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A Sound Investment
Carl Cheleski, Mitchel Cumming
& Samuel Galileo Quinteros
Curated by Luke McMaster

A Sound Investment: Carl Cheleski, Mitchel Cumming, Samuel Galileo Quinteros. Curated by Luke McMaster

Emerging artists paradoxically face a career in a highly competitive field as a professional whilst at the same time potentially running at a loss. Working as an artist may be seen, optimistically, as an investment. By generating money from an alternate source of income, this is in turn used to produce artwork. Acting professional, while being unable to produce a sufficient income on art practice alone underscores the definition itself, as a kind-of ‘faux-professionalism’.

The work of Cheleski, Cumming and Quinteros is brought together to examine the aesthetic, conceptual and technical values that are inherent in their work, and how they relate to ideals of the art market, promotion and refined aesthetic of a fetishistic art object.

A Sound Investment ruminates on the relationship between professionalism and the self-funded forays of emerging art practice, revealing the artists’ hyper-awareness of the conditions of art production and the question of what constitutes as professional.

A Sound Investment: Carl Cheleski, Mitchel Cumming & Samuel Galileo Quinteros.        Curated by Luke McMaster

Carl Cheleski: Cheleski Warhol Dali, 2009. Enamel and acrylic on canvas. Series of 6 paintings, 31 x 41cm

Samuel Galileo Quinteros: Idle God I, Idle God II. Oil on canvas, 76 x 51 cm

Mitchell Cumming: Do Art Do-Gooders Do Artists Any Good? or Interior Decorating (For John), 2013. Video collage. DVD edition of 13

Gallery Door Project

Sally Clarke is a Sydney based artist whose visual practice relies on a broad range of materials and formats to interpret the flow and structure of power.  She currently teaches at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. See more of Clarke’s work on her website:  http://www.sallyclarke.com.au

Sally Clarke: Impasse, 2013. Floor vinyl and tacs

Toilet Door Project

Brenda completed a Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) in 2009, before working as a sessional lecturer in CoFA’s Jewellery Department.  In 2011 she set up SquarePeg Studios in Newtown and achieved a long held dream to develop a supportive, creative and vibrant space for contemporary jewellers in Sydney. She is now devoting her time to making SquarePeg Studios as fabulous as possible, while at the same time not losing touch with her own art productions.
See more of Factor’s work on her website: www.brendafactor.com.au

Brenda Factor Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor: Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor: Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor: Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF

Brenda Factor Hookish, 2013. Silicone, screws on MDF