Art Pod
Cedric Varcoe & Carly Dodd, Untitled, (detail view, work in progress), 2019, acrylic on canvas, Art Pod.
The Art Pod provides everyone with an opportunity to enjoy a free view of exhibitions 24 hours a day.
Art Pod is a high profile, high traffic, access all hours art space to showcase emerging and established artists. Located in the breezeway at 25 Pirie Street, just a short stroll away from the many eateries in Waymouth Street, Art Pod is curated by the City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator.
Exhibition works may include 2D, 3D, installation, sound and moving image artwork. Expect the unexpected and be delighted by what you discover.
Current exhibition
Summer Studio 11 December - 21 February 2020
Over the next 11 weeks the Art Pod will be transformed into a working artist studio.
Art Pod Summer Studio resident artist Deborah Prior makes slow and laborious art using salvaged domestic textiles to create soft sculptures. She combines this craftwork with performance and endurance artmaking to examine bodily agency, feminist modes of production and social histories of domestic work.
Prior will work on the textile component of her project, Easter in the Anthropocene in Art Pod during the Summer Studio. She will be embroidering recycled plant labels (from her grandmother’s garden) on to a salvaged Onkaparinga woollen blanket to create a memorial shine to a garden that no longer exists. Prior says, “Easter in the Anthropocene is my urgent response to the Climate Emergency. It explores the familial legacies of colonisation in Australia and acknowledges my own complicity in environmental collapse, mass extinctions, and the dying Murray-Darling river system. Easter in the Anthropocene is both an expression of grief and a petition for critical action.”
Prior will undertake a performative/endurance component aligned with her artwork in June 2020 when she transports the woollen blanket via bicycle on a 2,000km route from Goolwa to Tamworth, following the rivers. This Art Pod Summer Studio opportunity enables Prior to introduce this project to a wider public, and to later present her work at the Tamworth Textile Triennial: Tension[s] 2020.
Tensions[a] 2020 will open at the Tamworth Regional Gallery on 1 August 2020, before touring nationally.
Image: Deborah Prior, An Incomplete Family History (installation view), 2017, reclaimed blanket and mixed media.
Previous exhibitions
The Collaborators 25 January – 23 April 2017
Art Pod artists: Anna Horne & Amy Joy Watson
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The Art Pod’s first exhibition for 2017 was a unique artistic collaboration. For the first time ever, Adelaide based artists Anna Horne and Amy Joy Watson worked together to produce a meticulously crafted and nuanced installation. In The Collaborators, Horne and Watson brought together their idiosyncratic humour and a giddy sense of play. Buoyant sculptures sat alongside cast concrete forms, in a colourful cohort of strange objects. The union of these two distinct artistic visions promised to create a topsy-turvy vision of the commonplace made strange!
Amy Joy Watson is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide and This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.
Intrinsic 6 August to 8 November 2019
Curator: Christina Massolino
Art Pod Artists: Cedric Varcoe, and Carly Dodd
Breezeway Screen Artists: Carly Dodd and Brooke Bowering
Renowned Narungga and Ngarrindjeri mentor artist Cedric Varcoe, joined Carly Dodd in the Art Pod to create a collaborative work that explored a cross-generational dialogue on connection to land and place. Working together in Art Pod, directly painting and applying weaving works on a large canvas over the duration of the exhibition.
An accompanying video and sound work was also presented by Brooke Bowering an emerging filmmaker and Carly Dodd that reflected on the theme of connection to land.
This exhibition continued at Adelaide Town Hall 1st Floor Gallery & Mankurri-api Kuu, Reconciliation Room
Curator: Chiranjika Grasby & Jack McBride
Artists: Gemma Brook, Josie Dillon, Nicole Fang,Nadia Louis, Fuko Suzuki, Mali Allen Place, Milo Trnovsky and Maria Windy.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Image: Cedric Varcoe & Carly Dodd, Untitled, (detail view, work in progress), 2019, acrylic on canvas, Art Pod.
Beyond all Disposition 22 May to 26 July 2019
Curator: Jack McBride Artist: Kathryn Ellison
During Beyond all Disposition, Kathryn Ellison activated the Art Pod space by creating alternative spatial drawings that will evolve and grow in the space over the exhibition period. Driven by the internal unpredictability of her practice and her methods which are built upon impulse and accident, Ellison will create a reflection of her subconscious and its connection to the physical world.
