The oldest continuously running studio collective in Australia, Central Studios Inc is a space for artists by artists.
In addition to nineteen individual studios occupied by diverse creatives, Central Studios awards two six month residencies annually for South Australian artists with the support of the Government of South Australia through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet
Zoe Freney is a practicing artist and academic. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art where she is (Acting) Coordinator BVA and BVA (Honours). Zoe has recently completed a PhD at the Australian National University. Her project explores depictions of mothers and mothering from a matricentric feminist standpoint. Zoe's artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions and prizes. She has shown work internationally in Scotland, North America and India. Zoe has also been widely published in a range of art journals and online writing platforms including Artlink and fine print
Suzie Lockery works across various mediums, including printmaking, painting, drawing and installation to form a multi-disciplinary art practice that focuses on ideas of place, transience and human interaction. Suzie has exhibited her work throughout Australia and the U.S. since 2008 and has been a Central Studios member since 2018
Alison Main is an Adelaide artist and writer, after thirty years as a Sydney architect. She practices mainly as a painter. Her current theme of ‘serious nonsense’ allows exploration of stories lurking in our subconscious, an idea now overflowing on to the surfaces of her new ceramics. Her creative interests have involved digital media, photography, and book design, with paper/junk sculptures as a secret vice.
"Through his mastery of drawing at the level of both language and skill, Orchard is today esteemed as one of the finest Australian artists of his generation" - Margot Osborne (The Uncertainty of the Poet: Christopher Orchard, Wakefield Press).
Christopher Orchard has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions for over 40 years and is the former Head of Drawing and a founding Lecturer at the Adelaide Central School of Art. He has been short listed for numerous awards, including the prestigious Dobell Prize for Drawing (AGNSW). Christopher Orchard exhibits in New York, Adelaide and Sydney.
Sharifah Sorayya is a visual artist who originates from Malaysia. She works mainly in printmaking, pattern generation and painting, heavily influenced by a life lived across Malaysia, England, the Middle East, Canada, and Australia.
26 years after she was stopped from pursuing her arts practice due to parental pressure, Sharifah Sorayya completed an Associate Degree in Visual Arts from the Adelaide Central School of Art while working full-time and raising her 2 children.
Never having been one to want to conform, her eclectic work reflects the appreciation of her materials and processes while continually exploring ways to combine her rich cultural heritage, and intergenerational craft practices, with where she is today.
She is a studio artist at Central Studios Kent Town, has had a long-term association with Union St Printmakers and is a committee member of Bittondi Printmakers.
Her works are in private collections across Australia, Malaysia, the Middle East, and the UK.
Sera Waters is an artist living on Kaurna Country in the Adelaide region. Since being awarded a Ruth Tuck Scholarship in 2006 to study hand embroidery at the Royal School of Needlework (UK), she has been making embroideries and hand-crafted sculptures that examine settler-colonial home-making patterns and textile traditions. In 2022 Waters has exhibited in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State at Art Gallery of South Australia (curated by Sebastian Goldspink) as well as the Busan Biennale, South Korea. In 2020 she was awarded the Guildhouse Fellowship (with Art Gallery of South Australia, supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation). Waters is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery.
Leonie Westbrook grew up on a family farm in the mallee of South Australia, making the move to Adelaide to study arts at university, where she discovered a need to make and a love of contemporary craft, going on to complete a Bachelor of Applied Arts at Uni SA.
Previous to becoming a member at Central Studios, Leonie has worked out of JamFactory, then Gray Street workshop where she is currently undertaking a mentorship with founding partner and celebrated contemporary jeweller and object maker Catherine Truman, awarded through Guildhouse Catapult mentorship program.
Public collections include the Toowoomba City Collection acquired in both 2017 and 2019 from Contemporary Wearables award exhibitions; and the Art Gallery of South Australia collection, where her work was recently exhibited in 2018-19 in To have and to hold, The Daaldler Collection of Contemporary Jewellery.
Laura Wills is an Adelaide-based multidisciplinary artist. She has an expanded practice exploring social and environmental themes through using found materials, collaborative and participatory processes and community-based projects. She regularly exhibits and has received numerous grants, awards and residencies in Australia and overseas.
Datsun Tran is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist working on Kaurna land. He makes work that combines traditional and contemporary materials and processes, with themes of conflict and utopia, childhood, and the relationship between different cultures. His subject matter is often filtered through the lens of what we have in common, rather than what separates us.
His work is held in many private collections and he has exhibited extensively in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe. He has had over 25 solo and group shows, exhibited in over 30 art fairs, and has been a finalist in over 45 art prizes.
Currently we have no vacancies, but If you would like to be notified when we have a studio available, please fill out the form below to be added to the notification list.
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The late Dr Ed Tweddell was a generous supporter of visual artists and contemporary visual arts practice and had a particular and practical interest in supporting the career development of South Australian artists.
Artists seeking to develop new work for an exhibition or other specified project are invited to apply for rent-free use of the studio for a period of six months.
An initiative of Central Studios Inc, the Ed Tweddell Studio is supported by the Government of South Australia through the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.
To apply please read the How to Enter and Terms and Conditions, complete the form below, and upload the following documents:
A statement describing your project (max 500 words).
Images of your work including title, media, size and date (up to 10 images).
CV
Links to your website or social media.
Applications for 2024 Round 1 (Jan 1st 2024 - June 21st 2024) close midnight November 17th 2023. Late applications will not be accepted. Applicants will be notified of the results by Dec 18th 2023.
PLEASE EMAIL APPLICATIONS TO contact@centralstudios.org.au AS THE FORM BELOW IS NOT WORKING.
Lucy Turnbull
Tony Giles
Ruth Fazackerley
Ken Orcherd
Jon Orth
Sue Kneebone
Berenice Carrington
Paul Sloan
Eileen Lubiana
Louis Haugh
Katia Carletti
Josef Felber
Gail Hocking
Sheila Whittam
Julie Strawinski
Cathy Frawley
Thom Buchanan
Andrea Malone
Lisa King
Vivienne Robertson
Fran Callen
Kellie Ferguson
Gill Hicks AM MBE
Grant Parke
Elyas Alavai
Josh Juett
Maria Tomasic
Central Studios Inc respectfully acknowledges the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.
