1 - 25 FEBRUARY 2023
FRONT GALLERY

SONJA PORCARO
ALL THE YEARS/LOST & FOUND (AS IF SNOW, MELTING)

Sonja Porcaro is a mid-career artist based in Adelaide/Kaurna Yarta, South Australia, working predominantly in sculpture and installation and more recently incorporating sound.

Porcaro uses everyday objects- including found objects- and humble materials to create restrained and poetic works, often investigating notions of memory (drawing on her Italian migrant heritage), uncertainty and the fluidity of language, representation and meaning.

In combining intimate, hand crafted objects and materials with more robust structures and (her work historically) employing repetition, Porcaro also acknowledges and reworks minimalist traditions (with particular consideration to gender) the formal aspects of her work combined with the personal, gestural and sensorial. In undertaking various residencies, Porcaro’s work has also investigated the mutable relationships between given ‘sites’ and their historical, social and cultural associations.

Porcaro’s current work is the outcome of an 11 month (Fringe) funded residency at George Street Studios (SA), with an emphasis on experimentation in the studio, skill development and industry connection.

Sonja Porcaro is a sculpture and installation artist based Adelaide. Porcaro has held solo exhibitions at The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, the Experimental Art Foundation, Sauerbier House (SA) and the Performance Space (NSW). Group exhibitions include at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian School of Art Gallery, the Australian Centre for Photography (Vic), Artspace (NSW) and at Viafarini (Milan, Italy).

Residencies include the Australia Council Studio, Milan, Italy and the Athens School of Art Studio, Greece. Porcaro is a current (Adelaide Fringe funded) George Street Studios Resident.

Porcaro’s work has been collected by the Art Gallery of South Australia.