Running concurrently in the Breezeway at 25 Pirie Street:
Curator: ChiChi Grasby Breezeway Screen Artists: Maiah Stewardson, Keira Simmons
Is it performative art or naturalistic art that best reveals ‘Truth’ in cinema and sound? And, furthermore, is telling the truth inherently what art aims to do? These are questions that Maiah Stewardson and Keira Simmons raised in the videowork m6: A DYING DIALECT.
This exhibition continued at Adelaide Town Hall 1st Floor Gallery & Mankurri-api Kuu, Reconciliation Room
Curator: Christina Massolino & ChiChi Grasby
Artists: Tiana Belperio, Mankitya Shane Cook, Hannah Coleman, Anna Dowling, Chris Galimitakis, and Harrison Vial
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Image:Harrison Vial, Rinse, 2019, animation. Image courtesy of the Artist.
Commons 1 February to 26 April 2019
Image credit: Yusuf Hayat, View from the Ganges (installation view), 2017, three channel digital video. Image courtesy of the Artist. Photography by Sarah Strum
Art Pod artists - Brad Darkson, Yusuf Hayat, Bernadette Klavins, Sohrab Rustami, Angela Schilling and Hen Vaughn.
Breezeway Screen artists - Yusuf Hayat
Curator - Mia Van Den Bos, Emerging Curator.
Commons explored how we live within, around and through public and shared space. The artists’ in this exhibition traversed diverse territory - from unnoticed sounds of the city, to the agency of felled trees and personal encounters with civic infrastructure. Together, the works examined the past and present forces that shape our experience of the spaces, knowledge and practices we share. Commons suggested that artists have the important role of not only reflecting society, but imagining it otherwise, and allowing others to do this with them.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Helpmann Academy.
Stitching Yarns Part 2 9 November 2018 to 18 January 2019
Image credit: Image: Ellen Trevorrow, Ngarrindjeri sister basket and carry basket. 2017, Ngarrindjeri woven baskets. Photo Johanis Lyons-Reid.
Art Pod artists - Tamara Baillie, Makeda Duong, Lizzy Emery, Nina Frigault, Deborah Prior, and Sera Waters.
Breezeway Screen artists – Sasha Grbich
Curator- Ursula Halpin, Emerging Curator.
Stitching Yarns Part 2 was an interactive exhibition, modelled on a project coordinated by Ursula Halpin in 2017. Halpin ran a series of making events gathering together prominent and emerging SA artists to share afternoon tea in each other’s homes and create textile-based works.
During the Emerging Curator Program, Halpin extended this experience to the wider community. Small groups of women from diverse cultures and communities came together in the Art Pod to share their making and the stories behind their work over tea and a shared plate. Work was added to the exhibition by the participants, and over the duration of the exhibition it took the shape of a working craft room.
To complement the exhibition in the Art Pod, Halpin commissioned South Australian sound and video artist Sasha Grbich to create a work featuring the sounds produced by the making events. This sound work extended the work in Art Pod into the City of Adelaide Breezeway, creating an immersive, interactive experience.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Helpmann Academy.
everyday. 31 May to 3 September 2018
Image credit: image: Jasmine Crisp in the studio photograph by Wade Whitington
Art Pod artists – Jasmine Crisp (Painting/Drawing) and Manal Younus (Spoken Word/Text)
Breezeway Screen artists – Amanda Meadows (Performance, Photographic Stills - June/July) and Jasmine Crisp (Painting/Drawing - Aug/Sep)
Curator – Gabi Lane
Everyday people pass by on their everyday route to their everyday jobs and everyday lives.
This pop-up exhibition found inspiration in daily rhythms of the city and of those who inhabit it. Emerging Adelaide artist Jasmine Crisp and spoken word artist Manal Younus brought art and poetry into the urban space and society of Adelaide, responding to the everyday people who enliven our city.
We were invited to consider how we might view the world after seeing it reflected back to us? Responding directly to space, a fishbowl around which the city moves, the artists reflect what they see through live drawing and language-based artwork.
everyday. exists within an expanded field of art-making, activating the breezeway between the Adelaide Town Hall and adjacent council buildings through art.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Looking Back, Moving Forward 12 February to 30 April 2018
Image credit: Hailey Lane, Your Light Burns Clear, Giclee Print 2012
City of Adelaide Digital Archive Collection
Curator: City of Adelaide
Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Art Pod and breezeway included images with views of city streets and buildings, parks and people, and various civic events, services and infrastructure from a bygone era. These images are still available for public viewing in digital format through the History Hub in collaboration with Adelaide Libraries and digital archive images and film in collaboration with Adelaide Archives.
