Adam Laerkesen

Adam Laerkesen: Wind songs

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Adam Laerkesen’s exhibition ‘Wind Songs’ will run at the Damien Minton Gallery from 22nd August to 8th September 2007.

Adam Laerkesen’s sculpture has been described as having an ‘eerie theatricality’. Taking citrus tree branches, Laerkesen then sculpts and transforms them into low relief wall pieces. He also utilises a technique known as ‘flocking’, popular in interior design. The velvet-like finish of the work suggests a lush mock-baroque texture.

This current body of work continues on the themes developed in the critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Hemisphere’, which was staged at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney in 2005. His works have been described as ‘lush and fleshy, resembling impossible arcs and enormous veins’.

Education

1985-87Sydney College of the Arts - Bachelor of Visual Arts
       (Sculpture Major)
1986One month travelling in the Northern Territory with
       Sculpture Department SCA to study Aboriginal art.
1983-84East Sydney Technical College of the Arts
       - Arts Certificate

Exhibitions

2006‘Post It’ Sydney Biennale satellite Group Show Peleton
       gallery, curated by Tracey Clement
       ‘Twenty/20 Vision’ Parliament House Sydney. Survey
       show of the Ultimo Project Studios
2005‘Hemispheres’ Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
       (with Stephen Crane)
       Carving Display/Commission - Australian National
       Maritime Museum in conjunction with ‘Genis Del la Mar’
       exhibition
2004Ultimo Project Open Studio Day, Addison Rd Centre
2002Becton Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Show, Gas Works
       Gallery, Melbourne
2001Participant in Sculpture By The Sea
       ‘3D Cacophony’ Group survey sculpture show, First
       Draft, Sydney
2000‘East Timor Group Show’ Parliament House Sydney
       Sculpture By The Sea, Best Sculpture in Wood Award 1999‘The Green Line’ Herringbone Gallery show
       with Locust Jones
       ‘Sydney Beirut Beirut Sydney’ Cultural Exchange Group
       Show Espace SD, Beirut
1998‘Sweat’ solo show at Tin Sheds Gallery ‘Stop Jabiluka
       Mine’ group show at Herringbone Gallery
1997‘Seed’ solo show at 151 Regent St Gallery ‘Field of
       Dreams’ Message Sticks for Native Title at S.H. Ervin
       Gallery
       Wik Jigsaw Participant for National Reconciliation
       Convention (travelling show)
       Kas Gallery collaborative installation ‘PETAL’ with
       Margaret Roberts
1996Kas Gallery show ‘SEED’ with Mark Goodell
1995‘Clumsy’ Kultur Gallery Solo Show ‘White Trash’ group
       show, COFA Gallery, curated by post-grad students
1994‘Close Your Eyes’ Beare Gallery solo show
       Artspace 1st Open Group Exhibition

Collections

S&D Darger Company, Beirut, Lebanon
Pat Mackie, Avant Card Art Collection
Various private collections