Greetings From My Living Room: Curator and Artist Talk

Join us for the Greetings From My Living Room curator and artist talk with ART WORKS Early Career Curator Chira Grasby with exhibiting artists, Billy Oakley and Caitlyn Davies-Plummer (Dustin-Koa). 

When: Thursday 20th July, 1-2pm

Location: Adelaide Town Hall
Pricing: Free, bookings essential (places are limited)

Featuring: ART WORKS Early Career Curator Chira Grasby with exhibiting artists Billy Oakley and Caitlyn Davies-Plummer (Dustin-Koa). 

This one-hour conversation is an opportunity for the curator and two selected artists to have an open conversation discussing themes of home, belonging, and place, and how these link into the exhibition. Audiences are encouraged to ask questions throughout and be part of the discussion.

Long before social media, postage communication was one of the easiest and most reliable ways to connect with distant loved ones. While letters served as a means to send long (and often formal) prose, the invention of postcards in the late 19thC created a whole new format for written dialogue.

Greetings From My Living Room takes direct inspiration from these postcards, inviting artists to portray elements of their everyday lives and share them with audiences as a form of visual communication. Through predominantly painting and illustration, Caitlyn Davies-Plummer (Dustin-Koa), Millie Hopton, Michelle Joy Magias, Kevin Lee, and Billy Oakley provide glimpses into their lives through still life setups, depictions of home environments, and responses to personally significant landscapes. Much like postcards their artworks portray snapshots of a particular time and place, with audiences standing in as the recipients.

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Greetings From My Living Room is presented at the Adelaide Town Hall as part of ART WORKS Early Career Curator Program, delivered by Guildhouse in partnership with the City of Adelaide.

ART WORKS is a collaborative program of residencies, curatorial mentorship and creative engagements, designed in partnership with the City of Adelaide to provide a city-based platform for artists, curators and writers to pursue new ways of working and engaging with audiences. 

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For more details  more information on the ART WORKS program see our website.

For any booking or access enquiries, please call the Guildhouse office on (08) 8410 1822 or email guildhouse@guildhouse.org.au

Image: Caitlyn Davies-Plummer (Dustin-Koa), Life on the River, 2023, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy Guildhouse.

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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.