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Previous Artists in Residence since September 2016

Lucy Turnbull - Artist in Residence until September 2022

Using the process of drawing, local artist Lucy Turnbull is interested
in capturing a battered old-worldly coastline, engulfed in vast
swathes of windswept landscape, listening to echoes of conversation
between the hard body of land and soft tips of the sea, travelling
with a lover through rocky roads and winding days ahead.

Callum Docherty - Artist in Residence until September 2022

As a multidisciplinary artist Docherty aims to build upon his current
arts practice by utilising a range of approaches including collage,
drawing, photography, and installation to investigate and document
the local area.

Kaspar Schmidt Mumm - Artist in Residence - April to June 22

Kaspar Schmidt Mumm’s residency explores largescale puppet construction using recycled materials.
With repurposed steel frames, papier-mâché, wood, foam and fabric, he will construct, practice, characterise and animate a large kinetic sculpture.
The artist will be rehearsing object oriented ontological choreography through endurance performances in both the gallery and studio space.

Joe Felber - Artist in Residence - April to June 22

By asking ‘What is the most important object you would save from a fire or tsunami (natural disaster)?’, Felber hopes that through considering the act of saving something special, the community as co-collaborators, are able to elevate consciousness whilst representing their own hopes to change the world.

Victoria Paterson

Always Already will examine relationships between natural pattern formation and textile structures, digital and analog processes and personal and collective memories.

Christopher & Therese Williams

Drawn to the movement of aquatic birds - the divers and the waders - that swim, fly, hunt and gather above and below the water’s surface, collaborative duo Christopher and Therese Williams seek to collectively capture their water borne experiences and the movement of birds.

Elyas Alavi

As an emerging artist and poet, Elyas Alavi intends to research and create a site-specific body of performance and video work responding to themes of displacement, memory, time and space through the act of walking.

Emmaline Zanelli

Influenced by her father's work for SA Water and her brother’s as an apprentice plumber, Water Meter Reader collaboratively delves into the role water plays in the artists familial relationships.

Inneke Taal - Short residency project

Across the five weeks multimedia artist Inneke Taal considers the internal and external spaces of Sauerbier House under their terms of 'heritage', questioning how can such walls be penetrated to speak to the human habitation of their present, past and future?
The short residency will result in an exhibition of works to be exhibited during Adelaide fringe festival in February 2022.

Anastasia La Fey

Visiting artist La Fey will create REMNANT - a series of site-responsive textile-based works exploring the potential of individual and communal growth and change within an environment in crisis.

Paul Gazzola

Local South Australian artist Paul Gazzola explores the volatility of ideas, the aesthetics of an explosion and the essence of our creative impulses.

Emiko Artemis | April - June 2021

Visiting visual artist Emiko Artemis examines the intersection of bodily movement and space through photography and video installation. Her compositions use symbology, evocative imagery and the natural world to capture connections between both the inner and outer landscapes of mind, body and the environment.

Wes Maselli | April - June 2021

This residency will build upon research inspired by Lynn Kelly’s book, 'Memory Craft'.
A memory palace is a created and fundamentally constant visualised space that can be encoded with analogues of information to be remembered.
Excited to return to working in 2, over the three months, Wes will explore a variety of mnemonics (memory devices), including the creation of a ‘local landmark’ memory p

Shirley Morgan

Whilst in residence, local artist Shirley Morgan will explore her art practice using various mediums and creating artworks that reflect her deep connection with her great-grandfather and her ancestral lands.

Silience Kollektive

At the intersection of arts, psychology, geography and activism, the Silience Kollektive seeks to examine these questions through a series of psychogeographical dérives, playful interventions and self-imposed provocations inspired by the local Port Noarlunga community and landscape

Rita Kellaway

Kellaway, an Adelaide based artist with family links to the area, will use a series of local geological trail guides as a starting point to explore, capture (through sketches, photography

Sonja Porcaro

Sonja Porcaro is an Adelaide based artist working predominantly in sculpture and installation. Porcaro will explore both the physicality of Sauerbier House and its surrounds- including the river (Ngangkiparingga) - as well as the social interactions

Sasha Grbich & Kelly Reynolds

We were granted a residency to explore architectural ruin and then COVID-19 happened. We found ourselves collaborating while socially distancing and undertaking a residency for an art space that can’t be visited. So instead we add our efforts to the global project of investigating new ways to live and adapt in these times – or “covalution” as we like to call it.

Jake Novick

Exploring landscape as a metaphor for belonging and loss, Novick’s current work draws upon the tension of opposites; light and darkness, life and death.

Jake Holmes

Jake Holmes is an Adelaide based artist who works across; printmaking, illustration, collage, mural painting and sound works.

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Previous Artists in Residence since September 2016

Lucy Turnbull - Artist in Residence until September 2022

Callum Docherty - Artist in Residence until September 2022

Kaspar Schmidt Mumm - Artist in Residence - April to June 22

Joe Felber - Artist in Residence - April to June 22

Victoria Paterson

Christopher & Therese Williams

Elyas Alavi

Emmaline Zanelli

Inneke Taal - Short residency project

Anastasia La Fey

Paul Gazzola

Emiko Artemis | April - June 2021

Wes Maselli | April - June 2021

Shirley Morgan

Silience Kollektive

Rita Kellaway

Sonja Porcaro

Sasha Grbich & Kelly Reynolds

Jake Novick

Jake Holmes