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Meet the 2026 fab Workshop and Studio x Helpmann Academy residents! ✨ @fab_workshop We’re thrilled to announce that Kit Lyon @klyon440 and Sam Matthewman @sam.matthewman.artist have been selected for this 12-month residency, stepping into a shared studio at fab with 24/7 access, hands-on facilities, and mentorship from established practitioners to develop new work and grow their practice! Kit works across sculpture and photography, creating otherworldly forms from found and recycled materials. Sam is a multidisciplinary artist and circus performer, blending sculpture, ceramics and movement into playful, performative works. Huge congrats Kit and Sam, we can’t wait to see what you create 👏 Learn more about Kit, Sam and the fab residency via the link in our bio! #helpmannacademy #emergingartists #artistresidency #adelaidearts

‘Holding / Carrying’ brings together the outcomes of the Helpmann Academy 215 Magill Residency 2025 and fab Studio Residency 2025 ✨ Featuring works by Marlize De Klerk, Gemma Slattery and Aidan Hughes, the exhibition explores memory, emotion, and how experience is held, translated and carried across bodies, objects and systems. We loved celebrating Opening Night with the artists at The Gallery, St Peters Town Hall. The exhibition is open until Saturday 11 April, check it out! 📸: @darrenclementsphotography 📍 @cityofnpsp #helpmannacademy #southaustralianartists #emergingartists #artinadelaide #exhibitionopening

Join us for a preview of our new collaborative project COUNTER. ‘Art is a state of encounter’ - Nicholas Bourriaud Counter is a project propelled by its movability—an insistence that escape is possible. Gathering outside of the gallery where people already are, forming temporary constellations that allow new intimacies to emerge in familiarity and friendship. The aesthetic encounter offers a vantage point to imagine alternatives to hegemonic frameworks that have been known to be sexist, racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-poor. Counter is a proposition towards creativity, curiosity, wonder, fascination, hospitality, hope, and openness. Opening this Friday 20 March, 6-8pm. fab Workshop and Studio Loading Bay (back entrance) 12 Little Rundle St, Kent Town SA 5067 This project has been supported through our @fab_workshop x @adlfringe studio residency

Congrats to Aidan Hughes & Gemma Slattery, our fab @helpmannacademy studio residents for 2025/26 ⭐️⭐️ Gemma and Aidan have been total sweetie bums to have around for the past year and have embraced metal in such varied ways. They delivered several exhibition outcomes throughout the year and experimented with clay, painting, digital drawing, video and metal working processes. See their work currently showing at The Gallery at St. Peters Town Hall, showing alongside Marlize de Klerk in ‘Holding / Carrying’. March 6 - 11 April @aidanhughes.online @gemma_wemma @cityofnpsp

SHOPWORLD by Palengke Girl Friday 13th March 2026 2:00pm - 6:00pm fab workshop 12 King William Street Kent Town S.A. Kaurna Yarta Exhibition opening / open studio curated by Aida Azin @aidaplebaum **A visual arts exhibition inspired by the vibrant experience of shopping at a Philippine produce market, known in Tagalog as the palengke. Through painting and installation, it reimagines the tactile, sensory act of ‘shop browsing’ as a space for play and imagination. Featuring works by artists based in the Philippines, it highlights creative makers who express their unique, multilayered identities through art and street culture. Curated by Aida Azin, this deeply personal project is rooted in cultural connection and joy. — SHOPWORLD will be open by appointment following the opening. Please get in touch :) Support and thanks to fab Workshop and The Adelaide Fringe @adlfringe @fab_workshop Artists involved can be found @palen9ke.9irl

Applications close for our @adlfringe studio residency tonight at 11:59PM (ACDT) For all application info, please see our ‘Residencies’ page on fabworkshop.com.au Supported by Fringe, this opportunity is open to artists at any stage of their practice, and there are no prerequisites such as having completed a degree or formal training. 🏋🏻‍♀️ Image: Resident, Lola, emerging from the Fringe studio space, surrounded by Aida Azin’s floaty blue curtains.

