Wish You Were Here! 2025
Adelaide Central Gallery | Opening Sunday 9 November, 3-5pm
Adelaide Central School of Art
Glenside Cultural Precinct
7 Mulberry Road, Glenside SA 5065

Exhibition dates
Sunday 9 November - Friday 14 November

Each November, Adelaide Central School of Art hold a fundraiser exhibition of postcard-sized artworks called Wish You Were Here! to support the school.

These postcard-sized artworks are generously donated by our community of artists, including lecturing staff, graduates, ACG exhibited artists and our current art students. All works are sold at $80 each, and there are both 2D and 3D submissions to choose from. These works make excellent Christmas gifts, and are a great way to begin or add to your own contemporary art collection, especially with so many established South Australian artists involved. This is a family-friendly event, with children enjoying the unique thrill of choosing their own miniature artwork. 

For the devoted collectors, a ticketed VIP preview is held an hour before the public opening (2-3pm), for exclusive first access to the full exhibition of works. Click here for tickets

SALA 2025 EXHIBITIONS

BALANCE - Lesley Redgate Artist Open Studio, Willunga.
In a developing world there’s a need to appreciate our past, present & future to preserve our history and environment. Lesley’s work depicts the changes in the landscape surrounding her.
1-31 August.
Fri, Sun 1 - 4pm, (10 Sun closed).
2 & 16 Sat 11 - 4pm,  
16 St Georges Street Willunga SA

GROUNDED IN PLACE _ KAROONDA SILO PROJECTIONS - FINALIST
A unique outdoor exhibition, where digital projections of artwork will light up the Karoonda main street silos. 'Grounded in Place' explores connections to land, culture and community: stories of history, belonging, the meaning of home. 1-31 Aug. 5.30-11pm.
Opening Event “An Evening Under the Stars” - a special celebration of Grounded in Place, 2025 SALA at the Silos exhibition!
Saturday 9 August 2025, 6pm – 8pm
Karoonda Silos, Railway Terrace, Karoonda. Ticketed event.

ALSO SHOWING:

IMPRESSIONS of the SOUTHERN VALES  - Waverley Park Homestead, Willunga.
Group Ex. 1-31 Aug. Fri, Sat & Sun 1 - 4pm.

FLEURIEU ARTHOUSE
202 Main Road, McLaren Vale SA
1-31 Aug. Mon, Thurs - Sun 11am - 4pm.

KAROONDA SILO ART PROJECTIONS 2025

Excited to be a part of the 2025 program for silo projections at Karoonda! 16 of my paintings will be projected continuously every evening in the month of April.

Karoonda is a small country town in South Australia, and every month a different South Australian artist is showcased in a changing display.

Here’s a taste of what’s to come. Go for a drive and perhaps I'll see you there.

Tue, 1 Apr 2025, - Wed, 30 Apr 2025, 6:30 pm - 12:00 pm
Railway Terrace, Karoonda, SA, 5307, Australia (map)

Click here to download the 2025 silo projection calendar to see which South Australian artists are featuring on the silos each month. 

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https://www.karoonda.com/see-do/art-galleries-sculptures/silo-art

'COLOURED SHADOWS'
Open studio, Exhibition. 475

Inspired by colour and Geometry, Lesley Redgate paints the Fleurieu landscape. Visit the studio where Lesley paints and conducts art classes and is surrounded by a display of her acrylic and watercolour paintings.
02 - 31 AUGUST
Fridays & Sundays 11am - 4pm open.
Exception: Sun 18 Aug closed

Also showing...

‘PROXIMITY’
Mixed Group Exhibition. 083
SALA Hub / The Light Room Gallery
Level 1, Immersive Light and Art, 63 Light Square, Adelaide
7077 0011

Gus CLUTTERBUCK, John FREEMAN, Monika MORGENSTERN, Lesley REDGATE, Madelene START, Charlotte TATTON

This exhibition explores our sense of proximity as something unfixed, with artwork that reaches near and far. From the comforting closeness of Charlotte Tatton’s paintings, to the faraway landscape preserved in ceramic by Gus Clutterbuck, these works push and pull at our sense of closeness, revealing how relative this concept can be.Mixed group exhibition.
26 Jul - 31 Aug
Wed-Sat 10am-4pm

Artist/Exhibition Website

SOLO EXHIBITION
ARTS CENTRE PORT NOARLUNGA

Onkaparinga Gallery
Opens 6pm, Friday 10 Nov 2023
Exhibition dates: 10 NOV - 11 DEC 2023

Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm | Sat 1-4pm
22 Gawler Street, Port Noarlunga | 08 8326 5577

SYMMETRY - Solo exhibition
Stationmaster's Art Gallery, 20 South Tce, Strathalbyn
'Symmetry' revolves around a fascination for colour and form. The exhibition features work from invited artist, Lesley Redgate who has painted from the Adelaide Hills to the Alexandrina and Fleurieu regions, where she lives and has a connection to the land. These works depict the iconic and sometimes unnoticed forms within the rural landscape with a focus on balance and beauty in colour, shape, and form.
1 Aug - 28 Sep, Mon-Sun 10am-4pm
Artist Demonstration - 14 Aug 01:30pm

ALSO SHOWING DURING SALA

ART OF WHITES VALLEY - Solo Exhibition
Open Studio, Exhibition - St Georges St, Willunga
Experience the beauty of Whites Valley through the artists eyes from her studio gallery in Willunga, where Lesley paints and conducts art classes. From golden summers to winter greens, an exhibition of her paintings and prints will be on display. Inspired by the subtleties of colour that the changing light brings, Lesley paints the landscape as it evolves with the seasons of time and is the place she has a deep connection to.
6-28 Aug, Saturdays 11am-4pm

JARVIS SKODA SALA ART CAR

An exhibition on wheels! Catch this moving gallery on the road around SA. 1-31 Aug, Viewable 24/7
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An exhibition on wheels! Catch this moving gallery on the road around SA.

1-31 Aug
Viewable 24/7

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The genesis of this exhibition lies in an era described by some as 'The Golden Years' a period during the 1960s and early 1970s at the South Australian School of Art - now part of the University of South Australia.
The Thinking Eye is a tribute and a reflection on the contribution to teaching through two of those teachers: Geoff Wilson and Barrie Goddard.
Artists: Geoff Gibbons, Barrie Goddard, Rita Hall, Kay Lawrence, Peter Mclachlan, John Neylon, Margaret Worth, Christopher Orchard, Barry Pearce, Winnie Pelz, Lesley Redgate, Jo Sabey, Geoff Wilson & Lyn Wood.

Launch Event: Sunday 14 November at 2pm
Opening Speakers: Geoff Wilson & Winnie Pelz
Exhibition on show Fri 12 Nov - Sun 9 Jan
Gallery Hours: Daily 10am to 4pm
Signal Point Gallery - the Goolwa Wharf
Enquiries: jaw@alexandrina.sa.gov.au or 8555 7289
Bar facilities available for purchase

01 - 31 Aug 2021

Open studio - see SALA program times

View selected works from the exhibition online here >

Inspired by the subtleties of colour that the changing light brings, Lesley paints the Fleurieu landscape as it evolves with the Seasons of Time. Experience the colours of the Fleurieu from golden summers to fading light and winter greens, from within the artists studio. An exhibition will be on display in the artist’s studio.

In the creation of new work, Lesley Redgate was supported by the SA Government through Arts SA - Creative Endeavour: Quick response Grants for Independent Artists 2020.

Arts in Health at FMC

PROMENADE GALLERY B

SOLO EXHIBITION
01 Oct - 01 Dec 2019
Exhibition launch Thurs 10 Oct 5.30 - 6.30pm
Flinders Medical Centre

‘Having lived in the F​leurieu for 33 years, I’ve painted this place and come to know it’s seasons, history and people. It’s a place of contrasts from the rounded hills and gently undulating plains leading to the sea. ​There’s beauty in the parched dry summer, golden wheatfields and life on the land.

FRIENDS of the SASA Exhibition

Opening July 6
The 6th Exhibition of the Friends of the South Australian School of Art celebrates our community of members artists of The SA School of Art at UniSA, including students and staff . This is a biennial exhibition which celebrates our connected and diverse community of artists in South Australia.

Fleurieu ~ Time & Place at Kay Brothers Winery 01 Aug 2018 – 10 Sept 2018.
Solo exhibition.
An selection of landscape paintings from the place Lesley Redgate lives and has a deep connection to. Inspired by the changing Fleurieu landscape she has recorded its Time and Place.

