VISUAL ARTS ARCHIVE
Suchness
25 August - 30 September 2011
Sunny Wang
To coincide with Adelaide's OzAsia Festival Nexus Gallery presents Suchness, a large-scale solo exhibition of glass and sculptural work by Chinese artist, Sunny Wang.
The site-specific Zen Garden is composed of two installation pieces that explore the concepts of 'being' and 'becoming' – this notion of existence and continuity has been questioned over centuries and its meaning and relationship to contemporary society is always debatable.
Sunny Wang's exploration of these ideals are communicated through Eastern and Western forms of material-making and consists of a number of natural elements.
Suchness hopes to challenge viewers to embrace openness and creativity through her installation works. She says 'the challenge is to present and transform ourselves in-between moments and things harmoniously. This exhibition creates a space in which viewers can engage, reflect and observe their own moments of Be/coming'
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Rebirth by Nasim Nasr
Exhibition Opening, Thursday, 26 May 2011 at 6-8pm
Nasim Nasr explores themes of the intercultural dialogue and the veiling of women through photography and video installation. Experimenting with the notion of taboos, beliefs and women's rights, Nasr is more interested in the notion
of cultural relationships and their role in contemporary society. Nasr states 'My practice seeks to represent not only the socio-cultural invisibility of women in Iran but also their disempowerment, which fade them into shadow.'</p>
Included in the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Walking Trail.
Urban Dictionary
17 February - 11 March 2011
A mash-up of stencils, paste-ups and urban gardens, with imagery created by local Adelaide artists and students of art, architecture and design, will explode in Nexus Gallery during Adelaide Fringe 2011, creating an urban, organic sprawl which will spread into the outdoor beer garden and beyond.
Annual Nexus Members' Exhibition 2010
25 November-10 December 2010
Join us for the popular Annual Nexus Members' Exhibition, showcasing the diversity and talent of our members.
Image: Adrian Caon
DISPLACED REPLIES: 15 explorations of "Middle-Eastern" identity
by Adrian Caon
14 October-19 November 2010
Encompassing time, place and personal experience, DISPLACED REPLIES presents an exploration of identification with one's homeland for people with a recent history of migration to Australia.
Image: Sun-Woong Bang
S + S = Infinity by Sun-Woong Bang
26 August-1 October 2010
S + S = Infinity is a celebratory meditation on the passage of time by Korean-born new media and jewellery artist Sun-Woong Bang. In his first solo exhibition, Bang uses filigree and installation to explore the concept of infinity.
Image: Stephen House
Being In India by Stephen House
8 July-13 August 2010
Being In India is a new exhibition of images and accompanying words created by award-winning playwright, director, actor and visual artist Stephen House while living in India.
Image: Lisa Hilli
Just Like Home by Lisa Hilli
19 May-25 June 2010
Just Like Home is part exhibition, part meal, film and biography, and explores artist Lisa Hilli's New Guinean and Australian heritage. Just Like Home celebrates the continuation of Tolais cooking traditions (unique to the people of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea) with an Aussie twist. With one simple meal, Lisa Hilli highlights issues of assimilation and cultural adaption.
Lisa Hilli's 2010 touring exhibition is supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria (a Kultour Company Member) and Kultour, an initiative of the Australia Council. The touring exhibition has been developed in partnership with Nexus Multicultural Arts (a Kultour Company Member).
Tolais cooking demonstration / workshop : Wednesday 19 May, 4:30pm
Image: Irmina van Niele
Stronghold by Irmina van Niele
8 April-14 May 2010
Stronghold addresses the experience of cultural memory and loss in relation to basic human belonging. Works by Irmina van Niele, including projected drawings, reference childhood memories of left-behind worlds that are often fragmentary and incoherent, yet sustained in dreams or imagination.
Image: Simone-Clare Hede
It came from outer space...
