The Arrangements: assembling nature

The Arrangements: assembling nature description

Known as much for its beautiful grounds as its heritage architecture, the grand Carrick Hill estate is the inspiration for a new creative project by acclaimed South Australian artist Catherine Truman.

Carrick Hill is filled with an eclectic and historically significant art collection, surrounded by extensive gardens ringed by native bushland. The estate is a time capsule of privileged mid-twentieth century life in Adelaide, with domestic spaces that exude the power of living with art. As artist-in-residence at Carrick Hill, Truman draws on the unique, intimate nature of this site and its relationship with art.

The Arrangements: assembling nature investigates our impact on the environment and considers both a domestic and scientific interpretation of the natural world from historic and contemporary perspectives. The skilfully crafted objects that make up this exhibition explore the roles and rituals of cultivation, harvest and the arrangement of plants and flowers in the lives of the estate’s former residents and audiences today.

This exhibition expertly unpacks our relationship with the natural world and reinforces the capacity of art to disrupt assumptions and expectations.

Artist talk and exhibition tour with Catherine Truman 
+ Panel discussion with Catherine Truman and sa artists
16 Mar, 5pm - 7.30pm

5pm - 6pm: Artist talk and exhibition tour
Catherine Truman leads a tour around Carrick Hill House museum to talk about the works her exhibition.

6.15pm - 7.15pm: Panel discussion with Catherine Truman and SA artists
Catherine Truman will be joined by Kasia Tons (Biotic Commune) and Brad Darkson, two other South Australian artists working with issues related to climate change and biodiversity. The panel will be convened by Debbie Pryor.

Tickets for full event: $30 Adult or $43 Adult with a glass of wine. Tickets for panel discussion only: $20 Adult or $33 Adult with a glass of wine.
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Catherine Truman acknowledges that this project has been carried out on the lands of the Kaurna People and pays respect to their Elders, past, present and future.

Thanks and acknowledgements 
Carrick Hill foundation, board, staff and volunteers
Australia Council for the Arts, Guildhouse (Emma Fey, and Debbie Pryor)
Grant Hancock, Tony Kanelos, Gray Street Workshop; Sue Lorraine, Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Woori Han, Jamfactory ceramics and glass workshops, Ian Gibbins, Rachel Harris, Anne Brennan, Stuart Gonda, Belinda Causby, Sam East, Susan McCormack, Kate Davies

Image Catherine Truman, After Hans, 2022.
Photo Grant Hancock.

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