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 specifically in the Adelaide Hills. Bestowed ask people to engage in conversation about objects they have been given that...
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....
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...
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...
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...
HOWL - a performative enactment of controversial visual art...
Exciting artwork launch at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. Image: Town THOROUGHFARE Readings, Cynthia Schwertsik Join us for the official opening of the SA Power Networks Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre residencies Cynthia Schwertsik Town THOROUGHFARE Readings & Dr Jesse Budel Strata Wednesday 11 December 2019, 11.30am Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre Courtyard Jesse Budel and Cynthia Schwertsik...
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...