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FELTspace Adelaide-based ARI focused on showing emerging + early career + established artists in non-commercial/institutional space. https://linktr.ee/feltspace_ari
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FELTspace is an Artist Run Initiative established in 2008. With its exhibition space in Compton Street at the heart of Adelaide’s Central Market district, FELTspace has quickly become a centre for the emerging contemporary visual arts community and an important site for the development, exhibition and discussion of new work by emerging and recognised visual artists in South Australia. FELTspace has a focus on promoting emerging and early career artists, with opportunities for more established artists to show in a non-commercial and non-institutional space. Founded by Annika Evans, Rayleen Forester, Logan Macdonald, Monte Masi and Brigid Noone. The current FELTspace committee is comprised of emerging artists, writers and curators committed to the support, development and promotion of contemporary art and artists within South Australia as well as engaging with a national network of artist-run initiatives and artists.

14/10/2026

2027 PROGRAM CALLOUT

FELTspace is inviting early and mid-career artists to apply for our 2027 program. We’re looking for proposals that champion experimental practices, concepts and/or materials.

Selected artists receive a $1,000 artist fee, a four-week exhibition, marketing and communications support, professional photography, an opening event and an artist talk.

Applications are open and close on 1 December 2026. All applicants will be notified by 15 December 2026.

To apply, choose one format:

• Complete the application template and email it as a PDF, with your artist CV and support materials.

• Send a link to a video or audio response, with your artist CV and support materials by email.

Email your application to [email protected]. If these formats don’t work for you, contact Access and Inclusion Officer Shani Engelbrecht at [email protected].

Interstate and international artists may apply, but travel and freight costs aren’t covered. FELTspace strongly encourages applications from First Peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse, LGBTQIA+, d/Deaf and neurodivergent people, and people living with disability or chronic illness.

Read the full 2027 Proposal Guide before applying.

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FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.Architects Never Fall in L...
26/08/2026

FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.

Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.

Architects Never Fall in Love with Their Floorplans

Pennavaria & Lanzinger

Architects Never Fall in Love with Their Floorplans treats architectural renderings not as depictions but as images that produce buildings, haunted spaces suspended between design and reality. Paired with a film, life-size cardboard cutouts, the figures used to populate visualizations, stand in for whoever a space was imagined for.

FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.deliberating on options/tr...
26/08/2026

FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.

Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.

deliberating on options/trying to find the reason

Jazmine Deng

Jazmine Deng is an artist. She has a practice that navigates cultural dis/connection/absurdist existentialism, through the mediums of video, installation, collaboration, and sometimes performance.

FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.Preventative Measures:Ride...
26/08/2026

FELTspace invites you to our upcoming September Exhibition.

Opens on the 9th of September, 6pm.

Preventative Measures:
Ride Like No One Can See You

Lily Trnovsky

Preventative Measures: Ride Like No One Can See You
addresses the artist’s concern with personal safety and the unpredictable precarity of everyday life. Through repeated plaster-cast motifs, Trnovsky references her father’s obsession with bikes combined with a recognisable blue and white aesthetic to communicate a fragility shared between ceramic object and human.

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s ...
24/07/2026

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)

Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s tertiary providers.

Opening night: 29 July, 6pm.
Exhibition runs until 29 August.

Make a night of it! Start at The Mill’s The Mill opening from 5–7:30pm, then swing by FELTspace for the FELTgrad Graduate Award Exhibition.

Ann Gillespie
Flinders University/TAFE SA

Ann Gillespie is an emerging Australian contemporary artist whose practice is shaped by lived experience of care. Working across sculptural ceramics, video, installation, and performance, she explores the relationship between materiality, time, and relationality.

Using unstable materials such as raw clay, Gillespie creates works that embrace transformation, repetition, and impermanence. Her broader practice examines the often unseen, feminised, and ongoing labour of care, considering how material processes can embody its rhythms. Through gestures that are responsive rather than fixed, her work reflects on interdependence and the quiet endurance of everyday care.

SEE YOU AT OUR GALLERY!

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s ...
24/07/2026

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)

Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s tertiary providers.

Opening night: 29 July, 6pm.
Exhibition runs until 29 August.

Make a night of it! Start at The Mill’s The Mill opening from 5–7:30pm, then swing by FELTspace for the FELTgrad Graduate Award Exhibition.

Millie Nearmy
Adelaide University

Amelia Nearmy is an emerging artist who graduated from University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Contemporary Art in 2025. Primarily, she works as an oil painter with an interest in portraiture. Informing her painting is a constant stream of drawings and notations, collected by observing and cataloguing my experience of our world.

