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A Trail of Tales…photo album

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Have you seen our 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival event: A Trail of Tales?

It’s a colourful and whimsical display put together by local writers and artists – a mutually inspired installation of words and art at Pine Park, just behind Gallery 1855 in Tea Tree Gully.

Writers used Pine Park, Anstey’s Hill and Tea Tree Gully as locations to pen their stories, poems and fairy tales, while the artists used the stories to create the artworks.

All of the stories and artworks have been spread throughout Pine Park, adorning trees, turning the fragrant space into a colourful, magic storyland.

Local schools have also been enjoying the display. Several school groups have made excursions to Pine Park for a special fairy story time, held beneath the fragrant trees.

It has also been a popular spot for families to wander through during this year’s Fringe Festival.

Don’t miss it – head to Gallery 1855, at 2 Haines Road in Tea Tree Gully, and it’s just a short walk up to Pine Park, behind the art gallery.

Thanks go to our writers and artists who collaborated together on this massive project. They include: The Tea Tree Gully Writers’ Group, Gallery 1855, Off the Couch, Tea Tree Studio, Tea Tree Gully Green Army, Paddock’s Creative Writing Group, SpecFic Chic, Carole Simmonds, Michael Sneyd and Tea Tree Gully Youth.

To see what people have been saying about A Trail of Tales, read this review by Helen Meyers

 

New Gallery 1855 exhibition

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Contested Landscapes: natural and built environments undergoing change  is a new painting exhibition featuring the works of Robert Habel, which opens 2pm Sunday 21 September, at Gallery 1855.

Robert Habel, Palmer Landscape 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 140 x 127cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Robert Habel, Palmer Landscape 3, 2011, oil on canvas, 140 x 127cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

Visual artist Robert Habel has been painting landscapes for over thirty years but not in the traditional sense.

His practice doesn’t acquiesce to the traditions, rules and nostalgic affirmations of the past.

Instead, his landscapes deal with issues of ecological and cultural sustainability.

To Robert, the depiction of land undergoing change or suffering abuse is as relevant in art today as idealistic landscape painting was in the past.

For more information about Robert’s creative practice please visit his website

Come along to Robert’s floor talk on Saturday 25 October from 2pm.

Want to know more about what we are doing in the Gallery and Studio? Visit our website

Gallery 1855 first anniversary exhibition

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Gallery 1855 has just turned one year old!

Rebecca Cooke, Sunset Flight of the White Ibis (detail), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 122cm. Image courtesy of artist.

Rebecca Cooke, Sunset Flight of the White Ibis (detail), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 122cm. Image courtesy of artist. On display during the 1st Anniversary exhibition.

Come help us celebrate during our first anniversary exhibition featuring artworks in various media by community members who live, work, or have a significant association with the City of Tea Tree Gully.

The exhibition opens at a special launch this Sunday at 2 pm and will be open to view and to purchase artworks from Wednesday 18 December through to Saturday 8 February.

The Gallery will be closing for Christmas from Tuesday 24 December and reopening on Wednesday 15 January.

For more information please contact Niki Vouis, the Arts and Cultural officer on 8397 7216.