“How one should turn to stone. —…”
Chelsea Farquhar
7 Aug → 28 Nov 2021

Chelsea Farquhar, 'Window Piece', 2021, lead light. Image courtesy of artist.

How one should turn to stone. —…1 is a collection of tactile memories that document recent personal shifts. These haptic objects are observations of time through stillness. Sunlight, horse hair, cedar floorboard, glass, graphite and pewter.

Drawings and sculptures that reflect routines of walking past local cows in the summer and collecting horse hair and scrap wood from her grandparent’s farm on the weekends.

Pewter carries past forms; melting, rebuilding, starting over.

Now in autumn, the cows aren’t in the paddock behind her house anymore and her grandparents are moving out of the farm. An alchemy of holding on and letting go, resisting and embracing these shifts.

Chelsea Farquhar is an emerging artist working across Kaurna Land and Naarm (Adelaide and Melbourne). Farquhar utilises sculpture and performance to highlight moments of collaboration and exchange. In 2019 Chelsea received a Carclew fellowship and undertook residencies in Scotland and The USA. Chelsea is currently a committee member at KINGS ARI.