Formally Happy Hours and Potlucks, these gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist: Adam Norton.

Adam Norton is an Australian artist based in Sydney. He is interested in the effects of technology and place on the human condition. His work reveals an influence in technology, science fiction, ufology and the historical presentations of these ideas. Mediated Landscape is a major source of interest, especially if it has undergone extreme change like desertification, damming, bomb testing or meteorite impact. Norton sees himself as part-anthropologist and part-futurologist as he tries to understand humankind’s place in the universe. His interest in these broad areas is not surprising, considering he was born in the UK, grew up in Nigeria and Kenya and spent time in Libya, Indonesia and Pakistan along the way. This is his second residency at 18th Street since his first in 2017.

Recently Norton had a major survey exhibition, The Signs Are Good: 20 Years of Painting the Future at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia. His work has been included in the Canberra Art Biennial in 2022, and the Daejeon Biennale, South Korea, in 2016. Institutional exhibitions in Australia include MAXIMUM MADNESS: Art Inspired by Mad Max at Rockhampton Museum of Art in 2024, Giant Leap at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney in 2019. Also, Black Mist, Burnt Country, which toured nationally to 10 venues from 2016 until 2019. An important solo exhibition for him was My Trip to Mars at UTS Gallery in 2015. In 1987 he was awarded a BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, United Kingdom.