Pom Pom

Pom Pom is a contemporary art space dedicated to engaging children (up to 12 years) and their families.

Located in Davoren Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, Pom Pom offers hands-on creative workshops delivered by leading artists, many with an international profile, over the school term and during school holidays.

Pom Pom supports an art making process between children and their families and carers, while offering children enchanting contemporary arts experiences. Young artists and their families are welcome to collaborate with artists to make, create and play.

Pom Pom is open from 11am to 3pm on Saturdays during school terms (excluding the last Saturday of each term).

Visit, play, create and be inspired.

Where
Davoren Park Shopping Centre
45 Peachey Road, Davoren Park

When
11am - 3pm
Saturdays during school term
Weekdays during school holidays

Cost
All activities at Pom Pom are FREE.
All children MUST be accompanied by a parent, guardian or carer
Bookings are not required. Drop in anytime.

Term 1 program | 2 February - 6 April 2019

January School Holiday program
Monday 21 - Wednesday 24 January (no session Thursday due to extreme heat) and Friday 25 January 2019 | 11am - 3pm

Nicholas Hanisch – Human Effigies

Nicholas Hanisch is a visual artist working with sculpture and drawing. His works combine figurative sculpture with science fiction nonsense. In his workshops, participants will learn basic casting techniques and use them to create abstract human effigies.

Deborah Twinings - Abstract Map Painting

Deb Twining is a Visual artist and arts educator. This workshop takes the seriousness out of painting and makes abstract painting easy and fun. This is an experimental approach to painting, creating freely wandering lines, blocked in colour combinations and the building up of flow and pattern. All from using maps as our starting point.

Alison Smiles - Clay Guardians

We will be making mythical creatures that protect and watch over their makers. The children will help/collaborate on a large hand built clay guardian that will watch over the POM POM art space, and will also make small guardians of their own to take home after being transformed by firing.

Ruby Chew - Mural

Participants will be using alternative drawing techniques to create self-portraits that they’ll use to add to a collaborative mural full of bright colours and bold line work. Within this creative process, the kids at Pom Pom will develop skills in drawing, design, painting and process based making.

October School Holiday program
1 - 12 October 2018

Arlon Hall is a contemporary artist working in painting and drawing.
Murals, Patterns and Paint! In the school holidays, the children will be involved in a number of drawing and painting activities for a mural. We will explore pattern, colour, shape and line, to design the mural which will be completed with a similar colour scheme and style of Arlon's painting practice.

Heidi Kenyon is an Adelaide-based contemporary sculpture and installation artist whose practice is motivated by the curious complexity of found objects and common materials.
In Kaleidoscopes we will explore different ways of “seeing” through the creation of kaleidoscopes that offer unusual and abstract views of the outside world as well as interior treasures. The moving gems inside the kaleidoscopes will be made from recycled everyday and natural materials as well as beads and other reflective objects.

Saskia and Shadow, also known as Elle Dawson-Scott, is a photographer and illustrator.
Magical Mountains: Participants will be shaping air-dry clay into magical mountains, which can be painted, embellished in glitter, and decorated in all the colours of the rainbow.
Sandwiches: Participants will be creating their own imaginative sandwiches and burgers from recycled cardboard. They will draw and cut out their ingredients, paint their shapes and assemble them into (almost) edible creations.

Zoe Freney is a painter who has a special interest in art from India.
In this workshop she will introduce children to the Tree of Life design, which we will use as inspiration for painting on fabric.

Term 4 program | 20 October – 15 December

End of year celebration
2.30pm Saturday 15 December

2018-19 Summer holidays
21 - 25 January 2019, 11am – 3pm each day

If you or your organisation is interested in supporting high quality creative experiences for young people in disadvantaged communities, we welcome you to get in touch to discuss further.
Lucy Markey, Senior Manager, Marketing & Development
Email lmarkey@carclew.org.au, Phone 08 8230 1118 / 0411 106 257

Past Programs

2018 July school holiays, 9 - 20 July

Mitch Hearn is an animator and illustrator who works with anything from plasticine, to pastels and paint. Monster Self Portraits. What would you look like as a monster? Learn some monster drawing techniques and draw yourself as a scary, scaly, furry, cute, cuddly or creepy creature. Cardboard Cube Creatures: Sketch, cut out and create your own little cardboard cube creature to take home.

