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Lise Temple
To The River
9 October - 8 November 2026
Opening Night Friday 9 October 6-8pm
Lise Temple's latest body of work brings together expressive landscapes and interiors that balance observation with abstraction. Inspired by everyday surroundings, her paintings reduce familiar places to bold planes of colour, rich impasto and gestural marks, where space is continually reshaped through the physical act of painting. Rather than describing a scene, these works evoke the atmosphere, rhythm and energy of lived experience.
Working intuitively with a palette knife and richly layered oil paint, Temple celebrates the materiality of her medium. Vibrant and tactile, her paintings invite viewers to linger in compositions where landscape and domestic space become vehicles for colour, movement and memory.
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Sally Browne
The Botanical Imagination
9 October - 8 November 2026
Opening Night Friday 9 October 6-8pm
The Botanical Imagination presents a new body of paintings by Sydney-based artist Sally Browne that move between observation and imagination. Beginning with birds, flowers, interiors and fragments of landscape, her works evolve through an intuitive process of layering and revision, allowing familiar forms to shift towards abstraction. The resulting paintings create imagined spaces where the domestic and the wild, memory and nature, quietly converge.
Originally from the UK, Browne completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in 2025 after establishing a successful botanical practice with work held in private collections internationally. Her recent practice embraces a more open, process-led approach, balancing botanical references with abstraction and expressive mark-making.
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Sally Browne Artist Talk
Saturday 10th October at 2pm
Please join us in the gallery Saturday 10 October at 2pm for an artist talk with Sally Browne and gain an insight into her 2026 solo exhibition “The Botanical Imagination”.
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Mela Cooke
Solo Exhibition
9 October - 8 November 2026
Opening Night Friday 9 October 6-8pm
We are delighted to present an upcoming exhibition of works by Australian sculptor Mela Cooke. Working predominantly in bronze, Mela creates finely detailed figures that explore the human form, movement and character. Her background as a physiotherapist informs her understanding of anatomy and gesture, while her process begins in clay, allowing her to capture subtle detail and expression.
The exhibition features works from Mela’s recent Women in Action series, celebrating sportswomen through dynamic studies of movement and strength. Inspired by her lifelong passion for swimming, these sculptures reflect Mela’s interest in capturing not only the physical form, but the individual character and essence of each subject.
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Nikki Dowdell
Ceramics
9 October - 8 November 2026
Opening Night Friday 9 October 6-8pm
Art Images Gallery is delighted to present a selection of glazed ceramic vessels by South Australian artist Nikki Dowdell.
Nikki Dowdell’s love of clay began in her final year of high school and has developed into a distinctive ceramic practice spanning porcelain and stoneware. Her wheel-thrown vessels combine sculptural form with an expressive approach to colour and glaze, drawing inspiration from the natural world and our enduring connection to it.
Central to Nikki’s practice is an ongoing fascination with glaze chemistry and the unpredictability of the firing process. Through continual experimentation, she embraces unexpected results and subtle variations, producing pieces that are both richly individual and inherently unique.
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Upcoming
Christmas 2026
Group Exhibition
13 November - 24 December 2026
Opening Night Friday 13 November 6-8pm
Join us for our annual Christmas Exhibition, as we once again transform our space to fit the most beautiful display of artworks across painting, printmaking, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewellery.
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Sarah McDonald
High Country
4 September - 4 October 2026
This exhibition presents a new series of paintings inspired by the artist’s residency in Victoria’s Alpine National Park. Drawing on time spent among snow gums in the stillness of winter, the works reflect a quiet, immersive connection to an unfamiliar alpine landscape shaped by solitude and reflection.
Focusing on the resilience and vulnerability of these distinctive trees, the artist uses layered oil paint and textured surfaces to evoke the shifting, fragile nature of this environment. The result is a tactile body of work that captures both the strength and delicacy of a landscape undergoing change.
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Amanda Westley
Nganawi Ruwi (My Country)
4 September - 4 October 2026
Amanda Westley is a Ngarrindjeri artist born in Victor Harbor, South Australia. Her exhibition Nganawi Ruwi (My Country) reflects a deep and enduring connection to land, family, and coastal country. Raised between farm life and the ocean, with a boatbuilder father, Westley’s lived experience of water, shoreline, and rural landscape continues to shape both her identity and her practice.
Working in contemporary Aboriginal dot painting, Westley translates Ngarrindjeri Country through vibrant fields of colour, echoing the rhythms of her coastal home. Her paintings speak to Country as a living, spiritual presence, honouring her family’s long-standing connection to the south coast and expressing the calm, continuity, and cultural strength found within it.
