Niccy Pallant of Studio XXVI

Musings from my local bookstore. You can pick up a bespoke leather journal as well as wallow in an amazing collection of 20th century feminist authors or even sign up for a book making class to make your own! Next workshop Oct 31.

Presented as part of the South Australian Living Artist Festival, ‘Hungry Ghosts’ is a collaborative exhibition by Cindy Durant and Niccy Pallant, developed through a desert residency and six years of creative exchange.

The exhibition reflects on the precarious reality of sustaining a creative life. Drawing on the Buddhist idea of the “hungry ghost” — a being driven by unfulfilled longing — the works explore endurance, survival, labour, and the persistence required to continue making art.

Cindy and Niccy will gather in the desert for a concentrated residency focused on collaborative printmaking and experimentation. Working across lino, relief, screenprint, etching, and experimental processes including solar plate, collagraph and tetra pak printing, the exhibition embraces a bold and immediate visual language inspired by coastal and desert environments and modern mythologies.

As such, women artists stand at the centre of the works, working: grounded, assertive, and resilient within precarity.

The exhibition also includes an immersive tent-like installation, The Visionary, where visitors are invited to draw, make prints, select cards, and imagine possible futures through a series of prompts and encounters.

Hungry Ghosts is a meditation on creative survival, friendship, and the act of continuing despite uncertainty.

Exhibition Details

Exhibition: ‘Hungry Ghosts’
Artists: Cindy Durant and Niccy Pallant
Venue: 6 Manton Gallery, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, SA
Exhibition Dates: Thurs 13 Aug - Tues 6 Oct 2026
Opening Event: Thursday 13th Aug 5:30pm
Artist Residency Location: Durant Studio’s, 15 km’s from Penong SA

For interviews, images, or further information, please contact:
Niccy Pallant (Adelaide based)
[email protected]
www.studioxxvi.com

Cindy Durant (Penong based)
[email protected]
www.cindydurant.com

Studio visit with Monika & Patch. There’s nothing more wonderful than time with a colleague Artist.
Monika Morgenstern is an Australian contemporary visual artist born in Germany and currently residing on Ngarrindjeri Country in Strathalbyn, South Australia. Monika is known for her exploration of colour as a mystical material and has been working with light and its effect on glass, digital prints, lightboxes, and projections.

Drum making in Morocco. I love making things with my hands. To me, it is spiritual.

Immersed in my favourite things. On my red wheelie stool (made for auto shops I think), getting inky in the studio ❤️
Australian Artists from all over have sent their artwork in for you to purchase anonymously. You might recognise mine 😜

Big smiles all round 😃
‘Creative Exchange - an accountability workbook for artists’ arrives in Melbourne celebrated by my dear friends Sue & Jossi. Written with my dear friend Donna and published earlier this year with much excitement, it is now stocked in many places for your convenience and to bring this process to the world 🌎
Get your copy via the website

‘Weeping Heart’ all dressed up last week🫀

Milestone Birthday present? - make your own leather journal! 📓
9:30am Sat 23rd May at the beautiful Goodwood Books 📚
Link below 🔗
https://www.studioxxviGoodwood BooksgCity of Unley