• Return to Sender is N.Smith Gallery’s offsite exhibition series, conceived as a way to place artworks into unexpected contexts and...

    Return to Sender is N.Smith Gallery’s offsite exhibition series, conceived as a way to place artworks into unexpected contexts and new conversations.

     

    For our Adelaide presentation, the series brings together local artists James Tylor and Sally Scales, alongside guest artist Carly Dodd, with gallery artists Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Thea Anamara Perkins, Kyra Mancktelow, and Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro. Shown beyond the gallery walls, the exhibition invites works to be experienced through the specificity of place, allowing practices to shift, expand, and be re-read in dialogue with their surroundings.

  • James Tylor

    James Tylor is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose practice explores Australian environment, culture and social history through photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, scent and food.


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    • James Tylor Karrakarlingga Carrackalinga 1, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Karrakarlingga Carrackalinga 1, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
    • James Tylor Pangkarla Normanville, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Pangkarla Normanville, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
    • James Tylor Witawardli Selleck Beach, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Witawardli Selleck Beach, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
    • James Tylor Yaitakauwingga Second Valley 4, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Yaitakauwingga Second Valley 4, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
    • James Tylor Yartakurlangga Rapid Bay 1, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Yartakurlangga Rapid Bay 1, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
    • James Tylor Karrkunga Ochre Cove, 2022 Becquerel Daguerreotype 10 x 12 cm
      James Tylor
      Karrkunga Ochre Cove, 2022
      Becquerel Daguerreotype
      10 x 12 cm
  • Sally Scales

    'We grew up knowing we had to use our voices for our families and communities. It's go time.'

     

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    • Sally Scales 25 (I), 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 51 x 19 cm
      Sally Scales
      25 (I), 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      51 x 19 cm
    • Sally Scales 25 (II), 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 51 x 19 cm
      Sally Scales
      25 (II), 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      51 x 19 cm
    • Sally Scales 25 (III), 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 51 x 19 cm
      Sally Scales
      25 (III), 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      51 x 19 cm
    • Sally Scales Danger, 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 30 x 45 cm
      Sally Scales
      Danger, 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      30 x 45 cm
    • Sally Scales CP, 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 45 x 43 cm
      Sally Scales
      CP, 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      45 x 43 cm
    • Sally Scales G, 2025 acrylic paint on road sign 45 x 43 cm
      Sally Scales
      G, 2025
      acrylic paint on road sign
      45 x 43 cm
    • Sally Scales Untitled, 2026 acrylic on linen 152 x 152 cm
      Sally Scales
      Untitled, 2026
      acrylic on linen
      152 x 152 cm
    • Sally Scales Untitled, 2026 acrylic on linen 198 x 185 cm
      Sally Scales
      Untitled, 2026
      acrylic on linen
      198 x 185 cm
  • Carly Dodd
    Carly Tarkari Dodd is a Kaurna, Narungga, and Ngarrindjeri artist and curator whose practice
    centres on weaving, jewellery, sculpture, and cultural storytelling. Taught traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving techniques by Aunty Ellen Trevorrow at a young age, Dodd continues this legacy by combining ancestral knowledge with contemporary materials to create powerful objects of cultural resilience.
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 1, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 59 x 27 x 23 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 1, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      59 x 27 x 23 cm
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 2, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 66 x 40 x 33 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 2, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      66 x 40 x 33 cm
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 3, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 74 x 27 x 25 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 3, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      74 x 27 x 25 cm
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 4, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 84 x 30 x 25 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 4, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      84 x 30 x 25 cm
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 5, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 71 x 33 x 31 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 5, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      71 x 33 x 31 cm
    • Carly Dodd Untitled 6, 2025 linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn 60 x 28 x 21 cm
      Carly Dodd
      Untitled 6, 2025
      linen, polyester filling and cotton yarn
      60 x 28 x 21 cm
  • Fiona Lowry

    Fiona Lowry’s practice has explored the complexity of the human condition. Through the use of airbrushed pastels and monochromatic colour palettes, Lowry’s images maintain an overarching softness and ambiguity.


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  • Holly Anderson

    From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. Bursts of sunlight populate familiar subject matter – interiors, figures, skies, and water are monochromic planes pierced with white light...

     

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  • HOLLY ANDERSON Pool (the secret garden), 2025 oil on board 140 x 100 cm

    HOLLY ANDERSON

    Pool (the secret garden), 2025
    oil on board
    140 x 100 cm
  • Louise Zhang

    'The greatest tool in painting is colour, because colour has the greatest way of manipulating perspective.'

     

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    • Louise Zhang Eternity (lilly and garlic chives), 2023 acrylic on linen 51 x 42 cm
      Louise Zhang
      Eternity (lilly and garlic chives), 2023
      acrylic on linen
      51 x 42 cm
    • Louise Zhang Longevity and Vitality (Peaches), 2024 acrylic on linen 60 x 101 cm
      Louise Zhang
      Longevity and Vitality (Peaches), 2024
      acrylic on linen
      60 x 101 cm
  • Tom Blake

    Tom Blake’s practice draws on fragmented moments, looped imagery and recurring motifs as potential sites for contemplating the psychological, architectural and technological frameworks that surround us.

     

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    • Tom Blake index, chair (nn), 2025 cyanotype, artist-made brass frame 41 x 31 cm
      Tom Blake
      index, chair (nn), 2025
      cyanotype, artist-made brass frame
      41 x 31 cm
    • Tom Blake index, moon (II), 2025 cyanotype, artist-made brass frame 41 x 21 cm
      Tom Blake
      index, moon (II), 2025
      cyanotype, artist-made brass frame
      41 x 21 cm
  • Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro

    Combining a playful sense of humour and an engagement with art historical precedents, the duo's work is characterised by the deconstruction and reinvention of prefabricated structures and objects into extraordinary sculptures and installations. 

     

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  • CLAIRE HEALY & SEAN CORDEIRO Pink Bear, 2024 recontextualised lego 96 x 96 cm

    CLAIRE HEALY & SEAN CORDEIRO

    Pink Bear, 2024
    recontextualised lego
    96 x 96 cm
  • Kyra Mancktelow

    Kyra Mancktelow’s multidisciplinary practice investigates legacies of colonialism, posing important questions such as how we remember and acknowledge Indigenous histories.

     

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    • Kyra Mancktelow Looped I, 2022 ink impression on Hahnemühle paper 60 x 40 cm
      Kyra Mancktelow
      Looped I, 2022
      ink impression on Hahnemühle paper
      60 x 40 cm
    • Kyra Mancktelow Untitled (Y2806II), 2022 ink impression on Hahnemühle paper 120 x 40 cm
      Kyra Mancktelow
      Untitled (Y2806II), 2022
      ink impression on Hahnemühle paper
      120 x 40 cm
  • Christopher Zanko

    'Zanko creates permanence through the action of carving and simultaneously gives these homes and memories an enduring place to survive.'

     

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  • CHRISTOPHER ZANKO DIALED IN, 2026 acrylic on carved woodblock 40 x 35 cm

    CHRISTOPHER ZANKO

    DIALED IN, 2026
    acrylic on carved woodblock
    40 x 35 cm