ADAM NORTON

Gallerysmith celebrates 15 years of gallery operations. This exhibition features works by more than 40 artists who have shown at the gallery since 2008. Exhibited work 'Yuri Geller's Aliens, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 85cm x 108cm.

For Canberra Art Biennial I have installed works from Giant Badges, an ongoing series of large round text works taking the exact form of old school lapel badges but enlarged to over a metre in size. The colourful designs of the badges draw from my nostalgia for the pop music, science fiction and political activism of my youth.

Cosmic Trip is a speculative journey through the night sky. It depicts planets, stars, galaxies and astral phenomena as they swirl around together in interstellar space.

In 2021 Norton visited the isolated Wolfe Creek Meteor crater site in WA. He made a photographic survey of the entire rim of the crater and plans to do a series of works on paper based on this visit. He will incorporate his experiences with those at other crater sites from around the world.