Stability, Grace, Endurance: Hand Crafted in Early Barossa

When German settlers embarked across the seas to make the Barossa their home, they carried with them in their trunks more than items alone. Woven into each object is a story of love, culture, heritage, and craftsmanship which has unfolded and endured to this day. Explore pottery, furniture, textiles, and crafts from early the nineteenth-century Barossa and more.

This powerful exhibition, in collaboration with the Barossa Museum, Luhrs Cottage Museum and a number of Barossa locals, experts and collectors features loaned pottery, furniture, lacework and textiles, decorative arts and more. These will be displayed together with the work of present-day artists Sera Waters and Ilona Glastonbury working in distinctive media who have drawn inspiration directly from early Barossa crafted objects and stories.

A starting point on a journey of discovery, visit the Barossa Regional Gallery to delve into local culture and heritage, drawing a fascinating collection of artefacts, images and archival stories to share, trigger memories and spark conversation.

This fascinating collection of hand-crafted artefacts, images and stories highlight the Barossa region’s enduring connection to European heritage, a culture and legacy defined by stability and grace which reaches out to the present day to with powerful stories worthy of our curiosity.