Horse Girl
Adrienne Kenafake

2 November - 23 November

Artist statement from Adrienne Kenafake

HORSE GIRL is a sculptural exploration of bucolic materiality. The work offers a spirited glimpse of agrarian objects and the cyclical patterns of cultivated landscapes. Rural detritus is amassed and then transformed to sculpture through physical or emotional actions of intensity. Contrasting notions of degradation and regeneration, toil and play entwine and implant as the materials are ordered, woven, burnt and cherished, to at last emerge anew.

About Adrienne Kenafake

Adrienne Kenafake is a multi-disciplinary Australian artist based on Bundjalung country, Northern New South Wales. In 2014 she exhibited her first solo show, Gutter Gold: Something from Nothing at the Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah, NSW, and has since continued to exhibit across the South-East Queensland region and interstate. In 2019 she was a successful recipient of a City of Gold Coast Regional Arts Development Fund grant to develop two exhibitions; DUPLEX at The Walls Art Space, Miami Queensland and her first interstate solo show, Irregular Structures, at The Midland Junction Art Centre in Perth, WA. Adrienne has participated in residencies at Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gold Coast, The Walls Art Space, Miami (QLD), The Field, Murwillumbah, NSW, The Midland Junction Art Centre in Perth, WA, and House Conspiracy in Brisbane's West End.

Working across the mediums of sculpture, performance and installation she investigates the potential of objects as physical, psychological and extrasensory archives of emotion, story and place. Kenafake’s work incorporates high density accumulations of found artefacts, conglomerations of intuitively selected items that have been collected methodically and then subjected to ritualised methods of transformation. Through actions of intent, the ownerless and the non-belonging metamorphose into relics and talismans: psychometric guides with the potential to emanate undisclosed and autobiographical imprinted histories.