[spectre] EAFinfo: BRADLEY/crowEST

[EAF Director]

EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION 
6PM THURSDAY 25 AUGUST-24 SEPTEMBER

Matthew Bradley The Weet-Bix Kid
The Weet-Bix Kid is a kind of diary of delinquency. It describes the 
journey of a solitary figure through the urban landscape and records 
the marginal behaviour engendered in the arc of delinquency. The 
project stages or documents behaviour that ranges from manic 
playfulness and cheeky irreverence to reckless and often illegal 
acts. Sometimes the work is a literal record of the characters path 
through space. In one of the video works: 5-9 May Dawn, someone 
breaking into a sports field at dawn and climbing a 30 metre light 
tower, with no safety equipment, is all recorded via helmet-cam. 
Delinquent behaviour is usually thought of as destructive, what 
really interests me is that this character avoids a descent into 
total chaos, perhaps because there is an inherent creativity to this 
journey. The path through space must be created, it does not 
pre-exist.  Matthew Bradley 2005
Matthew Bradley is an Adelaide-based emerging artist whose 
exhibitions include Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Z at 
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, and solo shows at Downtown Artspace 
and at the Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of SA.

sarah crowEST Get Rid of Yourself! NOW!
sarah crowEST shows a lo-fi humorous approach to solving the dilemmas 
of bodily dissatisfaction. The cute/pathetic creature engages in a 
series of home beauty treatments involving body sculpture and surface 
enhancement. The work doesn't seek to critique all attempts at 
aesthetic improvement but considers the inherent potential for both 
pleasure and disgust. Included in the exhibition is the video work 
The Joy of Beauty which is a response to the situation where a 
multi-million dollar advertising industry promotes an often singular, 
ideal view of beauty and offers an alternative of sorts!
sarah crowEST completed a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honors) in 2004 at 
the SA School of Art, University of South Australia where she is 
currently completing a Masters of Visual Art by studio research. She 
is a co-curator of Adelaide's Downtown Artspace, and has exhibited 
widely nationally and internationally.

sarah will talk about her work at the School of Art's Artistspeak 
Program, 11-12 Monday 5 September, Lecture Theatre, Level 4, Sir Hans 
Heysen Building, University of SA (City West), North Terrace, 
Adelaide. (adjacent EAF)

Phone EAF Director, Melentie Pandilovski, for further details  +61 
(0)8 82117505


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Director: Melentie Pandilovski  Administrator: Julie Lawton
Program Manager: Michael Grimm Bookshop Manager: Ken Bolton

The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth 
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and 
advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, 
and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the 
Australian, State and Territory Governments. The EAF is proudly 
smoke-free.