“Project for a Revolution”
Andy Best, Matthew Bradley, Bridget Currie, Louise Flaherty and Chris Flanagan
19 Nov → 4 Dec 2004
Project for a Revolution showcases new work by five South Australian artists with a strong connection to Downtown Art Space, an artist-run initiative that began life in an abandoned dodgem rink in Adelaide in 2002.
Featuring Andy Best, Matthew Bradley, Bridget Currie, Louise Flaherty and Chris Flanagan.
This exhibition is the second part of an exchange initiated by West Space and Downtown Art Space in the interests of furthering interstate links between artists and artist-run initiatives.
Downtown is supported by the Federal government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Andy Best is a multidisciplinary artist, working in painting, sculpture, collage and photomedia. He was a graduate of South Australian School of Art and was co-founder of Downtown Art Space, an artist-run space in Tarntanya/Adelaide.
Matthew Bradley is a Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist using sculpture and performance to explore experimental approaches to thinking and creating. He has a methodological approach to art-making that is manifested through elements of engineering and physics. Bradley is interested in the complex relationships between individuals in society, as well as broader notions of social evolution, intellectual and psychic advancements, and individual and social consciousness.
Bridget Currie is a Tarntanya/Adelaide based artist working across a range of modalities including sculpture, performance, drawing, writing, public art and installation. Her art practice is process oriented. Currie explores the representation of abstract states of being and systems of thought, with a focus on social theory, art history and ecology. Her central concern as an artist is bringing invisible things, such as thoughts, emotions, states of being and dreams into the physical world of objects.
Louise Flaherty is an artist in Tarntanya/Adelaide. Informed by quiet reflection on the natural environment with a focus of research native flora communities of South Australia. Flaherty is a socially engaged artist and her current practice spans drawing, installation and participatory practice with a focus on collaborative community driven projects.
Chris Flanagan is an artist, curator and an occasional writer. He was the co-founder of Adelaide’s Downtown Art Space. Flanagan has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions across the Australia, and after completing a residency in Toronto, Canada in 2005, and divides his time between Canada and Australia.