Upcoming Exhibition

The timely staging of Solastalgia – an antidote at Fabrik in Lobethal was profoundly transformative for the artists, Adelaide Hills communities and wider audiences in the wake of the devastating fires in December 2019-20. The artists gathered for Solastalgia – loss and return have remained committed to their projects despite unavoidable delays to the exhibitions program at Signal Point in Goolwa. As a result of good grace and connectivity within the south coast arts community, the evolving contributions will finally have a new home at Coral Street Art Space in Victor Harbor for SALA 2023. Poet and publisher Jude Aquilina is weaving additional texture into the exhibition, inviting the offerings of many local south coast poets, to share their responses to this theme..

Here at life’s threshold, having born witness to the intractable reality of societal and environmental ‘loss’, the larger question remains. To what do we wish to ‘return’? Making room for both, artists for this next iteration of ‘Solastalgia’ will mine the shadow world for the tools of remembering, healing and resistance, as they scratch, print, dance, weave, stitch, record, hammer, blend, and assemble them into being. In so doing we are reminded that we are part of a living and dying system; one in constant renewal, and that much sustenance can be found within our collective and committed presence in it.

Exhibiting Kangaroo Island artists - Dave Foreman (film maker), Peter Hastwell (printmaker and photographer), Michele Lane (printmaker), Janine Mackintosh (assemblage artist), Deb Sleeman (sculptor), Lara Tilbrook (assemblage artist), Jeannie Vivonne (musician).

Mainland artists - Liz Butler (installation artist), Jelina Haines (Video Ethnographer), Sue Hawksley (choreographer/land carer), Sue Kneebone (installation artist), Sam Oster (photographer), Tristan Louth Robins (sound maps), Cynthia Schwertsik (performance artist), Laura Wills, and Will Cheeseman (multi-disciplinary artists).

South Coast Poets - Kate Alder, Jude Aquilina, Judy Baghurst, David Cookson, Veronica Cookson, Helen Ellmor, Nigel Ford, Liz Hobbs, Roger Rees, Heather Webster, and Sue Willett.

Observances in this multi-disciplinary exhibition, will reveal much about loss and time; how it folds, perforates, fractures and heals, altering our relationship to the land and ourselves.