SONGS FOR A ROOM

Past Exhibition
28 July - 15 September 2018
A room tiled from floor to ceiling with white ceramic tiles with blue illustrations and text on them
A room tiled from floor to ceiling with white ceramic tiles with blue illustrations and text on them

Enter the iconic world of South Australia’s most celebrated potter, fringe dweller, savant gardener and pretty-good-surfer, Gerry Wedd.

When

28 July to 15 September 2018

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SONGS FOR A ROOM draws on 40 years of artistic practice and an encyclopaedia of personal interests to present Wedd's most ambitious project yet. Inspired by Victor Hugo's tiled dining room, more than 1000 handmade tiles and domestic objects form a frenzied and immersive installation that subverts traditional museum displays of domestic handicrafts. Wedd creates a dizzyingly opulent world, where song writing, Delft tile painting, popular culture and art history collide with current socio-political issues.

As part of Wedd’s commentary on the commodification of art and culture in a time when people continue to live below the poverty line, each tile in this speculative shelter is available to purchase, with 50% of proceeds donated to Adelaide Day Centre for Homeless Persons.

SONGS FOR A ROOM is one of two ACE Open South Australian Artist Commissions for 2018, alongside Julia McInerney’s The Garden.

Tiles and objects from SONGS FOR A ROOM will be on sale from 11am, Saturday 28 July on site at ACE Open. Sales will be processed in person via EFTPOS in a first in best dressed manner. Unfortunately ACE Open cannot accept phone sales, cash sales or holds.

Feature Image: Gerry Wedd, SONGS FOR A ROOM (detail) (2018), glazed ceramic, dimensions variable. Installation view, ACE Open. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Sam Roberts Photography.

  • A small room made of wood with an open door, you can see inside the room is tiled from floor to ceiling with ceramic white tiles with blu drawings on them.
  • White ceramic tiles with blue drawings on them surround ceramic dishes on a wall.
  • A room tiled from floor to ceiling with white ceramic tiles with blue illustrations and text on them
  • White tiles with blue illustrations and text on them.
  • White tiles with blue illustrations and text on them.
  • A room fully tiled from floor to ceiling with white tiles with blue drawings and text on them.
A small room made of wood with an open door, you can see inside the room is tiled from floor to ceiling with ceramic white tiles with blu drawings on them.
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Lead Artists

Gerry Wedd
Artist

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. 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. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. 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. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

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