Chris Reid published this fabulous article about the current project GREEN WASH in the Barefoot Review: https://www.thebarefootreview.com.au/menu/visual-arts/2847-green-wash-cynthia-schwertsik.html This project has been supported by Create SA, Creative Australia, Creative Partnerships Australia, Vitalstatistix and OSCA as part of SALA 2025 ...
[caption id="attachment_16978" align="alignnone" width="1366"] Captured at VITALS on 28 May, 2025 by Rosina Possingham.[/caption] Green Wash is a bold exploration combining painting in the expanded field and interactive performance. The project experiments with the blundering and messy ways we discard and dispose of the objects that...
I am very pleased to present to you my socially engaged art project Bestowed - a poetic art service of listening and recycling that is taking place in the Adelaide Hills. on Thursday the 13th of March at Hahndorf Academy and on Sunday the 23rd of March...
UTE-ilitarian, my moving image work from 2019, captured so eloquently by Jennifer Hofmann and performed by mrs and mr red white, will be presented at Festival de Nouvelle Comédie in Lyon, France from 12-14.April and is currently on show in the Adelaide Town Hall as...
image: George Greatz Konzeptuell Poesie Schwertsik+Endlicher+CEMS Eröffnung: 16. November, 19.00 Zur Ausstellung spricht Wolfgang Giegler. Die Ausstellung läuft bis 9. Dezember 2023. Die österreichisch-australische Künstlerin Cynthia Schwertsik und der österreichische Künstler Michael Endlicher bilden seit 2010 das Duo CEMS. Sie arbeiten sich an den multiplen Erscheinungen der Kunsthervorbringungen seit der Moderne...
image: Rosina Possingham text: Susan Charlton Cynthia Schwertsik is the body in the body of workThe body traversing the landscape, tracing its faultlinesThe body contemplating the archive, registering its enormity She is here, but not from here – bringing her own histories of country, movement, language and art....
Von Arcadientia bis Zöllitrophie...
Cynthia Schwertsik, My Name (in-progress detail), 2022, acrylic paint, ephemeral mural installation at Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Country Arts SA and presented with support from Port Pirie Regional Gallery. Image: Kathy Gould....
Neoteric is a declaration of the importance of artists. During times of insecurity, we turn to art to get us through. Neoteric is an exhibition and an advocation, affirming the talent of 20 mid-career artists, 20 writers. The exhibition presents new works, exploring, embodying and...
Reckless Bucketeers Cynthia Schwertsik and Janine Mackintosh 2020 Dhawun Guwaala-y comes from the Gamilaraay language, meaning earth conversing or having two-way conversation. While peoples’ collective collaborations, conversations and relational connections with Country—with the land, waters, environments, rocks, wind, stars and the enormity of the more-than-human, are always...