Making Old New, a celebration of ten years of opening Fermoy House and David Roche’s fine and decorative arts collection, brings together works from the gallery’s eighteenth- to early-twentieth-century European and British collection with contemporary responses by twenty South Australian artists associated with JamFactory.
Clare Belfrage, Falling Into I, 2026, blown glass with glass cane drawing, 25 × 19 × 11cm / Floating Time I, 2026, blown glass with glass cane drawing, 31 × 16 × 10cm / Connor Patterson Photography 2026 / Courtesy the artist and David Roche Gallery, South Australia
Spanning ceramics, glass, furniture, jewellery, and sculpture, each artist selected a piece from the collection – the resulting twenty reimagined pieces responding to a variety of collection items, from prisoner-of-war straw boxes and a copper imperial peck measure to a Russian malachite vase and a Louis Moinet l’Aine clock.
Alexandra Hirst, Child’s play (two of five rattles), 2026, hand-blown glass, etched, kangaroo leather, glass beads, ceramic beads, dimensions variable / Connor Patterson Photography 2026 / Courtesy the artist and David Roche Gallery, South Australia
Nathan Martin, This stool is for polishing, not gambling, 2026, aluminium, vegetable-tanned leather, 60 × 45 × 50cm / Connor Patterson Photography 2026 / Courtesy the artist and David Roche Gallery, South Australia
David Roche Gallery
23 May to 1 August 2026
South Australia
