FRAN FEST EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions will be held at major institutions, galleries & ARI's (Artist Run Initiatives) exhibiting a range of solo, group, and curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary women's art, as well as film screenings and other satellite events.

This is a list of galleries that are participating in FRAN FEST, and as exhibitions are confirmed, each gallery will have its own listing.

ACE Open

ACE Across " Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide " aceopen.art @ace_open Poster Project N/A FRAN FEST Poster Project, has invited FRAN FEST artists and all interested women to submit a poster design, the posters will be exhibited at ACE Open’s project space for the Festival Launch Party.

Opening Launch Party Saturday 26 August 6pm

August 26 - September 16

FRAN FEST Poster Project, has invited FRAN FEST artists and all interested women to submit a poster design, the posters will be exhibited at ACE Open’s project space for the Festival Launch Party on Saturday 26 August, 2017. We asked women to respond to the history of the women’s movement’s production of political posters. What does it mean to be a woman today, what contemporary issues/parallels with the past effect you?

Domestic Arts Sera Waters

Opening: Thursday 20 July, 5.30pm

Fri 21 Jul, 2017 – Sat 26 Aug, 2017

Unravel the complex histories and traditions of home-making in Sera Waters’ Domestic Arts. Commissioned by ACE Open, the celebrated South Australian artist continues her investigation into the contemporary significance of traditional home-crafts. In this new body of work, Waters reaches into her own family history to interrogate the ongoing legacies of colonial home-making. Through a re-imagined familial home, Waters’ intricate embroideries and large-scale sculptures celebrate the knowledge and creativity of ‘women’s work’; while also revealing their complicity with forms of colonisation and privilege.

Girls Kate Blackmore

Opening:Thursday 7 September, 5.30pm

Fri 8 Sep, 2017 – Sat 30 Sep

Step into the world of four fourteen-year-old girls with Kate Blackmore’s intimate and insightful work, Girls (2014). Originally commissioned by Campbelltown Art Centre, Girls sees Blackmore collaborate with a group growing up in Claymore, a public housing estate in Sydney’s South West. In a research paper published by Griffith University, Claymore is described as “the most disadvantaged community in Australia” due to its high rates of crime, alcohol and drug abuse, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy and intergenerational welfare dependency. Through interviews and observations, Blackmore exposes the specific attitudes and behaviours the girls have developed as a way of surviving within their stigmatised community. Rather than presenting them as victims of the welfare state, Blackmore attempts to capture the significance of this moment in their young lives in which they hold the power to break the cycle or continue it.

This Woman is Not a Car Margaret Dodd

ACE Open is delighted to present This Woman is Not a Car: Margaret Dodd, featuring the internationally acclaimed series of ceramic Holden cars from 1977 by local artist Margaret Dodd, together with her 1982 film of the same name. This is the first time the ceramics and film have been shown together in Adelaide since 1993. The exhibition, curated by Susan Charlton, comes fresh from its Sydney launch, which coincided with the screening of This Woman is Not a Car at Sydney Film Festival as part of the Feminism & Film program by Australian women filmmakers from the 1970s and 80s. Dodd's audacious film and ‘Funk Ceramic’ Holdens explore the feminine and the maternal; fantasy, humour and the erotic: masculinity, fetishism and violence. Once seen, the works cannot be forgotten, leaving an imprint in the brain where indelible memory resides. This Woman is Not a Car: Margaret Dodd also includes pieces from her more recent series, Chosen Vessel (2008) and Holden Hypotheses (2014), as well as prints, props and archival material from the film shoot in Adelaide in the seventies.

Opening:Thursday 7 September, 5.30pm

Fri 8 Sep, 2017 – Sat 30 Sep

Archival Hub: Remembering the Women's Show

Margaret Dodd Loene Furler Ann Newmarch Stephanie Radok Beverley Southcott Helen Sheriff

With generational change women's histories can often be swept aside, left on the 'scrap-heap of history'(Susan Faludi). But with the archival turn in feminism and with generational change women's histories can often be swept aside, left on the 'scrap-heap of history'(Susan Faludi). But with the archival turn in feminism and art these scrap-heaps become important sites of (re)discovery, revealing fragments or traces of forgotten narratives that when pierced together can disrupt established histories yielding other meanings, telling other stories. Women artists who exhibited in The Women's Show have been invited to comb through their own 'scrap-heaps' and create their own archives from artefacts, objects, remnants and memories that recall The Women's Show, the impact of feminism and their work and circumstances at the time. Curated by Jude Adams.

Opening Saturday 26 August 6pm

August 26 - September 16

Fight for Self Co-coordinated by Heidi Kenyon and Polly Dance.

Fight for Self is an open, semi-guided discussion about feminism, motherhood*, taboos, and the societal pressures that women in the arts face and fight against on a daily basis. *Note: this discussion is not limited to mothers but is an open dialogue around the aforementioned topics.

Saturday 23 Sept 2-4pm

Adelaide Town Hall

Adelaide Town HallLevel 1, 128 King William St, Adelaide SA 5000

https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideTownHall

The Great Suffragette Dirigible Brigid Noone, Ali Gumillya Baker, Mary-Jean Richardson, Ewa Skoczynska, Jenna Pippett, Mia van den Bos, Sera Waters.

Important and famous women from South Australia's history are honoured in a series of portraits from some of Adelaide's most accomplished contemporary artists.

Opening: 3 August, 5.30-7.30pm

3 August- 27 October, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia Gallery 6, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au https://www.instagram.com/artgalleryofsa

Re-thinking Australian art Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Rosalie Gascoigne, Fiona Hall, Julie Gough, Barbara Hanrahan, Noela Hjorth, Inge King, Rosemary Laing, Tracey Moffatt, Ann Newmarch, Bronwyn Oliver, Sally Smart and Margaret Worth among others.

