BASKETRY SA

Basketry SA members regularly participate in stalls and exhibitions at craft fairs and other venues demonstrating basketry techniques while also providing members with the opportunity to sell their works. 

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Major events open to Basketry SA members include:

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ABC Adelaide Car Park Caper. 891 ABC Adelaide's renowned fundraising garden market, The Car Park Caper, is held twice a year on the grounds of the ABC Adelaide studios at Collinswood.

Annual Royal Adelaide Show Open Art & Craft Competition. Members submit works as part of the Royal Adelaide Show Competition Program. 

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Biennial Adelaide Festival Fringe Exhibition. This very popular event showcases the expertise and diversity of member's work. In addition to the works on exhibition, visitors can purchase work from the very popular Trading Table.  Click here to see current exhibitions and to view works from previous exhibitions and events.

The Biennial National Gathering provides members with the opportunity to participate in an intensive 3-day program of workshops, talks, demonstrations and social activities. Basketry SA proudly staged the 2019 Gathering at Aldinga on the Fleurieu Penninsula. Basketmakers from Australia and overseas met to share skills and techniques through a packed schedule of activities where 40 tutors offered over 50
different workshops over 3 days. Click here to view Basketry SA's publication: National Basketry Gathering: A Reflection.

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Basketry SA’s January Meeting 
Sunday 26 January 2025, 10:30am-2:30pm
Parking within the grounds for 10 cars plus plenty of street parking

This year’s first BSA meeting for 2025 will be held at Rob’s Rescue and Replant Garden, 15 Argyll Walk, Bellevue Heights, which is also the home of new member Carolyn David.
 
ALL BSA members are invited to attend, just bring along some food and refreshments to share. Also, you are welcome to bring along a basketry project that you are working on. There is a verandah we can sit under if the weather is too hot or rainy.

Members will enjoy the near one-acre front yard created over the past 12 years. Rob’s garden is a living display of transforming a barren yard with no top soil and an abundance of shale rock and clay with little or no shade, into a leafy paradise with cool rooms and quiet sanctuaries using many gifted, salvaged and recycled trees and plants. 

Dozens of gigantic dragon trees, tall date palms, cocos palms, ponytail palms with giant elephant foot-like trunks, bottle trees, Abyssinian banana palms, tree ferns and other species provide shade for under-plantings of more delicate and younger ferns, palms and flowering borders. Rob constructed walls and used found objects to create focal points. He has laid kilometres of irrigation pipe which carry reclaimed, mains or rainwater from several huge tanks to all the plantings. Each garden room is unique but is underpinned by consistent plantings of some species. There is a story behind every rescued palm and tree; Rob can tell how he came across it and removed it from its original location, enabling each plant to thrive in its new and nurturing environment.

Rob will lead a tour of the garden from around 11am, weather permitting.

The garden is still a work in progress, and it is a constant joy for the owners, who have great dreams and plans for other projects yet to be fulfilled.
 

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