Making Space

Making Space is a fun and colour-filled exhibition that invites play and participation.

Made in collaboration with lead artist Arlon Hall and Tutti artists Lewis Constantine, Jasmine Jones, Megan Long, Scott Pyle, and Charlie Taplin this exhibition explores:

• Movement of people
• Movement of light and objects in space
• Bold use of colour
• Found, repurposed and unusual materials

Making Space is an impressive showcase of each artists’ ingenious use of space and creativity. Two and three-dimensional artworks invite curiosity, and different ways of seeing. The artworks encourage viewers to:

• Look up
• Look down
• Look around, under and through artworks
• Find ‘hidden gems’ amongst the bold colours and designs

This project consciously makes space and shines a light on South Australia’s amazing learning disabled and neurodivergent visual artists. Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to partner with Tutti Arts to produce these curated exhibitions in Artspace and the historic Phone Booths in the Adelaide Railway Station held over summer 2024-25. Tutti Arts is a renowned South Australian multi-arts organisation that works with learning disabled and neurodivergent artists across art forms. 

The inaugural Tutti Artist in Residence was the legendary Arlon Hall who lives and works in Adelaide as a secondary school arts educator, abstract painter, and performance artist in The Bait Fridge. Since graduating with Honours from the South Australian School of Art in 2011, Arlon has exhibited award-winning exhibitions throughout South Australia. Across five-weeks Arlon worked with each Tutti artist to create new large-scale paintings for Making Space.

Together, the artists have created artworks that explore the movement of people, light, and objects in space, expressed freely through a refreshing use of colour and gesture.

Making Space is a true representation of each artist’s unique creative mark on this planet.

Image credit | Original sketch & permission granted by HASSELL