[spectre] new exhibitions at EAF

[EAF Director]

The Experimental Art Foundation is pleased to present the work of two 
artists:
 

Mark Siebert 
Forever 27

Fleur Elise Noble 
Work in Progress [version 1: drawing installation] 

Curated by Melentie Pandilovski

Opening 6pm Thursday 14 May. 15 May – 13 June
Artists talks 2pm Friday 15 May

 From May to September the exhibitions at the EAF focus on the work of 
artists from Adelaide. Generally emerging, they've begun to attract 
attention. Their concerns are varied and include questions around 
taste, saturated image culture, popular (and not so) music, 
technologically altered and alternate senses, and the processes of 
making work - the perennial 'What for?'  First up, Mark Siebert, 
Forever 27, & Fleur Elise Noble, Work in Progress [version 1: a drawing 
installation] both open on Thursday 14 May.  To be followed by Tristan 
Louth-Robins & Shoot Collective in June-July, and Bridget Currie \ Paul 
Sloan in August-September.

Mark Siebert's Forever 27 is an installation that includes a series of 
photographs and watercolours that explores the cult of the rock star 
and the ill fated age of 27 years. The photographs emulate the deaths 
of the rock stars Siebert considers the ‘most famous’ – Janis Joplin, 
Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain and Jim 
Morrison. Currently aged 27, Mark Siebert’s work has a kind of morbid 
fascination with slacker music culture, laconic, and laid wa-a-ay back. 
In 2007 he exhibited Fan Letters, a series of poorly-typed letters to 
rock stars that had a definite conceptual art feel about them. 
Amusing and sometimes deliberately dumb, the letters touch on 
belonging, identity, and celebrity.  
Stan Mahony writes; “Almost everything is a matter of taste these days. 
Taste is a serious business, and Mark Siebert know it. // Taste equals 
art plus identity, and if art and identity aren’t the bones themselves, 
they’re pretty close. For Siebert, the idea of taste is so horribly 
fraught that to go anywhere near it is to risk unleashing all manner of 
frightening demons” (Forever 27 catalogue essay).

CV Bio Mark Siebert has shown his work in several galleries including: 
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; The Contemporary Art Centre of South 
Australia; The Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide; Substation, 
Singapore; Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand, Firstdraft Gallery, 
Sydney; Downtown Art Space, Adelaide; Bus Gallery, Melbourne; Raw 
Space, Brisbane; and MOP Projects, Sydney. He was one of the 
co-directors of Downtown Art Space until it closed in December of 2007. 
In 2007 he published a book of fan letters (of the same title) to the 
musicians that have ‘given [him] so much’. Mark Siebert is represented 
by Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide.

Fleur Elise Noble works with film, animation, puppetry, projection and 
performance, primarily through the filter of drawing process. Work in 
Progress is a three-dimensional drawing installation that unravels in 
time and space like a theatre production, exploring the performative 
possibilities of image and creation. In this work, film and animation 
occupy the stage as a spatial entity, extending from their usual 
relationship with the rectangle and the two dimensional surface. Work 
in Progress [version 1: drawing installation] is the first draft of The 
2-Dimensional Life of Her, a 40 minute theatre production showing at 
the Queens Theatre, May 18-23, during Come Out Festival.
Roy Ananda writes; “Like the ‘Just-So’ stories of Rudyard Kipling, Work 
in Progress is a pourquoi story: a poetic and fantastical retelling of 
the origins of Noble’s figurative drawings and sculptures. The work 
posits a richly imagined parallel world where drawings reproduce 
themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three 
dimensions. Elegant clay sculptures are chopped up and reconfigured as 
gangly, lurching marionettes. Sheets of paper suspended in space appear 
thickly laden with marks, only to be scrubbed clean, revealing windows 
into yet another parallel reality where the laws of physics are 
different still” (Work in Progress catalogue essay).

CV Bio Fleur Elise Noble studied on a full scholarship at Adelaide 
Central School of Art where she received her Batchelor of Visual Art 
(Honors) in 2006. She was also offered a scholarship from the New York 
Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture where she studied for 1 
year in 2005. Fleur has been the recipient of numerous of grants and 
awards. She has exhibited in New York, Adelaide and Perth, and has been 
involved in performative projects in Edinburgh, Brisbane, Hobart and 
New Zealand. 
further >  (artist’s website) fleurelisenoble.com