Adele Packer is an artist based in Wagga Wagga, NSW, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Design and Photography, from Charles Sturt University in 2013. Adele’s practice involves a combination of fields including graphic design, illustration, type/lettering, collage, zine making and photography.

In 2016 Adele was a recipient of a Young Regional Artist Scholarship through Create NSW and has received funding from Wagga Wagga City Council’s Annual Grants program for a number of upcoming projects.

She has been involved in numerous workshops and public programs throughout the Riverina. In 2016 she worked on Augmented Wetlands, a yearlong project involving students from schools in Wagga Wagga, culminating in a series of artworks made with augmented reality on a rehabilitated wetland in Wagga. Most recently Adele completed a public artwork in Ladysmith and ran an accompanying arts workshop at Ladysmith Primary School. Adele has also exhibited her work nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions at State Library of Victoria, Acme Art Studios, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, and HR Gallop Gallery, amongst others.

Alongside Kate Allman, she is one half of the collaboration, Salad Days. Salad Days is an independent seasonal zine interested in women, artists, current affairs and various other elements of pop culture. Salad Days has exhibited in a number of shows including Self-made: zines and artist books (2017) at the State Library of Victoria and has recently been acquired by the National Library of Australia for its permanent collection. Recently Salad Days have begun to undertake a number of projects including running Wagga Wagga’s first independent publishing fair, Halfway Print Fest, and curating an exhibition for International Women’s Day in 2018.

Adele is also an established freelance designer whose clients include Wagga Wagga City Council, Eastern Riverina Arts, The Wired Lab, Information and Cultural Exchange, and Comms and Co. She also works as a casual gallery technician at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery.

Tagged as: collage, design, graphic design, illustration, publishing