11 February-19 March 2010
A group exhibition looking at the darker side of story telling, It came from outer space explores our cultural fascination with classic 1950s horror and science fiction iconography. Featuring new works by young local artists Simone-Clare Hede (ceramics), Joshua Smith (stencil work) and Dan Withey (illustration and dioramas).
25th Anniversary Nexus Annual Members' Exhibition
3-14 December 2009
The 25th Anniversary Nexus Annual Members' Exhibition showcases the diversity and talent of our members, with over 30 pieces across a range of media including glass, ceramics, photography, videography, oil, acrylic, pastels, bronze, redgum and much more. Notable artists include Stephen Skillitzi (glass / sculpture), Andrew Steiner (bronze sculpture), Merrilyn Stock (ceramics), Gray Hawk (furniture), Dianne Longley (printmaking) and David Reid (painting).
Image: Indivisible, Ludwik Dutkiewicz, 1967
Brothers in Arts
29 October-27 November 2009
Works by Wladyslaw and Ludwik Dutkiewicz
Polish migrant brothers Wladyslaw and Ludwik Dutkiewicz held their first Australian exhibition together in February 1951. Pioneers in the use of abstraction in Australian painting, the brothers were essential contributors to modernism in Adelaide and Australia. Curated by Wlad's son, 2008 Nexus Writer-in-Residence, Adam Dutkiewicz.
Exhibition Floor Talk: Thursday 19 November, 5.30pm
Join exhibition curator Dr Adam Dutkiewicz as he speaks about a selection of works produced by his late father, Wlad, and late uncle, Ludwik, dating from post-war Germany to their last decades in Australia. The artworks show the brothers' determined commitment to experimentation in the face of a conservative orthodoxy when they arrived in Adelaide and the evolution of their independent styles over more than fifty years.
Image: Kumiko Nakajima
Resonance
12 September-11 October 2009
Troy Anthony Baylis, Gerry Wedd, Giles Bettison, Irmina Van Niele, Sun Woong Bang, Erin Lykos and Kumiko Nakajima, curated by Kate Moskwa
With every generation comes change. In the conversation between past and present, old stories become new stories. Exploring the relationship between innovation and tradition, contemporary craft practitioners present new perspectives on individual, cultural and national identities. Resonance is presented by Nexus Multicultural Arts at the JamFactory's Gallery 1.
Nexus Re-Imagined
11 September-9 October 2009
2nd year students from the Uni SA School of Architecture re-imagine the Nexus Multicultural Arts Centre, presenting concepts, research and models investigating the performance of interior space.
Islamic Spectrum Exhibition
30 July to 4 September 2009
An exhibition by secondary students from the Islamic College of South Australia, featuring works inspired by Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart, personal interpretations of multiculturalism and the cycles of nature. To be opened by Mr Ikebal Adam Patel, President, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils.
Diaspora Gathered
11th June to 9 July 2009
As part of National Refugee Week, Nexus presents a very special exhibition created by Sydney-based artist Adam Geczy in close association with the Armenian youth network Hye Hoki Inc and the Sydney Armenian community, in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide.
Lost Between the Flying Streets
10 -17 July 2009
A photographic exhibition of Adelaide's insides by Luke Judd, Vanessa Romeo, Al Thumm and Carlo.
Articulation (Shadows)
30th April to 5th June 2009
Tis Milner-Nichols presents an exhibtion of works created in response to her recent residency with Sri Lankan master puppet maker, Nalin Gamvary.
Adelaide Ink 2: Comic Culture
5 March to 24 April 2009
Comic books are a great story telling medium for people of all ages and cultures! Nexus invites you to celebrate this fun and eclectic medium with an exhibition of works from local artists working in diverse styles and formats.
Tattoo Show & Tell Session 12 March 4-6pm
Scanning Memories
29th January to 27th February 2009
A botanical journey through France & Australia by artist Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, inspired by a recent residency at Versailles, France.
