vivonne thwaites
curator
aurelia carbone
Pedestrian Spiral (working title), 2010
digital photograph (work in progress)
study for new photographic work
illusion: blackwork on cotton
Chimera's Ball, 2009
digital photograph (work in progress)
study for new photographic work
about the work
I'm interested in photographs that do not correspond with visual experience and the way in which an audience tries to make sense of them. My new experimental body of work is playing off the way a contemporary audience in the early decades of the 21st century reads and responds to photographs. The link between a photograph as an index of a real event or place has been dissolved by the proliferation of digitally manipulated imagery; it's often easier and perhaps more comforting to explain an unexpected image as a digital creation. To explore this idea of the fine line between photographic truth and photographic fiction, and the places in which they intersect I construct 3 dimensional dioramas in my studio which feature optical illusions, and capture these strange little worlds with a 4x5 view camera. The images are digitally un-manipulated, and are intentionally uncanny in their depiction.
about aurelia
Born and raised on the southern beach suburbs of Adelaide, and very happy to be back at the beach after living in the USA for 6 years. Following her graduation from SASA she embarked on a working holiday that found her delightfully stuck in the United States. Aurelia was fortunate to work for several exceptional higher education institutions during her travels with amazing art programs. She found several practising artists who took an interest in mentoring her artistic development, and began exhibiting photographic work in Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. In 2003 the insensitivity of the Bush government to the united dissent from the American people towards the war in Iraq prompted her return home to Australia with her Alaskan born husband. Aurelia is currently a Master of Visual Art (by research) candidate at the South Australian School of Art, and has been teaching in the Photography and New Media departments at SASA since 2004. She is currently growing capsicums, aubergine and boys in her beachside wilderness rental house.
aurelia carbone - cv
| WORK | |
| 2009-Current | Peer Assessment Panel, Arts SA |
| 2004-Current | Academic Lecturer, Photography & New Media, South Australian School of Art, UniSA |
| 2002-03 | Academic Computer Technician, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
| 2001-02 | Digital Media Assistant, Reed College Art Department, Portland, Oregon USA |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2009 | Masters of Visual Art (research) candidate, South Australian School of Art, UniSA |
| 2004 | Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons), South Australian School of Art, UniSA |
| 1998 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, South Australian School of Art, UniSA |
| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS | |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | a toy boat on the Serpentine, Gallery 139, Adelaide |
| a toy boat on the Serpentine, Hype & Seek, Croydon | |
| a toy boat on the Serpentine, Adelaide Festival Centre Piano Bar, Adelaide | |
| 2005 | urban love story, SALA Festival, Rhino Room, Adelaide |
| Unexpected Company, Duke of York Hotel, Adelaide | |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2009 | Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise |
| Adelaide Ink 2: Comic Culture, Nexus Gallery, Adelaide | |
| 2008 | Platinum - SALA Festival, Gallery 139, Adelaide |
| Loreto Spring Art - Loreto College, Adelaide | |
| Carnivale - Helpmann Academy Foundation Front, Higher Ground, Adelaide | |
| ArtsSA Emerging Curator Project, Adelaide | |
| 2007 | Momentum - Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide |
| Blue Room - Parliament House, Adelaide | |
| 2006 | 9th Japan Media Arts Festival - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan |
| Mentor Mentored II - Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide | |
| Concord 2 - South Australian School of Art Gallery, Adelaide | |
| Visage - Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra | |
| 2005 | Lucky Pig - FAD, Adelaide |
| GRANTS AND AWARDS | |
| 2009 | Finalist for Josphine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award |
| 2008 | ArtsSA Independent Makers & Presenters Project Grant |
| 1st Prize, Carnivale: Helpmann Academy’s Foundation Front exhibition | |
| Finalist for SA Life Emerging Artist Award, SALA Festival | |
| 2006 | Jury Recommended Work, 9th Japan Media Arts Festival |
| 2005 | Best Solo Exhibition by 1st Time Festival Entrant, SALA Festival |
| Helpmann Academy’s Optus Mentorship Scheme, mentored by artist Mark Kimber | |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| Epstein, Emma, “Gallery139” Art Monthly Australia, Artnotes, Issue #217, March 2009 | |
| Fleming, Kylie, “Crafty Images” Adelaide Matters, Issue#108, March 2009 | |
| Radok, Stephanie, “a toy boat on the Serpentine” The Adelaide Review, March 2009 | |
| Radio interview: with Cath Kenneally, Arts Breakfast, Radio Adelaide, March 2009 | |
| Carroll, Nick, “Colouring Matter” Messenger newspaper, July 7, 2008 | |
| Epstein, Emma, “Virtual Vitamin” Art Monthly Australia, exhibition review, Issue #210, June 2008 | |
| Southcott, Beverly, “Urban Differences” Vitamin [online] Magazine, 2008 | |
| Tirrell, Sheree, “Take Two” Adelaide Magazine Annual 07 Magazine, 2007 | |
| Kalionis, Jennifer, “Mentor Mentored II” exhibition review, Vitamin, episode 11, 2006/07 | |
| Japan Media Arts Secretariat Office, “9th Japan Media Arts Festival Award Winning Works” exhibition catalogu | |
| Allen, Lynda, “Mentorship Provides a 2 Tiered Opportunity” Update Arts Magazine Vol14, No4, Issue #53. 2006 | |
| Radok, Stephanie, “Visual Arts Reviews” The Adelaide Review, December 2006 | |
| Moss, Jim, “Mentor Mentored II” exhibition catalogue essay, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Novem | |
| Radio interview: with Cath Kenneally, Arts Breakfast, Radio Adelaide, November 2006 | |
| Wakefield, Kerry, “Salty SALA festival reflections” The Independent Weekly, August 14-20, 2005 | |
| Street, Andrew P, “Courting Creativity” review of exhibition, db Magazine, July 2005 | |