Dave Court is a contemporary artist working in painting, art direction and photography. Immersive set design and photography. This school holidays kids will help to design and paint a colourful photo backdrop set and make costumes out of scrap fabric and paint. The design will explore different applications and colour combinations with painting and then they will then direct a photoshoot combing the costumes and set.

Anna Dunnill (WA/VIC): is an artist and writer,who investigates the possibilities of embroidery, ceramics, performance, video and tattoo. Wall Hangings Work with textile artist Anna Dunnill to make an imaginative fabric wall-hanging, including a pocket to hold your treasures. Turn drawings into embroidery, make cords and tassels from thread, and decorate with beads!

Rosina Possingham is a creative visual artist and designer. Abstract Experience Maps This school holidays the kids will focus on observing our relationship with place. We will be discovering abstract ways of mapping our experience and understanding of spaces. Create your own map of Pom Pom and help to build and grow a large scale map.

Carly Dodd -a proud Kaurna, Narungga and Ngarrindjeri artist explores her own style with a mixture of both traditional and contemporary techniques in many mediums including painting, weaving, graphic design and photography. Weaving Participants will be learning to weave with different materials and techniques including cardboard weaving circles and using raffia to create vessels and fish.

Jessie Lumb - is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to put bright and happy colours into the world. Drawing. For the Pom Pom school holidays she will be teaching us new and exciting techniques in drawing and mark making.

2018 Term 2, 5 May - 30 June

Mitch Hearn

Create your very own lo-fi animation with DIY zoetropes, one of the first forms of animation ever made. Plan out your animation on paper and then watch it come to life with your handmade zoetrope!

Steph Fuller

Steph Fuller is a visual artist who photographs & films everyday objects in lighting that makes them look like something from outer space. Using torches and common objects, we will explore different ways of lighting these objects and how we can make them look ‘out of this world’.

Angelica Harris- Faull

Angelica Harris-Faull is a printmaker who explores ideas of identity and the human body. We often collect, wear and make things that say something about who we are and what we love in the world. The children will explore collaging paper to make their own badges which share their sense of self (through colours, animals, words) with the world.

Tom Borgas

Sculptor Tom Borgas creates work that explores form, objects, colour and space. Using coloured cardboard and other craft materials, participants will build a scale model of a public artwork that represents them using the letters of their name as a starting point for the forms.

Alice Blanch

Alice Blanch is a visual artist working mainly in analogue photography. Her images are of nature and are created through multiple in-camera exposures, leading to images that appear folded, overlapped and have a ghostly quality. Come join Alice in creating your own layered image. Looking at different colours, textures and transparencies and how these interact and change when overlapped with each other.

Bernadette Klavins

Bernadette Klavins is an artist whose sculptural installations tell stories about different times and places. In early June, the kids will be invited to create vibrant wall-hanging maps that blend both real and imagined landscapes, using fabric, found objects, felt and paint. Later in the month, Bernadette will be working with the kids to create their own fold-out artist books, as they tell stories about place using paper-folding techniques, drawings, text, found images and colour.

Georgina Chadderton

Armed with a pencil and paper learn to illustrate your own adventurous story! Design characters, plan their adventure and map the journey by creating your own storytelling mini-puzzle adventure book!

2018 Term 1 school holidays, 16 - 27 April

Ruby Chew | Wearable Art

Back by popular demand… kids will be creating wearable woolly and decorative Art including finger knitting, tassel making, pom pom making, platting and more. These smaller projects will enable the participants to make stand-alone artworks and/or use these elements to embellish a larger project – either a colourful head piece or a personalised bag.

Min Wong | Mobile Hanging Sculptures

Min Wong is a sculpture and collage artist. Using acrylic offcuts, shapes and forms, the kids at Pom Pom will make mobile hanging sculptures. These sculptures will use found objects and look at interesting ways to balance forms and colour together.

