Minima Art Rooms

The Minima Hotel is being transformed into a creative space for guests and artists. A hand picked selection of local South Australian emerging and semi-established artists have each been commissioned to transform a room in the hotel. The goal is to have all 46 rooms representing the vision of these artists along the theme of creation.

While we can't guarantee specific room availability through our online booking or at our kiosk - you can ring and request a room from those featured below. If available we can secure that room for your stay or alternatively we can advise which rooms are available.

To make a booking please call 08 8334 7780.

International: +61 8 8334 7780

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Room #107 |  Seeds of Life

Vans the Omega

Roughly based in Adelaide Australia, Vans the Omega (aka Joel Van Moore) has been creating & painting letterforms for over two decades, which has seen him, travel around the globe consistently since 2000. Most of his influences have come from ancient scripts, architecture, engineering, nature & the idea of movement or balance.

Currently the mix of sharp highly technical machine like shapes, seemingly impossible patterns mixed with a traditional graffiti aesthetic based on sound foundations are blending to produce new innovative works which continue to push the boundaries on a world scale & propel his own desires to reinvent & perfect his craft on a daily level.

http://vanstheomega.com

The abstract shapes of this piece incorporate the initial cell division of the human body in the womb and the subsequent rippling division & changes in form held by sacred geometry out into the exterior of wall and ceiling. The choice in colour pallet is strongly influenced by the idea of the living creative elements of fire, wind, water and earth.

Room #203 | The Shapes of Our Mutual Dreams

Jake Holmes

Screenprinter, illustrator, ideasman.

http://jakethink.blogspot.com.au/

Inspired by two of my favourite scientists; Carl Sagan and Neil Degrasse Tyson, this piece aims to represent some of the ideas they have both discussed about our place within the cosmos. Particularly making reference to our close biological relationship to the stars, which created our conscious matter. Using 3D forms spawning from one another and all connected to one another.

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Room #204 | Mr. Sandman

Tristan Kerr 

Tristan Kerr graduated Visual Communication at University of South Australia in 2006. Since graduating he worked in Switzerland as a stagiaire de Serigraphie (Screen-Print apprentice). Here he discovered an appreciation for typography and the hand-made, which has now become a major inspiration for the basis of his personal work. After moving to Paris later in 2011 to work in design, he became absorbed by the historical Sign-painted and gold-leaf gilded store fronts. The traditional hand painted craft of Sign-Painting is now a large part of his work which he practices today.

www.enjoytastytreats.com

My take on the theme creation is based on how sleep influences creativity.

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Room#205 | The Shape of our Mutual Dreams

Gary Seaman

Gary Seaman is an Artist and Graphic Designer from Adelaide. Using his design education as a base, Gary has expanded his skills in numerous mediums including aerosol, sculpture, screen printing and mixed media painting. Gary has numerous works around Adelaide from street murals to sculptural installations.

www.goldensilverproject.com

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Room #206 | Peace

Matthew Stuckey

Matthew Stuckey is an artist and designer who works across many disciplines and media. His commercial and personal work often deals with the subject of how to utilise and humanise spaces, be they a flat canvas, a wall or the 3D built environment. Other murals by Matthew can currently be seen on Leigh Street, Ebenezer Place and Sym Choon Lane. Matthew has painted two rooms at the Minima Hotel and is the curator for the Minima Art Hotel Project.

www.befriendly.net

Make Love, Not Snore. Peace.

Room #207 | Somewhere Along the Way

Ankles

Ankles is waiting for you in your car. Ankles is in your pockets. Ankles is running through your veins. Ankles is naive. Ankles is good for your liver. Ankles is the war on boredom. Ankles is omnipotent. Ankles is flawed.

www.ohankles.com

Room #209 | Untitled

Ashleigh Abbott 

Ashleigh Abbott has a penchant towards creating visuals of life and emotions from geometric forms and vibrant colour. Inspired by life’s simple pleasures like colour, shapes and her environment, she looks at the world as if through a kaleidoscope and reassemble the colourful pieces she see and feel into creations that celebrate happiness, fun, love, connection and new possibilities.

http://ashleigh-abbott.blogspot.com.au/

From the creation of simple forms an imagination, emotion or character is formed.

Room #210 | Kumo

Matt Stuckey

Matthew Stuckey is an artist and designer who works across many disciplines and media. His commercial and personal work often deals with the subject of how to utilise and humanise spaces, be they a flat canvas, a wall or the 3D built environment. Other murals by Matthew can currently be seen on Leigh Street, Ebenezer Place and Sym Choon Lane. Matthew has painted two rooms at the Minima Hotel and is the curator for the Minima Art Hotel Project.

This abstract pattern evolves in form and meaning each time I paint it. I began using these minimalist shapes after attending an exhibition of Japanese Byubo screens (Kumo = cloud in Japanese); where simple, elongated cloud shapes were used to fill the space between small sections of intricate detail. The clouds were originally only a background element in my illustrations, but I found I enjoyed the challenge of using such a basic shape to create an interesting composition more so than presenting overtly literal or figurative images. I prefer to create an image which is, like a cloud; simple, dynamic, abstract and impossible to contain ... allowing every viewer to project their own interpretation and hence make it a creation of their own.

Room #212 | The Dreamer

Joel VDK

Joel VDK is an illustrator and designer who is obsessed with b&w drawings, second-hand comics and snacks.

www.joelvdk.com

This piece represents the creative subconscious, manifested through our dreams.

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Room #213 | In Dreams

Sue Ninham

Sue Ninham is an Adelaide based artist who has been exhibiting since 2002. Painting in oil on canvas and watercolour on paper primarily, her work explores form and colour through abstraction. She finds the process of non-representation challenging, stimulating her intellectually. Working continuously to experiment with content, materials and technique, she believes her work is enriched by the confidence gained from abandonment and experimentation.

Sue is the winner of the 2012 Adelaide Fringe poster award. Her work is held in collections nationally and internationally.

www.sueninham.com

Sue is represented in Adelaide by BMG art gallery www.bmgart.com.au.

When I paint I draw my forms and colours from a subconscious place. Much of what I ‘see’ is dreamlike and relates loosely to my conscious world. In responding to the theme of ‘creation’ I conjured images in this way, collaging them together using other-world colours and random associations. A fantasy bedroom is born!

Room #214 | Hills Hoist

Donovan Christie

Donovan Christie is a young emerging acrylic artist, his main body of work generally consists of Hyper-Realism Streetscapes and Landmarks, mainly focusing on the iconic corners of his hometown Adelaide.

Russell Starke OAM, Director

http://donovanchristie.wix.com/donovanchristie

I so frequently find myself standing still and appreciating things that people take for granted in life. This outlook makes me an avid admirer of people, architecture and urban landscapes in particular. I was given the subject of 'CREATE'. I approached this topic as I do most of my pieces of work, with a home town (Adelaide) aspect. I felt that the 'Hills Hoist' (one of South Australia's most iconic creations) along with the Colour bond steel fencing and galvo roofs, that nothing could ring truer to home.