Art Showcase

If you would like to see our curated sculptures and unique pieces on display next time you are in the Centre, please see below for all the details.

WATER AND STONE

Silvio Apponyi OAM has over 50 years’ experience as a sculptor. Through a variety of mediums, including wood, stone and bronze, his works range from delicate miniature carvings to large public sculptures. Created from South Australian Black Hill granite, Apponyi’s Water and Stone establishes a visual and material connection to his previous Burnside Village commissions. From the granite foundation, a polished wavelike form emerges alongside bronze geckos, waiting to be discovered by visitors. Drawing inspiration from the intricate fluidity of nudibranchs, their form is reflected in the sculpture’s sense of movement and rhythm.

Celestial Life Form

Since 1997, sculptor Peter Syndicas has blended nature and form in abstract figurative works inspired by plant fractals. His piece, Celestial Life Form, originated from a twig found in the Flinders Ranges on Adnyamathanha land. Creating the large bronze sculpture required overcoming engineering challenges and developing new techniques for its weight and complexity. The monumental, open-form work allows natural light to illuminate its contours, symbolising nature’s fragility and strength through a fusion of technical innovation and organic inspiration.

Light Shifter

Jason Sims is a Tarntanya/Adelaide based interdisciplinary artist who works in the realm of perceptual art. Through an interest in perspective and spatial representation, Sims employs light and reflection to create expansive environments, exploring the internal and external, the physical and psychological. Sims grapples with illusion, its seductive qualities and ability to confound the senses. This idea of mirage has the potential to question conceptions of the world and the limits of perception. Sims creates visceral experiences that draw upon the imagination, offering moments of immersion and wonder.

Red Roo

Gray Hawk is a South Australian artist renowned for astute craftsmanship and bespoke designs. Hailing from a strong artisanal lineage, Hawk holds a profound reverence for the medium of woodcraft, and its dynamism when combined with other materials. Redgum timber, reclaimed through the Burnside Village redevelopment, acted as the starting point for Red Roo. Transformed through its mergence with stainless steel, the sculpture reimagines two distinct features of the Australian landscape; the eucalypt and the kangaroo.

Untitled (Big Pink Line)

Caleb Shea is a Naarm/Melbourne based sculptor, with over twenty years' experience exhibiting across public, commercial and non-profit art galleries. Form, colour and phenomenology are central to Shea’s practice, where transcendental geometric abstraction and blunt simplicity meet in a revision of late-modernist sculpture. His practice is grounded in rich tradition yet is resolutely of the present. Untitled (Big Pink Line) employs satin polyurethane paint to create a bold graphic surface, accentuating its linear dynamism. The ‘single line’ form is a motif that Shea revisits through playful experimentation, contributing to conversations on sculpture as ‘drawing in space’. 

Burnside Mural

Designed by Burnside Village directors, this stunning mural was executed by visual artist Seb Humphreys. The mural offers a unique and engaging visual experience for visitors and passersby. Seb Humphreys is a South Australian visual artist, renowned for sculpture and large-scale murals that explore the intersection of nature and modern-urbanisation. 

Make a Wish Fountain

Silvio Apponyi OAM has over 50 years' experience as a sculptor. Through a variety of mediums, including wood, stone and bronze, his works range from delicate miniature carvings to large public sculptures. Apponyi's suite of fountains are situated along Burnside Village's lush vine garden. Carved from Australian Black Hill granite, the sculptures are home to small bronze animals waiting to be discovered. As a collaboration between the Burnside Village “Make a Wish” foundation and the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation, the fountains offer visitors moments of exploration and wonder.

All money raised in the fountain goes directly to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital foundation.

Frivole

Arriving from the Modus Gallery in Paris, Frivole was acquired as a tribute to the late Richard Cohen OAM, Co-Founder of the Cohen Group. Crafted in bronze, sculptor Françoise Abraham captures movement and energy in her female forms. Frivole is a captivating sculpture exemplifying Abraham's signature style; her exploration of shape, composition and embodied expression.

In 2011, Frivole was unveiled by Patricia Cohen at the Burnside Village Stage 3 Development official opening.

Doll’s House

Patricia Cohen is Director and Co-Founder of the Cohen Group and Burnside Village. Since early childhood, Cohen has maintained an enduring interest in miniaturised objects. Pat Cohen's Doll's House and My General Store encapsulate an immense dexterity and love for the craft. Alongside rare objects made by local and international makers, are handmade miniatures, constructed through meticulous ingenuity and patience.

My General Store

Patricia Cohen is Director and Co-Founder of the Cohen Group and Burnside Village. Since early childhood, Cohen has maintained an enduring interest in miniaturised objects. Pat Cohen's Doll's House and My General Store encapsulate an immense dexterity and love for the craft. Alongside rare objects made by local and international makers, are handmade miniatures, constructed through meticulous ingenuity and patience.

Supermodel

Stephen Glassborow is a sculptor who bridges the classicism of bronze to a contemporary context. Super Model fluidly contends with the figurative and the abstract. The contrasting realistic upper body against a fragmented lower, speaks to the tension between form and formlessness, identity and transformation. As the figure of a woman gradually shifts to an abstract cubist structure, the dress morphs towards vibrant geometric planes. This poised figure appears splintered, creating a simultaneous sense of disintegration and structural reformation.

Premiers Pas

Premiers Pas was acquired from the Modus Gallery in Paris. Crafted in bronze by French artist Françoise Abraham, the sculpture infuses life into raw material and renders a moment in time. Influenced by her early career as a professional dancer, Abraham's elongated figures exude expression and tenderness. Her female forms vivaciously propel themselves into space with dynamism and lightness.
 

Premiers Pas was gifted to Burnside Village by Patricia Cohen, in celebration of the relationship between mother and child.