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Brenden Scott French
4 September - 4 October 2026
Art Images Gallery is pleased to present a new selection of works by South Australian glass artist Brenden Scott French, marking his first time exhibiting with the gallery.
Based at JamFactory Seppeltsfield, French is known for his distinctive approach to kiln-formed and blown glass. This collection showcases his use of rich, opaque colour, layered surfaces and precise geometric forms, drawing inspiration from memory and the Australian landscape.
Offering an introduction to French’s practice, these works bring together colour, material and form in a striking exploration of contemporary glass.
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Donna Gordge
4 September - 4 October 2026
Art Images Gallery is pleased to present a selection of sculptural woven works by South Australian artist Donna Gordge.
With a background in textiles, Gordge uses textile techniques and processes in unexpected ways, often working with non-traditional materials to create distinctive sculptural forms. Her practice explores the complex relationship between loss, longing and the continual evolution of our identities, drawing on memory, place and personal experience.
A storyteller at heart, Gordge weaves fragments of recollection and reflection into her work, creating pieces that feel both deeply personal and familiar.
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Close To Home: SALA 2026
Group Exhibition
31 July - 30th August 2026
This exhibition celebrates the exceptional creativity and talents of our local artists as part of this years South Australian Living Artist Festival.Close to Home brings together a group of artists whose practices are shaped by the places they inhabit and the experiences that ground them. Working across varied mediums, the artists reflect the familiar rhythms of South Australia; its landscapes, suburbs, and stories. Their practices sit alongside one another like Adelaide’s considered grid: distinct yet connected, personal yet collective, and grounded in the quiet power of making art close to home.
Featuring work by: Nicole Ayliffe, Hamish Fleming, Christopher Meadows, Sue Michael, Alison Mitchell, Marc Newton, Todd Romanowycz, Harry Sherwin, Adam Tarif, Louise Vadasz, Mark Warren, Ross Wilsmore, Dan Withey and Elizabeth WojciakSee less
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Deb McKay
my mother's house by the beach
26 June - 26 July 2026
We are pleased to be exhibiting a major exhibition of new work by Adelaide ceramic artist Deb McKay. This exhibition presents Deb’s delicately crafted, hand-built porcelain ceramic sculptures, reflecting on endurance, memory, and the idea of home as something shaped over time. Drawing on years spent returning to her mother’s beachside home in South Australia, the work traces cycles of departure and return now echoed by her own children. Layers of shared memory are held within the house, garden, beach walks, and rock pools, with colours drawn from the sea, sky, land, and the slow rhythm of time.
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Open Field
26 June - 26 July 2026
Open Field brings together four artists working across abstraction in a shared exploration of colour, movement, and atmosphere. Spanning expressive abstraction, subtle landscape references and botanical forms, the exhibition reflects a range of approaches united by a sense of openness and quiet connection.
Rather than converging on a single visual language, the works exist in relation: soft tensions, subtle shifts, and moments of pause to create an atmosphere that is both intimate and expansive.
Featuring work by Amica Aindow, Cristina Metelli, Cate Maddy and Diana Wiseman.
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Dreams Made Visible
29 May - 21 June 2026
Dreams Made Visible brings together a dynamic group of contemporary Australian artists whose practices transform ideas, experiences, and observations into vivid, resonant form. Ranging from gestural investigations of colour and composition to intimate studies of the natural environment, the exhibition highlights the breadth and vitality of contemporary practice. It is both a reflection and a reimagining where dreams, sensations, and inner landscapes are brought into sharp, compelling focus.
Featuring works by Amanda Ketterer (image), Greta Laundy, Eleanor Noir, Tiffany Kingston, Eliza Piro, Katrina Linn, Emma Fuss, Hannah Goggs, Beth Hammond, and ceramics by Pia Kuykhoven.
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Marisha Matthews
Retrograde
24 April - 24 May 2026
Marisha Matthews’ solo exhibition draws on a Gen X childhood shaped by the layered domestic aesthetics of the 1950s–70s. Household objects, inherited furnishings, and once-overlooked accessories become sources of colour, texture, and pattern. Through painting, Matthews revisits these fading artifacts, recycling their muted palettes and nostalgic forms to bring the past into a contemporary visual language.
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Eleanor Alice
A New Magic: Here and Now
24 April - 24 May 2026
Eleanor Alice is a visual artist based on Kaurna Country, South Australia, working across painting, ceramics, works on paper and sculpture. Her practice draws on both realistic and abstract interpretations of her environment, using symbolic and metaphorical processes to explore lived experience, memory and time. With over 20 years of exhibition history in Australia and internationally, Alice’s work invites moments of pause and reflection, where colour, gesture and form quietly echo the rhythms of everyday life.
