[spectre] AKIRA AKIRA * DOMINIC REDFERN * WILKINS HILL

[EAF Director]

EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION

AKIRA AKIRA * DOMINIC REDFERN * WILKINS HILL

1 JUNE TO 1 JULY
TUES-FRI 11-5, SAT 2-5

AKIRA AKIRA paint that never dries
Akira Akira is an Adelaide-based emerging artist and curator who 
recently graduated from the SA School of Art, University of South 
Australia. He has been very active on the contemporary art scene in 
Adelaide and has had several solo exhibitions as well as a number of 
group exhibitions in Adelaide, Perth and Miami.
"paint that never dries" is an investigation into the notion of 
surface through the ideas evolving from highly viscous substances and 
particular characteristics of paint. Through incorporating two 
distinct phenomena of spillage and tidal wave with the reduced 
fluidity, continuous malleability and potentiality found in the idea 
of high viscous paint that never dries, Akira explores ways of 
expanding the notion of surface and contemplates possible 
implications of the fluid substances that are 'slow'.
This exhibition has been assisted by The Helpmann Academy, Adelaide.

DOMINIC REDFERN OW!
Melbourne-based artist, Dominic Redfern, uses his own image in 
splintered narratives to question the truth of video. Utilising 
cinematic and home video modes of representation to operate in the 
gap between self-portraiture, fiction and document, his work draws 
the attention of audiences to the artifice of screen language. Whilst 
always keeping a sense of humour his work gives expression to 
contemporary anxieties surrounding the malevolent and angst-ridden 
energies that attend the hyper-real space of video.
During the last 12 months Dominic's work has been shown widely, 
nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of 
Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 
Melbourne, and in the US, Germany, UK, Turkey and Sweden. In July 
2003, he travelled to Seoul to take part in 'Parallel', an exchange 
project involving young Korean and Australian artists, and spent 
November 2003 to February 2004 as Artist in Residence at the 
Australia Council Studio in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. In 2005 he 
travelled to Thailand to undertake a residency in Bangkok where his 
work was shown as part of the Thailand New Media Arts Festival. 
Dominic's art practice is informed by his work as a Lecturer in Video 
at the School of Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 
(RMIT).

WILKINS HILL Sunny & Kids are Food
Wilkins Hill live and work in Brisbane. Their practice is 
predominantly installation based, incorporating sculpture, 
photography, video, sound and text. They are exhibiting two works at 
EAF including the photographic series 'Kids are Food' (2006) and the 
video installation 'Sunny' (2006).
This project was sponsored by NAVA's Visual and Craft Artist's Grant, 
managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Visual Arts Board 
of the Australia Council and private donations.

FURTHER INFORMATION Melentie Pandilovski, EAF Director and Curator 
Phone +61 (0)8 82117505
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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to 
represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in 
contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, 
bookshop and artists studios.

Lion Arts Centre North Terrace at Morphett Street Adelaide * PO Box 
8091 Station Arcade South Australia 5000 * Tel: +618 8211 7505  * Fax 
+618 8211 7323 * eaf at eaf.asn.au  * Bookshop: eafbooks at eaf.asn.au * 
http://www.eaf.asn.au * Director: Melentie Pandilovski

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