A reflection on practice, process, artmaking, and community building in regional South Australia.
25 July 2024 – mid September 2024
See FB pinned post for most current opening times/days, or pop in whenever the sign is out.
The Barefoot Playground @ Part of Things (Hawdon Chambers, Barwell Avenue Barmera)
Welcome to our brains – stuffed full of questions, not so many answers (yet).
Perceived Barriers is Kirste, Alysha and Eliza’s visual response to their process of discovery during Part of Things: we are the project. Over the past year the three artists have gathered fortnightly on Zoom to ask questions and reflect on practice, process, artmaking, and community building in regional South Australia. Through this process each of the three have been working on an individual outcome in their own towns: Barmera, Mount Gambier and Port Lincoln (respectively). This SALA exhibition features unresolved experiments, ephemera, documentation, and an invitation to peek behind the curtain of the ways we think and work.
The exhibition also features a remount of Eliza’s “Love Notes to the Laundromat”, first presented in Port Lincoln at SALT Festival (April 2024).
Instead of a traditional exhibition launch:
Kirste, Alysha and Eliza will be at Hawdon Chambers together in person on Thursday 25th July and Friday 26th July installing the exhibition and it’s an open invitation to drop in and chat with them throughout this time. This reflects the project and exhibition itself as a process-driven experiment and invitation. If the A-frame sign is out on the footpath, you’re welcome inside.
August every year is the South Australian Living Artist (SALA) Festival and we’ve hosted a SALA exhibition every single year at Hawdon Chambers since opening the doors in August 2019. This is the sixth SALA exhibition at Part of Things. We are a non-traditional space with volunteer gallery sitters and dynamic opening times so please check the Part of Things website and socials for weekly updates on open times.
Please email hello@partofthings.org for further information.
Featuring creative responses by:
- Alysha Herrmann
- Kirste Jade
- Eliza Wuttke
Part of Things: we are the project
Barmera, Port Lincoln, Mount Gambier, Online | Throughout 2024
Process is what we are interested in. Process as practice. Artists in residence in our own town(s).
Part of Things: we are the project is an experiment in how we might share the model and underpinning ideas behind Part of Things with other communities in regional South Australia. Part of Things opened in the Riverland in 2019 and since then we’ve delivered workshops, events, special projects and mentoring, and a place for ideas to gather and explore. We are small in scale with big ambitions to nurture regional voices. This project is one next step.
Part of Things: we are the project is an artist-led collaboration between Kirste Vandergiessen, Eliza Wuttke and Alysha Herrmann. The three artists are presenting individual projects in their own local community – Riverland, Eyre Peninsula, Limestone Coast, respectively – and collaborating online to explore shared process and the Part of Things model.
Follow the process via the blog and stay tuned for ways to experience and contribute to the local projects and our activity:
Love Notes to the Laundromat | Port Lincoln | Eliza Wuttke
Poetry on my Porch | Mount Gambier | Alysha Herrmann
Portal | Barmera/Riverland | Kirste Vandergiessen
Part of Things 