Join us for the opening of two new exhibitions including special dance performances by Lewis Major Project dancers.Doors open 6pm. Wines by Koonara and Bellwether wineries.
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MÉMOIRE D’UN DANSEUR - Guy Detot
Guy Detot has been carving in wood since he first had a pocket knife as a child, and he hasn’t stopped since. In Mémoire d’un danseur, Detot speaks to his rich background as a ballet dancer in both Europe and Australia to make a suite of extraordinary pieces that both commemorate and celebrate famous dance duets he has performed.Working out of his studio in Penola on the Limestone Coast, Detot’s sculptural process begins with foraging or being gifted majestic hunks of red gum, purple mulga or black wattle. With the slabs of raw wood dotted around his studio, he then waits for each gnarled chunk to reveal its figurative potential before carving them into life.In Mémoire d’un danseur, Detot awakens – in wood – his own back catalogue as a dancer. Whether it’s performing in Pina Bauch’s Rite of Spring or Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dance, the sculptures feel their way through those dances again, locking ephemeral moments and movements in time to share both personal and universal qualities of the human condition.HARBINGERS: CARE OR CATASTROPHE
A Country Arts SA touring exhibitionWhat could our future look like if we prioritise the environment, cultural practices and social wellbeing over profit; and what does it look like if we don’t? In HARBINGERS: Care or Catastrophe, five diverse artists interrogate these questions.Artists Chris De Rosa (Port Elliot), Lara Tilbrook (Kangaroo Island), Ellen Trevorrow (Meningie/Coorong), Clancy Warner (Sellicks Beach) and Laura Wills (Adelaide) are united by a strong connection to regional South Australia and artistic practices that draw attention to our inherent interconnectedness with the natural world and the complexities of humankind’s influences on our environments.
Their works address issues about systematic (mis)management of natural resources, endemic loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, migration policies, catastrophic fire events and ongoing colonialism. They also signal hope and offer more viable and balanced ways of being and belonging.
Curated by Lauren Mustillo and Fulvia Mantelli.
