InReview
SA Arts & Culture news in brief: American glass artist’s Botanic Garden exhibition hailed as a coup for Adelaide, 2023 Guildhouse Fellow and inaugural SA Literary Fellows announced, and the Adelaide Film Festival invites film submissions for 2024.
Design
PHOTO GALLERY: In the 50 years since it began life in an old factory in St Peters, JamFactory has helped forge hundreds of creative careers and put Adelaide at the heart of Australia’s contemporary craft and design scene. Now, as it reflects on the past and looks to the future, it has one pressing need: more space.
A quiet cul de sac in Adelaide’s West End has become a haven for local glassmakers like Liam Fleming, whose more recent work was born from playful experimentation.
South Australian glass artist Liam Fleming has been named as the 2021 Guildhouse Fellow, securing a 12-month fellowship valued at more than $50,000 that he says will enable him to refine his practice and focus his energy entirely on making.
In a pocket of workshops and factories in Adelaide’s inner-east, glass-blower Meg Caslake and ceramicist David Pedler have turned a former chocolate factory into a light-filled sanctuary for themselves, their practices, and the local wildlife.
JamFactory’s new Icon series exhibition invites you into the wonderfully weird world of Adelaide glass artist Tom Moore – a place full of fanciful hybridised animal-plant creations ranging from a Flaming Stegosaurus to a trio of kookaburra-inspired Hooligans.
