Exhibition: From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity

This exhibition highlights the events of 1989/1990 that led to one of the most remarkable turning points in contemporary German, European and possibly even world history — the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. It is a tribute to the power of the people and their capacity to produce change by peaceful means.

Comprising twenty individual posters, the exhibition was mounted by the Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SEDDiktatur, a German foundation established in 1998 to provide information about Germany’s second dictatorship and promote discussion of its impact in Germany and abroad.
It has been made available to the University by the Discipline of German Studies in cooperation with the Goethe Insitut.

 

From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity is on display until 31 August 2010 in the entrance foyer of the Barr Smith Library during normal Library opening hours.

Educational Tours
To arrange a tour for high school students please contact Judith Wilson on 8303 5642 or email judith.wilson@adelaide.edu.au
Teaching materials to accompany the session are available.

Exhibition: Catherine Buddle – ‘Full Circle’

The University of Adelaide Art & Heritage Collections invite you to view the latest exhibition in their Cultural Illuminations series.
Catherine Buddle’s ‘Full Circle’ will be on display on Level 3 South of the Barr Smith Library from 30 July to 29 August 2010, during normal Library opening hours.

‘Full Circle’ is a mixed media exhibition exploring transformation of the psyche through a series of intricately crafted objects.
Catherine Buddle, Adelaide-based artist and graphic designer, has a background in the biological sciences and scientific illustration. Skills acquired and refined through this experience are evident in her meticulous artwork.

Admission is free — all welcome.

Artist talk
Sunday 15 August 2pm
Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library

Exhibition: From audacious outpost to international impact: 125 years of excellence in medical education | History Week 2010

In 2010, the University of Adelaide Medical Program reaches the milestone of 125 years. Using archival and heritage sources, this exhibition tells the story of the bold initiative of South Australias educational leaders and the generosity of its benefactors in founding a medical school that continues to transform health care in Adelaide and the rest of the world.

Special Collections, Friday 21 May to Friday 28 May

via From audacious outpost to international impact: 125 years of excellence in medical education | History Week 2010.

Exhibition: Year 12 Art and Design

An exhibition of Year 12 Art and Design by the 2009 Visual Arts Studies students from University Senior College is on display on Level 3 South of the Barr Smith Library.
The works are on display during normal Library opening hours.

Exhibition: Upon this site – Adelaide’s original vegetation

An exhibition of works by Christian Clare Robertson will be on display on Level 3 South of the Barr Smith Library from 23 October to 18 November 2009, during normal Library opening hours.

Christian Clare Robertson’s exhibition, through a suite of watercolour and pen drawings, evokes contemplation of the native vegetation that once grew on the site of the present city of Adelaide. These plants were virtually all cleared at the time of European settlement and are now unfamiliar to most people, with only a few oases within the city area that endeavour to nurture them.
Robertson grew up in Adelaide and majored in painting at the SA School of Art in the 1960s. She worked at the Art Gallery of South Australia as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings in the early 1970s.
Robertson now lives in Darwin where she has pursued an active art practice for several decades.

Entry to the exhibition is free – all welcome.

Exhibition: David Reid ‘Shanghai Landscapes’

The Confucius Institute and Art & Heritage Collections of the
University of Adelaide present an exhibition of works on paper by David Reid.

‘Shanghai Landscapes’ will be on display in the entrance foyer of the Barr Smith Library from 4 September to 18 October 2009, during normal Library opening hours.

The ‘Shanghai Landscapes’ exhibition is a result of over four years of close connections with and travel to Shanghai where the artist discovered a wealth of art materials and was able to put into practice his passion for Chinese cultural expressions and landscape. His work is cross-cultural as it reaches into another culture and presents it by employing traditional Chinese techniques in a new way. The work is subtle but vibrant, leaving the viewer to connect the dots and experience Shanghai as a contemporary metropolis.

David Reid attended the University of New South Wales and Sydney University and is now based in Adelaide. Early in his career he was mentored and trained by prominent established artists, which proved pivotal in starting his successful art practice. Reid has exhibited widely and was selected as a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize and the Muswellbrook Art Prize. He is represented by Aptos Cruz Gallery in Adelaide and works cross culturally with a special focus on Asia, especially China, where he is respected for the way in which he uses the traditional medium of ink on Chinese paper in startlingly innovative ways. His works are in private and public collections.

Exhibition launch
David Zhu, Shanghai-born designer, will launch the Celebration and Anne Warr, author of Watermark Architecture Guide to Shanghai and architectural historian, will highlight key architectural features of Shanghai and elaborate on how they connect with this exhibition.
5.30 – 7.00pm Thursday 10 September 2009
Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Complimentary — all welcome

Public Lecture
‘Shanghai: City of Paradox’ by Anne Warr
1.10 – 2.30pm Friday 11 September 2009
Room 529 Ligertwood Building, North Terrace Campus

Anne Warr is an architect, academic and Shanghai resident with a masters degreee in heritage conservation. She is also a founding member of Explore Shanghai Heritage, a group dedicated to raising awareness of the architectural heritage of the city.

Exhibition: Simone Kennedy — ‘Halflight’

The University of Adelaide Art & Heritage Collections invite you to view the latest exhibition in their Cultural Illuminations series.
Simone Kennedy’s ‘Halflight’ will be on display in the entrance foyer of the Barr Smith Library from 31 July – 16 October 2009, during normal Library opening hours.

Admission is free — all welcome.

Simone Kennedy has worked as a full time artist painting in oils and developing soft sculpture since 1998. In 2005 she completed a Masters by research degree in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia.
‘Halflight’ evolved from a concept for a memorial to a reconstructed memory of a meeting with her father … in daylight there is truth in halflight there is memory …

Artist talk — Sunday 16 August 2pm in the Barr Smith Library’s Ira Raymond Room.

Running concurrently Simone Kennedy ‘The Orphans’, Greenaway Art Gallery, 15 July – 23 August.

Exhibition: Endangered languages: disappearing diversity

An exhibition showcasing language revitalisation by University of Adelaide linguists with endangered speech communities will be on display in the Barr Smith Library entrance foyer until 12 July.

Exhibition: Stefan Koppelkamm: Ortszeit Local Time

While travelling through East Germany in 1990 – after the fall of the Berlin wall but before re-unification – Stefan Koppelkamm felt the urge to capture in photographs a reality which he assumed would soon disappear for ever.
Ten or twelve years later, the photographer sought out each location again and took a second photograph from exactly the same standpoint. The pairs of photographs which were created in this way document the deep-seated changes which had occurred in many of these places over the intervening years.

An exhibition of a representative selection of Stefan Koppelkamm’s photographs from the Ortszeit Local Time project will be on display in the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, until 26 June 2009. The photographs will be on display during normal Library opening hours.

The Ortszeit Local Time exhibition is sponsored by the Goethe Institut and the the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Adelaide.

Free – all welcome.

The Barr Smith Library Reading Room

An exhibition celebrating more than 75 years of service. Original plans, photographs and archives relating to the Barr Smith Library’s monumental Reading Room, opened in 1932, is on display in the Library’s foyer until 31 May 2009.

Part of SA History Week, the exhibition will also have a Memory Book for people to record their own memories of the BSL.