Encompassing painting, photography, decorative arts, sculpture and printmaking, these new collection displays will highlight the complex and radical changes that occurred in Australian art after the Second World War, including the feminist art movement and the revelation of Aboriginal art. The role of women artists within these seismic shifts in Australian art and identity will be explored through both focused collection displays in Gallery 6 and a new work by Sally Smart in the Gallery’s vestibule." "Vestibule installation by Sally Smart

from Saturday 29 July 2017 Gallery 6 open from Saturday 2 September 2017, Open daily 10 am to 5 pm (closed 25 December)

Art Images Gallery

32 The Parade, Norwood SA 5067

http://artimagesgallery.com.au

Strange Plants Cheryl-Anne Brown, Jenny Clapson, Sophie Dunlop, Cindy Durrant, Loene Furler, Jorji Gardener, Leah Grace, Yasmin Grass, Gail Kellett, Bev Luff, Cristina Metelli, Megan O’Hara, Barbary O’Brien, Jenny Ramos, Ellen Schlobohm, Deborah Sleeman, Evette Sunset, Samantha Tipler, Kerry Youde, Annabelle Collett, Sam Mulcahy, Bob Daly & Kalyna Micenko.

Strange Plants' shows the role plants and flowers play in our creative and personal lives. From the domestic to the exotic, from the native to the endangered, Strange Plants will explore our relationships with all things botanical. Curated by Annabelle Collett.

Opening event will feature speaker Dr Lucy Sutherland, Director, Adelaide Botanical Gardens.

Sunday 6th August 1pm - 5pm 6th August – 3rd September 2017

Artroom5

artroom5 5 Kent St Henley Beach

www.artroom5.com.au

HOME Makeda Duong, Stephanie Radok, Dawn Kanost and the CWA.

I’m not Modersohn and I’m not Paula Becker anymore either. I am Me, and I hope to become Me more and more.” Marie Darrieussecq, Being Here The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Text Publishing, pp 97-98, 2017 The piece is a ‘kantha’ (an Indian traditional quilt that reworks worn saris.) The work is made from reclaimed materials of silk (scarves, clothing, a sari) and cotton (stitching). Uncounted layers of silk have been hand-stitched together -- by studying the edge areas, overlays of at least 6 separate textiles can be identified in parts. Words are formed by the stitching -- these words are the ten Buddhist 'paramis': generosity VIRTUE wisdom renunciation ENERGY patience truthfulness rESoLVE loving kindness EQUANIMITY

Opening: 25 August 6pm, all other dates open 10 to 5pm 25-26 August, 1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 22-23 September (ie open only Friday and Saturday)

BMG Art

444 South Road, Marleston, South Australia

http://www.bmgart.com.au

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... Gloria Steinem

Marie Peter-Toltz, Chelsea Lehmann, Karen Genoff, Rebecca Hastings

Opening 1 September 6.30 - 8pm

1-23 September 2017

Carclew Ballroom and Foyer Galleries

11 Jeffcott Street Kaurna Country North Adelaide SA 5061

http://carclew.com.au/Program/women-in-abstraction

Women in Abstraction Imogen Porteous, Emma Sullivan

We don’t often hear about great female abstract artists. Abstraction developed during the modern period and, as Griselda Pollock writes in Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, ‘all those canonised as the initiators of modern art [were] men.’ The artists will deconstruct traditional notions of femininity through abstraction, challenging the hierarchy of this seemingly patriarchal style. They aim to invert the female gaze so that she looks inwards rather than outwards. Imogen Porteous and Emma Sullivan are abstract artists determined to disrupt stereotypes of the genre. Historically, abstract artists have been middle-class, academic men who gained power and prestige through their work and personalities. Women abstractionists were producing during the modernist period but often overshadowed by men. In 2017, women are fighting back. Imogen is abstract and unashamedly feminine. Using soft colours, she creates works beautiful in their fluidity, an organic approach invoking tranquillity and peace. Imogen strives to understand her identity, exploring and expressing feelings around issues with being a woman. Emma’s work focuses on distortion of the female figure. Her work is playful but confronting, beautiful yet grotesque. The forms and sharpness of these intricate sculptures make you uneasy, yet colours, curves and craters garner curiosity and surprise.

Gallery Opening hours: Monday – Friday 9am to 5pm Artist Talk Thursday3 Aug 6-7pm Artists in Residence, Imogen Porteous and Emma Sullivan, will join Curator in Residence, Olivia Kubiak, to present an Artist Talk Exhibition Opening Thursday 3 Aug 7-9pm Critique Night Thursday 31 Aug 6-8:30pm A facilitated Critique Night in the Residency Studios at Carclew"

Tuesday 1 Aug 2017 – Sunday 24 September 2017

Central School of Art Gallery

7 Mulberry Road Glenside SA 5065 (Via Gate 1, 226 Fullarton Road) and various city locations (check brochure for details)

acsa.sa.edu.au

A Drawn Exploration with Annalise Rees Annalise Rees "Drawing is a method for coming to understand the unfamiliar and is often a useful tool to interrogate the known. This masterclass will include

Drawing is a method for coming to understand the unfamiliar and is often a useful tool to interrogate the known. This masterclass will include fieldwork to collect information and to engage with objects, artefacts and sites using drawing as an embodied and investigative tool. Incorporating observational techniques, memory, touch and sound you will respond to sites and objects through the process and practice of drawing. You will be able to extend your drawing research to incorporate other mediums and materials relevant to your own studio practice - drawing is premised as a key research strategy for artists working in any discipline. This masterclass has a maximum of 16 places available. Cost $600 Please note the masterclass fee does not include the cost of materials. Morning and afternoon tea will be provided on Saturday 2 September. BYO lunch.

