As part of the 2021 SALA festival, North Adelaide’s Melbourne Street presents the Melbourne Street Open Air Art Gallery. Inspired by the success of the 2020 Musée Extérieur art trail, this exhibition consists of works by 15 emerging and established South Australian artists displayed on walls and in shop fronts along the breadth of Melbourne"… ".''
SALA 2021
In-flight: occurring, carried out, or present while in flight | 3 August – 2 October 2021
NOW EXTENDED TO 2 OCTOBER Jane Bowden, Angela Giuliani, Michelle Kelly, and Simon Williams create jewellery in response to The David Roche Collection. This ‘cabinet of curiosities’ takes the form of an ornate, French steel and gilt metal aviary, owned by David. Jane, Angela, Simon, and Michelle have shared the studio space at Zu design"… ".''
Embroidery: Oppression to Expression
Galleries 1 – 3 | 17 June – 25 September
Featuring exquisite embroideries from across four centuries, Embroidery: Oppression to Expression embraces contemporary textile practice in Australia and traditional European styles. Travel from Georgian England to William Morris and forward to the internationally renowned couture of Paolo Sebastian created right here in Adelaide. Enjoy an extensive display of samplers, religious works, Regency silk pictures, and"… ".''
Captain Cook & the Art of Memorabilia
Galleries 1 - 3 | 30 January - 29 May 2021
In 2004 David Roche acquired the HMS Resolution table, c.1810, a significant piece of English Regency memorabilia so-called because it contains a piece of oak from the ship and an inscription to James Cook’s achievements set amongst exotic timbers from the lands visited by Cook. Displayed for the first time at the Foundation, the table"… ".''
Musée Extérieur - North Adelaide Art Trail
The Musée Extérieur (Outdoor Museum) is a City of Adelaide curated art trail consisting of reproductions of 10 paintings from the collection of the Thomas Henry Museum in Cherbour-en-Cotentin, France, that winds its way through North Adelaide. All the works are life-size reproductions of European Master paintings from as early as the 15th century. The"… ".''
War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics
Galleries 1 - 3 | 10 September - 19 December 2020
War and Pieced: The Annette Gero Collection of Quilts from Military Fabrics brings the art form of ‘military intarsia’ back to vivid life with 25 breathtaking examples spanning from the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimean War of the mid-19th century to the late 19th century British colonial wars in India and southern Africa. Although now"… ".''
Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation.
Galleries 1 - 3 | 25 January – 2 May | 9 June – 22 August 2020
The symbolic role of flowers in Western art from the late Renaissance through to contemporary Australian art is both significant and diverse. The Dutch still-life tradition is perhaps best-known, with its association between flowers and the transience of life, but there is much more to discover. Flowers: Passion. Pain. Nation. draws together the big narratives of life"… ".''
Bijou: An installation by Stephen Bowers
Fermoy House | 30 July - 5 October 2019
SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival 2019 To distribute works within The David Roche Foundation’s collection at Fermoy House is an opportunity for both revelation and concealment. Like Fermoy itself, discernment and association, as well as surprise, suggestion and curiosity are at play. Disguise and detection are also afoot, for distributed amongst Fermoy’s treasures my"… ".''
Triumph & Tragedy: Catherine, the Romanovs & Fabergé
Galleries 1 - 3 | 12 July - 21 December 2019
David Roche first travelled to Russia in 1994 and was overwhelmed by the opulent art and palaces of St Petersburg. His amazement and joy turned to a passion for collecting Russian art, and in almost 20 years he amassed a singularly unique collection in Australia. Exhibited for the first time in Triumph & Tragedy: Catherine, the"… ".''
Neoclassic: Reimagining Empire
Gallery 2 | 21 January - 29 June 2019
For David Roche the neoclassic covered the best items from George III to William IV in Britain and the reign of Louis XVI to Napoléon’s vision of a new French Empire. Driven by art from Antiquity and recent finds at Pompeii and Herculaneum, architects, artists, designers, collectors and patrons started a new craze for all"… ".''
