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.
Read & download the 2024 SASA Guidelines
Current Exhibitions
L>M>S
Tuesday 1 October - Thursday 31 October 2024
L>M>S is an Installation Art Lab that explores Light, Movement, and Sound as materials to transform space. Students enrolled in Installation Art (B. Contemporary Art) will take over SASA Gallery for a one month site-specific residency.
The lab will conclude with a finissage on Thursday 31 October 2024, 4pm-5pm.
2024 Exhibitions
Helpmann ACADEMY GRADUATE EXHIBITION
THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY - FRIDAY 22 MARCH 2024
The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition is an annual celebration of the strongest creative voices emerging from South Australia’s contemporary art scene.
Each year visual artists from Flinders University and the University of South Australia showcase their graduate works at this prominent arts event. In 2024 we will be moving to a new student-focused space, at SASA Gallery, University of South Australia.
A range of disciplines are displayed at the event, including ceramics, glass, installation, jewellery, moving image, painting, photo media, photography, printmaking, sculpture and textiles.
The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition remains one of the most significant opportunities for emerging creatives in the country, thanks to the generosity of our award donors. This event has a long-standing history of providing a launch pad for the next generation of South Australian creatives, while also providing a snapshot of the future of contemporary art in our state.
Image: HaiZzy, Danse Macabre. Photo by Sam Roberts.
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT /
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FRIDAY 26 APRIL - FRIDAY 17 MAY 2024
An evolving exhibition and series of performances on transformation, movement, projection, and translation.
When Parna, the bright star that Arab astronomers named Fom-al-haut or ‘mouth of the whale’, appears on the south-eastern horizon just before sunrise, it announces the start of Parnati, a season of transition. Gentle breezes move to the west bringing with them a sharpness, the arc of the sun sinks lower, and cold nights come quicker, but there is a clarity and melancholy sweetness when the days are fine before the rains begin to fall.
In April|May as autumn shifts to winter, please join Contemporary Art staff and students for an evolving exhibition and series of performances on transformation, movement, projection, and translation.
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT / FOUNDATION STUDIO
THURSDAY 13 JUNE - FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2024
Foundation Studio builds conceptual thinking and creative making skills, developing a personal, ethical and philosophical foundation
to underpin Masters study.
In 2024 Students conducted an open-ended exploration of regenerative design and art.
Experimenting cross a variety of media and interests, students are asked to question their perceptions of materials, their creative processes and the contextual landscape their work inhabits, resulting in concepts for an artefact, artwork or design with potential to act as a catalyst or provocation for change.
Emergent themes in this exhibition include childhood, light, plants, wellbeing, consumption, and modular design.
Image: Allyssa Ding, Stop and Smell the Roses, collage, 2024.
LIGHT MATTER(S) : INTERIORS BY SHOEI YOH
SATURDAY 6 JULY 2024 - SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2024
This exhibition draws from the archive of Japanese architect Shoei Yoh to showcase for the first time in Australia a selection of his early interior architecture projects, and explorations of light as matter. Yoh studied abroad in the United States and returned to Japan in 1964. After gaining experience as an interior designer in Tokyo and Fukuoka, he established Yoh Design Office in Fukuoka City in 1970.
Thank you to our partners at Kyushu University, collaborators at UniSA Architecture Museum, and our exhibition funder: the Australian-Japan Foundation for their support in putting together this exhibition.
Exhibition Team:
UNSW
Tracy Huang, Dr. Nicole Gardner, Associate Professor M. Hank Haeusler, Daniel Yu, Maeghan Doherty
Kyushu University
Dr. Iwamoto Masaaki, Associate Professor Inoue Tomo
In Collaboration with: UniSA Architecture Museum
Dr. James Curry, Dr. Julie Collins
Image: Shoei Yoh, INGLOT Café.
UNISA CREATIVE / HDR CANDIDATE
THE GARDEN OF UN / BELONGING
FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2024 - SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2024
An exploration of craft, place & migration through sensory ways of knowing
The Garden of Un/Belonging offers insights into how an engagement with art and craft making practices can be critical to conceptual constructions of belonging and identity in the context of migration. By examining the creative process as a form of place making, this practice-led research acknowledges the agency of objects and their role in our physical, perceptual, emotional, social and aesthetic development.
In seeking an understanding of the migrant-maker, the making process and outcomes, it presents a body of artefacts that prompt questioning around how sensory and culturally generated ways of knowing can shape ideas of the self and the social.
Image: Sahr BASHIR, Pieces of my Heart II, 2023, Bronze, cotton, silk thread
Visit
Opening times vary - see exhibition details above.
Kaurna Building, Level 2, Fenn Pl, University of South Australia, City West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000
