SALA 2025: "Life with art is perfect"

Published on 27 July 2025

Come together with artists and art appreciators at this year’s SALA events hosted by the City of Onkaparinga.

The council is hosting free exhibitions featuring local artists – from aspiring to established, from younger to older – at its arts venues, libraries, community centres and youth centres.

Through diverse mediums including collage, photography, painting and electronic sculpture, the artists explore themes ranging from emotional wellbeing and multiculturalism to family and vibrant ageing.

In addition to council events, there’s an overflowing program of community-led events by local artists, including by students from Christies Beach High School and the Willunga Waldorf School.

SALA – the South Australian Living Artists Festival – is the state’s annual celebration of SA artists and runs from 1 August to 31 August.

For a full list of local and statewide events, go to the SALA 2025 Festival website.

Council SALA events

Bloom Brighter
1-31 August
Library hours, Monday to Saturday
Seaford library, 586 Grand Blvd, Seaford

By All Saints Catholic Primary School’s Year 5 students, this exhibition showcases vibrant collages inspired by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama and explore emotional wellbeing.

Grow Bolder
1-30 August
Library hours, Monday to Saturday
Noarlunga library, Hannah Rd, Noarlunga Centre

In this photographic exhibition, emerging artist Callum Docherty showcases diverse, vibrant and inspiring lives of older people in our community as he challenges ageism.

Pop Art Party
1-8 August
Library hours, Monday to Friday
Aberfoyle Hub library, Hube Dve, Aberfoyle Park

This vivid and fun exhibition showcases the paintings of home school students and lusciously features their favourite party staples through pop art.

Our Shared Story
8 August to 15 September
10am-4pm weekdays, 1pm-4pm Saturdays
Arts Centre, 22 Gawler St, Port Noarlunga

The exhibition showcases the works of Onkaparinga Youth’s SALA Mentorship Program participants Cedar Beaubois, Mickey Jean, Parker Warren, Ruby Ryan and Violet Pitcher-Ovenden. In various mediums, the artists explore identity, mental health, disability and our impact on nature.

Churning the Ocean
9 August to 20 September
Various times, Wednesday to Saturday
Sauerbier House, 21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga

The electronic sculptures that comprise this exhibition by Orlando Mee, with accompanying text by Roy Ananda, are built from e-waste and illuminate the personal histories of a multicultural family.

Orlando Lee: artist talk
Saturday 23 August
2.30pm-3.30pm
Sauerbier House, 21 Wearing St, Port Noarlunga

In this talk, Churning the Ocean artist Orlando Mee speaks to the topic ‘A mythopoesis of waste’, examining the connections between family, culture and technology through poetic mythmaking.

Through My Eyes
11-29 August
Library hours, Sunday to Friday
Woodcroft Community Centre, 175 Bains Rd, Morphett Vale

The exhibition by ACH Group community and residents presents the artists’ individual perspectives and personal narratives through a range of artistic media.