Caught on Tape!

Click here to watch the surveillance video of these brazen art thieves.
If you recognise any of the offenders please send us an anonymous email and alert us to their identities.
Thank you.

amy patterson ~ 1001 clouds

while i was working on assembling this piece, these 1001 clouds, i stumbled across a quote that resonated with both what i wanted the piece to do, and with the difficulties i was having in trying to articulate those intentions:

How to describe a world that evades us, not because it is ungraspable but, on the contrary, because there is too much to grasp? ^†

each of these polaroids, up close and in isolation, offers the world made miniature; limitless complexity and ceaseless motion bound and frozen within a fixed and stable frame.
the illusion of knowledge and the intimacy of possession.
but how to maintain this isolation with its fellows pressing in on you, a thousand others jostling for your attention or floating in the sidelines, all of them just as rich, all offering the same intimacy of knowledge? and so attention pulls back, detail and particularity at one scale lost or subsumed so that a different kind of knowing may take its place.
singularity offered up for the creation of something larger...
until a detail catches your eye...
the expansion and contraction of the scale of attention, a motion that is somewhat like breathing, makes room for an awareness of something beyond the range of either scale alone.

{Amy Patterson is a Master of Visual Arts candidate at the South Australian School of Art.}

^† Blanchot, as cited in Golding, S. (1997) The Eight Technologies Of Otherness New York: Routledge p.11

Edward James

My images are created from low-resolution original photographs, which through the process of enlargement beyond their original intent, reveal new interpretations of the subject matter. Previously hidden iconic images are revealed, new technology referencing an older artistic era.

Through this work I have been exploring new explanations of meaning discovered in the open ‘between pixel’ spaces, shaped by the technological limitations of current digital photography.

Edward James
March 2007

Sky of Tears Ultrachrome Print 50 x 50 cms Edition of 7

Sky of Mercy Ultrachrome Print 50 x 50 cms Edition of 7

Empty Sky Ultrachrome Print 50 x 60 cms Edition of 7

Artwork Stolen from Exhibition

This photographic print was stolen last night from the Adelaide Festival Centre - if you see it anywhere please let us know.

If anyone sees this photograph by Mimi Kelly or knows anything about the theft of the work please post a comment on this site with your information or contact the Adelaide Police Department as soon as possible. The work which is a 1m x 1.2m Giclee print was stolen Saturday March 17 between 10 and 11pm from the Adelaide Festival Centre. Police and Adelaide Festival Centre security staff are reviewing the surveillance tapes and will release a description of the offender(s) shortly.

Reviews

Click here to read dB Magazine's review of Undercurrent 2007 at the Adelaide Festival Centre, written by Lauren Sutter.

Greg Ackland

Artist Statement:
This new work deals with contemporary anxieties, it references both political crises and human frailty. It is about those fragments in time when all is not as it seems – at once all that seemed safe now threatens.
Investigating emotional connections to environment, physical vulnerability, and fear this work offers contemplative juxtapositions of the duality of life; cause and effect, joy and sadness, life and death, self and the other. Its juxtapositions offer the comparative refuge of nature, while prodding the viewer to question the relationships that may (not) exist.
It emphasizes the uncomfortable and fleeting positions we often find ourselves negotiating and allows the impossible – time to examine, calculate and hypothesize answers.

The Homogeny of Desire Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

The Submission Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

We Watch in Waiting Type C Print 50 x 90 cms Edition of 5

Danielle Walpole

Danielle Walpole is an Adelaide based photographic artist. Exhibiting regularly since 2000, she has a Bachelor of Visual Art and Applied Design and is a co-founder and core member of the artist collective 'Shoot'.

“My work in 'Undercurrent' incorporates subtle surrealist elements to express unconscious perceptions. Symbolic objects placed within an urban environment portray desire and self-analysis in an everyday reality. Capturing also notions of serenity, danger and journeys, these images illustrate the complex nature of love, both for our self and for others.”

Danielle Walpole
March 2007

for more information on this artist please visit
www.shootcollective.com.au

Exhibition Opening Flix

Undercurrent 2007 officially opened on Tuesday March 6th. With a highly successful opening drawing around 350 people, the artists were all very happy. Opening photos courtesy of Alyssa Fedele.

Will Nolan 'Ben'

Amy Patterson '1001 Clouds'

Greg Ackland

Danielle Walpole

Mimi Kelly

Edward James

Bev Southcott 'City and Cup One'

Rachel McElwee 'Glamour Girl'