12 OCTOBER - 4 NOVEMBER
BACK GALLERY
HÄLSNINGAR
SUPERMARKET ART FAIR 2023
At the beginning of the year FELTspace was invited to participate at the Supermarket International Art Fair in Stockholm Sweden. Supermarket is an alternative artfair dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. The work of sixteen South Australian Artists was transported to Europe and displayed during an exciting and vibrant four-day event in May. This month the back gallery will showcase a selection of works that were presented at the art fair.
Amber Cronin
Cecilia Tizard
Dameeli Coates
Franklin Holfeld
Hannah Coleman
Jingwei Bu
Josie Dillon
Melanie Cooper
Teresa Busuttil
[Hälsningar means greetings in Swedish]
Amber Cronin is a cross-disciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide, South Australia). Situated amongst an ecology of research that includes sculpture, plants, soil, textiles, sound, video and performance, her practice gathers people, objects and matter in combinations that facilitate meditations on connection and discovery. Developed over extended periods through conversations and collaboration, Cronin’s work collects and expounds on the sensory qualities of everyday actions, reframing them as participatory sites of ritual activity. Born out of an oscillation between global phenomena and intimate encounters, her recent work finds its genesis in the complex politics of our time– and positions art as means of contemplation– as a means of survival, that allows us to enter a shared dimension with ourselves and the more-than-human.
Cecilia Tizard (she/her) is an emerging artist living and working on Kaurna Country (Adelaide, South Australia), and working from Post Office Projects, Port Adelaide. Graduating from Flinders University with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Art), Cecilia’s practice primarily engages photography, with an interest in the intersection between traditional photography and abstract sculpture and installation. Cecilia’s graduate work was featured in the Flinders University graduate exhibition, Holding Space at Light Square Gallery, and the 2022 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Cecilia received the 2022 Commonwealth Private Undergraduate Award. She was also the recipient of the 2022 Helpmann Academy/ACE Open Studio Residency Award, and the FELTspace Graduate Award for Flinders University. Cecilia’s most recent body of work, Working Table, was part of Studios:2022, the culmination of the ACE studio residency award.
Hannah Coleman (she/they) is an emerging contemporary artist, curator and poet born in South- Africa, who has lived in Australia since 1999. Hannah graduated a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts at the University of South Australia in 2021. Her current work focuses on identity, diaspora, familial culture and lineage. She predominantly experiments with light and installation to create studies of intercultural adaptation as well as tokenism and where she sits within her cultural dynamic. Her practice is centred around lived experience and intersectionality. The works are often transmissions of both celebration and frustration; they are reflections on unwelcomed white Australian cultural diffusion and reclamation of her Coloured South African identity. She plans on refining this practice while beginning her exploration into curatorial endeavours where she intends on cultivating discourse surrounding culturally diverse lived experiences; specifically, people of colour and queer identifying people.
Melanie Cooper is a visual artist, art historian and educator living and working on unceded Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia. Working across painting, drawing and textiles, remnants of place and fragments of thought are absorbed and translated into her work as an intuitive exploration and response to materials. Elements of the urban and natural landscape are often embedded in her forms.
Teresa Busuttil's practice investigates personal and familial history, diaspora and the fallibility and flexibility of truth and memory. Drawing in reference to her Maltese cultural heritage, Busuttil often utilises materials and stories close to her. Busuttil is interested in duality and nuance and how this relates to culture and memory. Recent exhibitions and presentations include The One Minutes, 17th Kinemastik International Short Film Festival, Malta, 2021; FELTspace, Adelaide, 2022, Adelaide Festival Centre; 2022. Teresa is a current Studio Resident at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE, Adelaide).
Photography: Brianna Speight
