Inner worlds + hidden things

February - March 2024 - Hahndorf Academy

Opening February 3rd 2024

February 3rd to March 17th 2024

The Hahndorf Academy. Hahndorf, South Australia

Visual Artist Wen Dixon-Whiley's latest exhibition repurposes 'upcycled' items to create an visual universe of the small, overlooked and microscopic. Armed with a microscope and an overactive imagination, Dixon-Whiley has been exploring the limits of drawing and painting on discarded materials. The formerly abandoned ‘canvases’ will explode with colour and be layered with other recycled materials to reveal the worlds & creatures hidden from the naked eye. Unconstrained by the limits of traditional surfaces and supports, the 'canvases' will be cut, stitched together, lengthened, reconfigured and more.

The works will spill from the walls, break the barriers of their spaces and cross over into the space they share with the viewer. Part reality, mostly imagination - a world in which the viewer is free to draw their own conclusions and imagine the possibilities of what lies beyond our field of vision while reflecting on how our throwaway culture harms organisms at all levels of the ecosystem.

Watch this space for updates.

Media

The Penola Pennant, May 2023, Mindfulness mural completed

The Border Watch, May 2023, Mural to bring mindfulness at Kalangadoo

The Courier, July 2022, Council invests $50,000 in arts plan

Adelaide Fringe, September 2021, Arts Grants recipients

Adelaide Hills Herald, April 2021, ‘Skateboard success’

Glam Adelaide, March 2021 - Local artist to paint beer themed mural in Glenelg tomorrow

Hayes Family Wines, March 2021, Art & Wine

The Courier, August 2020, Artist’s exhibitions to go ahead despite COVID-19 restrictions

The Adelaide Review, July 2020, SALA Festival: Full Circle 1.0 - Wendy Dixon-Whiley

Broadsheet, 2019, Caffiend Coffee Company

What the Hills - Podcast, 2019 - ‘What’s that amazing artwork?’

Art News Portal, September 2018, Record $106K in grants to go to 2019 Fringe Artists

The Adelaide Review, May 2018, Hahndorf Academy makes history

The Adelaide Life, April 2018, Wendy Dixon-Whiley: profile

The Advertiser 'Barker Magazine' Liftout, March 2017, ‘A few of my favourite things’

SA Life, February 2017 - ‘Art on the street’

Glam Adelaide, February 2017, Amazing 75m long tunnel unveiled

Verse Magazine, September 2016, Imag[in]e: Wendy Dixon-Whiley

Adelaide Now, March 2015, Adelaide Fringe 2015: Art Walk reveals a laundry awash with talent

Past exhibitions / programs

December 17th 2023 - January 28th 2024

The Dog Exhibition, Group exhibition at The Hahndorf Academy.

This project was made possible by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia

February-March 2022

‘Oblique Strategies’ solo exhibition - The Hahndorf Academy as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival

October 2021

‘Board 2 Death’ Group exhibition - Erb’n’flo, Adelaide

March 24th - April 28th 2021

'Macrocosm' - The Hahndorf Academy

11 - 13th March 2021

Prospect Art Walk

October 2020 to March 2021

‘We don’t question the muse’ - , Hayes Family Wines, Tanunda

October 2020

‘Full Circle’ Solo Exhibition,

Roccart Gallery, Florence, Italy

October 2020

‘Nuclear War’ Group exhibition

August 2020

‘Full Circle 1.0’ Solo Exhibtion,

The Hahndorf Academy

January 2020 - February 2020

‘Urban Cycles’ Group exhibition

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery

February - March 2019

‘Contrapasso’

Solo Exhibition - The Hahndorf Academy

May 2018

‘Make History’

Group exhibition, The Hahndorf Academy

May - October 2018

‘Stephen Street Art Project’

School workshops and street art program

District Council of Mount Barker

July 28th - 2nd September 2017

‘Both & Neither’ Solo Exhibition &

Site specific installation

SALA Festival - Hahndorf Academy

August 2016 - February 2017

‘Paste the Hills’ Public Art Project

Funded by the Arts SA ‘Arts Pitch’ Program

12th February 2016 - 14th March 2016

‘Beasts and Brews’ Exhibition as part of

Adelaide Fringe Festival - Prancing Pony Brewery
February 2016

Little Rundle Street Art Project

Kent Town, South Australia

16th- 18th December 2015

Uni SA Masters exhibition,

Liverpool Street Gallery, Adelaide

4th - 28th September 2015

“Not the ones who lose’ - Solo exhibition

Adelaide City Library

6th - 8th August 2015

Adelaide Art Walk as part of SALA Festival

Public Art Project

20th August 2015

Adelaide Art Battle Spectacular

Queens Theatre, Adelaide