Rosina Possingham | Abstract Pom Pom Maps

Rosina Possingham is a creative visual artist and designer. This school holidays the kids will focus on observing our relationship with place. We will be discovering abstract ways of mapping our experience and understanding of spaces. Create your own map of Pom Pom and help to build and grow a large scale map.

Jessie Lumb | Royal Palace Soft Sculptures

Jessie Lumb is a multidisciplinary artist who likes to put bright and happy colours into the world. On a recent visit to India she became interested in the shapes that can be found in the buildings around us and how these can be used as the basis for making artworks. During her workshop participants will work with colourful fabrics and materials to create and decorate abstract soft sculptures.

Cassie Thring

Cassie Thring is an artist working across ceramics, printmaking, photography and painting. For her Pom Pom Workshops during the second week of the April School holidays, the children will be modelling small clay ﬁgures that will be photographed to make large scale paste-ups

Arlon Hall

Arlon Hall is a contemporary artist working in painting and drawing. In the school holidays, the children will be involved in a number of drawing and painting activities for a large mural in Pom Pom's courtyard. We will explore pattern, colour, shape and line, to design the mural which will be completed with a similar colour scheme and style of Arlon's painting practice.

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Pom Pom is a Carclew project supported by Playford Communities for Children Plus. Communities for Children is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.

Cracken Fling

During the 2014 winter school holidays artist Hiromi Tango guided the development of a new artwork inside Pom Pom. Hiromi worked closely with children, families and carers from Davoren Park to create the magical installation, Cracken Fling.

What is Cracken Fling?

The title Cracken Fling was conceived by a child from Davoren Park as his preferred name for dragon fruit. The artwork explored all the impossible and possible things that happen in nature. Cracken Fling grew throughout the space over the course of the two weeks creating a wonderland that children now continue to work in and be inspired from.

The Artist | Hiromi Tango

Hiromi Tango’s practice is often collaborative and site-specific. She weaves together vibrantly coloured materials and emotions to create participatory art projects. Responding gently to her environment, Hiromi's intricate public installations are made from familiar, everyday materials, and a willingness to engage in an art making process informed by the generosity of many hands.

Hiromi’s work has been exhibited for Contemporary Australia: Women at the Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery Of Modern Art; Primavera 2011, the 2013 Jackson Bella Room Artist Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Monster Hotel for the Out of the Box Festival 2014. With her husband, artist Craig Walsh, she has created community-specific works for Traces - Blue, Setouchi Triennale, Japan 2013; Home - Gwangju, Gwangju Beinnale, South Korea 2012; and Digital Odyssey, a Museum of Contemporary Art Regional Touring Project in regional communities across Australia from 2010-12.

Cracken Fling has been funded by the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation. The Peace Foundations’ namesake Graham F. Smith, was a lifelong activist and educator. Graham believed that people who are taught to think and to challenge, and who are encouraged to expand their imagination can create a better world.

A Pocket Full of Rainbows

During the 2013 spring school holidays, Australian artist Pip & Pop (Tanya Schultz) created a new artwork with the community of Davoren Park titled A Pocket Full of Rainbows.

This artwork is now the space the children access workshops from each Saturday – a super-colourful art installation made from glitter, sugar, sweets, toy animals, plastic flowers and everyday craft materials.

Throughout history there has been a long tradition of depicting journeys through and in search of imaginary lands and utopian worlds. Pip & Pop’s installations and sculptural works explore joyful wonderlands filled with exquisite detail and fantastical surprises. Tanya is fascinated with the idea of paradise and wish-fulfillment as told through folk-tales, children’s stories, ancient cosmologies, video games and cinema.

Tanya has exhibited her work throughout Australia, Japan and Europe. Recent exhibitions include We miss you magic land! at the Children’s Art Centre, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Seeing forever at the Kuandu Biennale, Taipei; If you find me in a dream for Hermes Japon, Tokyo; and for Australian Fashion Week Mushroom magic, a collaboration with Romance was Born.

A Carclew project supported by Playford Communities for Children Plus, the City of Playford and the Government of South Australia through Arts SA, Community Benefit SA and Renewal SA. Communities for Children is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services.