Ian McFarland – Artist
The Unley Museum will open its first contemporary visual art exhibition forWARDback, on Sunday August 2, as part of the SALA Festival.
Local contemporary artists have been busy working with items from the Museum’s historical collection to create artworks that consider the objects and their functionality from a contemporary viewpoint.
Unley Museum Curator Karen Paris says the exhibition elicits interesting stories from objects within the Museum’s collection as the objects appealed to each of the artists individually.
“The exhibition is a contemporary viewpoint of Unley’s social history, through the eyes of local artists living in the area today,” Karen says.
Artists Lee Salamone, Paul Sloan, Tristan Louth-Robins, Kristel Britcher and Ian McFarland were invited to explore the collection and respond to items of their choosing, the result is an eclectic grouping of objects and interpretive artworks that draw a contemporary view of Unley’s colourful history. The exhibition encourages a refreshed view of Unley and its role in the development of Adelaide as a thriving city in the twentieth century.
Sound technician and exhibiting artist Tristan Louth-Robins says “my work, tentatively titled 5 voices, utilises five small glass bottles and phials from the Museum collection. The resonant frequencies have been recorded in a manner so that they reveal their unique acoustic qualities. The finished work will consist of a sound composition featuring these ‘voices’ in an ensemble arrangement, with the five bottles and phials on display to serve as a visual accompaniment.”
The exhibition includes sound installation, painting, sculpture and glass artworks displayed alongside the objects from the Museum’s collection that inspired the works.
The new exhibition will be officially launched by art historian and writer Professor Catherine Speck on Wednesday, August 5, from 5pm at the Museum. All welcome to attend.
forWARDback will run until September 22, 2015. For more information phone 8372 5117, visit unley.sa.gov.au/museum or join the Museum’s Facebook page facebook/unleymuseum.
Unley Museum, 80 Edmund Avenue, Unley Open Monday to Wednesday, 10am – 4pm and Sunday, 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Closed on public holidays
Admission is free
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