Past exhibitions

CO-CREATING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/This year’s exhibition from Match Studio will display student outcomes and concepts from the 2023 Match Tournament and for the eighth year running concepts from the Visualising Mental Health project.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Match Studio, UniSA Creative

Exhibition: Deaf Gain

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/ This exhibition is a celebration of the local and national Deaf community. This exceptional exhibition serves as a powerful platform for deaf artists to showcase their talent and share inspiring stories from the deaf community.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and The Deaf Butterfly Effect is a sponsoring partner of this exhibition.

Exhibition: Artists On The Inside

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Artists On The Inside presents artwork created by adults incarcerated in South Australia’s prisons. The works allow contributors to participate in the community both as prisoners and as artists, using art as the medium to create and share stories.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the Department for Correctional Services, as part of SALA

"Hope" Is The Thing With Feathers

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/ This exhibition features artworks by emerging artists who attend the Visual Art Programs run by Neami National, a community mental health service supporting people to achieve mental and physical wellbeing.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Neami National

VASL Exhibition

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Curated by Elyas Alavi and Jacquaya McKenzie (Assistant Curator) VASL/وصل exhibition presents a diverse group of South Australian and international contemporary artists – across several media, including painting, installation, performance, and video. The title of the exhibition is borrowed from an ancient word shared in many languages including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Kurdish. It means “union; meeting and connection”.

Commissioned and Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre

Gone Shopping

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Department Stores emerged in the late nineteenth century and thrived during the twentieth century. This exhibition of architectural drawings, photographs and advertising material will use the rich collection of the Architecture Museum and will include not only department stores from Adelaide city but also those in suburban shopping malls, and main streets of country towns.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Architecture Museum, UniSA Creative, as part of South Australia’s History Festival

Exhibition: Gone Shopping

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Department Stores emerged in the late nineteenth century and flourished during the twentieth century. This exhibition of architectural drawings, photographs and advertising material will use the rich collection of the Architecture Museum and will include not only department stores from Adelaide city but also those in suburban shopping malls, and main streets of country towns.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Architecture Museum, UniSA Creative, as part of South Australia’s History Festival

On Australian Soil

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Bob Brown once described Bob Hawke as, ‘Australia’s Environmental Prime Minister’. The Hawke Government oversaw a period of extraordinary progress in Australia’s environmental history, firstly delivering on a 1983 election promise to stop the Franklin River damming. This exhibition will explore the Hawke Government’s environmental actions and policies.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library

Sanaa Exhibition

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/Sanaa Exhibition returns to the Hawke Centre’s Kerry Packer Civic Gallery. The exhibition showcases the diverse experiences of artists from Africa and South Australia’s multicultural communities. Sanaa Exhibition aims to facilitate intercultural understanding by providing a platform to artists from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Sanaa: A Better World Through Creativity

Exhibition: C-IDEA Design Award

/Kerry Packer Civic Gallery/The C-IDEA Design Award is an annual multinational juried design competition. These awards aim to recognise and promote visionary talents. Representing a wide array of design fields, works range from Industrial Design, Architecture, Interior Design, illustration, Animation, Fashion, Communication Design, and New Media.

Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and UniSA Creative