The National Art School acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional owners on whose lands, water and skies we meet and share.

Sorry Babe One Sec My Heel is Stuck in a Drain

NFS

Gel medium transfers on tarpaulin, canvas, and plywood, staples, nails, screws, wood, paper, spray paint, plastic mesh, plaster, crystal perfume bottle, plastic soldier, metal beads, flagging tape, MDF, chipboard, acrylic paint, expanding foam, plastic strawberry, plastic beaded string, pieces of metal, rocks, display sign, adhesive book covering, broken lighter, paper with the lyrics of Savage’s song “SWING”, plastic balloon holders, sheet of diamantes, a pair of Pleasers, lingerie packaging, fishnet tights, decorative bow with white beads, mirrored tile, plaster casts of shells, metal hair clip, fake flowers, painting rag, tiles, Supreme Cash Cannon money, make-up, iPod, foam, feathers, shoes, pigment, wax, resin, beads, fake eyelashes, wall plugs, wire, glue, metal vent, placemat, small bottle of crystals, handkerchief package, mesh bag, lino, pins, stocking, trophy, rope.

Dimensions

Dimensions variable

Sadie Whelan

Sadie Whelan

Sadie Whelan's practice has a playful, slippery, and contingent attitude that challenges formal aesthetic hierarchies. She is interested in things that are ad-hoc, off-kilter and deviant, and has a magpie thing going on for trashy, disheveled, and femme materiality. Her assemblages complicate superimposed object-history relationships by remixing the formal properties of materials with their colloquial/cultural associations. The fragmentary, disobedient, and gurlesque nature of her work speaks to hybrid identities, about unfixed and ungovernable bodies, and the impossible neat boxing up of things.