SALA 2024 Project Artists
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Amanda Westley
Foodland Tote Bag Artist, 2024
This piece represents all the colours that are found walking across Ngarrindjeri ruwi (country). Being so coastal the colours are very bright and vibrant.
My name is Amanda Westley and I am a Ngarrindjeri woman and artist, born in Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1985. My totems are the whale, pelican and black swan. Growing up I experienced the best of both worlds living the farm life 12kms out of coastal country town of Victor Harbor. My father was a boat builder so the water and the ocean have always been a big part of my life. My painting style is dot work and the bright colours from my coastal country hometown and the ocean are represented through my paintings. I have been painting from a very young age and my style is contemporary Aboriginal dot art, I have always enjoyed painting and the calm that it brought. My paintings represent country, for Aboriginal people land has a spiritual and cultural connection and is so important to our identity and way of life. With my painting I have used a combination of pinks, yellows, blues, greens and oranges to represent how I see my Ngarrindjeri country, the small country town near the ocean. My family is one of the oldest Aboriginal families here on the south coast so this land I call home has been a part of my family for a very long time, and by creating these paintings I am acknowledging the important connection my family have with this land.
Eliza Koch
Foodland Tote Bag Artist, 2024
A painted love-letter to my creative experience of Adelaide referencing growing up in the Adelaide Hills to living and creating in the City. There are symbols of my eight city murals and various printed temporary public pieces. This was exhibited in ‘Art Work & Wear,’ the SALA show I curated in 2023 which brought together an artwork and set of workwear of 23 Adelaide. The original was auctioned with all proceeds going to Palestine Relief.
Lucinda Penn (LCND) uses symbolism and colour to explore site-specific stories and human experiences. Lucinda strives to bring communities together by engaging the public in workshops to help paint her murals and loves repurposing surplus mural paint. Lucinda won the 2023 Resene Total Colour Product Award in Auckland, NZ for her 23RD Distillery Quattro Juniper Gin Label. This and her mural at Studio Safari were finalists in the 2023 Australian Graphic Design Awards.
Georgia Cheesman
SALA Merch Artist, 2024
Lucinda Penn (LCND) uses symbolism and colour to explore site-specific stories and human experiences. Lucinda strives to bring communities together by engaging the public in workshops to help paint her murals and loves repurposing surplus mural paint. Lucinda won the 2023 Resene Total Colour Product Award in Auckland, NZ for her 23RD Distillery Quattro Juniper Gin Label. This and her mural at Studio Safari were finalists in the 2023 Australian Graphic Design Awards.
James Dodd
Jarvis Škoda Art Car Artist, 2024
Lucinda Penn
Foodland Tote Bag Artist, 2024
A painted love-letter to my creative experience of Adelaide referencing growing up in the Adelaide Hills to living and creating in the City. There are symbols of my eight city murals and various printed temporary public pieces. This was exhibited in ‘Art Work & Wear,’ the SALA show I curated in 2023 which brought together an artwork and set of workwear of 23 Adelaide. The original was auctioned with all proceeds going to Palestine Relief.
Lucinda Penn (LCND) uses symbolism and colour to explore site-specific stories and human experiences. Lucinda strives to bring communities together by engaging the public in workshops to help paint her murals and loves repurposing surplus mural paint. Lucinda won the 2023 Resene Total Colour Product Award in Auckland, NZ for her 23RD Distillery Quattro Juniper Gin Label. This and her mural at Studio Safari were finalists in the 2023 Australian Graphic Design Awards.
Nicole Black
Jarvis Škoda Art Car Artist, 2024
Nicole Black is an artist based in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. Currently working from a studio in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts in painting and drawing (2011) from the University of South Australia and an Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design (2014). She is currently working full time as an artist dividing her time between fine art, murals and commercial projects.
Her artwork is primarily centred around the craving to be immersed in the natural environment. After a five year chapter spent living in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne, the importance of nature in her everyday life was emphasised. Returning to her home town in Adelaide in 2017, she witnessed the environment in a new light. Painting both the micro and macro of the surrounding environment, Nicole works across mixed mediums to capture her emotional attachment to these spaces and details. Her work draws upon the memory of these places, with journalling and photography playing an integral part of the documentation and understanding of colour, form and light.
She has long held a fascination with the ‘ebb and flow’ laws that exist within the life cycles of the natural world. In her paintings, drawings and murals she explores the juxtaposition of detail versus abstraction as well as the magic that is not always apparent to the naked eye.
Whilst representing the details of natural flora has been of importance, the abstract elements in her work are exaggerated to convey the emotions around the places she aims to capture.
She has been involved with numerous group exhibitions, a handful of solo exhibitions as well the curation of exhibitions. On the side of personal and commercial projects, Nicole has shared her love for the creative process through ongoing workshop and teaching appointments.
