Dug and Digging WithCurated by Katie Barber & Stan Mahoney

Selected artists and sample works

Tom SquiresTom Squires is an Adelaide based conceptual artist, writer and poet. His work is heavily influenced by a vast knowledge of western philosophy and art history. He has completed a Masters by Research at the South Australian School of Art, Architecture, and Design. Solo exhibitions include THERE / TRANSPARENT / NOT THERE / MIRROR at FELTspace in 2012. Group exhibitions include Green Candle II, a collaborative project with John Barbour, Anton Hart, Paul Hoban, and Linda Marie Walker, as part of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia’s The New New in 2010.

Tom Squires Model for Philipp Mainlander Piece (Scale 1:2 - Broken Once), 2010. Unprimed canvas on MDF, stacked.

Sam SongailoSam Songailo is an artist from Adelaide, currently based in Melbourne. Working in a range of media, including installation, sound and video, his work often employs the heavy use of pattern and colour. Themes such as the limits of perception and the phenomenology of consciousness are explored through abstraction and repetition. Born Townsville in 1979, Sam Songailo studied Visual Communication majoring in Graphic Design at the University of South Australia. Since making the transition to fine art circa 2007 he has received numerous grants and awards. Sam has exhibited at artist run and commercial galleries in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne, and has been awarded several public art commissions.

Sam Songailo, Overkill, Hugo Michell Gallery, 2011

Julia McInerneyJulia McInerney is an Adelaide based artist, graduating from the Adelaide Central School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) in 2011. Her work is concerned with the ambiguous poetry of objects and materials, often drawing upon ideas and themes from Modernist literature. Julia has presented exhibitions at Greenaway Art Gallery (SA), Constance ARI (TAS), Bus Projects (VIC), the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia's Project Space, FELTspace (SA), and Konstfack University College of Arts and Crafts, in Stockholm, Sweden. Julia has undertaken residencies at Fire Station Artists' Studios in Dublin, SIM (The Icelandic Association of Visual Arts) in both Reykjavik and Berlin, and Artspace in Sydney.

Julia McInerney The Meadow (Virginia Woolf Piece), 2013. One anchor ground to dust floating upon a body of water, aluminium cast of the edge of a door painted white

Matthew Bradley's sculptural and performative works are the result of an experimental and original approach to thinking and making. Qualities of art relevant to his practice include those that are akin to the work of the cosmologist, the physicist and the engineer. He is known for a restrained and methodical approach to materials and form, and philosophically robust engagements with notions as diverse as risk, delinquency, power, the evolution of consciousness, the origins of the universe, the fatal attraction of the horizon and the complicated relationship of these notions to the intellectual advancement of society and the psychic renewal of the individual citizen.

Recent group exhibitions include: CACSA Contemporary 2015, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 2015; Pigeon Auction, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, 2013; This is what I do, Metro Arts, Brisbane, touring to CAST, Tasmania, 2012; Nothing like performance, Artspace, Sydney, 2011; Before and After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia; Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 2008; Recent solo exhibitions include Space Chickens help me make Apple pie, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide, 2012; New vehicles and exploration, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide 2011; Axle Mace, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 2010. Matthew Bradley is represented by GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery.

Matthew Bradley

Matthew Bradley, Chicken Observatory from ‘Space Chickens Help Me Make Apple Pie’, 2012assorted found timber, telescope, lights, straw

Ray HarrisRay’s work is concerned with the psychological struggles and ambiguities of self-concept, focussing on prevailing everyday fantasies created to cope with the complexities of repressed desires, feelings, anxieties and psychological pain. Fascinated by mental spaces, she explores these issues through subjective interpretations of universal conditions in the dual creation of sculptural spaces and perfomative video embodying inner and outer experience, as well as the the facilitation of “unawareness”. Ray began her career exhibiting at the AEAF, SASA Gallery; CACSA and Hugo Michell Galleries. She has more recently exhibited at Sawtooth (Launceston), Boxcopy (Brisbane), InFlight (Hobart) Next Wave (Melbourne) Supermarket Art Fair (Sweden) and Gil and Moti Homegallery, (Netherlands) and Pirimid Sanat (Turkey). Her work is held in The Borusan Collection and Project 4L- Elgiz Museum Collection, Turkey, and several private collections in Australia.

Ray Harris, In Your Absentia (video still), 2014

Matea GluscevicMatea Gluscevic is a graduate of the South Australian School of Art, specialising in Sculpture and Installation. Often working under the alter ego Cakey Sportsman, her work is largely focused on the discovery and understanding of the self through subconscious means as well as the paradoxes created by self perception and managing one’s self image. Among other unusual qualifications, Gluscevic has trained as a dental technician and has completed a Certificate IV in Custom Made Footwear.

Matea Gluscevic, ‘sometimes people with BPD report that they simply feel non-existent’, digital print, 2014

Matt HuppatzMatt Huppatz lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia. His diverse practice includes elements of sculpture, assemblage, photography and installation. He draws upon everyday and uncommon experience that often touches on areas of dark and colourful transgression. Recent works have referenced the nightclub and related sites, places of community and freedom to some, and chaos and dissolution to others. Informed by queer theory, Huppatz is interested in the narratives we use to construct ourselves as individuals, subcultures and societies.

Matt Huppatz, Sotterraneo 2013. FELTnatural, site specific installation

Riley O’KeeffeRiley O’Keeffe is an artist, musician, writer and emerging curator based in Adelaide. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) majoring in Painting in 2010 and completed a Masters by Research in 2014, both from the School of Art Architecture and Design, UniSA. In 2012 he held a solo exhibition, Nothing Object, Forever at the CACSA Project Space. He has exhibited and performed in Adelaide at The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, FELTspace, Format Systems and interstate at Boxcopy, QLD and Inflight ARI, TAS. His multidisciplinary work focuses on notions of mortality, time and the infinite. He is a previous director of FELTspace and has curated a season of exhibitions in AEAFOdradek.

Riley O’Keeffe, ‘A Brief View’, glass, steel, LEDs, installation view, 2014.

Chloe LangfordChloe Langford is a South Australian artist currently based in Berlin. Recent work explores materiality, the sometimes fraught relationship between artist and viewer, self-referencing systems and the meaning and phenomenology of virtual space. She co-founded the permanent Format Collective space in Adelaide and co-directed the 2010 & 2011 Format Festivals. In the past she has exhibited in group exhibitions at Format, Magazine Gallery, FELTspace, and the Jam Factory. In 2012 she joined the founding committee of the Fontanelle gallery and studio complex and exhibited with Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney. In June of 2013 she attended a six week residency at Kunst Stoffe, Berlin, where she currently bases her practice. Chloe graduated with First Class Honours from the South Australian School of Art.

Chloê Langford, ‘HEAVY JELLY’ (gallery installation), mixed media, 2012