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Project #9 in the series CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART PROJECTS SA 2004. Shaun Kirby’s first exhibition of major new works in Adelaide since his Gasfitter exhibition in 2000.
The sequence of works in Human Weedsarises from investigations around the theme of 'The Drifter’. The works are assembled from a range of material including objects [found and constructed], and photographic images from Australia and from recent research in Europe.NSW Government Ministry for the Arts, and the Gordon Darling Foundation.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/cvap/index_frames.html (06/12/04)

The ambience of his exhibition was due in part to his experience of two close but distinct cultures, one more structured and tolerantly repressive than its messier neighbour. The photographic images used by Kirby were shot in various places in Europe and all of them were ambiguous and haunting in some way (a strangely-skirted aluminium caravan with small square windows, a frosted window in a cheap hotel, an urban residential alleyway in the process of demolition).

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Conceptual work.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue; Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Exhibition Catalogue:
Walker, Linda Marie and Brennan, Kate, Cultic gloss: Shaun Kirby. Parkside, SA: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, [1992]
ISBN 0646122185

This work, first exhibited in 1985, has been seen in a number of variations, as has its companion work, to E.Q.U.I.V.A.L.E.N.C.E. or perhaps more precisely its double, A.P.O.R.I.A., which also spells itself out across the wall.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002

Exhibition Catalogue:
Questions of belief. Parkside, South Australia: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 1990
1 sheet (5 p) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

Experimental Art Foundation exhibition at Riddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier.

Multimedia exhibition of Young SA artists, guest curator Fimo. Included works by Simon Biggs, Louise Cameron, Shaun Kirby, Andrew Petrusevics, Anna Platten, Bronwyn Platten, Debra Porch and Chris Reynolds

Including performances by Andrew Boscacci, Fay Poole, Cathy Fargher, Rachel Boyce, Julianna Pierce, Greg Clarke and Andrew Petrusevics

Riddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier, May 10-27, 1985

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, July 19-31, 1985