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Louise Haselton

Act natural

Leigh Robb, Jenna McKenzie, Louise Haselton

Louise Haselton offers glimpses of the curious inner lives of everyday and overlooked things.

From the domestic to the exotic, the natural to the 'made', she distinctively intuits connections between seemingly disparate material vernaculars. Haselton believes in the invisible forces that bind and repel the world around us.

With a witty reverence for the objects and materials she engages with, Haselton explores the communicative possibilities of weight, balance and form within her predominantly sculptural works. Her practice is unexpected, unconventional, and exemplary of an artist especially attuned to the matters which surround us.

Louise Haselton: Act natural is a compendium of Haselton's works to date including illustrated essays chronicling the inspirations, influences and ideas behind her extraordinary practice of the last twenty-five years.

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Leigh Robb joined the Art Gallery of South Australia as the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art in 2016. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Psychology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and her Masters in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. With twenty years of experience in the arts Leigh's previous roles include Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Associate Director at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Head of Education & Internship Programs at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Leigh has curated over fifty exhibitions and has a reputation for working closely with artists to produce ambitious and memorable Australian and international projects.

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Jenna McKenzie is an arts writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. She writes widely on contemporary art for national publications such as the Age, Art Monthly Australia, Artlink, and the Art Gallery of South Australia, and is a regular contributor of catalogue essays for artists, artist-run-spaces, and independent commercial galleries.

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Louise Haselton is an artist living in Adelaide, Australia.

She makes sculptural works using materials gleaned from the world around her. In 2002 Haselton completed a Masters of Visual Arts (Sculpture) by research at RMIT University, Melbourne and in 2005 undertook a residency at Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi, India. Haselton held solo exhibitions, in 2011 at The Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, in 2013 at Greenaway Art Gallery and in 2014 at The Australian Experimental Art Foundation. In 2015 Haselton participated in do it adelaide, at The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, when she enacted instructions by Alison Knowles and was included in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Since 2003 she has been a lecturer in The School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia. She is represented by GAG Projects Berlin/Adelaide.

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ISBN   9781743056684
CATEGORY   
IMAGES   Full colour throughout
PAGE COUNT   128
DIMENSIONS   280 x 235 mm