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Tiny Gems

As part of our COVID19 recovery projects, we commissioned local artists to bring joy by being creative in hidden spaces around the city, with some designed to be temporary and others to be more permanent. Over 50 pieces of Tiny Gems art were created during the project and these were left right around the city. We worked with "It's Port Adelaide" to shoot a series of videos that captures the project. and the passion that the artists put into their work.

Alan Tulloch

“My endangered animals, are my tiny gems”. The idea of printing threatened animals is that, here I can sometimes reproduce them perfectly, sometimes they reproduce as a ghost – only just a shade of what the image can be”.

Bridgette Minuzzo

“When I heard about the tiny gems project, it was the opportunity to do something playful and tiny… it was also about the person who was walking, discovering it – that you come across something unexpected”.

Christine Pyman

“The intimacy of scale speaks to me; so the tiny gems project is perfect, as the really are tiny gems – I just love this intimacy, I love drawing people in to see things that they wouldn’t normally see”.

Kaspar Schmidt Mumm

“This was an opportunity for me to explore a medium that I hadn’t fully explored yet – it was combining a couple of mediums that I wanted to use. So I applied for tiny gems for that reason. I can have a small impact, but every small impact; is an impact”.

Kurt Bosecke

“Guerilla street art. It’s fantastic, looks very much more realistic. It’s taken me several months to do more creative work”.

Laura Wills and Will Cheesman

“We like responding to site specific and we like the flexibility of tiny gems. We wanted to create some surprise, so we created these things, these objects…rainbow or piece of pizza; and they just fit in. Hopefully someone just comes upon them and says “Whoa, what’s that” or just gets a smile or laugh”.

Mandi Glynn-Jones

"For tiny gems I was inspired by Escher and the black and white and I love distorted perspective, playing around that. I’m the queen of recycling, so it was a win/win – I get to be creative, I’m recycling and then distributing my art, guerrilla-style all over the Port Adelaide Enfield area. I love the idea of people discovering them and getting a sense of wonder”.

"We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we stand, the Kaurna People of the Adelaide Plains. It is upon their ancestral lands that the Port Adelaide Enfield Council meets. It is also the Place of the Kardi, the Emu, whose story travels from the coast inland. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We respect their spiritual beliefs and connections to land which are of continuing importance to the living Kaurna People of today. We further acknowledge the contributions and important role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people continue to play within our shared community."