Only two artists will exhibit art, make art live and give it away at the 2009 SALA festival; South Australian artist Roland Weight is one of them, as a featured artist in ART LOGIC's Outdoor Art exhibition opening on Sunday 16th July 2009.
Roland will make quirky, small steel sculptures with an oxy welder and give them away to some lucky onlookers at the opening of Outdoor Art at ART LOGIC’s Amherst Gallery. The exhibition opens with a special launch on 16th July, from 2-5 pm and then continues from 17 – 23rd July from 2-5pm at 62 Amherst Ave Trinity Gardens, 9 minutes East of the Adelaide CBD.
Artist Roland Weight sculpts with steel. “Welding with steel is great.” Roland tells us. “It’s a 20th Century material. It’s an alloy, a mixture of iron & carbon; simple to use and control. In my figures I bring in grace and correctness of anatomy; with steel I can easily cut bits out and change the sculpture as I go.”
Roland Weight paints and sculpts; he never stops creating original artwork. Roland explains why. “Something in me has me create, it’s something innate in all humans and I’ve just found a way to get it out. It’s normal for kids to create, but when they become adolescents they get all self-conscious and give up being creative.”
Jacqueline Mitchell, ART LOGIC'S Outdoor Art exhibition curator, has brought together 15 different artists for this year’s SALA Festival. “Art is about abundance and fun for me.” she says.
“This exhibition proves that there is some great artistic talent in South Australia. It has stunning sculptures in bronze, steel, concrete, plaster and bamboo; fun outdoor mobiles made of translucent, coloured Plexiglas and indoor art works I’d qualify as seductive, sassy and satiric.”
The ART LOGIC Outdoor Art exhibition is free for all visitors as part of the SALA Festival 2009. For more information contact ART LOGIC at www.artlogic.com.au, info@artlogic.com.au or 0432 924 305.
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