3)
Temporary, hectic, responsive and kinetic: in this third iteration of short notice, various artists descend on the SASA Gallery for one night only. All welcome.
JOHN ANDREWS: ARCHITECT OF UNCOMMON SENSE
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense is a celebration of the great architect's work and its global impact. Andrews’s designs are a shining example of how architecture can be used to address urgent environmental and urban concerns.
Exhibited previously at Harvard University’s Druker Design Gallery, Architect of Uncommon Sense showcases formerly inaccessible Australian archival holdings from the State Library of New South Wales, with a special focus on Andrews's Adelaide Station and Environs Redevelopment (ASER) which includes the Adelaide Convention Centre and Exhibition Centre (both demolished), the Intercontinental Hotel (formerly the Hyatt Regency) and the Riverside Centre.
Beyond Andrews’s work, the exhibition highlights Australia's late modern architectural heritage and the evolution of environmental sensibilities in Australian design culture, while investigating the challenges entailed in the conservation of this work.
Organised through themes including Geography, Urbanism and Sustainability, the exhibition features period drawings, images and documents, with new photography by Noritaka Minami.
Curated by Paul Walker & Kevin Liu
Exhibition supporters
Mahsa Makki (Misha McKee): Sewing Place to Time
Sewing Place to Time is a Farsi (Persian) expression meaning “trying hard to do something quite impossible”.
This exhibition sews together the past, present, future, elsewhen, here, there, and elsewhere, to respond to Bhabha’s (2012) unrepresentable Third Space. In doing so, through capturing the fleeting, mundane moments of everyday life, the naïve and whimsical illustrations, try hard to represent the unrepresentable.
Mahsa, is a visual practitioner-researcher whose work explores the interconnections between illustration, identity, culture, and everyday life. This exhibition forms part of her PhD project, an autoethnographic practice-based enquiry into the lived experience of a migration journey.
Bhabha, H. K. (2012). The location of culture. Routledge.
Image: Mahsa Makki Alamdari, Floating on Uncertainty, 2022-2025, Collage, 295 mm x 210 mm.
Visit
Open Wednesday to Friday, 10am—4pm
Kaurna Building, Level 2, Fenn Pl, University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000