Gemma Slattery is one of our current fab Workshop and Studio x Helpmann Academy residents! The Helpmann Team visited them at @fab_workshop to see what they’ve been up to and hear about their experience. Thanks Gemma! @gemma_wemma 🌟 Interested in applying for the 2026 residency? Get in touch to discuss how we can help with your application. Contact us via [email protected], call us on (+61) 479 114 073, or APPLY NOW via the link in our bio! 🗓 Applications close Monday 23 February 2026, 11:59pm ACST. Residency period: 30 March 2026 – 19 March 2027 This opportunity is generously supported by Virginia Jay. #helpmannacademy #southaustralianartists #artistresidency #emergingartist #adelaidearts #fabworkshop

APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED for our 2026/2027 studio residency with Adelaide Fringe!! 🏄‍♀️ The Adelaide Fringe / fab Studio Residency offers: • 11-month rent-free studio space (1 June 2026 – 30 April 2027) • Shared 40m² studio for two artists with 24/7 access • On-site machinery and tool access, plus training • Technical support and city-fringe location in Kent Town • Connections to material suppliers and fabrication services This opportunity is open to artists at any stage of their practice, whether you're just starting out or have been working for years, we encourage you to apply. This residency has an expected exhibition outcome: each artist must register for an exhibition with Adelaide Fringe in March 2027. Successful recipients will also receive an artist fee of $1100 each, to cover the Fringe artist registration fee and other exhibition associated costs, generously supported by Adelaide Fringe. Find more information and apply via the ‘Residencies’ page on fabworkshop.com.au — link also in bio. Email [email protected] if you’ve got any questions. Applications close 18 January 2026, 11:59PM Poster image: Brianna Speight Wetland, 2024 @briannaspeight Project generously supported by @ADLfringe #ADLfringe

Happy end of year and festive season to all! From the crew at fab and @washdog.studio It’s been a big second year in the studios, full of shifts, collaborations and projects. Thanks to our friends, family, residents and supporters. We'll be kicking off the year in January with the next Washdog guest residency including workshops and artist talks, and then Fringe exhibitions from (at least) five of our studio artists. It's shaping up to be a spicy summer. Image by @dave.court from our end of year party; mini-golf tournament edition (missing some key players: Miles, Michelle, Martin, Aidan, Alice, Yusuf, Daniel, Emma, Eva, Joanna, Zoe, Jimmy).

Fringe residents Alice McCool and Yusuf Ali Hayat travelled to Bus Projects, taking part in the group exhibition ‘Friend/free (to love)’ curated by Alice McCool and Ena Grozdanić. 10.9.25 - 18.10.25 ‘‘Friend/free (to love)’ brings together eight artistic comrades to ask: how do works created by friends speak to one another? Can friendship trouble the connection between art and property? Can friends redefine and renegotiate conventions of aesthetic autonomy through the process of reciprocal creative labour?’ Artists: Yusuf Ali Hayat and Dominic Guerrera, Astrid Lorange and Andrew Brooks (Snack Syndicate), Sanja Grozdanić and Jelena Luise, and Hen Vaughan and Georgia Oatley. Images: Yusuf Ali Hayat, 2025, Hangin’ out the passenger side…, vinyl print on mirror, Bus Projects ‘Friend/free (to love)’, 2025, installation views, Bus Projects @alicemccool @yusufalihayat @ena_groz @busprojects @adlfringe

Helpmann resident Aidan Hughes exhibited Skill Tree, 2025, as part of the group show ‘INFO MYTH’ at FUTUREJUICE 16.11.25 - 13.12.2025 Aidan used CAD software to design and draw the components of this work, which were laser-cut from 6 mm stainless steel to create a monumental mantle scattered with iconic digital references. In the studio, he developed a finishing technique using a flap disc, giving the stainless steel a soft, dreamy appearance. Images: Skill Tree, 2025, stainless steel Process images of cleaning up stainless steel laser Aidan in his studio at fab, cleaning up and finishing the stainless steel pieces @aidanhughes.online @futurejuice.xyz @helpmannacademy

Daniel and Emma presented a new body of work, World Expo 2025, at Hugo Michell Gallery. 'World Expo 2025 captures the unique moments intertwined with exploring new places and the experiences shared, resulting in a still life scene of furniture and objects embodying magic memories.' Images: Daniel Emma, Shrine (For Very Important Things) (installation view), 2025, powdercoated steel, timber veneer plywood, paint, acrylic diffuser, and LED strip, 50 x 35 x 35 cm Photography: Sam Roberts @samrophoto Daniel Emma, Stadium Seating (detail), 2025, powdercoated steel, Kvadrat wool upholstery, acrylic, and magnets, 81 x 160 x 57 cm Daniel Emma's 'World Expo 2025' at Hugo Michell Gallery, 2025. @daniel_emma @hugomichellgallery