Celeste Aldahn (SA) - Filth is Glamour

Opening - 5:30 PM - Wednesday, 4th November

Artist Talks - 6:00pm

Running - 5th November 2015 - 21 November 2015

Heavy on the freak and queer theory, Filth is Glamour humanises taboo by exploring the boundaries of sex and gender norms, fertility and female wisdom. The body is othered, alien and planetary glitching in transmission. It’s reassembled, monstrous under oozing and dripping slime; assholes develop eyes; flesh merges to static response; and sexually charged figures spasm and pulse within blooming petals. The anus is a mirror to these cosmic bodies in segmented flux, potent with power, a solar object and star to guide our ascension.

I am an inter-disciplinary artist, musician and performer. I graduated from UniSA (Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours First Class) in 2011 and have exhibited nationwide, most recently in Sploshing! at 55 Sydenham Rd, Sydney, Maiden, Mother, Crone at Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, and a large-scale installation, IndustrialVitalstatistix Waterside Workers Hall for Laneway Festival, 2014.

Hardcore Folklore II - Celeste Aldahn

Opening - 12:00 AM - Thursday, 3rd of February

Artist Talk - 6:00 PM

Running - 3 Feb 2011 - 19 Feb 2011

I am an Adelaide born and based emerging artist. With a background in performance, currently my practice is mostly illustrative, sculptural and craft-ual and explores themes of mysticism and new-age spirituality. While I have always found the most intuitive themes and content for my work to be the spiritual and the otherworldly, my creations are also testament to my belief in creation as a form of "homemade magic". As a self-confessed ex pre-teen witch and the daughter of a culture dabbling with the new-age, my compulsion toward the mystic has roots deeply nested in my upbringing and experiences as a young girl.

I have recently graduated from the South Australian School of Art where I majored in Sculpture. While an undergraduate, I was extremely proactive and exhibited regularly- almost exclusively in self-executed and funded shows held in irregular sites or empty buildings. In addition to these, I have exhibited in Disco Beans Gallery, Melbourne; Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney; Format Space, Liverpool Street Gallery and FELTSpace in Adelaide. My work has been published in "So Nice to Finally Meet You", 2009, edited by Philadelphian artist Joanna S. Quigley.