Annual Members Exhibition
27th November to 12th December 2008
Theme: Crossing Borders
All Nexus Members are invited to submit visual artworks for our annual exhibtion. The opening event is also the Nexus end of year party and we extend a warm invitation to all our members and friends!
Truth Untruth
30th October to 21st November 2008
Peter Forward
So you think things are bad…. costs twice as much to fill the car... the price of food keeps going up....young people drink and run the streets...the city is a danger zone.... We’re all getting too fat. Our friends are getting cancer. Kids keep drawing on the walls. The world is going crazy. I don’t understand art anymore. My kids won’t talk to me. The rivers are dying. It won’t rain.. or rains too much. I think the poles are melting, we could drown. The military keeps fighting wars, I don’t know why. Religious leaders incite to kill. People explode. The new churches frighten me. The times are out of joint. Just leave me alone. I can’t take any more. Let me stay inside. Let me watch a late-night show. Let me listen to my Walkman. Just let me chill out in my spa. I just want to watch the game. I can’t help the hungry people. God, help us. Protect us. Please God.
Locked Inside
24th October to 23rd November 2008
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
Ibtihal Samarayi
In a series of 8 huge "padlocks" (they stand as tall as a person), Ibtihal Samarayi uses images of detention and freedom, ID cards, real letters from detainees, children and family photographs, media coverage of detainees and protesters, images of adults and children waiting for a better life and a dove in a cage. An expert with a jig saw and cordless drill, Samarayi manufactured the padlocks herself and exhibits them in a circle with a huge key hanging from the ceiling that no-one can reach; a symbolic comment on the plight of the refugees.
Locked Inside is presented by Nexus and Kultour, in collaboration with Adelaide Festival Centre.
Slip of the Tongue
25th September to 24th Otcber 2008
Olga Sankey - Alex Selenitsch - Agnieszka Golda
When English is a second language, as for these artists, inevitable slippages occur between languages. Old Stories accidentally become New Stories through the imperfect, yet transformative process of translation. Material effects of translation provide the metaphors: varying lengths of sentences, changed relationship of word and context, simplification and slight difference.
Land of Milk and Rental Money
7th August to 19th September 2008
Frank Grauso
A text based environment assembled from found words. Part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival.
Dreamings past and present
3rd July to 1st August 2008
Warlukurlangu Artists
Recent paintings from Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu, Northern Territory. Part of NAIDOC Week, celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Different Lights
22nd May until 27th June 2008
Yoko Kajio, Riza Minalo, Alwin Reamillo, Qi Zhang
Curated by Rayleen Forrester
A mixed media exhibtion exploring the cross pollination of ideas from Australian resident artists of Asian descent.
Line of Beauty
10th April to 16th May 2008
Shahin Azedegan, Mohammed Evans, Siamak Fallah
An exhibition of painting and installation, inspired by Persian carpets and Islamic calligraphy. To be opened by Gala Mustafa, member of the SA Government Muslim Reference Group and member of SA Multicultural & Ethnic Affairs Commission.
Adelaide Ink
25th February to 4th April 2008
Part of the Adelaide Fringe
Various Artists
A multimedia exhibition of body art featuring live events with artists, ink and henna tattooists. Show off YOUR body art a the Show & Tell - all welcome!
Beyond Infinity II
25th Jan to 31st Jan 2008
Seoyoun Choi (KOREA)
Body jewellery, framed jewellery and short film. Part of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia.
Normally Queer
15th November - 14th December 2007
James Aldridge · Troy-Anthony Baylis · Tegan Empson ·
David Lehmann · Russell Leonard · Cameron Lewcock ·
Mark Thompson · Heather Young
Queer portraiture in the 'normal' world. Part of Feast Festival.
Recent Arrivals
30th August - 4th October 2007
Prints, sketches and text exploring themes of migration and resettlement by students from the New Arrivals Program at Thebarton Senior College
For more information about the visual arts program please contact Visual Arts Coordinator by email exhibitions@nexus.asn.au.
