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....
The New Money is an exhibition curated by Andrew Purvis that is on show at Adelaide Central Gallery from the 9th of February till the 20th of March. I have developed Bureau d'Exchange, a new work that contemplates how we will think about the economy...
Das Kind mit dem Bade Ausschütten, that's where we began.
Ray Harris, Jesse Budel and I took a trip down the drains following urban waterways. Following the invitation to this year's ADHOCRACY by VITALSTATISTIX in Port Adelaide, we explored the commodified water supply through the built...
exhibition …in an UNSETTLED position at Sauerbier House, Port Noarlunga...
Some more images from the art work that is still popping up all over the City of Sydney. Every now and then I get a post sailing in, the work seems to be rather popular and particular in dire times it is a uplifting to...
News from my residency in Mount Gambier
in the heart of Mount Gambier is a deep pit and arranged around that magnificent central sinkhole are the Gallery, the Library, the Jazz Academy and the Theatre. Here, in the middle of everything, at the entrance to the...
I am so excited to be part of this opportunity:
Country Arts SA this week announced the 10 artists selected to participate in the Land Arts of the Limestone Coast Retreat in November.The artists were selected from a competitive field of over 80 applicants from across...
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Closing a Chapter to open a new door
As an artist, I collect endless amounts of images, newspaper articles, flyers of other artists work. I make sketches and write notes to myself of ideas that flicker through my mind. Drawers and cupboards filled with years worth...