Artist Talk by Annalise Rees – Thu 31 Aug 2017, 6pm – 7pm | Masterclass - Fri 1 – Sat 2 Sep 2017, 10am – 5pm Thu 31 Aug – Sat 2 Sep 2017 Annalise Rees, Book 16 – Heard Island, 2017

Ensemble Studio Gallery

94 Gilles St, Adelaide www.ensemblestudios.com.au CONFIRMED All About Her Janine Dello (curator), Mariana

www.ensemblestudios.com.au CONFIRMED All About Her Janine Dello (curator), Mariana

All About Her Janine Dello (curator), Mariana Mejic, Sarah Norman, Carrie Radzevicius, Julie Strawinski, Caroline Walls, Elizabeth Wojciak

Mixed media, painting and illustration from a diverse group of local Adelaide female artists, each exploring the female experience in their own way – from femininity to feminism. A one night only showing in a gallery space which is part of a retail hub of locally made, sustainable artisan wares including clothes, shoes, plants and homewares.

Opening launch Friday 15 September 4-7pm Friday 15 September 4-7pm, Saturday 16th 10-4pm.

FELTspace

12 Compton St, Adelaide 5000 www.feltspace.org CONFIRMED

www.feltspace.org

on / off circle Nancy Downes

As a circumstance of encounter, on / off circle emphasises the body as a site that is attuned and responsive to environmental elements. Focusing on acts of connection and intersection through tactile materials and elements of light and space, the senses are considered here as registers of experience that inform knowledge of the self and how we are located in the world. Upon unfurling, the layers within each work reveal a complexity of relational connections, through gestural and perceptual processes; a call and response of cues and miscues at play. With specific attention to the senses, on / off circle offers an embodied encounter of human phenomena that are both simple and nuanced, existing quietly beneath the surface of interactions.

Opening: 6th September 6pm Running: 7th - 23rd September, Wed - Thurs: 1pm - 4pm / Fri: 1pm - 7pm / Sat: 10am - 4pm

Stealth.Co Alycia Bennett

Stealth.Co is a participatory, performative installation that creates a conversation surrounding privacy, consent and surveillance. Stealth.Co consists of a consulantacy business that creates D.I.Y analogue solutions for the privacy concerns of their customers.

Opening: 6th September 6pm Running: 7th - 23rd September, Wed - Thurs: 1pm - 4pm / Fri: 1pm - 7pm / Sat: 10am - 4pm

Flinders University City Gallery

State Library of South Australia North Terrace, Adelaide

http://artmuseum.flinders.edu.au/ www.facebook.com/flindersart www.instagram.com/flindersart

Photography Meets Feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s - 80s, Artists Micky Allan Pat Brassington Virginia Coventry Sandy Edwards Anne Ferran Sue Ford Christine Godden Helen Grace Janina Green Fiona Hall Ponch Hawkes Carol Jerrems Merryle Johnson Ruth Maddison Julie Rrap Robyn Stacey Curated by Monash Gallery of Art

During this period of the late twentieth century, photography helped feminism and feminism helped photography. On the one hand, feminists used the highly informative and accessible medium of photography to raise awareness of critical social issues. On the other hand, photographic artists embraced feminist themes as a way of making their practice less esoteric and more engaged with contemporary life. This productive exchange between feminism and photography fostered a range of technical innovations and critical frameworks that radically transformed the direction of visual culture in Australia. A Monash Gallery of Art travelling exhibition

Tuesday – Friday 11am – 4pm Saturday & Sunday 12 – 4pm Closed Mondays & public holidays Dates: Sat 16 September – Sun 19 November 2017

Floating Goose

271 Morphett St, Adelaide SA 5000

http://www.floatinggoose.com.au

HELLO; I AM HOME Timmi Tsapaliaris

I gave her directions, “Google maps it” I added. The places we traverse daily intertwine into an idea we understand as home. A somewhat fantasy land in which only we exist, intermittently crossing others’ paths amidst our daily routine. My personal perception is both a common experience and an isolating one; fragmented and contradictory at best. In an effort to compensate the two, a visual language emerges.

Opening Friday 8 September 2017 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

8 Sep 2017 – 1 October 2017

Fontanelle

175 St Vincent Street Port Adelaide

http://www.fontanelle.com.au https://www.facebook.com/galleryandstudios/ https://www.instagram.com/fontanelle_gallery/

Essays on Love Brigid Noone

‘Essays on Love' presents a body of paintings as a tool for articulating a personal internal dialogue, relating to my own experiences of intimacy & love. Consistent with feminist approaches in my work, it has been important for me to consciously place myself in the project from its inception. This process is informed by some of my personal experiences in the wider context of my practice as an individual visual artist and as an independent curator, who directs Fontanelle with Ben Leslie. I have chosen to exhibit this new body of work at Fontanelle, as it is the site that grounds my multi-faceted arts practice, including a studio practice and collective artist run practice. This exhibition project embraces the flexible boundaries of contemporary painting, allowing the new work to articulate its own visual language of colour and emotion. Working with Ben as the curator (and my partner) has provided me with a very real working methodology that links life and studio work on a daily basis. Love, relationship and connection all form vital aspects of my complex working life and practice, this involves running Fontanelle with Ben and being part of a community that embraces and supports collaboration. These paintings examine relationships, exploring ideas around intimacy, love, vulnerability, and connectedness. Exploring the tension between the internal geography of emotion and external conditions and how internal feelings connect with larger narratives and outside experiences.

Opening Saturday 5 August 6pm 6 August 2017 until- 3 September 2017

Love & Feminism Jodie Whalen, Amy Milhinch, Mary-Jean Richardson, Alex Cuffe, Lynn Lobo, Madison Bycroft, & Grace Marlow

Following on from the exhibition Beyoncé is a Feminist in 2013, Love & Feminism investigates a range of responses to the relationship between Feminism and love. Connecting with an intersectional approach, the invited artists, Jodie Whalen, Amy Milhinch, Mary-Jean Richardson, Alex Cuffe, Lynn Lobo, Madison Bycroft, and Grace Marlow, open up a dialogue about the complex nature of love and how it relates to a contemporary conversation around Feminism. Curated by Brigid Noone.

