Nikola Tesla sends Theda Bara to Mars is a cinematic universe in which film references are pulled apart and reinterpreted using a wild array of materials and mediums. Characters and props collaged with sparkling, suspended textiles and fleshy sculptural forms drip from the ceiling via unexpected structures and flamboyant mobiles.
Exhibition Dates: 5 May – 24 September 2018
sculptures, installation, suspended mixed-media mobile works
dimensions variable
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2019-20
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Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, 2019
Sarah Contos Nikola Tesla sends Theda Bara to Mars
National Gallery of Australia, 2018
Sarah Contos Ramsay Art Prize
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2017
Sarah Contos Daughter Universe
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
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Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2016
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015
Group Show, Streetwise: Contemporary Print Culture
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2015
Group Show, New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
Artspace, Sydney, 2014
Group Show, Never-Never Land (A Collaboration with Utopian Slumps)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014
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