University is over for another year. While forests can breathe easy as wasteful students and professors step away from the printer, creative arts faculties are firing into action: it’s graduate exhibition season.

Graduate exhibitions are extra special invitations to view the best work produced by young artists and designers around Adelaide.

It’s a sneaky glimpse into the future of visual art, illustration and design.

Ingrid Kellenbach, CEO of Adelaide Central School of Art, is looking forward to ACSA’s Breaking Silence exhibition, where the Bachelor of Visual Arts and Honours students will present a body of work.

“I see it as their first opportunity towards professional practice,” Kellenbach says. “It’s presenting their works in a gallery setting, really for the first time. It’s really launching their careers.”

A graduate exhibition is extremely important for fledgling artists, as it represents a milestone in these early careers.

“It’s all of the anxiety and all of the tensions and all the work and all the tears,” says Kellenbach, “all of the family support and the sacrifices that they’ve made – and they’re out there for the world to see. It’s very scary. Because obviously it’s for the public now, and it’s kind of the beginning of their next adventure – they’re a student one day, then the next day, a graduate. It doesn’t matter what age, they’re at the beginning of their art practice as an emerging artist.”

2014 Graduate Arts Exhibitions & Shows

Adelaide Central School of Art

Breaking Silence

Bachelor of Visual Arts and Honours

7 Mulberry Road, Glenside

Opening: Saturday, December 13, 5pm
Closing: Friday, January 9.

Presenting artists: Sophie Green, Monika Morgenstern, Maggie Moy, Tiffany Rysdale, Ash Tower, and Mei Sheong Wong, Edwina Cooper, Francois Evangelista, Jonathan George, Marley James, Seirian Kitchener, Dijana Komad, Francesca Narni, Judy Parham, Jane Skeer, Madeleine Stentiford, Sarah Stocco, Alison Thomas and Hermione Twycross.

Adelaide College of the Arts

Exit

Bachelor of Visual Art and Design

39 Light Square, Adelaide

Opening: Thursday, November 27
Closing: Monday, January 22

Presenting artists: Aida Azin, Llewellyn Barnes, Ashlee Byrne, Kiara Curth-Stritzke, Kirra Dack, Genevieve de Jong, Jasmine Dixon, Oliva Dryden, Melissa Dunstan, Fraces Ellis, Marissa Ellmers-Slattery, Molly Garcia-Underwood, Sue Garrard, Yohannah Gibson, Drbra Hassen, Patrick Heath, Kate Holden, Sophie Holland, Paik Kang, Mark Norman Kinlock, Julian Lee, Linda Lee, Lloma MacKenzie, Bruce Marquis, Roseanne May, Leah Metaxas, Geoff Mitchell, Jesse Mullins, Martin Nguyen, Shelly O’Hare, Deborah Odell, Nadia Peleid, Erik Perkons-Grauze, Carl Rodgers, Nicola Rowlands, Mignon Schneider, Paul Smart, Emma Sullivan, Sarah Thame, Huw Trenorden and Aryana Vala.

Skinning the Tale and Wood, Steel & Hollow Water

Dance, Design and Technical Production graduates

X Space Theatre, 39 Light Square, Adelaide

Opening: Wednesday, December 3
Closing: Saturday, December 6

Presenting: a two-part dance performance. Skinning the Tale ;draws inspiration from mythology, and is performed in a purpose-built student-made theatre. Wood, Steel & Hollow Water is intrigued by the space and matter between humans’ physical and psychological lives.

Tickets: dramatix.com.au (GA $25, Conc. $10)

University of South Australia

2:34

Visual Communication (Illustration and Graphic Design)

Kaurna building, UniSA City West

Opening: Friday, November 28
Closing: Friday, December 5

Presenting artists:Rachel Angrave, Anna Bailes, Jess Baum, Adrian Bombardieri, Alexander Booth, Thaddeus Brady, Eleanor Browne, Chelsea Budarick, Aaron Casiero, Celeste Cava, Sophie Cavies, Lauren Cecere, Jacob Clark, Leah Clarke, Monique Cocca, Bahareh Dehghanian, Amanda Eve Di Mauro, India Dix, Nakita Dorward, Sam Dougherty, Thomas Elliott, Rachel Evans, Emily Ferguson, Ben Fleming, Jessica Frisari, Chloe Gehrke, Rebecca Grant, Joanne Hiuyan Hau, Sarah Hocking, Dani Hooper, Rebecca Hutchinson, Samantha Jeffries, Molly Jervis, Georgina Jones, Salomi Joubert, Jinkoo Kang, Karina King, Imogen Koch, Gajanan Lawson, Lorell Lehman, Jessica Lewis, Jenna Lim, Arwen Lindemann, Jordan Lindsay, Caterina Macri, Taylor Martin, Marchelle Matthew, Anna Maynard, Kimberley McMurtrie, Helen Miles, Michael Moore, Emma Nankivell, Alicia Neldner, Karl Newbold, Amanda Ng, Laura Noto, Camila Orlandi, Jason Carl Orr, Louie Quilao, Samuel Read, Harriet Richter, Angela Ritter, Brigette Rivers, Samin Sabour, Ryan Sausse, Ashley Schultz, Victoria Sears, Nathaniel Shilling, Benjamin Steggall, Ashleigh Stuckey, Andrew Victorsen, Jenny Vong, Iona Vorster, Sophia Wehrs, Chris Wilson, Alison Woodward and Erin Woodward.

Encounter

Visual Arts (undergraduate, Honours, graduate diploma, Masters)

SASA Gallery (Level 2) and Level 5, Kaurna building, UniSA City West

Opening: Thursday, December 11
Closing: Thursday, December 18

Flinders University

ROOTS

Flinders on Victoria Square, Adelaide

Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts)

Opening: Monday, November 17
Closing: Tuesday, December 2

Presenting artists: Kymberly Baxter, Megan Blacket, Lauren Clarke, Emily Edwards, Marco Morata-Plaza, Christina Quidacciolo-Getz, Kamellia Steens and Samuel White.

JamFactory

Generate 2014

19 Morphett Street, Adelaide

Associate Training Program

Opening: Friday, December 12
Closing: Wednesday, January 24

Presenting artists: Liam Mugavin, Matt Taylor, Stephen Soeffky, Courtney Jackson, Alexander Valero, Diego Vides Borrell, Katie-Ann Houghton and Marcel Hoogstad Hay.

Images: Photography James Field, Courtesy Adelaide Central School of Art
Judy Parham, Bessies booties, 2014, felted dog hair, feathers, Size 40.
Judy Parham, Rug of Resilience, 2014, ginkgo leaves, muslin, 200 x 90cm
Maggie Moy, Coalescent #1 (left), Coalescent #2 (right), 2014, earthenware and glaze, 10 x 11 x 9cm
Marley James, Crow, 2014, oil on board, 18 x 24cm

See these works at Breaking Silence.