Adam John Cullen: Three Ears

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25 February – 3 September 2023

Contemporary artist Adam John Cullen presents a new site-specific installation Three Ears across the Lake View Atrium on Level 1. The installation incorporates various groupings of vessel-like cast forms and sculptural works, responding to the idea of building a collection of objects and the act of collecting materials of personal significance.

Featured image: Adam John Cullen, Three Ears (detail), Shepparton Art Museum, 2023.

Adam John Cullen (b. 1985 Yass, NSW) lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country (Castlemaine, VIC). He holds a BA Arts, Fine Arts (RMIT University); Honours, Fine Arts (Monash University); and a Masters in Fine Arts (Victorian College of the Arts). Selected solo exhibitions include:Elton, LON Gallery, Melbourne (2021); ghost, Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne (2019); three dogs, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2018); dissolve, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2017). Selected group exhibitions include, Charmed, CASPA, Castlemaine (2022); Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2017); TCB Art Inc, Aperto Gallery, Montpellier (2016); and Sidney Myer Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum (2015). He has also undertaken residencies at Yellow Brick Studio, Athens (2022); Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei (2018); Tentacles, Bangkok (2018); Gertrude Contemporary Artist residency program, Melbourne (2017-2019); and KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre, Yogyakarta (2012). Cullen is represented by LON Gallery, Melbourne.  

Curator: Jessica O’Farrell

Location: Lake View Atrium

Free

SAM operates on the traditional lands of the Yorta Yorta people. The SAM Building, and art museum within it, is located on river country close to the Goulburn River, known as Kaiela to the Yorta Yorta.

SAM recognises the Yorta Yorta as the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the lands and water of the Country upon which SAM is built, and that sovereignty of this land has never been ceded.