Remembering Barbara and Union Street Printmakers’ Weird Adelaide pay tribute to artist, writer and printmaker Barbara Hanrahan who died 30 years ago at the age of 52. Burra Gallery’s unique collection forms the basis of the exhibition, showing intimate artefacts and memorabilia along with early and later prints and many of her novels. Precious works […]

GATHER – collections made up of precious paintings and prints from the early part of the 20th century, and pre and post WW2. Created from a love of nature and fascination with the human form, these works tell their own story of how things were back then.

Works loaned from the private collection of Bob Landt and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts.

Open to the public on Thursday November 4, launch 5pm Saturday 6 November.

ART OF THE FLOWER AND GARDEN 23 September to 31 October 2021 THE WILD SIDE
Turn over a stone, check the compost, something is bound to crawl out. Be careful – it might bite! Nature needs pruning, the weeds are running riot, everything is flowering at once and the birds and insects are having a ball.

Jed Dunstan is a cartoonist based at Ngapala South Australia.
Jed has been drawing for as long as he can remember. After finishing his schooling in 2005 he started shearing and doing other agriculture related jobs. Jed lives and works on his farm at Ngapala. His editorial cartoon “Drawing Conclusions” is published weekly across Australian Community Media’s (ACM) rural newspaper network including the Stock Journal -South Australia, the Stock & Land -Victoria, Queensland Country Life & the North Queensland Register. Jed also draws a weekly gag cartoon titled “The Rabbit Trap” it can be found in The Plains Producer newspaper here in SA. Each year Jed creates two calendars, one depicting life in the Australian shearing industry (Bale Number 2022 coming soon!) the other is a collection of The Rabbit Trap cartoons. Throughout his career Jed has completed several other cartoon and illustration jobs, he recently painted a mural for the side wall of the Eudunda Bakery.
This exhibition is a sample of Jed’s work from the past 3 years. It includes prints of some of his published cartoons and some new original artworks in various mediums including ceramic plates.

Works by South Australian women artists, purchased in the late 1990s and early years of this century.

Glenys donated her collection for the enjoyment of the people of Burra and the many visitors who come to Burra Regional Art Gallery.

Artists:
Pauline McPharlin, Valerie Veitch, Adrienne Matthews, Lorraine Lewitzka, Heather Parker, Jennifer Hockey, Lise Temple, Lis Jones Ingman, Geraldine Muenchow, Helen Pammenter, Heike Dargusch, Kate Bullen, Julianne Pulford, Colleen Morrow, Alison McColl and Christine Brinkworth.

My work expresses my favourite things; camping under the stars in remote places, exploring amazing land formations that are cracked, folded, tilted and eroded by nature. Then comes the joy of expressing this in paint with monumental forms, contrasting colours, texture and lines.

ACROSS COUNTRY is a multi-faceted project including the following:
Burra and related works on paper exhibition by John R Walker in the main gallery, 18 May to 18 July 2021
Artists’ Camp at Pitcairn Station South Australia from 24 to 28 May 2021
Exhibition of works produced during the Artists’ Camp in the Bence Room, 3 June to 18 July 2021

“My standard way of working is to go out and spend a day or two doing gouaches or Chinese folding books around the place. I don’t ever do a ‘look and put’. I like to walk around and look at things and then put down whatever my immediate response is.

I feel I don’t paint landscape at all. It is more like history. In Australia it is not just the ecology and geography, but the economics and politics that make it a highly constructed landscape”.