Onkaparinga Arts - Sauerbier House

24/10/2026

Celebrating 10 Years! 🎉

Throwback | Jake Holmes & Alden
Artist in Residence, 26 September - 31 October 2020
ROCKS IN THE RIVER

Jake Holmes is a visiting (Adelaide) based artist who works across; printmaking, illustration, collage, mural painting and sound works. Holmes, having recently become a father, will explore what it is to be an artist and a parent. Jake and his son will spend time together at Sauerbier House and its surrounds, exploring his creative practice and by allowing this familial relationship to inform and influence the making, create a new body of reflective work Rocks in the River is an exploration of parenting through artistic practice. Time spent together at the river, the playground, and in the studio. This work has developed during our time together, on an unreliable and chaotic schedule, when Alden wanted to; paint, use a roller or during nap times. As well as experimenting with processes and materials this residency has also been an exploration of the act of making as a parent. I am no longer at a studio in the city until 10PM, instead we are throwing rocks in the river.

Images 1: Untitled, 2020, shaped found timber, dimensions variable (detail) courtesy the artist. All other images courtesy the artist and SH.

24/10/2026

Final week to experience our current exhibitions ✨

Margaret Ambridge - ENCROACHMENT
Lounge Gallery
Margaret Ambridge Art

Jorji Gardener - TRACING ABSENCE
Hallway Gallery
Jorji Gardener

Kultar Ahluwalia - THE COMMUTE
Wash House
Kultar Ahluwalia

Three must-see exhibitions | Concluding
31 October, 2026.

14/10/2026

TENTH HOUSE - SAUERBIER HOUSE CELEBRATES TEN YEARS
An exhibition of works by Sauerbier House Reference Group members 2015-2026

Christian Lock, Sue Kneebone, Jared Thomas, Louise Haselton, Chris De Rosa, Henry Jock Walker, Amber Cronin, Roy Ananda, Debbie Pryor, Robyn Holthom, Anton Hart, Nadia Cusimano.

Lounge Gallery, Hallway Gallery, Wash House | 7 November until 5 December.

As we celebrate 10 years of Sauerbier House championing contemporary artistic practice in the City of Onkaparinga, we acknowledge and honour the enduring legacy, dedication and stewardship of the Sauerbier House Reference Group through an exhibition of their collective works.

Opening Saturday 7 November 2–4pm

Greetings to Spirit of Place here on the NGANGKIPARINGGA with Ngangkipurka Susan Panyi Kauwi Wingku Kudnartu.
Join Mayor Moira Were for a commemorative address at 2:30pm.
Music by Track Team.
Light hospitality and bar available.

Let us know you're coming to the launch.
RSVP: https://www.trybooking.com/DQKVR

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03/10/2026

Encroachment - Margaret Ambridge
The Commute -Kultar Ahluwalia
Tracing Absence -Jorji Gardener
Until 31 October

03/10/2026

Wonderful workshop by Jorji today creating a table filled with bird calls and feathered wonderment.
Bless the birds.
Thank you Jorji Gardener
Beautiful Nature Festival

30/09/2026

We are equally keen and excited to welcome and introduce Zoë Brooks to the Riverside studio as artist in Residence Oct- Dec.

Project: Gardeners of Port Noarlunga Reef

Gardeners of Port Noarlunga Reef explores the regeneration of the Port Noarlunga Reef following the harmful algal bloom through performative folk art. Using data and imagery gathered with snorkelers and divers and documented on the citizen science platform iNaturalist, the community is invited to create costumes that tenderly perform stewardship and care. Zoë Brooks’ practice positions the handmade in direct dialogue with encroaching civilising technologies, employing folk arts as a critical tool to translate complex biological, environmental, and ecological issues.

Watch this space for community activations and invitations.

Image: Zoë Brooks. Plant Seagrass, 2025, acrylic, oil on canvas, 41 x 51cm (framed). Photograph: Sam Roberts. Headshot photograph: Libby Tozer.

30/09/2026

We are keen and excited to introduce and welcome CAPITAL WASTE to Sunroom Studio as Artist in Residence Oct- Nov


Project – DIGITAL_ MARINE_CONSERVATION_NOARLUNGA2026.EXE

This immersive, digital projection work will be the second edition of a digital exploration of the local underwater environment - a low-fi nature survey of the Noarlunga reef. This project is an ongoing citizen science/art project examining the importance of actual conservation over the reliance on poor digital representations as meaningful replacements of an extinct species.

Exhibiting outcomes in the Wash House in December.

Image credit: digital realtime simulation (still), 2024, digital image, 1920 x 1080 px. Images courtesy artist.

26/09/2026

Celebrating 10 Years! 🎉

Throwback | Mary Pulford
Artist in Residence, 30 June - 28 September 2020
UNFORGOTTEN

Mary Pulford is an Adelaide based visual artist, whose first love is of print making, and in particular artists books and book objects.

During her residency, Pulford will return to her Honours directed study which involved investigating the form and function of artists books and book objects. She will aim to create artists books/book objects by collecting and documenting the traces of life in the local Onkaparinga environment, using printmaking and experimental media.

The resulting archive would be a catalogue of the current environment, and therefore Unforgotten.

Images 1: Unforgotten series, 2020, etching, eco dyeing, cotton. Courtesy the artist. All other images courtesy the artist and SH.

23/09/2026