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Blind Side Adam Cullen Art's truths are necessarily low-grade, being as resolved as the world, or at least as determined as the next guy. And life on the mortal plane is an endless process of receiving signals, involving art with perpetual cycles of quotation - a situation signposted by the title of Cullen's 1996 work I'VE HAD HELP WITH THIS DRAWING, in his reception of Mike Kelley's "Too much is always expected of love and art", and in the Trans-Tasman Frank Sinatra impersonator character (that personification of Antipodean assimilation) in EVERYDAY I GET HALF AN HOUR OLDER. But modernism and other over-simplifications aside, it is Cullen's amateurexorcism, his something-from-nothing Australian shamanry, Mars Bar dreaming, and insistence on the impossibility of transcendence (are you happy up there in the sky?) that makes it conceptually sound for now. -Gwynneth Porter, 'There goes the neighbourhood', from the exhibition catalogue Adam Cullen: Amateur Exorcist, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1998, p.6. Adam Cullen is an artist based in Sydney. His has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Testrip gallery in Auckland, and Artspace, Sydney. The exhibition at the EAF includes a suite of new paintings, and the show will travel to the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. A major catalogue will be produced that survey's Cullen's work from the mid-1980s to now. |
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| above: documentation from the exhibition 'Blind Side' |
images 1 & 2: Adam Cullen | Documentation Photography by Stephen Gray |