Motional – Objects by Association

Karl Meyer with Exhibition Studios

Motional – Objects by Association, is a series of three public artworks that also operate as an outdoor art gallery. Created by Karl Meyer and Exhibition Studios the custom cabinets feature periodic exhibitions of small-scale artworks by SA based creatives.

The cabinets take their formal qualities from Modernism – think of Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase and their thematic inspiration from the corridor’s historical usage as a centre for trade and exchange. The stacked and moving boxes refer to the movement of packages through the space over time.

Feature Exhibition 2024

SA based artist Tom Borgas presents nine new sculptural works from the Geological Armatures series exploring the themes of care, repair and support. The textured concrete references geological forms and the materials of city structures, and contrast against the structural formality of the painted black and white grid, a symbolic representation of Adelaide. The brightly coloured beams carry a dual meaning and are at once South Australia’s official colours, (red, blue and yellow) and the RGB colour set, referencing high-speed digital information exchange.

The Bentham Street outdoor gallery is the latest instalment of the Market to Riverbank (M2RB) link project, a $14.6 million joint investment project between the City of Adelaide and the State Government (through Renewal SA).

Previous artworks commissioned for the M2RB project include Jason Sims’ Golden Rhombohedron (Obtuse) installed on Grote Street outside the Central Markets in and its companion Golden Rhombohedron (Acute) on the corner of North Terrace and Bank Street, opposite Adelaide Railway Station. The Riverbank is a Kaurna Market by Paul Herzich and Geode (integrated granite seating and drainage grates) by Amy Joy Watson were installed in Topham Mall.