This exhibition was an extension of The History Hub, funded by the Keith Sheridan Bequest, contains over 1000 photographs dating from the mid-19th Century.
Looking Back, Moving Forward was presented as part of the Emerging Curator Program in partnership with the City of Adelaide Archives and Adelaide Libraries.
Resistance 12 October 2017 to 14 January 2018
Image credit: RESISTANCE Megan Cope, Resistance (installation view), 2013, enamel on cardboard, core flute and timber, dimensions variable, courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery. Image courtesy of Andrew Curtis
As part of TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, the City of Adelaide’s Art Pod presented Resistance, a dramatic installation by Melbourne-based, Quandamooka Nation artist Megan Cope.
This work dealt in quotation, recontextualising throwaway remarks from Australian politicians and media personalities to unpack their implied meaning. These words and phrases were literally turned on their head, suggesting a kind of topsy-turvy world in which the powerful exert their might through passive aggressive sloganeering.
Megan Cope is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne.
The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs 4 August to 6 October 2017
Image credit: Not available
Art Pod artists: Andrew Purvis & Sasha Grbich
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs is simultaneously a participatory art project and a genuine paranormal research office. The Department’s helpful staff are ready and willing to respond to your enquiries regarding hauntings, supernatural occurrences and other extra-normal presences. Using a holistic range of techniques, including site visits and archival research, the Department is dedicated to forging closer ties between the living and non-corporeal members of our community.
FLOW 28 April to 30 July 2017
Image credit: Tamara Baillie, Flow (production still), 2017, courtesy of the artist.
Art Pod artist: Tamara Baillie
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The City of Adelaide’s Art Pod was pleased to premiere Flow, a new commission by talented South Australian artist Tamara Baillie. This multimedia installation combined mesmerising sound and imagery with Baillie’s trademark ethereal fabric forms, to offer a meditation on family histories and the shifting currents of memory. The unceasing flow of time, tide, and human presence were all evoked by this elegant work. The installation grew and developed over the course of the exhibition period.
Tiny Parades 25 January to 23 April 2017
Image credit: Snapcat, Tiny Parades (What Do You Want? When Do You Want It?), 2015. Photograph: Emiko Watanabe.
Art Pod artists: Snapcat
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
Also shown on the Art Pod screen space is Tiny Parades by Perth based collaborative duo Snapcat. Artists Renae Coles and Anna Dunnill worked across painting, sculpture, video and participatory performance, producing work that was irreverent, political and loud! Tiny Parades was a series of public processions performed on the streets of Perth in 2015. These miniature rallies champion uniquely human-scale struggles and joys, while examining the nature of protest and public action.
Tiny Parades was originally commissioned by the Perth Public Art Foundation.
The Collaborators 25 January – 23 April 2017
Art Pod artists: Anna Horne & Amy Joy Watson
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The Art Pod’s first exhibition for 2017 was a unique artistic collaboration. For the first time ever, Adelaide based artists Anna Horne and Amy Joy Watson worked together to produce a meticulously crafted and nuanced installation. In The Collaborators, Horne and Watson brought together their idiosyncratic humour and a giddy sense of play. Buoyant sculptures sat alongside cast concrete forms, in a colourful cohort of strange objects. The union of these two distinct artistic visions promised to create a topsy-turvy vision of the commonplace made strange!
Amy Joy Watson is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide and This Is No Fantasy + Dianne Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.
Intrinsic 6 August to 8 November 2019
Curator: Christina Massolino
Art Pod Artists: Cedric Varcoe, and Carly Dodd
Breezeway Screen Artists: Carly Dodd and Brooke Bowering
Renowned Narungga and Ngarrindjeri mentor artist Cedric Varcoe, joined Carly Dodd in the Art Pod to create a collaborative work that explored a cross-generational dialogue on connection to land and place. Working together in Art Pod, directly painting and applying weaving works on a large canvas over the duration of the exhibition.
