Past Exhibitions

Bijou: An installation by Stephen Bowers

Fermoy House | 30 July - 5 October 2019

SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival 2019

To distribute works within The David Roche Foundation’s collection at Fermoy House is an opportunity for both revelation and concealment. Like Fermoy itself, discernment and association, as well as surprise, suggestion and curiosity are at play. Disguise and detection are also afoot, for distributed amongst Fermoy’s treasures my eclectic contributions might appear in open view or reside quietly in odd corners. Some works speak to objects in the collection, others uninvolved with such dialogue.

Stephen Bowers, July 2019

Viewed as part of tours of Fermoy House.

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Image: Stephen Bowers, Pair of Staffordshire[ware] [resembling King Charles Cavalier] Dogs, 2013, hand-built, one-off, artist’s proof pair, earthenware, underglaze colour, clear glaze, on-glaze burnished gold and enamels, 43 x 31 cm [each]. A collaborative work created with Andrew Stock (sculptor). Private Institutional Collection Adelaide.

Photo: Grant Hancock

Past Exhibitions

Until 24 May 2025

Current Exhibition

Nature Revealed: Rosa Fiveash & Ellis Rowan

The Australian wildflower paintings of Rosa Fiveash and Ellis Rowan are displayed together in this landmark exhibition exploring South Australia’s rich botanical collections. These luminous, exquisite and meticulous watercolours capture some of Australia’s most beloved and vulnerable native flora.

 

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