Opening Saturday 9th September 6pm Sat

10 Sep - 8 Oct, Thurs - Sun 1-5pm

Format Inc

80 Hindley Street,

Adelaidewww.format.net.au

No Home (2015) Chantal Akerman

Urgency presents a screening of No Home Movie (2015), directed by the late Belgian feminist director Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Beginning with conversations between the director and her mother, a survivor of Auschwitz, the film develops into an affecting collision of the personal and the universal.

Sunday August 27 6pm

GAG Projects

39 Rundle Street, Kent Town.

http://www.gagprojects.com https://www.instagram.com/gagprojects/ https://twitter.com/gagprojects https://www.facebook.com/gagprojects/

Roses don't have hearts, but my eyes will find yours Myriam Mechita (FRANCE)

French artist Myriam Mechita is fascinated by moments of transcendence: orgasm, intoxication, and the overwhelming combination of pleasure and pain. The word ‘ecstasy’ means going outside oneself, according to its Greek etymology. And this state of mind is essential for Mechita’s oeuvre. Mechita using embroidered sequins, shiny latex, colorful textiles, embroidery and sculptural objects, Mechita creates her glamorous and mysterious universe. For this presentation, Mechita will be presenting new large scale charcoal drawings, ceramic work created while in residence at Jam Factory. This project has been supported by the French Embassy in Australia.

Opening Wednesday, 30 August, 6-8pm.

Wednesday 30 August 2017 - Sunday 24 September 2017

Glitch Artspace Port Adelaide

109a Commercial Rd Port Adelaide

Instagram.com/glitchexartspace

Immense personal satisfaction Alex Perisic

Remorse Code Ella James

Opening Thursday 31st August 2017 7pm

Thursday 31st August - Thursday 21st September 2017

Guildhouse

GU Filmhouse, 128 Hindley St, Adelaide, SA, 5000

https://guildhouse.org.au/events/fem-flix-w-r/

Fem Flix and !W.A.R

Lynn Hershmann Lesson and a selection of 90’s filmmakers curated by Jacqueline Millner and Jane Schneider as part of the Femflix short film program. "Guildhouse is pleased to partner with GU Filmhouse to present !Women Art Revolution and a selection of screen-based work from Femflix as part of FRAN FEST. Developed by the Contemporary Art and Feminism research cluster, at Sydney College of the Arts – The Femflix project captured the unique voices of 90s feminist screen culture. Screen culture in its various forms, including live action shorts, digital interactive works, and animation, was a rich site for feminist practice during this period, distinguished by the emergence of the internet, and queer, indigenous and postcolonial critiques. Thank you to Jacqueline Millner and Jane Schneider who have curated a selection of the short film program for us. Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed art and culture. “All artists, especially women, need to embrace their responsibility and watch this truly inspirational chronicle of artistic segregation. “ Lauren Lloyd, LAist, June 14, 2011

Sun 24 Sept 2017

Hill Smith Gallery

113 Pirie Street, Adelaide

http://www.hillsmithgallery.com.au

Trace Annette Bezor, Deidre But-Husaim, Louise Feneley & Anna Platten

Six artists: women and art Loene Furler, Eleanor Zecchin, Talia Wignall, Deborah Sleeman, Silvana Angelakis, Laura Wills

Works by contemporary Adelaide artists, contributing to the celebration of the FRAN Festival.

Opening Saturday 2nd September 2- 5 pm

Holy Rollers Studios

69 Prospect Rd, Prospect

https://www.facebook.com/HolyRollersStudios/ https://www.instagram.com/holyrollersstudios/

The Church of Feminism Lauren Abineri, Ashton Malcolm, Ashleigh D'Antonio-Hocking, Ray Harris and more…

"The Church of Feminism" is an evolving feminist performance art event held in the chapel of Holy Rollers Studios, an old church. Join us as the list of performing artists rises like our mission, come pray with our ever growing congregation. We will bath in the baptismal pool and bow to the throne of Feminism. Bring an apple and your liturgical dancing shoes!

Opening Sun 10 September 2017 3-8pm

Hugo Michell Gallery

Hugo Michell Gallery 260 Portrush Rd, Beulah Park

www.hugomichellgallery.com

The Seventh Wave Narelle Autio & Trent Parke

Narelle Autio’s vibrant and award-winning images of Australian coastal life have won her impressive national and international acclaim. Her vivid images have also captured the hearts and imaginations of viewers. One beauty of Autio’s work is its ability to speak to so many people about their own experience of being coastal dwellers. Another is the play of colour and light in the photographs, giving them a magic and painterly quality that transcends the usual depictions of the beach. Autio’s images give back to the coastline the complexity, drama and beauty that are eroded by postcards and clichés. The Seventh Wave, a collaboration with partner Trent Parke, was first exhibited in 2000. These powerful and lyrical black and white images of swimmers capture the drama and otherworldliness that lies beneath the surface of the water.

