when: 11 June 2025 | | address: 68 Main St, Hahndorf South Australia 5245 | website: https://www.countryarts.org.au/events/island-welcome/
published: 11 Jun 2025, 5 min read
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Island Welcome is a group exhibition exploring contemporary jewellery as a gesture of welcome. Curated by Belinda Newick, the works seek to bring attention to asylum seeker issues and to extend the dialogue beyond art and craft audiences via expressions of Australian values through craft practice.
With reference to welcome garlands gifted in many traditional islander cultures, each artist has made a neckpiece, lei, or garland interpreting the theme of welcome whilst considering current Australian immigration policies.
Artists: Liv Boyle, Michelle Cangiano, Jess Dare, Anna Davern, Nicky Hepburn, Kath Inglis, Manon van Kouswijk, Sim Luttin, Vicki Mason, Belinda Newick, Lauren Simeoni, Melinda Young.
The regional South Australian tour of Island Welcome is presented by Country Arts SA and curated by Belinda Newick.
Image: Kath Inglis, Lei from the Welcome Mat, 2017, faceted segments hand cut from used thongs, silk thread, sterling silver, patina, 36 x 17 x 2.5 cm (neckpiece), 25 x 18 x 5 cm (thongs). Photographer: Kath Inglis
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Island Welcome is a group exhibition exploring contemporary jewellery as a gesture of welcome. Curated by Belinda Newick, the works seek to bring attention to asylum seeker issues and to extend the dialogue beyond art and craft audiences via expressions of Australian values through craft practice.
With reference to welcome garlands gifted in many traditional islander cultures, each artist has made a neckpiece, lei, or garland interpreting the theme of welcome whilst considering current Australian immigration policies.
Artists: Liv Boyle, Michelle Cangiano, Jess Dare, Anna Davern, Nicky Hepburn, Kath Inglis, Manon van Kouswijk, Sim Luttin, Vicki Mason, Belinda Newick, Lauren Simeoni, Melinda Young.
The regional South Australian tour of Island Welcome is presented by Country Arts SA and curated by Belinda Newick.
Image: Kath Inglis, Lei from the Welcome Mat, 2017, faceted segments hand cut from used thongs, silk thread, sterling silver, patina, 36 x 17 x 2.5 cm (neckpiece), 25 x 18 x 5 cm (thongs). Photographer: Kath Inglis
Go see Island Welcome | Hahndorf 2025.
Island Welcome | Hahndorf 2025 is on 11 June 2025. The opening hours are: 10:00am - 5:00pm Google. Conveniently located in Hahndorf. Call +61-0883887250 for details. Visit their website at https://www.countryarts.org.au/events/island-welcome/.
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