About
FELTspace is an artist run organisation supporting, developing and presenting emerging, experimental, and diverse exhibitions and public programs. Our gallery is located at 12 Compton Street, Adelaide. Openings occur on the first Wednesday of every month.
Established in 2008 with an exhibition space at the heart of Adelaide's Central Market district, FELTspace has quickly become a centre for the emerging contemporary visual arts community. Remaining an important site for the development, exhibition and discussion of new work by emerging and recognised visual artists in South Australia. FELTspace has a focus on promoting emerging and early career artists, with opportunities for more established artists to show in a non-commercial and non-institutional space.
October EXHIBITIONS
FRONT GALLERY: HAYLEY MILLAR-BAKER (VIC) - PEENEEYT MEERREENG (BEFORE, NOW, TOMORROW)
Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 4th October
Artist Talks - 6:00pm
Running - 5th - 21st October 2017
TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art
Land is mother, we live with the land – not off the land.
Peeneeyt Meerreeng is an exploration of the contemporary connection to land and identity experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the wake of colonisation; imagined landscapes embodying both birth Country and ancestral Country as an urban Aboriginal identity in a post-colonial Australia.
BACK GALLERY: JANE SKEER (SA) - LEFT BEHIND
Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 4th October
Artist Talks - 6:00pm
Running - 5th - 21st October 2017
Left Behind is a very personal work. It is footage filmed during my grief after losing my mother in 2016. Having spent time in the studio with my mother’s scarves, I attempted to make a wall piece in her memory. Eventually I tore them down in frustration and embraced them. The smell of her perfume waffled through the air. Discovering, through process, that this was the work, not a wall piece. I turned my I-phone towards myself and filmed my hands desperately hugging the scarves, holding them against my body.
My aim was to capture the emotion imbued in this moment. I was angry and desperately saddened that she had gone, that the ugly side of cancer had taken her from us. Left Behind describes my inner emotions.
FELTDARK: CLINT DIXON & EDWIN LEE MULLIGAN (WA) - WANDOO WAHPUP
Screening from 8:00pm - Wednesday, 4th October
Running - 5th - 21st October 2017
FELTdark is viewable: Wed - Thur: 7pm - 12am, Fri: 7pm - 12am, Sat: 7pm - 12am
TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art
Wandoo Wahpup (the Walmajarri word meaning a blanket for snuggling into) is a collaborative work made by Edwin Lee Mulligan, an award winning artist, visionary poet and performer, and Clint Dixon, a documentary film maker working for Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media.
The work visualises Mulligan’s dream narration with a combination of re-enactment in Country and painting.
FELTspace is generously supported by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia.
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FELTspace acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work in Tarntanyangga Adelaide.