Opening Thursday 3 August, 6pm

Thursday 3 August to 9 September 2017

JamFactory

JamFactory GalleryOne 19 Morphett Street Adelaide

www.jamfactory.com.au

Catherine Truman: no surface holds

JamFactory Icon 2017 Catherine Truman. With a practice spanning more than 35 year Catherine Truman has proven to be one of South Australia’s leading contemporary Artists and Jewellers and therefore due to this impressive career she has been selected as this year’s 2017 JamFactory ICON. This intriguing and diverse solo exhibition of objects, installations, images and film including several brand new works spans Truman 20 years of her research at the nexus of art and science. Truman describes her studio as morphing into a laboratory of sorts. Working amongst scientists and researchers, and as an avid researcher herself, she says that she has come to realise the processes of science and art are not so dissimilar. “As an artist I have learnt that making things with my hands leaves me with much less of a sense of dislocation from the world I live in - and this I feel, is an interesting premise from which to examine the world of science.” Having researched historical and contemporary anatomical collections world-wide and participated in a number of art/science- based projects, Truman notes that “We [artists and scientists] both create images of the things we see and the more we see, the more we understand we don’t know.

Friday 21 July – Sunday 17 September

Light Square Gallery

Adelaide College of the Arts, 39 Light Square

https://www.facebook.com/tafesa.edu.au/?rf=300748636654589

I like you; your eyes are full of language Nic Brown, Zoe Freney, Lara Merrington, Alice Potter, Lucy Potter, Talia Wignall. Curated by Alice Potter.

An exhibition about the importance for words, communication and language as a powerful tool in shaping the things we value.

Opening Thursday 7 September 6-8pm

Thurs 7 September - 28 September

Migration Museum

Saturday 16 September 2017, 5.30pm

82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide 5000

http://migration.history.sa.gov.au/events/2011/place-history-migration-museum-site

The feminist labour of re-membering at the Destitute Asylum

Who remembers the babies born at Adelaide’s Destitute Asylum? Who remembers their mothers, and the physical, spiritual and emotional labour they performed? At this participatory event, the names of 1678 babies will be recited at the Migration Museum, in a feminist act of re-membering the past.
In the 1850s a state-funded Destitute Asylum was established in Adelaide to house the poverty-stricken, and from the outset it provided ‘lying-in’ accommodation for pregnant women who were unmarried, widowed or deserted. In 1878 a purpose-built Lying-in Home was built at the Destitute Asylum, and between 1880 and 1909, 1678 babies were born there, 116 of whom were stillborn.
The Migration Museum site includes the former Lying-in Home building. Join your voice with ours as we remember the babies born in this place, and as we honour their mothers by sharing the labour of this reading. Explore our exhibition about the Destitute Asylum, and stay for a discussion of the history of our site.

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery 27 Sixth St Murray Bridge

www.murraybridgegallery.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/Murray-Bridge-Regional-Gallery-160315933982971/
https://www.instagram.com/murraybridgeregionalgallery/"

Disquiet India Flint

OPENING : Sunday 23 July 2.30pm OPEN HOURS: Friday 21 July 2017 – Sunday 27 August 2017

India’s work, driven by topophilia, conflates the visual and written poetics of place and memory, using ecologically sustainable contact print processes from plants and found objects together with walking, drawing, assemblage, mending, stitch and text as a means of mapping country, recoding and recording responses to landscape - working with cloth, paper, stone, windfall biological material, water, minerals, bones, the discarded artefacts and hard detritus of human habitation, the local weed burden. The work has been described (by Prof Chris Orchard) as using “the earth as the printing plate and time as the press”.

Time and Distance Sally Deans

OPENING: Sunday 3 September, 2.30pm OPEN HOURS: Friday 1 September 2017 – Sunday 15 October 2017

"Drawing inspiration from the area around the lower Murray and Fleurieu Peninsula, Sally Deans paints atmospheric sky, sea and landscapes that are distinctly characteristic of this region.
These works explore the passage of time as it defines our view of the landscape through transitory effects of weather and light, while recording the slower changes marked by nature throughout the changing seasons. "

Solastalgia Claire Brooks, Lesa Farrant, Leonie Westbrook, Jo Wilmot

OPENING: Sunday 3 September, 2.30pm OPEN HOURS: Friday 1 September 2017 – Sunday 15 October 2017

Philospher Glen Albrecht defines Solastalgia as “an emplaced or existential melancholia experienced with the negative transformation (desolation) of a loved home environment”. Works in this exhibition speak from places between grief and hope to a collective consciousness that is driving action to mitigate the effects of global warming and climate change. Sunday 3 September, 2.30pm Friday 1 September 2017 – Sunday 15 October 2017 Jo Wilmot, Dead Man’s Fingers, 2017, porcelain, brass, wood, 75mm dia Loene

Praxis Artspace

68-72 Gibson Street BOWDEN SA 5007

praxisARTSPACE.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/praxisARTSPACEgallery/

https://www.instagram.com/praxisartspace/

[sic] Rose

Margaret AMBRIDGE, Silvana ANGELAKIS, Aida AZIN, Liz BUTLER, Patty CHEHADE, Sarina DIAKOS, Lisa LOSADA, Jessie LUMB, Marijana TADIC , Chris THIEL, Karlien Van ROOYEN

OPENING: Thursday 27 July 2017 OPEN HOURS: Thurs 27 July - Sat 26 Aug 2017, Wed - Sat, 11am - 4pm

The theme of medicine is very close to my heart. If contemporary art is a record of the time that we live in then [sic] Rose endeavours to explore what affects us today in health care. Let us open discussion and investigate issues and practices relevant to today’s women.
The book Medicine: An Illustrated History by Albert S Lyons MD and R Joseph Petrucelli II MD is an excellent documentation of the social political and historical changes in medicine. 11 female artists [emerging to established; installation artists, painters, sculptors] have been invited to explore and create works that is of significance to them. The exhibition encompasses works around what is important to these female artists in relation to health care; the politics, the social, the historical. Conjuring thoughts of their own experiences, good, bad or ugly - Patty Chehade

I am a Feminist but…' Meg Wilson (SA) Deborah Prior (SA) Jacqueline Bradley (ACT) Alex Pye (NSW) Amanda Radomi (SA) Olivia White (SA) Chantal Henley (QLD) Curator Eleanor Scicchitano (SA)

OPENING Thurs 31 Aug 2017 OPEN HOURS Thurs 31 Aug - Thurs 28 Sept 2017, Wed - Sat, 11am - 4pm

I’m a Feminist but… brings together seven artists to explore the complexities and hypocrisies of being a 21st century feminist. Based on the popular podcast The Guilty Feminist, this exhibition brings together diverse voices from across Australia to celebrate, explore and challenge each artists personal connection to the movement. 'I'm a Feminist but...' is supported by Arts South Australia.

