SASA Gallery

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.

Current Exhibitions

Mahsa Makki (Misha McKee): Sewing Place to Time

Friday 2 May – Thursday 22 May 2025

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.

OPENING

We warmly invite you to join us for the launch of 

Mahsa Makki: Sewing Place to Time  in the SASA Gallery on Thursday 1 May, 4–6 pm. 
Opening speaker Associate Professor Veronika Kelly.

Image: Mahsa Makki Alamdari, Floating on Uncertainty, 2022-2025, Collage, 295 mm x 210 mm.

JOHN ANDREWS: ARCHITECT OF UNCOMMON SENSE

Friday 30 May – Saturday 12 July 2025

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