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Featuring Guildhouse Accredited Member Blakesby Hats!

Celebrate the people behind the garments at Threaded: Adelaide a documentary event exploring the designers, photographers and makers shaping South Australia’s fashion scene. Featuring storytelling, filmmaker insights, live music and community connection.

Wednesday 7 October, 6-9pm, The Piccadilly.

MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FASHION.

Go beyond the finished garment with Threaded: Adelaide, a documentary shown at The Piccadilly.

Discover the stories behind the clothes and the people helping move Adelaide’s fashion scene forward from the designers, makers and creatives.

Explore the event and book tickets: https://adlfashionweek.com/events/threaded-adelaide

Congratulations to Guildhouse Member Kristin Wohlers and all the artists involved in this significant public art project of a series of vibrant mosaics installed on nine stobie poles in Ridleyton. The project transforms the streetscape with cultural storytelling and is a global act of solidarity with Afghan women and girls.

Hanging by a thread: An Adelaide tribute to Afghan women - CityMag | InDaily, Inside South Australia An Adelaide art installation is ensuring the plight of women and girls struggling with an oppressive regime in Afghanistan is not forgotten.

Let's Meet Guildhouse Accredited Member Lucia Dohrmann! 🌀

Lucia Dohrmann is an early career artist living and working in Adelaide/Tarndanya. Lucia’s practice focuses on the connections between pattern and repetition, textile techniques and the mathematical thinking inherent in these processes.

💭 "I think it’s important to keep the momentum going in your art practice. Keep working towards the next idea or project, by showing up in the studio even if you don’t know what that next project will be. Sometimes ideas will only be realised by ‘playing’ in the studio. "

Learn more about Lucia's practice and read the full interview on our website:
https://guildhouse.org.au/lets-meet-lucia-dohrmann/

Images:
1. Lucia Dohrmann, Concentric Circles – Warp (detail), 2020, photo: Emma Dohrmann
2. Lucia Dohrmann, Circular Rosette – Warp, 2024, photo: Rosina Possingham.
3. Lucia Dohrmann, Sine Waves III – Weft, 2025, photo: Rosina Possingham.

WHERE COULD $5K TAKE YOUR CREATIVITY?

These are only a few days left for professional artists and arts organisations active in Mount Barker district to apply for our latest round of Arts grants.

Grants of up to $5,000 are available to support the creation of high-quality works.

Applications close this Sunday 4 October.

You can submit multiple submissions provided they’re for different projects.

View the eligibility criteria and apply at www.mountbarker.sa.gov.au/services/grants/arts-grants

📷 Council Community Grants Officer Alyssa Hill (L) with 2025/26 Council Arts grant recipient TaylrJay (R) who received funding to create the new public mural Harvest in the Hills in Mount Barker.

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Don't miss your chance to apply for a transformative Guildhouse Catapult Mentorship – last chance for 2026! 🙌

Catapult provides a flexible and paid opportunity for artists at all stages of their career to purposefully engage in artist-led mentorship with their chosen mentor, with Guildhouse providing support and facilitation.

Two opportunities are available as part of this call out. One mentorship is identified for a South Australian regional artist, supported by Country Arts SA. Each mentorship is valued at $7,000 with funds administered by Guildhouse.

Applications close Sunday, 18 October 2026, 6pm.
🔗 Find the call out guidelines on our website: https://guildhouse.org.au/call-out-catapult-mentorship-2026/

Catapult is generously funded through the Guildhouse Creative Champions donor program and Country Arts SA.

This round has also been supported by individual donations from Guildhouse’s Catapult Creativity fundraising campaign, as part of Creative Australia’s 2025 AusArt Day – the first national giving day to the arts.

Image: Catapult Mentorship, Meg Mader + Dan Withey, photo: Lana Adams.

First Nations Opportunity: Kurdinthi has been invited to bring a delegation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander weavers to the second Whiria Taranaki Weaving Symposium in Manaia, Aotearoa 8-17 January 2027.

Weavers will share traditional knowledge, materials, and methods while exchanging cultural narratives and strengthening contemporary practice at this ten day symposium.

Up to eight Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander weavers will be selected to attend with Kurdinthi. Funding from Creative Australia covers all participants travel (return from Australia), accomodation and travel allowance.

EOI closing 2nd October 11:59pm.

LEARN MORE: https://www.kurdinthi.com.au/eoi/delegation-to-whiria-taranaki-weaving-symposium

Yarta (Country) is now sailing on the Karrawirra Pari!

Created by Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna contemporary artist Kath Moore, the artwork traces the of journey of Karrawirra Pari (River Torrens) through Kaurna Country from the Adelaide Hills through Tarntanya (Adelaide) all the way to the coast.

As the third Ramsay Art Boat commission, Kath's artwork transforms the iconic Popeye riverboat into a large-scale public artwork to be enjoyed by thousands as it makes it journey along the river.

The Ramsay Art Boat is commissioned by the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation (JDRF), and is delivered by Guildhouse in partnership with JDRF, the Popeye, Visualcom and the K & S Langley Fund.

Kath Moore Art Popeye and Paddle Boats on the Torrens River Kyam Maher MLC Visualcom

Photos: Sam Roberts.

🥳 New Member Benefit 🥳 Thanks to our friends at The Mercury cinema, new and existing Guildhouse Members can now access 20% off movie tickets*!

As Adelaide's independent and community focused cinema, The Mercury runs a weekly screening program of the best in local and international cinema. You'll find the latest releases alongside arthouse picks from the archive, every week.

Check out their website for the latest screenings!
Simply email [email protected] to confirm your active Membership and receive the discount code.

*This discount gives Members 20% off Regular/General and Concession ticket prices. Not valid for Adelaide Cinémathèque.

Celebrating new public artworks in the City of Charles Sturt 🎉

Guildhouse Professional Services has worked closely with the City Of Charles Sturt to deliver site-specific public art projects that activate new green spaces within the neighbourhood.

A series of celebratory planter box murals by Louise Flaherty, Jason Sims' playful sculpture Brick Bonds, and Tristan Kerr's vibrant pathway design seamlessly embed art into the surroundings, encouraging moments of pause, curiosity and interaction.

Thank you to the wonderful team at the City of Charles Sturt for their collaboration, and to everyone involved in bringing these artworks to life.

Plus, how cute are these artwork inspired cupcakes?! They tasted as good as they look 💝

Photos: Luc Hansen, City of Charles Sturt.