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.
Current EXHIBITIONS
FRONT GALLERY: Sophie Corso (SA) - Traffic jam
Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 2nd August
Artist Talks - 6:00pm
Running - 3rd - 19th August 2017
Like the falling woman in Tarkovsky’s minimalist film Nostaligia and its engagement with deconstructed urban settings, dark satire, chance encounters and curious sensibilities, Traffic Jam examines issues affecting the personal, psychological and social traps of society.
BACK GALLERY: Nat pEnney (sA) - out of sorting the out of sorts
Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 2nd August
Artist Talks - 6:00pm
Running - 3rd - 19th August 2017
Nat Penney’s 'out of sorting the out of sorts' recreates nomadic states of uncertainty through conditioning physical spaces. Her performative installation unpacks the perils and pleasures of spatial and psychological disorientation as an ongoing investigation into the possible potentials within these commonly condemned states.
feltdark: Kelly Reynolds (sa) - Making myself at home
Screening from 8:00pm - Wednesday, 2nd August
Running - 3rd - 19th August 2017
FELTdark is viewable: Wed - Thur: 6pm - 12am, Fri: 7pm - 12am, Sat: 6pm - 12am
Full tank of petrol. Rice bubbles in hand. Hard rubbish on verges. The project looks at objects and spaces on the edges of ownership.
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.