Co-presented by Carrick Hill and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide-based artist Bridget Currie’s solo exhibition, each one a world, has opened at Carrick Hill, offering visitors a multifaceted experience at the treasured venue.
Currie’s poetic and allusive works respond to Carrick Hill’s house and garden in a range of media – from an immersive wall-papered room, printmaking, and recordings, to sound recordings embedded in sculpture.
“We are delighted at Carrick Hill to continue the artist residencies, which have inspired some exceptional new work,” said Susan McCormack, Director, Carrick Hill.
“Bridget Currie has continued this thrilling tradition. The residency has allowed her to deeply engage with the site’s multi-layered history and its rich, complex environment and the resulting artwork offers fresh and fascinating new perspectives on Carrick Hill.”
Developed over two years with the support of an Arts SA Fellowship, and during a residency at Carrick Hill in early 2024, the exhibition explores Currie’s interest bringing the invisible, internal aspects of experience into the external physical world.
Taking as their departure the physical reality and metaphorical potential of grass, Currie’s works bring together and extend many of the themes that have preoccupied her over the past decade.
The exhibition includes a printed and on-line publication with an essay by London-based writer Jennifer Higgie, and a rich offering of programs – from a sunrise walk with the artist, to tactile tours with Currie’s sculpture, or ‘borrowing’ a specially created picnic blanket for sitting in the garden.
“This exhibition has been several years in the making and is ambitious in scope, with pieces in the gallery, house and garden that range from prints to furniture to sculptural sound works. It brings together my thoughts on our interconnectedness, grass, embodied presence and states of mind,” said artist Bridget Currie.
“It has been a great pleasure to spend time at Carrick Hill, absorbing this luscious and many layered place. I hope that each one a world provides a sensual, immersive and intriguing experience, and I am excited to welcome visitors into this exhibition.”
Born on Karta (Kangaroo Island), and trained at the South Australian School of Art, Currie was awarded the Samstag Scholarship in 2011 and studied at Kungliga Konsthögskolan in Sweden. Currie’s residencies in Bilbao in Spain, Japan, and Vilnius, Lithuania, have informed her practice, which is international in its outlook yet oriented to her local environment.
Currie’s exhibition is part of an ongoing series of exhibitions at Carrick Hill by South Australian-based contemporary artists who have created work as part of a residency at Carrick Hill, developing new work in response to its gardens, historic house and its collections.
“We are delighted to partner with Carrick Hill on this nuanced display of Bridget Currie’s rich, multidisciplinary practice,” said Emma Fey, Acting Director, AGSA. “This project highlights AGSA’s commitment to supporting the work of living artists and expanding opportunities for South Australian artists.”
Bridget Currie: each one a world is curated by AGSA’s Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs Maria Zagala and presented as part of the 2024 Nature Festival.
Bridget Currie: each one a world
Carrick Hill, 48 Carrick Hill Drive, Springfield (South Australia)
Exhibition continues to 5 January 2025
Free entry with house museum admission
For more information, visit: www.carrickhill.sa.gov.au for details.
Image: Bridget Currie standing in her exhibition, each one a world, 2024, Carrick Hill, Adelaide – photo by Sam Roberts