Stability, Grace, Endurance: Talk by Dr Norris Ioannou

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Sun 26 May 2024

Stability, Grace, Endurance: Hand Crafted in Early Barossa exhibition will be at Barossa Regional Gallery , 3 Basedow Road, Tanunda, until 3 June 2024.

This exhibition reflects 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.

As part of SA History Festival 2024, join Dr Norris Ioannou on Sunday, May 26 2024, starting from 2 pm to 2.45 pm, to discover the cultural histories embedded in the pottery, furniture, textiles, crafts and more from early nineteenth-century Barossa.

Dr Noris Ioannou is an Adelaide-based cultural historian among Australia’s foremost published writers on material folk culture and the decorative arts. He is the author of popular Australian cultural history publications such as:
– Vernacular Visions: A folklife history of Australia: art, diversity, storytelling (2021)
– Barossa Journeys, Into a Valley of Tradition (1997), and
– The Barossa Folk: Germanic Furniture and Craft Traditions in Australia (1995)

For more information about attending this FREE event, please call (08) 8563 8340 or email [email protected].

!date 26/05/2024

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