Christine Aerfeldt (b.1958)

Biography
1958 Born, Adelaide
1980 Bachelor of Education, Adelaide College of the Arts and Education
1990 Trainee, Jam Factory knitted textiles workshop, Adelaide
2000 Scholarship for full time studies,Adelaide Central School of Art
Student representative, Adelaide Central School of Art Academic Board
Bachelor of Visual Art Hons, Adelaide Central School of Art
2001 Co-founder ‘twinBEE Studios’, Adelaide
Joint winner Best New Talents, The Advertiser “Oscarts”
Part Time lecturer, Adelaide Central School of Art

Solo Exhibitions
1999 A Very Modern Girl, Art Images, Adelaide

Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 Good Thinking, Art Images , Adelaide
2000 Nocturnal Workings, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide
2001 Helpmann academy Graduate Exhibition,Adelaide
7Up, Studio91b, Adelaide
Lo-sheen, Adelaide Central Gallery, Adelaide
If Love fits,Wear it, twinBee Studios, Adelaide
2002 Synthetic Whispers, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
Pure, Cube Contemporary Art, Adelaide
Melbourne Art Fair 2002 Preview Exhibition, Cube Contemporary Art. Adelaide
Melbourne Art Fair 2002 , Cube Contemporary Art, Royal Exhibition Building,Melbourne
Luminous, Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne

Awards
2006 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship

Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia
F H Faulding

Reviews, Publications and Interviews
Bryce, S ‘Successful Collision of Old and New’, Helpmann Academy update.
Champion,P. Adelaide Studios and Workshops, SA Crafts 2 Dec 2001
Neylon.J., ‘Unsettling’, the Adelaide Review, June 1999
O’Brien,D ‘Helpmann Graduate Art Exhibition’, db Magazine, issue 246
Unreich,R. ‘Whispering Among the Art’, Melbourne Herald Sun,20/7/02Walker,w., ‘Moments of Surprise’ The Advertiser 12/3/01
Walker,W., ‘Galleries come Alive’ The Advertiser13/8/01
‘Cherryville Artwork’, a Symbol for Exhibition’, The Courier Newspaper, 28/2/01
‘Creating a Business from a Passion’, East Torrens Messenger, 27/6/01
‘Emerging Artists’, Adelaide Matters, July 2001
‘The Graduates’, Snapshots, ABCTV, 15/3/01
‘7 UP’ Stateline, ABCTV, 3/08/01

Artist's Statement
" I am interested in evoking a sense of time in my work- a blurred sense of time and consciousness, where the past and present merge and collide, where memory and the present moment combine. Childhood is often thought of as a time of idyllic innocence, fun and freedom. However, happy images often mask harsher realities. The ceramic figurine is a metaphor for the child, referring to the way children are moulded and manipulated by parents and society, to become compliant and obedient rather than authentic. The images portrayed in my "Australian bush" series are like scenes from a children's stage pantomime. There are certain scenes and characters, which appear and reappear. The little 'folk' doll dressed in national costume, two other dolls (Jenny and Sue), the Australian bush in summer with its animals ... three disparate elements somehow find themselves in the same picture. The scenes are still obviously not from everyday reality, and the figurine is or is not integrated with the background, in order to evoke various possible narratives. These are images conjured in the psychology of the mind - reflections of the inner world, lending themselves to freudian analysis.”
Christine Aerfeldt.