Opening Celebrations – Studios: 2024

Special Event
8 November 2024
Opening Celebrations – Studios: 2024

Join us to celebrate the opening of our final exhibition for the year! 

Studios: 2024 is a group exhibition showcasing new commissions by ACE's five 2024 Studio Program artists:
Carly Tarkari Dodd, Abbey Murdoch, Marian Sandberg, Katey Smoker, and Emmaline Zanelli.

When

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

8 November 2024

5:00pm to 7:00pm

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Adelaide Contemporary Experimental ends the year with Studios: 2024, a group exhibition featuring new commissions by the 2024 ACE Studio Program artists, Carly Tarkari Dodd, Abbey Murdoch, Marian Sandberg, Katey Smoker, and Emmaline Zanelli.

Studios: 2024 is a showcase of the diverse practices and work developed as part of ACE’s annual Studio Program – a fully-supported professional development opportunity for South Australian artists.

Curated by ACE Artistic Director Danni Zuvela, the exhibition features the many disciplines of the 2024 Studio Program artists, including painting, video, installation, assemblage and sculpture.

Carly Tarkari Dodd uses traditional Ngarrindjeri weaving techniques to critique regimes of adornment, reimagining the jewels of Empire in contemporary soft-sculptural forms; Abbey Murdoch’s installation explores the housing crisis through the lens of low-income communities, combining video and hard sculpture in environments that evoke physical and psychological precarity; Marian Sandberg’s large-scale kinetic sculpture asks what it is to be human in the age of accelerated technological development; Katey Smoker’s expanded paintings embrace both chance operations and highly considered experiments to question the limits and meanings of paint as a material; Emmaline Zanelli reflects on the cultural and economic dimensions of exotic pets in Roxby Downs with an installation of repurposed animal cages.


Selected works in the gallery and studios will be available for sale, with all proceeds going directly to the artists.

Our bar will be stocked by our sponsors Alpha Box & Dice and Bowden Brewing.

Feature Image: Carly Tarkari Dodd '1' (2024) linen and cotton yarn , 74 x 80 x 4cm. Courtesy the artist.

Curator

Danni Zuvela

Artists

Carly Tarkari Dodd,
Abbey Murdoch,
Marian Sandberg,
Katey Smoker,
Emmaline Zanelli
Carly Tarkari Dodd, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental studios (2024), studio documentation. Photography by Lana Adams.
Abbey Murdoch, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental studios (2024), studio documentation. Photography by Peter Fong.
Marian Sandberg, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental studios (2024), studio documentation. Photography by Lana Adams.
Katey Smoker, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental studios (2024), studio documentation. Photography by Lana Adams.
Emmaline Zanelli, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental studios (2024), studio documentation. Photography by Lana Adams.

Supported by

The 2024 Studio Program is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and partnerships with Helpmann Academy, Adelaide Central School of Art and firstdraft.

2024 Studio Program Donors Circle

Anton Andreacchio, Jane Ayers, Sally Ball, Candy Bennett, James Darling AM, Dr Alex Grant, Amanda Harkness & Karen Barrett, Thomas Lambert, Pam & David McKee AO, Jane Michell, Amanda Pepe, John Phillips, Louise Rigoni, Marian Sandberg, Tracey Whiting AM.


Artist acknowledgements

Abbey Murdoch was selected to participate in the 2024 Studio Program in partnership with Adelaide Central School of Art. Katey Smoker was selected to participate in the 2024 ACE Studio Program in partnership with the Helpmann Academy.

ACE tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka panpapanpalyarninthi (inparrinthi). Kaurna miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu tampnthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.