Samstag Gallery 1

Designer, jeweller, silversmith and artist: over a career spanning 45 years, German-born, Adelaide-based Frank Bauer’s cross-disciplinary practice is hallmarked by exceptional quality and a breadth of skill. His process begins with the hand — first drawing then progressing to handling, touching, making in his workshop — and results in works that bear human nature first and foremost in mind. A former lecturer at the University of South Australia’s School of Design, who has exhibited in Europe and Australia, his work is held in major museums around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Berlin’s Bauhaus Archive, the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Focussing on the sculptural nature of Bauer’s practice, this major exhibition of metal and light works considers matters of movement, longevity, repetition and change — both in an artist’s long career and, more broadly, in our everyday.