The 2018 Fleurieu Biennale, June 16 to July 22, 2018 marked the 20th anniversary of the Fleurieu Art Prize. Since its establishment by David Dridan, Greg Trott and Tony Parkinson with the support of major wineries in 1998, the Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize has been awarded nine times. David Dridan is the Patron of the 2018 Fleurieu Biennale. Venues include - Stump Hill Gallery and the Fleurieu Arthouse, McLaren Vale and Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa. The Fleurieu Biennale Satellite Exhibition 2018 was held at Dog Ridge Winey, McLaren Flat SA.

Solo Exhibition Kay Brothers Winery
Exhibition 29 Dec 2017 – 28 Feb 2018

‘Having lived in the F​leurieu for 30 years, I’ve painted this place and come to know it’s seasons, history and people.

It’s a place of contrasts, from the rounded hills & ​gently undulating land leading to the sea. ​There’s beauty in the parched dry summer & golden wheatfields. From vines to old farm implements, they provide an endless source of inspiration. I’ve seen ​the changes of time and I’ve painted its history.

There’s a deep connection to this place… It’s in my ‘Heart & Soul​’.

Solo Exhibition

ONKAPARINGA GALLERY
THE ARTS CENTRE
Gawler Street, Port Noarlunga, SA
12 November - 6 December 2015

Opens 13 November 5-7pm

An exhibition of paintings inspired by the changing rural and urban Fleurieu landscape.

Solo Exhibition
05 March - 10 August 2011
Shingleback Winery, McLarenVale SA

Rural and Urban, seemingly opposites yet meet in the middle.
With a fascination for the colour and form of old cars, trucks, crates and other urban structures, which blend in time with their rural surroundings. This exhibition is a collection of works by Lesley Redgate, depicting iconic scenes of the Fleurieu Peninsula.

DOUBLE VISION ARTIST EXCHANGE 2006/07

Sponsored by the City of Onkaparinga and Bendigo Councils

Culminating in a touring group exhibition throughout SA and VIC regional and metro galleries, 02 Nov 2006 - 31 May 2007

• 16 Participating artists; 8 SA, 8 Vic

EXHIBITION DATES
3-26 November 2006
the arts centre, Port Noarlunga
5 February-5 March 2007
The Millicent Gallery, Millicent, SA
7-29 April 2007
Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier SA
2-30 May 2007
Dudley House, Bendigo

GEOMETRY 2005
with Gail Kellett and Neil Sheppard

DRIDAN FINE ARTS at Hardy’s Tintara
Main Road, McLaren Vale SA
22 Oct - 17 Nov 2005

DRIDAN FINE ARTS
Main Road, McLaren Vale

Solo Exhibition
Open 24 October - 02 December 1999

A collection of two years work based mainly around Pengilly Farm and includes various painting trips with artist friends to Melrose and Mt Brown in the Flinders Ranges. In 1995 the farm was the subject of the television series “Sun on the Stubble”, based on the book with the same title, by Colin Thiele. Film sets and buildings were erected, some of which still remain.

SA Country Arts Trust (SACAT)

Solo Exhibition with Richard Watkins

Contemporary Australian landscape painting.
Jan 1996 - Feb 1997

Touring major regional galleries throughout SA.
WATKINS & REDGATE toured 21 major regional centres throughout SA following Lesley’s travels overseas. Venues include Riverland, Mid and far North, South East, Eyre Peninsula, Ceduna and Kangaroo Island. SATEP is the Visual Arts touring program of the South Australian Country Arts Trust co-funded by the Visual Arts / Craft Board of the Australia Council and sponsored by Foundation SA.

Solo Exhibition
Kensington Gallery
Kensington Road, Norwood, SA
21 April - 12 May 1991

Solo Exhibition, 1978

Contemporary Art Centre of SA (CACSA) formerly CAS, Porter Street, Parkside SA.
Inaugural Solo exhibition
Acquisition for NGV collection through the Michell Endowment.
Reviews by David Dolan - Advertiser 5 July 1978 & 6 Jan 1979.

followed by:
Michell Endowment Exhibition
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
07 Dec 1978 - 11 Feb 1979

Finalist
The Capital Permanent Award 1977.

The Geelong Art Gallery
Geelong, Victoria.

05 November - 11 December 11, 1977.

Artists exhibiting included Judith Alexandrovics, Bashir Baraki, Terry Batt, Charles Blackman, Warren Breninger, John Coburn, Fred Cress, Sigi Gabrie, Hector Gilliland, Maurice Irvine, Thomas Jankevicius, David Marsden, David Marshall, Edward May, James Meldrum, Robert Miller, Lesley Redgate, Peter Rosson, Peter Tyndall, Brett Whiteley, Paul Zika.