Lisa Slade grew up in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. She attended university in Sydney, where she taught until 2002, then moved to Newcastle to become a mother, a university lecturer and a curator. In 2011 she relocated to Adelaide to take up the role of Project Curator at the Art Gallery of South Australia. In addition to curating exhibitions, this role involves lecturing in art history in a program developed collaboratively between the University of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia. Lisa's first book, an art education text, was published in 1996 by Oxford University Press. Since then she has written and published reviews, academic essays, catalogue entries and monographs, including Ben Quilty (2009). Lisa Slade lives in Adelaide with her partner Simon and son Perry. She hopes to complete her PhD in art history in the very near future but fears other projects and adventures will continue to distract her.
Nicholas Folland was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1967.
He is a sculptor and installation artist who reconfigures familiar household objects - such as soft furnishings, interior fixtures and whitegoods, found crystal and glassware - to create new and highly refined constructions. Folland has created numerous sculptures and installations referring to domestic interiors and to natural environmental processes and landscapes. Other works have considered extreme locations within the landscape, often taking inspiration from tragic journals of failed exploration.
This Adelaide-based artist understands the speech of materials - a principle advocated by the early 20th-century Russian constructivists whereby materials possess an inherent nature or power. This fascination intersects with a penchant for unorthodox materials and an interest in maritime history and colonial exploration, resulting in a distinctive and singular practice.