Rose Perkins, Taliesin Ryan, Marian Sandberg, Susan Wakefield
June 27 – July 26
Exhibition Launch Saturday June 27 at 2pm
This exhibition presents four artists exploring different affect systems.
Each practice begins from a distinct point of orientation - love, collaboration, construction, perception - and unfolds through its own visual language. Across these works, feeling operates as both material and method.
Together, they form a set of parallel approaches to understanding how experience is shaped, mediated, and made visible.
Susan Wakefield, Your Smile Is Like an Arctic Sunrise, 2025, Neon installation
Marian Sandberg, 2025, Small Language Model -installation view, 3D printed noctilucent plastic on nylon, bricklayers twine, UV light
Rose Perkins
Flickers of intuition translate into shapes and colour.
Visions that feel true before they are named.
I paint to translate emotion into visual language, my own kind of synaesthesia. I draw on memories of joy, ease and play. The images are created in a single session to preserve immediacy. Those images later become oil paintings, or prints, as the work requires. The forms refuse symbols yet feel familiar, like memories you never had. In a culture that often scripts pain as profundity, I offer brightness and ease without apology, playful and ceremonial at once. Please linger and breathe. The pictures may change as you do.
Rose Perkins Bio
Rose Perkins is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and creates on Kuarna Land, South Australia. Her practice begins instinctively, using colour and shape to give form to feelings that arrive prior to language. Working from memories of happiness, she creates compositions in single sittings, preserving the energy and spontaneity of the emotion. These initial impressions are then translated into both prints and oil paintings on large canvases. Perkins is a recent BVA graduate from Adelaide Central School of Art for which she was awarded the Pro Hart Scholarship.
Taliesin Ryan
Directly responding to the themes and concepts present in my graduating body of work, my paintings follow a lifelong love of the fantasy genre. Rituals and small moments of domestic living are brought to centre stage, representing the magic of slow work and the restorative power of community. References to ‘The Borrowers (1997)’ are integrated with characters from my own life, drawing particular attention to their scale, and the changed way we perceive this depicted world. Our altered perspective within the painting is comparable to the state of the transformed tiny characters. It is a change in state wherein both we and these characters, now see the world anew.
Taliesin Ryan Bio
Taliesin Ryan is a South Australian multidisciplinary artist working across the fields of painting, installation and sculpture. Her artful fictions respond to contemporary living, and through us, they examine make-believe's potential to change our experience of the world. Upon finishing her Bachelor of Visual Art in 2025, she was awarded with the Hahndorf Group Exhibition and the Hill Smith Art Advisory Award for painting. Currently she is undertaking further study in the Honours program at Adelaide Central School of Art.
Taliesin Ryan(1) Instagram
Marian Sandberg
In Small Language Model (2025), Sandberg imbues a glowing life-size recreation of herself with a year’s worth of words exchanged with ChatGPT in an effort to reclaim both the words and her own sense of self.
Marian Sandberg Bio
Marian Sandberg is driven by a need to feel human. Through multidisciplinary arts practice, she explores what being human feels like in a world where technological systems continually shift and normalise new ways of being. By creating quirky new technologies that sit at the edge of the societal norms they shape and uphold, Sandberg offers opportunities to consciously engage with and reshape the technologies that shape us.
Marian Sandberg (1) Instagram
Susan Wakefield
My inability to express the depth of emotions I’ve felt within my romantic relationship through words has been a source of ongoing frustration. Using metaphorical associations has allowed me to process the ineffable through art, capturing what lies beyond language alone. Research in the fields of science, philosophy, psychology, literature and poetry becomes an investigation through which romantic love is processed, understood, and then communicated visually. Drawing from visual associations inspired by this research, I present emotional and theoretical ideas in material form. The devotional aspect of the materials I use is integral in representing ‘love’. Intricate textile elements such as sequins and beads demand steadfastness, reflecting the state love naturally induces
Susan Wakefield Bio
Susan Wakefield is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on Kaurna Land, South Australia. Her practice explores the emotional complexities of intimate relationships. Influenced by psychoanalytic thought and her own lived experience, she creates poetic visual works that attempt to give form to feelings that are difficult to articulate. Embracing her own fallibility, she uses art as a way of understanding herself and others.
Susan Wakefield (1) Instagram
Susan Wakefield