S a i r B e a n A r t

19/11/2025

23/10/2025

Good Bank is a community & volunteer run arts space by Community Contemporary Inc. ❤️ If you want to join in the action and support us you can:

✨help us keep the gallery doors open and 🔥art flowing into the community by sitting the galley
✨ have an exhibition/partner on a project with us
✨have a studio/office space - we might just have one available
✨financial donations

❤️send us a DM or email [email protected]

16/10/2025

Have you seen this new mural in McLaren Vale? 🎨

As part of the ‘Toxic Surf’ exhibition and film screening, artist Sarah Casson has created a large-scale mural on the exterior of Good Bank Gallery.

The work, which took over three days to complete, incorporates artwork from local school children responding to the algal bloom and was painted with hands-on community participation. ❤️

Tune in to Drive with Nikolai Beilharz as he speaks with artist Sarah Casson on 891AM ABC Radio Adelaide or on the ABC listen app: https://bit.ly/AdelaideRadioLive

09/10/2025

🌊 Story incoming... 🌊

Last month, I reached out to local schools, kindergartens and child care centres asking children to create art about our ocean and the impact of the algal bloom. Within just one week, they delivered with colour, heart, and hope for a healthier sea. 💙

I took their incredible creations to Canberra, where they were handed to the Prime Minister as part of a local government delegation. Children and young people's voices can often be missing so this was a way to ensure they were part of the conversation. 🌏👧🧒🏾

Then, something special happened. The amazing team at Toxic Surf, a collaboration of local artists hosting an exhibition in response to the algal bloom at The Good Bank, said yes to showcasing the children’s art.

On Saturday, I dropped it off, the super talented S a i r B e a n A r t turned some of the children's drawings into a mural, up on the gallery walls with their vision for a cleaner ocean. 🎨💫

It’s a beautiful full circle from children in our community to Australia's Capital and now shining proudly in a local gallery. 🤩

Thanks to Dulux Australia for providing the paint 🤩

I'll post more info about the exhibition soon, so you can check it out. The weather for Friday is not looking great so plans may have to be tweaked.



Madge Sexton Kindergarten Families Aldinga Payinthi College Aldinga Beach Children's Centre Southern Vales Christian College Voodoo Body Art by Vanessa Kalderovskis Coastal Montessori Early Learning Centre Willunga Waldorf School Cardijn College Galilee City of Onkaparinga Onkaparinga Youth

09/10/2025

Feeling so grateful and blown away by the incredible community effort leading up to TOXIC SURF 💙

The harmful agal bloom has hit hard and Community Contemporary Inc have been working tirelessly to bring this powerful exhibition together. Weaving artists, scientists, surfers, and First Nations voices together and exploring ecological grief, connection, and care for our coastline.

In the lead-up, I was lucky enough to facilitate a community mural designed by the youngest members of in which collected and presented to in a Canberra recently. This was a way to capture voices we often don’t hear from. And wowee do they have power!

Huge thanks to for supporting this project and helping make it happen.

✨ Opening Night – TOMORROW
Friday 10 October
McLaren Vale

▫️1pm: Art & Eco-Resilience Workshop (last tix! Link in bio)
▫️6pm: Roving Oceanic Lantern Performance (Free)
▫️6:30pm: Toxic Surf Film Screenings (Free)

Would love to see you all there!

Graphics by
Photos by .jpg .surf

08/10/2025

‘Festival inhale, exhale’
blue biro on found paper (turned digital)
simple and unpretentious

lying back in the grass
shoes kicked off
body heavy and surrendered to the earth’s cushion
warm evening air clings to skin
sinking deeply into the softness
swallowed by it
eyes closed
head tilted and turned toward the hum of the Fringe
a distant band’s rhythm drifting over
a solo violinist’s notes weaving through the night air
the clink of glasses
cackles of laughter
and the playful cries of spruikers outside the tent
a quiet bubble amongst the hustle
simply listening
absorbing
breathing
a celebration of small moments
the kind that slip between the big ones
where joy is found in simple pleasures.

So stoked to share that my design’s made the Top 50 in the 2026 Adelaide Fringe Poster Competition! 🎉🎨

This year’s theme was “Simple Pleasures”, with over 400 entries from around the world, it’s an honour to be up there with such an incredible lineup of artists. Thank you Adelaide Fringe & Lumo Energy SA✨

Click here to show my design some love on the Fringe post 🙏🏻
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02/10/2025

Little flash back to when .art, Steve and I painted a pavement mural using Street Bond last year. Note Steve’s ingenious idea of combing the 2 part paint mix into easy squeeze drink bottles and Mya and I working in socks to avoid marking or leaving scuffs 😝

16/06/2025

In the quiet corners
they appear
noses first
fingers curled over ledges
watching
waiting.

A wink of surprise
in the shadow of a shopfront
a soft interruption
of the everyday.

They ask nothing
a reason to look up
to pause
a face
in the folds of a wall.

changing nothing
changing everything.

For now,
they gather on Morphett Road
can you find them?
whispering stories
to the breeze.

But they will move again
when the time is right
seeking new shelves
new eyes
new delight.

Commissioned by for The Moveable Art Project.

06/06/2025

How much time goes into the design process for public art?

…it depends, as each project is different but the answer is normally A LOT! Weeks, months!

Not sure about everyone else but I tend to have at least 20 designs floating around before settling on a final 3-5 that actually get presented.

This project for / was actually more on the simple side of projects but if you swipe to the last slide, there’s a little time-lapse peek into the inner workings of my brain during this creative process. Which one do you like the best?

09/05/2025

Tried my hand at animation for the first time with this AR piece for my North Adelaide mural. Super fun and a big learning curve! Grateful to & for the space to explore something new.

Still image by

05/05/2025

‘…and the roots run deep while the windows whisper’ is a celebration of community, history, and discovery, capturing the essence of North Adelaide through a dreamlike interplay of architecture, nature, and symbolism.

Inspired by the area’s historic built environment, the mural draws on tiled floors, archways, doorways, and window frames—geometric shapes that create structure, yet open into surreal, shifting scenes. The perspectives bend and invite the question:
Are we inside or outside?
Is it day or night?
What’s real and what’s imagined?

A warm yellow Karra (river red gum) glows at the centre, its deep roots representing Kaurna histories. Native plants from the surrounding parklands, including Pirltawardli (Possum Park), weave throughout the mural. These aren’t just decorative—they hold cultural knowledge, ecological importance, and deep connection to Country.

Look closely and you’ll spot the shimmer of the River Torrens through a window, rowers gliding across the water, moments suspended between stillness and motion.

Tucked among the branches are familiar objects: a red checkered tablecloth, a shopping basket, a coffee mug, quiet nods to the everyday rhythms of North Adelaide Village: local retail, café culture, shared meals, and community connection.

Three silhouetted figures stand within the scene, each in a mindful pause. They’re meant to be anyone, and everyone, a gentle invitation for viewers to see themselves in the work, to feel a part of it.

Thank you to

Snazzy polished photos by , sloppy iPhone ones by yours truly.