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As you may know, I am starting my own small business as an Arts Writer and Curator! I am really passionate about what I do and I have a lot of ambition, so I have recently decided to turn this into my business! I am currently undertaking Certificate IV in Small Business Management, which is teaching me SOOOO much about how to run a business. The combination of my skills & experience as a curator, and my training as a business person will mean that my venture is sure to succeed!

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Ordinary Escapes and Other Magic

Ray Harris and Celeste Aldahn

Ordinary Escapes and Other Magic

SASA Gallery,

2^nd of April to 10^th of May

Opening night Wednesday 3rd April at 6pm

Artist Talk at 5pm

Creating fantasy worlds is something that our 21^st society seems to be fairly good at. Escaping into online personas, we constantly create impressions of ourselves that neither whole, nor completely divorced from each other. In their exhibition Ordinary Escapes and Other Magic, Celeste Aldahn and Ray Harris explore fantasy as a way of reworking reality. Working within the field of sculpture/installation, the exhibition includes objects, video works, paintings and drawings. Through each of their practices, they look at a facet of reality that they have termed ‘bedroom culture’, it is personal, self-reflexive, maybe even anti-social. They become the subject, and the narrator, of self-delusions and self-deception.

The collaboration between Aldahn and Harris is a no-brainer, the parallel between their practices is obvious, especially when you consider their partiality to glitter. The idea of fantasy as a means of escape is explored in different ways by each of the artists. Aldahn merges crafty kitsch with teen witch, she exposes teen magic and girl power as ways that girls negotiate difficult times, searching for independence and escaping from realities. Harris approaches escapism through building immersive worlds. Her large scale diorama sculptures operate as gateways to alternative dimensions and experiences of the self, when you step inside you escape to a whole new world.

Images: Top: She blows Blizzards, hd video, 2013 (Ray Harris)

Middle: She splutters Darkness, hd video, 2013 ( Ray Harris)

Bottom: Waxing and Waning, Hd digital video, 2012

( Ray Harris and Celeste Aldahn) courtesy of the Artists

TEXT: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the thousands

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Image: Curator's walk through for Arts SA Emerging Curators Program 2012, for my exhibition titled 'Take Care', photo by Amelia O'Connor

Tim Sterling and Troy Innocent

Tim Sterling, Platzangst and Troy Innocent, Asemic Writing 1

Hugo Michell Gallery

Opening night, 21^st March 6pm

Running 21^st March to 27^th April

With technical precision and high attention to detail, Tim Sterling is an artist who builds worlds. Platzangst, the title of his the exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery, is a German word used for both agoraphobia and claustrophobia, a double meaning referencing anxiety felt in places and spaces. Using industrial materials, in this case Sterling opts for plywood, he constructs intricate installations from small repeated elements; a multitude of tiny ply H beams form a larger architectural structure. Sterling also explores space and perspective through drawing. A repeated texta dash forms a wall of bricks that balances precariously and threatens collapse, fraying at the edges.

Alongside Tim Sterling, Hugo Michell is showing work by transmedia artist Troy Innocent whose exhibition, Asemic Writing 1, uses urban street culture and graffiti tagging to explore systems of language and communication. Like Sterling, Innocent builds worlds through looking at how individual elements construct systems. Innocent has developed a program that produces a language of glyphs through recombining marks and gestures used in tags. The indecipherable language looks familiar, but doesn’t mean anything and can be read only for its aesthetic value.

Tim Sterling, Page 3, 4 (detail), 2012

Troy Innocent , autograf, 2009, asemic writing system program

TEXT: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the thousands

Artlink Review: The Beginning of the End

The Beginning of the End, an exhibition I recently curated featuring Claire Marsh and Fiona Roberts was reviewed in the latest issue of Artlink. Local writer Stephanie Lyall gave the exhibition a great review, check it out!

Adelaide Central School of Art graduates Claire Marsh and Fiona Roberts finish an illustrious 2012 with the opening exhibition in the apocalyptic The End series at DIY art space Format. The Beginning Of The End considers human response to trauma, and Marsh and Roberts' works of fragility, illusion, surrealism and the grotesque are both poignant and masterful.

Roberts’ curiously unsettling In Knots is a small sweep of brown hair, not unlike a woman’s ponytail, that emanates from an open mouth, frozen in movement, at its crown. The deeply human yet physically impossible hybrid creature that lies on the floor of the space evokes both wonder and unease, raising questions as to what can constitute humanity - at what point does a collection of disparate parts become a being? How much of a body can be lost or rearranged before becoming something 'other’?

Thingshow and Still Water at Fontanelle Gallery

Opening 17^th March, 6pm

17/3 till 12/4

The first exhibition of the year for Fontanelle is about the lives of objects, and the thresholds and tensions that they produce. Titled ‘Thingshow’, it seeks to explore the way that things interact and are transformed. Art writer Gertrude Stein once said that ‘Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air’, a sentiment that foregrounds a certain understanding of art objects and of things. When you look at art objects as not just the object, but as the things they sit on and as the air around them, they take on different kind of life.

For the exhibition, curator Ben Leslie has brought together a group of artists from around Australia who practice within the field of things, including Sarah CrowEST, Brooke Babington, Carla Liesch, Sam Songailo, Emily Taylor, Talitha Kennedy and Henry Jock Walker. The objects presented don’t just sit pretty, they operate within the context of the space around them, and in relation to each other; this is the pretty air that Stein was talking about.

Alongside ‘Thingshow’, Canadian glass artist Tyler Rock will be showing in the back gallery. The interactive installation responds to the viewer as they move around the gallery space.

Image: Sarah CrowEST, 'Things (studio), 2013 courtesy of Fontanelle Gallery

TEXT: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the Thousands http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/thingshow-and-still-water

Distorted

Tooth and Nail Gallery, Opening 15^th March, 6pm

15th to 29th of March from 11 to 5pm

Sometimes photographers seem to have more in common with mad scientists than with other artists. For them, it’s not just about the moment of capturing an image, but the process of developing in the lab. In the dark, under the soft glow of the red lights, photographers spend hours upon hours conducting experiments with various chemicals and contraptions.

Distorted, opening at Tooth and Nail gallery, brings together seven artists from working with experimental photography and photo-media. Local artists Alex Bishop-Thorpe, Alice Blanch, Andrew Dearman & Aurelia Carbone come together with Pete Punkette, James Tylor and Felix Wilson from Hobart, to present this two-part traveling exhibition. Showing here in Adelaide and later at Constance Gallery in Hobart, it is exciting for us to have this inter-city exchange. Through experimenting in various stages of the photographic process, the artist aim to alter perception and challenge the reality associated with the photographic image. Optical illusions and strange processes join forces with analogue techniques to produce photos that are way beyond the average ‘point and shoot’. Distorted isn’t just about images, it’s about science, experimentation, and the possibilities presented by the photographic medium.

 Image: Alice Blanch, Box Brownie Colour Panorama #9 (detail) / Alice Blanch,Box Brownie Colour Panorama #10(detail
Text: copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the thousands
http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/look/distorted