Day One by Carly Snoswell / Up, pp & away! By Tutti Artists
Carly Snoswell
Carly Snoswell is an artist working and living on Kaurna Land. Her work has recently examined fandom and the creation of craft objects as an ode to particular pop-cultural phenomenon through gendered and labourious forms of craft-making. While still observing similar notions of obsession, devotion, longing and identity, Snoswell’s practice has recently broadened from themes of popular culture as she begins to explore personal experiences of motherhood, infertility and homemaking.
In 2012 she graduated with First Class Honours at the South Australian School of Art and since then has exhibited widely including internationally. Snoswell was Co-Director of FELTspace ARI and has participated in studio residencies in Adelaide, Melbourne, India, New York, Japan and Iceland. She was a member of Mint Studios from 2015-17 and Holy Rollers Studios from 2017-20, however now takes up studio at her home in Seacliff Park. She recently completed a Masters by Research at the South Australian School of Art with her thesis “Beyonce is a Port Supporter”. Since 2015 she has been building a career as a Youth Arts Worker and is currently Youth Program Officer for the City of Onkaparinga.
www.carlysnoswell.com
In the real and virtual worlds in which we live our lives, there are infinite invitations for escape.
We can have almost anything we want as soon as we care to think of it. Cheezels, can be delivered to your door within the hour.
Fertility is not like this. Sometimes there is only a rhyme and no reason at all as to why we can’t have what we most want when we most dearly want it. We humans like to imagine we are in control and it is shocking sometimes to remember over and over again that we aren’t, that we never were. This is both the burden but mostly the gift. The reminder can be bloody and painful, but also a tender invitation to celebrate, to honour or just acknowledge that you have moved to all of the parts of yourself through a whole cycle.
It can be a heavy weight to want something for a long time. Where to put this weight? Or the wait, rather. How to spend it, show for it, measure it, care for it?
There are endless distractions to pull us away from ourselves. How radical it is then, to be present. To sew yourself to a moment, one stitch a time, over and over, with a meditation, a mantra, a medicine – I am here, I am here, now I am here, I am still here.
To mark the moments, into days, into weeks, into months and into two years is not only a testament to the passing of time but an embodiment of deep presence and of this, I am reverent. Carly’s works are like celebratory medals, for her, for me, for all of us who travel this cyclical path in our own ways. Talking with her about them was a timely reminder, to get off my phone and to be with myself.
To sit in this room surrounded by stitch after colourful stitch is to bear witness to time, to two years of self love, of holding, of hurting, healing and heralding. Of being with. Of bearing witness to our aches and to make beauty of them.
Lucy Peach
Period Preacher, Author & Folk Singer
Carly Snoswell, Day One (detail), 2022, cotton, sequins, dimensions variable.
James Andersen
Ted Foley
Jasmine Jones
Melissa Kirkman
Josh Maloney
Ellese McLindin
Cassandra Nickels
Scott Pyle
Philip Ta
Dannielle Zozuk
From their studio here at Post Office Projects, Tutti Artists have created a colourful collection of works which explore the theme of flying. When asked to think about possible themes for SALA, it was Cassandra Nickels who struck upon the notion of ‘flying’. The idea quickly gained approval from the other artists and suggestions including ‘Flying Saucers’, ‘Aeroplanes’, ‘Love heart with wings’, and ‘Grasshoppers, butterflies and lady bugs’ soon rang out in the studio.
The artists delved into the concept with enthusiasm, each coming at it from their own perspective and drawing inspiration from nature, pop culture and their own lives. The artists in Up, up and away! are a mix of emerging, mid-career and established artists, with this exhibition being the debut for some.
Tutti Arts is a South Australian multi-arts organisation where learning disabled and neurodiverse artists create visual art, theatre, music, screen, dance and experiment with art and technology. Tutti’s work showcases unique ways of thinking and being and recognises that the stories of Tutti Artists are authentic and theirs to tell. Tutti believes creativity allows real stories to be shared, assumptions to be fractured, low expectations to be shattered and perceptions to be altered. People are infinitely diverse; arts should be too.
If I’m sometimes sleeping
I feel like that I want
To sleep and float away
On a cloud. I feel like I’m always
Up
On any level of
The ground. When I’m in a list
I can be higher
And higher
And higher!
Or if I was a balloon
I will fly away
Forever in the air.
What does up, up and away mean to me?
Alec Klicke
Dannielle Zozuk, Fred the cockatoo in the wild, 2022, acrylic and paint pen on canvas, 40x50 cm.
James Andersen, Spiderman, 2022, pen and ink on paper, 40x50 cm.
Ted Foley, Astronaut trying to fly, 2022, pen and ink on paper, 210x297 mm