Reception Project Space

Address supplied with email RSVP via receptionprojectspace@gmail.com

Instagram: @receptionprojectspace

www.receptionprojectspace.net

Cups of nun chai (a participatory memorial/a media intervention) Alana Hunt

OPENNG Fri 6-9pm, OPEN HOURS Sat & Sun midday to 4pm, or by appointment Fri 22 Sept - Sun 24 Sept 2017

“Cups of nun chai” is a participatory memorial that emerged from the summer of 2010 in occupied Kashmir. It has grown from personal conversations, shared in private; to photographs and texts written from memory and shared online; and most recently took the form of a newspaper serial published in the daily newspaper Kashmir Reader over eleven months which reached tens of thousands of people during one of Kashmir’s most charged moments in recent history. This multi-faceted personal perspective on political events draws on communities from Australia, Belgium, Thailand, India and finally Kashmir to provide a complex view, a chorus of voices that are trying to make sense of a silenced conflict.

For its presentation at Reception Project Space, “Cups of nun chai” will take the form of the full compilation of 118 conversations in their published newspaper within a reading room. Readers will be afforded the chance to linger with the physicality of these exchanges as well as their serialisation within the very community they discuss. Over the duration of the installation various speakers will present talks and discussions with audiences/ participants on topics directly or indirectly relating to ideas of domesticity, communication, trauma, and power.

Riddoch Gallery

1 Bay Rd Mt Gambier SA

http://www.riddochartgallery.org.au/

https://www.facebook.com/TheMainCorner/

Women At Work Kerrie Stratford, Diana Wiseman, Jo Fife, Mary Daily, Jean McArthur, Yoko Kajio, Francesca da Rimini CURATOR: Dr Linda Marie Walker WRITER: Dr Teri Hoskin

OPENING Friday August 25th, 6pmOPEN HOURS Fri August 25 – Sun September 24, 2017, Gallery Hours: weekdays 10am - 5pm, weekends 10am - 3pm"

Women At Work brings together eight artists: Kerrie Stratford (paintings), Diana Wiseman (paintings/prints), Jo Fife (textiles), Mary Daily (ceramics), Jean McArthur (mixed media), Francesca da Rimini (installation/performance), Yoko Kajio (installation/performance), Teri Hoskin (writing: catalogue essay). Each artist has a distinct practice that has been active and exhibited for some considerable time; the artists therefore have depth of skill and purpose. Each medium belongs to a rich history within the visual arts, traditional and nontraditional, and inscribed by specific materials, techniques and processes that play out in very different ways; these ways attend to cultural and personal

concerns, and to locations, climates and experiences. Some mediums are combinatory –their material is manifold – and inspired by research and political/environmental issues that involve the expertise of others. The ‘Work’ in Women At Work is the-work of ‘artwork’; it is the ‘work’ that each artist does as-an- artist; ‘Work’ is what it is, in itself, informing, influencing, the artist’s work; it is the interest(s) an artist has in life, in time; it ‘causes’ work to appear/arise as artwork; the artist is who she is, At-Work in the world, and At-Work with work that is her own topic-of-Interest.

Samstag Museum

Hawke Building, City West campus

University of South Australia

55 North Terrace, Adelaide
(cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace)

https://www.facebook.com/SamstagMuseum/

a e i o u Michelle Nikou

Thurs 29th June - 1st September, Open Hours Tues to Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 2pm – 5pm, Michelle Nikou (SA) in conversation with Kendrah Morgan (Vic), Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art and co-curator, Tuesday 15th August 1-2 pm

In this exhibition of new and recent work, Adelaide-based Samstag Scholar and University of South Australia alumnus Michelle Nikou draws on surrealism to transform mundane domestic objects and materials into sculptures of humour, poignancy and marvel. Her work intentionally blurs and extends the boundaries between fine art and craft, utilising chance, psychological metaphor and juxtaposition to inventively mingle high and low art sources and cultural references with deadpan wit.
A NETS Victoria touring exhibition developed in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Melissa Keys and Kendrah Morgan. Presented by the Samstag Museum of Art for the SALA Festival and FRAN Festival.

SASA Gallery

SASA Gallery Kaurna Building | Cnr Fenn Place & Hindley Street | Adelaide | S A 5000 https://www.facebook.com/SouthAustralianSchoolofArtGallery/

http://aad.unisa.edu.au/research/research-areas/sasa-gallery/

From there to here Margaret Dodd, Ann Newmarch, Kay Lawrence, Olga Sankey and Loene Furler

Thursday 31 August 2017, 5-7pm Friday 1 – Friday 22 September 2017, 11.00am-5.00pm Monday

This exhibition will bring together the work of five committed artists who have been heavily involved in visual arts and sharing information for over 40 years. It is important for the legacy of these women artists to be understood as time is taking its toll and memories may slip away. While there is a resurgence of exhibitions with a focus on womens/feminist art recently both in Adelaide and interstate, the question of its importance has renewed interest to the current generation of students and artists and it remains under-explored. From There to Here will seek to generate a discussion on the relevance of womens contribution and the role of feminism and artists as image producers within the contemporary context of visual art.

