Exhibition Launch: JPE Artist in Residence - Monika Morgenstern

Exhibition Launch – JPE Artist in Residence
Monika Morgenstern: Aether

• Friday 6 March 2026

• 6:00 – 8:00pm, speeches at 6:30pm 

• JPE Design Studio, 4/19 Gilles St, Adelaide SA 5000

Contemporary visual artist Monika Morgenstern has been embedded within the JPE Design Studio as the 8th Artist in Residence, presented in partnership with Guildhouse, bringing a spirit of curiosity, experimentation and creative inquiry into the studio’s day-to-day practice.

Monika’s work explores colour as both a mystical and material force. Through colour-based meditations, material testing and iterative making, her practice examines the relationship between light, perception and space. During the residency, Monika has worked closely with the JPE team and project suppliers to explore the expressive potential of glass and light, investigating how materiality can shape atmosphere, mood and sensory experience within the built environment.

The residency has opened up space for cross-disciplinary conversation - encouraging artists and designers alike to slow down, ask different questions, and test ideas beyond conventional project frameworks. Through shared studio time, material experimentation and open dialogue, the collaboration continues to enrich how we think about colour, materiality and perception in architecture and design.

We invite you to celebrate Monika’s residency and its outcomes at the JPE studio as part of Adelaide Fringe 2026, where her research and explorations will be shared with the wider community.

About:
The JPE Artist in Residence program in partnership with Guildhouse and JPE Design Studio is a residency opportunity that sees artists in creative exchange within the JPE studios, culminating in a work or installation presented during SALA and Fringe. JPE has been a place where emerging artists can exhibit, engage with studio culture, and impact design thinking since 2013.

Image: Monika Morgenstern, photograph Bob Sabbage.

Photography Permissions

Photographs and/or video may be taken at this event. By taking part in this event you grant the event organisers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the group’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications.

If you do not wish to be photographed please inform the photographer or a Guildhouse staff member.