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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’. 

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. 

The Burnside Village ‘Make a Wish’ fountain in collaboration with the Women’s and Children’s Hospital foundation.

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

Frivole comes to Burnside Village from the Modus Gallery in Paris as a tribute to the late Richard Cohen OAM. Frivole was crafted out of bronze by French artist Francoise Abraham.

Abraham brings life to her sculptures and make them dance. Demanding she produced elongated shapes full of sensuality and tenderness. Her feminine figures propel themselves into space with energy and curiously, even though she takes pleasure in cultivating their curves, her sculptures demonstrate an astonishing lightness.

Frivole was unveiled by Patricia Cohen at the offical opening of Stage 3 Development on November 11 2011.

Artist: Francoise Abraham

Pat Cohen the co-founder of Burnside Village always dreamed of having her very own Doll’s House, in 1992 this dream was made with a purchase and in 2016 the Doll’s House was finally completed.

With pieces of furniture purchased and collected from all over the world, including real photographs in miniature size of the Cohen family.

Artist: Pat Cohen 

A unique sculpture cast in bronze, its creator Stephen Glassborow uses bronze as he believes its the ultimate material for any sculptor.

His work is influenced by Art Deco, popular culture, females, fashion, and photography. He believes that bronze sculpture has inherited a rather serious persona and so Glassborow strives to contradict this, offering a slightly lighter perspective.

Glassborow’s greatest inspiration comes from pursuing his various of beauty.

The 186cm tall sculpture comes to Burnside Village from an Adelaide gallery.

Artist: Stephen Glassborow

Premiers pas comes to Burnside Village from the Modus Gallery in Paris, crafted out of bronze by French artist Francoise Abraham.

Abraham brings life to her sculptures making them dance. Demanding she produces elongated shapes full of sensuality and tenderness. Her feminine figures propel themselves into space with energy, and curiously, even though she takes pleasure in cultivating their curves, her sculptures demonstrate an astonishing lightness.

Premiers pas comes to Burnside Village as a donation from Patricia Cohen to celebrate the relationship between mother and child.