An accompanying video and sound work was also presented by Brooke Bowering an emerging filmmaker and Carly Dodd that reflected on the theme of connection to land.
This exhibition continued at Adelaide Town Hall 1st Floor Gallery & Mankurri-api Kuu, Reconciliation Room
Curator: Chiranjika Grasby & Jack McBride
Artists: Gemma Brook, Josie Dillon, Nicole Fang,Nadia Louis, Fuko Suzuki, Mali Allen Place, Milo Trnovsky and Maria Windy.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Image: Cedric Varcoe & Carly Dodd, Untitled, (detail view, work in progress), 2019, acrylic on canvas, Art Pod.
Beyond all Disposition 22 May to 26 July 2019
Curator: Jack McBride Artist: Kathryn Ellison
During Beyond all Disposition, Kathryn Ellison activated the Art Pod space by creating alternative spatial drawings that will evolve and grow in the space over the exhibition period. Driven by the internal unpredictability of her practice and her methods which are built upon impulse and accident, Ellison will create a reflection of her subconscious and its connection to the physical world.
Running concurrently in the Breezeway at 25 Pirie Street:
Curator: ChiChi Grasby Breezeway Screen Artists: Maiah Stewardson, Keira Simmons
Is it performative art or naturalistic art that best reveals ‘Truth’ in cinema and sound? And, furthermore, is telling the truth inherently what art aims to do? These are questions that Maiah Stewardson and Keira Simmons raised in the videowork m6: A DYING DIALECT.
This exhibition continued at Adelaide Town Hall 1st Floor Gallery & Mankurri-api Kuu, Reconciliation Room
Curator: Christina Massolino & ChiChi Grasby
Artists: Tiana Belperio, Mankitya Shane Cook, Hannah Coleman, Anna Dowling, Chris Galimitakis, and Harrison Vial
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Image:Harrison Vial, Rinse, 2019, animation. Image courtesy of the Artist.
Commons 1 February to 26 April 2019
Image credit: Yusuf Hayat, View from the Ganges (installation view), 2017, three channel digital video. Image courtesy of the Artist. Photography by Sarah Strum
Art Pod artists - Brad Darkson, Yusuf Hayat, Bernadette Klavins, Sohrab Rustami, Angela Schilling and Hen Vaughn.
Breezeway Screen artists - Yusuf Hayat
Curator - Mia Van Den Bos, Emerging Curator.
Commons explored how we live within, around and through public and shared space. The artists’ in this exhibition traversed diverse territory - from unnoticed sounds of the city, to the agency of felled trees and personal encounters with civic infrastructure. Together, the works examined the past and present forces that shape our experience of the spaces, knowledge and practices we share. Commons suggested that artists have the important role of not only reflecting society, but imagining it otherwise, and allowing others to do this with them.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Helpmann Academy.
Stitching Yarns Part 2 9 November 2018 to 18 January 2019
Image credit: Image: Ellen Trevorrow, Ngarrindjeri sister basket and carry basket. 2017, Ngarrindjeri woven baskets. Photo Johanis Lyons-Reid.
Art Pod artists - Tamara Baillie, Makeda Duong, Lizzy Emery, Nina Frigault, Deborah Prior, and Sera Waters.
Breezeway Screen artists – Sasha Grbich
Curator- Ursula Halpin, Emerging Curator.
Stitching Yarns Part 2 was an interactive exhibition, modelled on a project coordinated by Ursula Halpin in 2017. Halpin ran a series of making events gathering together prominent and emerging SA artists to share afternoon tea in each other’s homes and create textile-based works.
During the Emerging Curator Program, Halpin extended this experience to the wider community. Small groups of women from diverse cultures and communities came together in the Art Pod to share their making and the stories behind their work over tea and a shared plate. Work was added to the exhibition by the participants, and over the duration of the exhibition it took the shape of a working craft room.
To complement the exhibition in the Art Pod, Halpin commissioned South Australian sound and video artist Sasha Grbich to create a work featuring the sounds produced by the making events. This sound work extended the work in Art Pod into the City of Adelaide Breezeway, creating an immersive, interactive experience.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Helpmann Academy.
everyday. 31 May to 3 September 2018
Image credit: image: Jasmine Crisp in the studio photograph by Wade Whitington
Art Pod artists – Jasmine Crisp (Painting/Drawing) and Manal Younus (Spoken Word/Text)
Breezeway Screen artists – Amanda Meadows (Performance, Photographic Stills - June/July) and Jasmine Crisp (Painting/Drawing - Aug/Sep)
Curator – Gabi Lane
Everyday people pass by on their everyday route to their everyday jobs and everyday lives.
