Local artist, Zoe Kirkwood, will be launching her new work for The Collections Project at the Art Gallery of South Australia this Friday evening.

Kirkwood is one of two artists selected for The Collections Project in 2016 – a collaborative project between Guildhouse, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Adelaide City Council and the South Australian Museum. The project gives artists the opportunity to research an area of one of the institution’s collections and develop new work for exhibition.

The Schomburgk Yabbies, 2016, cast polyurethane, acrylic paint, mechatronic components, metal fixings, turned pine, tassel fringe, marine rope, dimensions variable. Photograph: Grant Hancock.

Since graduating with first class Honours in Visual Arts from the University of South Australia School of Art in 2013, Kirkwood’s work has shown across the country and, just last year, in New York.

Following Kirkwood’s The Collection Project launch, guests are invited to head over to the Art Gallery First Fridays.