Image: Fox creek Fire Ground, Sam Oster 2020
Join us at Coral Street Art Space for the launch of
Solastalgia - loss and return
Friday August 4 2023, 5.30 - 7.30pm
Welcome to Country - Ngarrindjeri Artist and Cultural Educator, Cedric Varcoe
Opening Speaker - Artist and Poet Belinda Broughton
From Karta Pintingga, Kaurna, Peramangk, and Ngarrindjeri Country (Kangaroo Island, Adelaide City, Hills and South Coast), Solastalgia – loss and return gathers chosen artists and poets for whom creativity and compassion for this suffering world, is the primary motive. Bearing witness to the intractable reality of societal and environmental loss, the question must be asked, to what do we wish to return? Making room for both, the artists have generously taken up their pens, cameras, feathers, bodies, blankets, voices, mikes and print making tools to record their heart events. Their observances reveal much about loss and time; how it folds, fractures and heals, broadening our kinship with the landscape and each other. We are reminded that we are part of a living and dying system; one in constant renewal, and that much sustenance can be found within our collective and committed presence in it. Jo Wilmot
Kangaroo Island artists: Dave Foreman, Peter Hastwell, Michele Lane, Janine Mackintosh, Deb Sleeman, Lara Tilbrook, Jeannie Vivonne
Mainland artists: Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Aunty Alice Abdulla, Aunty Rita Lindsay Sr, Liz Butler, Jelina Haines, Sue Hawksley, Sue Kneebone, Sam Oster, Tristan Louth Robins, Cynthia Schwertsik, Simone Slattery, Laura Wills and Will Cheeseman
South Coast poets: Kate Alder, Jude Aquilina, Judy Baghurst, David Cookson, Veronica Cookson, Helen Ellemor, Liz Hobbs, Roger Rees, Heather Webster, Sue Willett
Exhibition concludes Saturday 26 August 2023.
Coral Street Art Space opening hours Wednesday to Friday 10am - 3pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm, Sunday by appointment.
Solastalgia’s activities take place on Aboriginal lands and participants acknowledge and pay respect to Kaurna, Narungga, Peramangk, Ngarrindjeri, Ramindjeri and Boandik Nations and their Elders past, present and emerging as the custodians of the cultural heritage and ecological knowledge bound to the regions that nourish us all.