This pop-up exhibition found inspiration in daily rhythms of the city and of those who inhabit it. Emerging Adelaide artist Jasmine Crisp and spoken word artist Manal Younus brought art and poetry into the urban space and society of Adelaide, responding to the everyday people who enliven our city.
We were invited to consider how we might view the world after seeing it reflected back to us? Responding directly to space, a fishbowl around which the city moves, the artists reflect what they see through live drawing and language-based artwork.
everyday. exists within an expanded field of art-making, activating the breezeway between the Adelaide Town Hall and adjacent council buildings through art.
This presentation was delivered in partnership with Carclew.
Looking Back, Moving Forward 12 February to 30 April 2018
Image credit: Hailey Lane, Your Light Burns Clear, Giclee Print 2012
City of Adelaide Digital Archive Collection
Curator: City of Adelaide
Looking Back, Moving Forward in the Art Pod and breezeway included images with views of city streets and buildings, parks and people, and various civic events, services and infrastructure from a bygone era. These images are still available for public viewing in digital format through the History Hub in collaboration with Adelaide Libraries and digital archive images and film in collaboration with Adelaide Archives.
This exhibition was an extension of The History Hub, funded by the Keith Sheridan Bequest, contains over 1000 photographs dating from the mid-19th Century.
Looking Back, Moving Forward was presented as part of the Emerging Curator Program in partnership with the City of Adelaide Archives and Adelaide Libraries.
Resistance 12 October 2017 to 14 January 2018
Image credit: RESISTANCE Megan Cope, Resistance (installation view), 2013, enamel on cardboard, core flute and timber, dimensions variable, courtesy of THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery. Image courtesy of Andrew Curtis
As part of TARNANTHI: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, the City of Adelaide’s Art Pod presented Resistance, a dramatic installation by Melbourne-based, Quandamooka Nation artist Megan Cope.
This work dealt in quotation, recontextualising throwaway remarks from Australian politicians and media personalities to unpack their implied meaning. These words and phrases were literally turned on their head, suggesting a kind of topsy-turvy world in which the powerful exert their might through passive aggressive sloganeering.
Megan Cope is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery, Melbourne.
The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs 4 August to 6 October 2017
Image credit: Not available
Art Pod artists: Andrew Purvis & Sasha Grbich
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The Department of Non-Corporeal Affairs is simultaneously a participatory art project and a genuine paranormal research office. The Department’s helpful staff are ready and willing to respond to your enquiries regarding hauntings, supernatural occurrences and other extra-normal presences. Using a holistic range of techniques, including site visits and archival research, the Department is dedicated to forging closer ties between the living and non-corporeal members of our community.
FLOW 28 April to 30 July 2017
Image credit: Tamara Baillie, Flow (production still), 2017, courtesy of the artist.
Art Pod artist: Tamara Baillie
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
The City of Adelaide’s Art Pod was pleased to premiere Flow, a new commission by talented South Australian artist Tamara Baillie. This multimedia installation combined mesmerising sound and imagery with Baillie’s trademark ethereal fabric forms, to offer a meditation on family histories and the shifting currents of memory. The unceasing flow of time, tide, and human presence were all evoked by this elegant work. The installation grew and developed over the course of the exhibition period.
Tiny Parades 25 January to 23 April 2017
Image credit: Snapcat, Tiny Parades (What Do You Want? When Do You Want It?), 2015. Photograph: Emiko Watanabe.
Art Pod artists: Snapcat
Curator: Andrew Purvis as part of City of Adelaide’s Emerging Curator Program.
Also shown on the Art Pod screen space is Tiny Parades by Perth based collaborative duo Snapcat. Artists Renae Coles and Anna Dunnill worked across painting, sculpture, video and participatory performance, producing work that was irreverent, political and loud! Tiny Parades was a series of public processions performed on the streets of Perth in 2015. These miniature rallies champion uniquely human-scale struggles and joys, while examining the nature of protest and public action.
Tiny Parades was originally commissioned by the Perth Public Art Foundation.
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