Sauerbier House

Sauerbier House Culture Exchange 21 Wearing Street, Port Noarlunga, Adelaide. http://onkaparingacity.com/onka/discover/arts_culture/sauerbier_house_culture_exchange.jsp

Walking Backwards Christobel Kelly

Walking Backwards, exhibition opening Saturday 23 September, 1.30pm – 4.00pm, Sauerbier House. Open Studio, Sauerbier House, Thursday and Friday, August 25th to September 24th during FRAN FEST

This three month open studio project at Sauerbier House looks the geographical areas around Aldinga, Port Willunga and Red Ochre Beach. Through writing, printmaking and sculpture the artist revisits ideas around deep attachment to place.

Artist in session and The Silent Mindfulness of Winding Workshop Paloma Concierta

Artist in Session: 25 August 2017 1.00-4.00pm
Winding workshop: Friday 25 August 2017 10.30-11.30pm, Saturday 26 August 1.00-2.30pm

Today we can be mindful
of what we have in common with each other:
A longing to let go of some things;
and a desire to hold onto others.

Please be prepared for one hour of no speaking while you are apprenticed in a hands-on meditative winding session to the sounds of ‘UNwound’.
The ambient musical soundscape ‘UNwound’ was created by Ian Hamilton and Paloma Concierta using the actual building of Sauerbier House as an instrument.
You will take home a winding bowl that you can continue to work on as you need. Kids ok, just so long as they are accompanied by an equally silent adult.
Bring 1x wooden bowl and 2 balls of wool, or you can pay $10 material fee (please advise when booking if you require materials supplied)
Bookings essential. Phone 8186 1393 or email jaylan@onkaparinga.sa.gov.au

Signal Point Gallery

Signal Point Gallery The Wharf
Goolwa, SA 5214 https://www.rgasa.org.au/signalpointgallery

The Journey Lindy Downing

Fri 8 September 4.30pm Fri 8 September to Sun 5 November
Mon to Fri 11am-4pm
Sat and Sun 10am-4pm

Lindy Downing grew up in the Coorong and Lakes districts. Such is the intimacy she holds with this landscape, her ancestors on arrival from England lived within it, in a cave at Rapid Bay for the first two years of their life in Australia. The impetus behind Lindy’s work is documenting a changing landscape from the micro to the macro. Lindy moved to Goolwa twenty seven years ago. Photography has been part of her life since childhood and became a full-time passion around 2004. Drought in the first part of this century dramatically increased her output and with the feeling that ‘time was of the essence photography became the mode of recording as well as the chosen art form.

Sister

Sister 26 Sixth St Bowden

https://www.facebook.com/sistergallerysister/

Instagram: @sistergallery

IGAMEW FRINKATWO! Voni (USA)

Friday August 18 2017, 6pm

18 August 2017 - 15 September 2017, gallery open Thurs-Sun 1-5pm

IGAMEW FRINKATWO! is an exploration of play by visiting New York City artist and fashion designer Voni. The installation is influenced by Donald Winnicott’s psychoanalytic theories on childhood play and involves a 'transitional space' in which a person is between reality and imagination. The presence of tangible objects grounds them in reality, but there is an absurdity which pushes the space into the fantastical. Voni creates an immersive environment invoking transitional phenomena through performance, paintings, drawings, soft sculptures, found objects and film.

Get some Georgia Rae Banks (VIC)

Friday September 22 2017, 6pm, Performative artist talk 6 - 7.30 pm 22 September 2017 - 20 October 2017, gallery open Thurs-Sun 1-5pm

Get Some is an exhibition of a video triptych that explores Australian identity, female subjectivity and 90s nostalgia through engaging with government food public service announcements from the artist's childhood. There will be a performative artist talk to close the exhibition.

Náire orthu Ursula Halpin

Craft making sessions with Ursula Halpin, 7 and 8 October 2-4 pm

22 September 2017 - 20 October 2017, gallery open Thurs-Sun 1-5pm

Ursula Halpin's glass, textile and sculptural practice looks at developing a new feminist discourse through autobiographical narratives examining how making has assisted in transcending, estrangement, loss of identity and culture as a result of experiencing abjection, through historical and contemporary immigration.

The Origin of the World Laura Moore (NSW)

Friday September 22 2017, 6pm

22 September 2017 - 20 October 2017, gallery open Thurs-Sun 1-5pm

"Looking is the end intention of any photograph and is loaded with substantial political implications. Through examining the parallel development of photography and the commodification of the body, Laura Moore has isolated certain devices and abilities of photography that facilitate the imbalance of gendered
looking."

Studio Bowden

91A Drayton St Bowden 5007

http://www.studiobowden.com.au/

Scapes Amanda Lawler, Lou Vadasz, Frances Griffen, Adele duBarry, Tsering Hannaford, Sonia Hender, Marlene Kingdon, Tricia Ross

14 September at 6pm- 8pm. Thursday 14- Sunday 24 September.

"This is an exhibition of works by 8 women, who have in common the making of works inspired by the land or enjoyment and awareness of place or a state of being. Scapes, anticipates the representation of the physical and metaphysical- in representation or abstraction. Traditionally, women have not enjoyed equality in exposure in prizes that celebrate landscape. Over its history, only a small number of women have been annointed as winner of art prizes focusing on landscape. For example, the Wynne prize.
Many of the works to be displayed are abstractions, or interpretations of place. They are distillations of the essence of the place, or an interpretation of observed elements."

The Mill

The Mill 154 Angas Street, Adelaide SA 5000 http://www.themilladelaide.com/

Girl Space Antonia Ditroia, Ban-She, Brianna Speight, Ellie Anderson, Indigo Cherry, Ria Roma Sharma, Sascha Tan
Curated by Laura Gentgall

8 September 2017, 6pm 8 September - 27 September

The Opening party of the GirlSpace exhibition.: a chance to meet the artists, learn more about Girlspace, the subsidiary events and celebrate at The Mill.

