What’s on in the arts

Top left: Windfall by Scott Hartshorne will be at the Strand Gallery. Top right and bottom left: Landscapes by Roe Gartelman will be at the Fleurieu Arthouse. Bottom row centre: Pastoral series #4 by Althea Holmes will be at St Augustine’s Church. Bottom right: Estrangement by Christobel Kelly will be at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre.

Winter is a time for art lovers to relish, as the SALA Festival transforms everyday spaces into art galleries for the month of August. Cafes, community spaces and your local shop – even toilets! – become places of artistic inspiration. And of course our galleries continue to showcase new and interesting works to excite and challenge. Come on in, it’s warm inside!

The Strand Gallery Port Elliot Scott Hartshorne: Natural World: Realism and Abstraction From 11 June Scott’s paintings are inspired by the natural world, specifically Australia’s wild environment. He’s fascinated with recurring themes of pattern and structured form found in nature, in an exploration of chaos versus order. He classifies himself as a realist, but his over-scale studies of native flora, sprigs, flowers, shells and found objects are as much about composition and the shadows that fall behind them, as they are about the lifelike quality of the subject matter.

Fleurieu Arthouse McLaren Vale 11 June – 26 July Roe Gartelmann and Lyn Robins: Closer to Home For many years, Lyn Robins and Roe Gartelmann have captured majestic outback landscapes often in the Flinders Ranges. In this exhibition they’ve decided to paint closer to home, depicting their local area – right up to their own backyards and kitchens.

30 July – 29 August South Australian Living Artist Festival The Arthouse will have a full month of art happenings during the SALA Festival with art workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations and ‘meet the artist’ sessions on their studio days. Coral Street Art Space Victor Harbor Site works commenced at the end of May to install Victor Harbor’s first permanent exhibition space for Ramindjeri/Ngarrindjeri creatives, plus two studio pods that will be for lease. The opening will coincide with NAIDOC week from 3 July. And during SALA, Gallery two will host two exhibitions: a group exhibition with Barb Pettigrew and a solo exhibition by Leith Semmens from Tripod Gallery.

Victor Harbor Arts Society hosts The Collective:

St Augustine’s Church Victor Harbor 13 – 21 August With a history going back sixty years, the Victor Harbor Art Society is celebrating the Fleurieu and its many artists during SALA with ‘The Collective’, an exhibition of fifty artists and some one-hundred works. The exhibition showcases impressions of the southern Fleurieu Peninsula, like Pastoral Series #4 by local artist Althea Holmes, which depicts a typical summer day in the area, something you may see walking through the country in the morning sun.

South Coast Regional Arts Centre Goolwa 18 – 24 July Exhibition: Fleurieu Ruah Fleurieu Ruah explores the ghosting of landscapes with the instability of memory, and the use of painting and drawing to harness those qualities to particular places.

Professional artists The Strand Gallery is now planning its exhibition programme for 2023/24. If you are a professional artist and are interested in exhibiting, please email sonya.hender@hender.com for an information pack.