Baron landscapes, the harsh undulating lines of new rock formations. Holding space. Moulded and re-purposed. The kind that hold up, fill up, and trip up. Do you see? Why did we start building things so symmetrical? Now feel the nature of the earth: what lies beneath its surface? Can you see the reddish-metallic copper? Like the metamorphic hole it was taken from, it will never rust.
Commanding the best public location in Salamanca Place, the Lightbox is a square metre of window space available to selected artists to install works that utilise the attributes of this special exhibition space. This gallery is part of Salamanca Arts Centre’s subsidised Access Galleries Program and is available to Salamanca Arts Centre’s Associate Members and Resident Artists.
The Lightbox is a window space located at the main entrance to the Salamanca Arts Centre on Salamanca Place, and can be viewed 24 hours a day.
Salamanca Arts Centre encourages artists to interpret the space with installations that best reflect the Lightbox dimensions and location.
for Exhibitions
FREE per month
The Lightbox is available for FREE for month-long exhibitions for Salamanca Arts Centre Associate Members and Salamanca Arts Centre Resident Artists only.
Salamanca Arts Centre assesses applications for the Lightbox twice annually, with application rounds occurring in April and September each year, with Special Applications Round (in the event of a cancellation) if required.
Limited Dates remaining in 2026 Calendar :
– August 2026
– September 2026
Applications for these remaining dates are due to open in August 2025 / Closing date of 30 September 2025
The Lightbox is almost fully booked until the end of December 2026.
Limited Dates remaining in 2026 Calendar :
– August 2026
– September 2026
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This work talks directly to Jake Walker’s exhibition Grog, which was held in Kelly’s Garden and which is part of our curated OPEN SKY / Kelly’s Garden Program.
Jake Walker was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia in 2000. His practice is inextricably linked to the natural and cultural landscapes of New Zealand. Walker admits that as a child he ‘didn’t really know there were too many other kinds of painting’ aside from landscapes. His works are constantly shifting and revisited after some time, with chance and instinct at the core of his working practice. Sometimes this results in works of ‘weightlessness of accident and incident.’ Exploring themes of modernist architecture and abstract perspectives, Walker’s free and loose sense of play embraces material forms. Walker sees paintings as objects, not flat two-dimensional images. This openness to experimental processes has led to a series of works using clay- painterly forms and stoneware frames that lead from one thing, to another.
He is represented by Station (Melbourne), Gallery 9 (Sydney), Hamish McKay Gallery (Wellington NZ), Ivan Anthony (Auckland) and Dutton (NYC).