Artist talk:

Fluttertongue

Chelsea Farquhar

In conversation with Guildhouse Artistic Programs Manager Debbie Pryor

Tuesday 16 August
2—3pm
The Quartet Bar, Adelaide Festival Centre

Hear from artist Chelsea Farquhar about her work Fluttertongue and her experience researching the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as part of The Guildhouse Collections Project.

Utilising sculpture, performance and video to highlight moments of exchange and collaboration, Chelsea Farquhar has researched the ASO as a living collection, including sheet music, performance brochures and posters, instruments, architecture and the players themselves.

Taking its name from the wind instrument technique used to produce a distorted vibration, Fluttertongue is a playful body of work that considers excess, pomp and the flamboyance of rituals. Through the creation of contemporary interpretations of historic dress, Chelsea has created abstracted scenes that exist out of time inspired by how the ASO carry the past into the present.

Exhibition dates
1—31 August

Chelsea Farquhar

Chelsea Farquhar is a South Australian based emerging artist who utilises sculptural and performative outcomes to highlight moments of exchange and collaboration.

Farquhar graduated with first class honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2020 where she received the West Space Window Exhibition award to exhibit in 2021. In 2017 Farquhar graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Adelaide Central School of Art and in 2018 received a Carclew Fellowship to undertake travel to the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and to New York, USA for a residency and mentorship opportunity. Chelsea is currently a studio artist at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental and in April of 2022 undertook a residency at Watch This Space gallery in Alice Springs NT.

As a performer Farquhar has worked for various collectives including APHIDS during Howl at the Art Gallery of South Australia for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial Monster Theatres. Farquhar undertook the 2018 Queer Development Program: Stephen Cummins Workshop Intensive at Performance Space in association with PACT Centre for Emerging Artists, NSW and has performed for 110% collective during the 2018 LiveWorks Festival at Carriage works NSW. In 2021 Farquhar undertook a Clowning mentorship with clown and actress Britt Plummer at Rumpus theatre funded by Adelaide Central School of Art.