All Female Maker's Market

10 September 2017, 10am-4pm

This Sunday Market will showcase some of the wonderful female makers of Adelaide. As well as having the opportunity to purchase further artworks and prints from the exhibiting Girl Space artists, the market will feature a wide variety of stallholders.

Draw Your Swords Collaboration Night

Wednesday, 13 September 2017, evening

Draw Your Swords will hold a night of open mic poetry within The Mill, surrounded by the Girl Space exhibition.

Wednesday September 20 2017, evening

Life Drawing and Wine Taught by Jelena Vujnovic, paired with wonderful wines, this night will be aimed at all skill levels and artistic abilities.

Artist talks and Closing party

Wednesday September 27 2017, evening

Curated by Laura Gentgall Each exhibiting artist will say a few words about their pieces, their practice and what a 'Girl space' means to them.

The Studio, Flinders University (at the rear of Grind & Press Cafe)

The Mall | Ground floor | Professional Services Building
Flinders University
Sturt Road (Carpark 6)
BEDFORD PARK SA 5042

http://artmuseum.flinders.edu.au/
www.facebook.com/flindersart
www.instagram.com/flindersart"

The Collections Project: Fran Callen

Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm "Thursday 31 August – Friday 3 November 2017*

*closed 18-22nd September & 23 October 2017

Fran Callen "The Collections Project is a collaboration between Guildhouse and Flinders University Art Museum that provides artists the opportunity to engage with the Museum’s collections and staff to create new work.

For this exhibition Fran Callen presents mixed-media ‘tabletop’ drawings inspired by the Museum’s collections of botanical, zoological and landscape prints (with a focus on artists Ferdinand Bauer, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Brian Callen), in connection to the Flinders Investigator Garden of native plants.

Vitalstatistix

Vitalstatistix 11 Nile St, Port Adelaide

vitalstatistix.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/VitalstatistixArts/

Second Hand Emotions Mish Grigor, Sarah Rodigari, SJ Norman, with Celeste Martin, Grace Marlow, Jennifer Greer Holmes, Rebecca Mayo, Rebecca Meston, Sarah-Jayde Tracey and Suzannah Kennett Lister

Saturday 2nd September – 6pm, showing/artist talk
Sunday 3rd September – 8pm, showing/artist talk" Residency as part of Adhocracy 1-3 September 2017

Each year Vitalstatistix hosts a unique artist-in-residence initiative. Guest Australian artists join us to develop a new project, working with a team of South Australian collaborators, in the two weeks leading up to Adhocracy.

This year’s commissioned project, Second Hand Emotions, is presented in partnership with artist-run initiative Fontanelle, in celebration of their relocation to Port Adelaide and the epic, multi-sited feminist art festival, FRAN.

Second Hand Emotions is a process-driven, queer and discursive project responding to the provocation of ‘love and feminism’, the theme of Fontanelle’s keynote exhibition during FRAN. Led by artists Mish Grigor, Sarah Rodigari, SJ Norman, Second Hand Emotions will develop performative, documentary and other responses for presentation at Adhocracy and installation as part of Fontanelle’s Feminism and Love exhibition.
Worth Gallery

Worth Gallery

20 The Parade West Kent Town

www.worthgallery.com

Violet Green Loene Furler, Judy Summers, Yasmin Grass

Wed 23 Aug 2017 6-8pm Wed 23 August -Wed 27 Sept 2017

Three Adelaide painters Loene Furler, Judy Summers, Yasmin Grass all once colleagues teaching a Visual Art degree at ACArts meet regularly to stay in touch and discuss their love of art. They are delighted to have the opportunity to exhibit together at Worth gallery. It was agreed they focus on a Violet Green palette (remembering the suffragettes) and each make 4 paintings. 2 larger and 2 smaller with the freedom to select their own concepts and content. The palette links the works. The title of the exhibition , Violet Green references the selected palette and could also be the name of an imagined representative of the suffragette movement.

Yasmin's work includes images of Victorian objects juxtaposed with leaf imagery reflecting on and celebrating history, growth and renewal. Judy's paintings depict the personal belongings of Violet Green, a fictional character of the suffragette movement living in the early 20th century. Still questioning, Loene's work looks at the situation of women's place in today's society, whilst referencing the brave contribution of the suffragettes.

Wotso WorkSpace

217 Flinders street, Adelaide (entry via Ifould street)

https://www.wotsoworkspace.com.au/

SIT, DROP, PLAY Joanna Poulson

2-4pm Sunday 30 July 2017 30 July 2017 - 31 August 2017 Monday to Friday 8:30am -5:30pm or by appointment on weekends.

Joanna Poulson presents paintings of dogs in oils on canvas and maple (board) in her solo exhibition at Wotso WorkSpace.
“My paintings are a reflection of the love of dogs that so many of us share. This love of dogs is also very obvious at Wotso WorkSpace, which by pure coincidence have an office puppy “Pinot” which is the same breed as one of my dogs.”
“The shift in the subject matter of my paintings in the past year to dogs, was a way of bringing lightness and joy back into my paintings.”
“In addition to presenting works on canvases, I’ve now started working on maple (board). In a number of these paintings the grain of the timber has become a part of the work and even dictating the elements of the work that I paint versus what I leave unpainted as can be seen in Gone Fishing, caught a Ruby”.
The event is supported by City of Prospect, Pirate Life Brewing & Alpha, Box & Dice wines.

Yellow Door Studio

131 Payneham Rd, St Peters, SA yellowdoorstudio.org.au

Multiple Domains Elizabeth Wojciak, Linda Lee, Cheryl Nolan, Suzie Gardiner

16th and 17th September, 11am to 4pm

Elizabeth, Linda, Suzie and Cheryl are four artists that work out of Yellow Door Studio. They work across a range of media and disciplines. Their artworks cross narratives describing the human form and the build and natural environments.