Much of her work has been concerned with how young people negotiate personal identity in modern society. She locates those she paints by working from life and memory, attempting to give form to complex identities and layered experiences.
Consequently, her work is fuelled by the impossibility of capturing the fullness of any person’s experiences. She engages with the interactions between isolation and overwhelm, directness and ambiguity.

SEE YOU AT OUR GALLERY!

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s ...
24/07/2026

FELTspace Graduate Award Program (exhibition)

Celebrating three outstanding Visual Arts graduates from South Australia’s tertiary providers.

Opening night: 29 July, 6pm
Exhibition runs until 29 August

Make a night of it! Start at The Mill’s The Mill opening from 5–7:30pm, then swing by FELTspace for the FELTgrad Graduate Award Exhibition.

Sue Last
Adelaide Central School Of Art
Adelaide Central School of Art

Sue Last is a South Australian Visual artist working in the fields of sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work reflects an interest in the natural world, regeneration and reuse and the endless possibilities that this creates.

A starting point for her creations is bricolage; she collects and sources found materials. Last wants to tread softly on the earth, minimising her impact on the world. Her work creates small other worldly installations that have a shared context using repurposed objects and sculptural technique that utilise recycled materials.

Last graduated from Adelaide Central school of art in 2025. Her work in the graduate show was awarded the FELTspace graduate award. Since then, Last has exhibited In the Fringe, in the Artists at Work exhibition at Mrs Harris’ shop. Last also participated in a collaborative sculpture, titled “Leaves” exhibited in the Palmer Sculpture Biennial.

SEE YOU AT OUR GALLERY!

FELTspace announcing the FELTcinema II: ACE Collab event lineup.Happening on the 1st of August, 5pm at The Mercury Cinem...
20/07/2026

FELTspace announcing the FELTcinema II: ACE Collab event lineup.

Happening on the 1st of August, 5pm at The Mercury Cinema, in collaboration with ACE. They have selected two works to show, and we also have a special presentation by Moviejuice, who have curated one film for us to see.

The lineup features:

Pamela Leung and Liam Black
Unseamed

Daniel Tune
hey, why don't you go and get the other green bin

Jess Lau
The First Photograph

Daphnee Ferrer
a tender awakening

Felipe Bibian
Presépio

Emily Pottinger
JAZZER MOUSE

Noah Mancini and Zuma Link
As the time might be now

Bea Allado
When Birds Can't Fly

Alexandra Kumala
20 Tahun

Maiju Voutilainen
Friction

Yvonne Lui and Lean Lui
Contemporary Halo: I stopped entertaining mediocrity

Ceridwen Boldock-Eliott
Katarina-Anna Ongal
and Grace Surmon
Wist

This is a free event. RSVP via the link in bio.

Program schedule will be announced soon.

See you at the event1

FELTspace is pleased to announce the recipients of the FELTgraduate Awards.Sue LastAdelaide Central School Of ArtSue Las...
10/07/2026

FELTspace is pleased to announce the recipients of the FELTgraduate Awards.

Sue Last
Adelaide Central School Of Art

Sue Last is a South Australian Visual artist working in the fields of sculpture, drawing and installation. Her work reflects an interest in the natural world, regeneration and reuse and the endless possibilities that this creates.

A starting point for her creations is bricolage; she collects and sources found materials. Last wants to tread softly on the earth, minimising her impact on the world. Her work creates small other worldly installations that have a shared context using repurposed objects and sculptural technique that utilise recycled materials.

Last graduated from Adelaide Central school of art in 2025. Her work in the graduate show was awarded the FELTspace graduate award. Since then, Last has exhibited In the Fringe, in the Artists at Work exhibition at Mrs Harris’ shop. Last also participated in a collaborative sculpture, titled “Leaves” exhibited in the Palmer Sculpture Biennial.

Join us for the opening of the FELTgrad Graduate Award Exhibition on Wednesday, 29 July, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

We look forward to seeing you there.

FELTspace is pleased to announce the recipients of the FELTgraduate Awards.Millie NearmyAdelaide UniversityI am an emerg...
10/07/2026

FELTspace is pleased to announce the recipients of the FELTgraduate Awards.

Millie Nearmy
Adelaide University

I am an emerging artist who recently graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor of Contemporary Art. Primarily, I work as an oil painter with an interest in portraiture. Informing my painting is a constant stream of drawings and notations, collected by observing and cataloguing my experience of our world.

Much of my work has been concerned with how young people negotiate personal identity in modern society. I try to locate those I paint by working from life and memory, attempting to give form to complex identities and layered experiences.

Consequently, my work is fuelled by the impossibility of capturing the fullness of any person’s experiences. I engage with the interactions between isolation and overwhelm, directness and ambiguity. Eventually, I hope to disambiguate and understand what I observe.

Join us for the opening of the FELTgrad Graduate Award Exhibition on Wednesday, 29 July, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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