​From here to Eternity / 30 October – 19 December 2008


Image: From here to Eternity, 2008, installation view, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia. Photography by Mick Bradley.

From here to Eternity features tapestries produced from major original works by leading Australian contemporary artists, including Davida Allen, Angela Brennan, Jon Cattapan, Louise Forthun, Alun Leach-Jones, Reg Mombassa, Jimmy Pike and Gareth Sansom. A feature tapestry is Martin Sharp's iconic work 'Eternity'.

The exhibition From here to Eternity presents a selection of marvellous and splendidly crafted tapestry works from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop. Regarded as a world centre for one of Western civilisation's oldest and richest art forms, the Victorian Tapestry Workshop boasts an international reputation for the freshness, vitality and technical excellence of its hand-woven tapestries.

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Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, acknowledges the Kaurna people as traditional custodians of the land upon which the Museum stands.