Name: Clara Adolphs | Drew Spangenberg
Start: 2025-08-21T18:00:00+09:30
End: 2025-08-21T20:00:00+09:30
Location: Kaurna Land, 260 Portrush Rd Beulah Park, Adelaide, SA, Australia, South Australia 5067

Please join us for the launch of Clara Adolphs’ ‘Sleep Shadows’ and Drew Spangenberg’s ‘Containers’ on Thursday 21st August, 6-8pm.
CLARA ADOLPHS
Sleep Shadows
In this new body of work, Clara Adolphs turns inward, exploring the quiet threshold between memory and imagination. “I often see myself in the people that I paint, or find something familiar about them,” she explains. “I wanted to draw into this focus with the show.”
Working from photographs both found and taken, Adolphs isolates figures from their original contexts and places them in new, intimate compositions that speak to a silent conversation between artist and subject. “Perhaps the repetition of painting brings me closer to them?” Melding borrowed memories with her own, she has been led by a desire to distil moments into feeling, creating a sense of quiet contemplation.
DREW SPANGENBERG
Containers
‘Containers’ celebrates the vessel primarily as an object of aesthetic value rather than function. While rooted in utility, these forms have a visual focus, elevated beyond their practical origins. Each piece retains its capacity to function as a container honouring the history of the vessel while embracing contemporary reinterpretation.
Spangenberg is a contemporary glass artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. His work combines traditional glassblowing techniques with a refined contemporary aesthetic, defined by clean lines, harmonious forms, and a considered approach to colour and composition.
This project has been supported by Create SA.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
These exhibitions are presented as part of every*where, Adelaide Design Week 2025.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.