Sage is taking over the foyer of Hawdon Chambers for the South Australian Living Artist Festival this year. 2025 marks the 40year birthday of Riverland Youth Theatre, which once had its home in Hawdon Chambers. Now the home base of Part of Things we've invited Sage to experiment, reflect, create and share to celebrate legacy, community, connection, disconnection and the messy moments in between.

In Sage's words:

The theme of this exhibition is one of coming of age, of feeling seen for the very first time - not as an extension of expectations placed, but through a lens of a stranger’s fondness. It’s about unearthing a connection to artists passed, who grew under the same umbrella, in the same shoes, at different moments in time. It’s finding out the ‘weird’, ‘freak’, ‘queer’ and ‘art kid’ wasn’t an insult amongst others alike. It’s a sigh of relief that the world isn’t carried on a teenager's shoulders, it’s knowing that heaviness in their shoulders is a mark of resistance against a world that told them they couldn’t, shouldn’t, mustn't. It’s finding adults who lived your life in small ways and big ways and learning that survival is what will make this artist an artist and an artist again.

This is the seventh SALA exhibition at Part of Things. We are a non-traditional space with volunteer gallery sitters and dynamic opening times so please check the Part of Things website and socials for weekly updates on open times as they may change from what is advertised.

Please email [email protected] with any questions.