This exhibition of paintings and ceramics offers a contemplative and playful reflection on presence, passage and the quiet magic of making.
Feature image: A Beautiful Conversation (detail), acrylic on canvas, 80cm x 130cm
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Quentin Gore
Sculpture
24 April - 24 May 2026
We are pleased to present a sculpture exhibition by Adelaide artist Quentin Gore, whose practice bridges industrial design and contemporary art. Working from his Adelaide Hills studio, Gore creates striking forms inspired by patterns in nature, often using reclaimed timber, metal and stone. With over two decades of exhibiting experience, his work reflects both technical precision and a strong environmental awareness. A Fellow of the Design Institute of Australia, Gore brings a lifetime of design expertise into his art. His sculptures invite viewers to reflect on sustainability, material transformation, and the beauty of the natural world.
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The Big Landscape
Group Exhibition
20 March - 19 April 2026
The Big Landscape brings together 17 contemporary artists whose practices expand and reimagine what “landscape” can be today. Featuring works by Mishka Ammann, Janet Ayliffe, Rod Bax, Gemma Rose Brook, Sally Deans, Siv Grava, Audrey Harnett, Jud Keresztesi, Christine Lawrence, Sarah McDonald, Craig Penny, Sophie Perez, Suzie Riley, Harry Sherwin, Chris Summer (image), Peter Watts, and Diana Wiseman, the exhibition moves across place, memory, abstraction, and environment. From intimate terrains to expansive visions, The Big Landscape invites viewers to experience landscape as both a physical and imaginative space.
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Peter Syndicas
20 March - 19 April 2026
We are please to announce that we will host an exhibition of new work by Adelaide sculptor Peter Syndicas for the first time in the gallery.
Since 1997, Peter Syndicas has developed a sculptural practice rooted in his fascination with the simplest organic fractals found in nature. Drawing inspiration from fragile twigs shaped by the elements, he transforms these delicate forms into enduring works of bronze, steel, and stone. His sculptures embody a compelling duality, both magnified fragments of plant life and expressive figurative forms, reflecting nearly three decades of studying the human condition through the quiet observation of nature.
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Ben Tankard
13 February - 15 March 2026
We are please to be presenting a major exhibition of new work by Sydney artist Ben Tankard for the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026. His work combines nostalgia and pop culture iconography in a bold and abstracted style that is uniquely recognisable.
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Louise Vadasz
Sentimental Values
13 February - 15 March 2026
The gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition by Louise Vadasz, as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026. An Exhibition bringing together a beautiful series of floral paintings to reflect an ongoing engagement with flowers as subjects of stillness, care and enduring presence.
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Violet Cooper
13 February - 15 March 2026
The gallery is thrilled to be exhibiting a fresh body of ceramic sculptural work by acclaimed South Australian multi-disciplinary artist Violet Cooper, as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2026.
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Christmas 2025: Celebrating 40 Years
21 November - 24 December 2025
Make our 40th year our best ever, and join us for the biggest exhibition of the year.
Join us for our yearly celebration of colour and fun, showcasing over 80 artists across the mediums of painting, printmaking, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewellery.
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Greta Laundy
Resonance
17 October - 16 November 2025
Art Images Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Adelaide based artist Greta Laundy.
Resonance explores the natural environment as a catalyst for self-discovery. Drawing inspiration from landscapes such as the Botanic Gardens, Coorong, and Kangaroo Island, fleeting impressions are transformed into layered abstract paintings. Shapes suggestive of trees, gardens, and water emerge and dissolve, created through an intuitive process of glazing, wiping back, and rebuilding. These works invite viewers to pause, reflect, and see the familiar in new and unexpected ways.
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Minnie Taylor
Ascending Stillness
17 October - 16 November 2025
We’re pleased to present the debut exhibition of Adelaide artist Minnie Taylor, whose luminous still life paintings explore the beauty and complexity of glass. With a focus on light, reflection, and carefully composed arrangements, Minnie’s work evokes memory and calm through refined detail and serene colour. Each painting captures the quiet joy found in observation, offering a contemplative experience of everyday objects.
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Emma Young
Stones and Lines
17 October - 16 November 2025
Emma Young is an Adelaide-based glass artist whose vibrant, hand-blown forms balance function with a playful aesthetic. This exhibition features two key bodies of work: the Stone Collection and the Australian Flora series.
The Stone Collection draws on everyday Australian objects—like pebbles and milk bottles—transformed into soft, organic glass forms that evoke nostalgia and familiarity. In contrast, the Australian Flora series uses bold lines and vibrant colours to interpret native plant life, blending precision with expressive design.
Together, these works celebrate the charm of the everyday through colour, form, and skilled craftsmanship.
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