🎶 Meet the artist behind the ‘exploded piano’! 

Award-winning composer and installation artist Rae Howell shares the journey behind her career and fascinating project The Piano: Hook, Line & Tinker.

Discover how pianos, the environment and a love of sound come together in her work, and ask your own questions in this interactive Q&A session. 

DATE: Thursday 16th October 2025
TIME: 5pm – 6pm
VENUE: CWA Hall, 70 Murray Street Tanunda, SA 5352

Free Event – All Welcome.

Please RSVP your attendance HERE.

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Join Rae Howell, the current Barossa Women’s Artist-in-Residence, for an engaging presentation about her creative journey. An accomplished composer, performer, piano technician and installation artist, Rae’s work draws inspiration from the natural world and from the instruments themselves — from the buzz of bees to the inner workings of the piano. 

In this informal talk, Rae will share the story of her latest project, The Piano: Hook, Line & Tinker, a large-scale ‘exploded-view’ suspended piano installation that reveals the instrument’s intricate mechanics and the lifetime of music it carries. 

Learn how her career has taken her across the globe, collaborating with scientists, artists and musicians, and why her residency in the Barossa — home to the historic 1877 Hill & Son Grand Organ — is a vital step in the project’s development. 

The session includes an opportunity for questions, offering insight for music enthusiasts, students, artists and anyone curious about the meeting point of art, sound and engineering.

ABOUT THE ARTIST – RAE HOWELL

Rae Howell is an award-winning Australian composer, multi-instrumentalist and piano technician whose work fuses music, sound and the environment. Founder of the Sunwrae Ensemble, Rae creates innovative projects such as The Piano: Hook, Line & Tinker, an ‘exploded-view’ suspended piano installation revealing the instrument’s hidden mechanisms and stories. Her residency in the Barossa explores connections between people, place and the pianos that have shaped local musical life.

Feature Image: Rae Howell, Piano Hook Line Tinker installation (crop). Photography by Sara Walker. Photo courtesy of artist.