Flows that Trouble Me (After John Landes) - Adele Sliuzas

Flows that Trouble Me (After John Landes) by SA artist Adele Sliuzas - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

I smell the wattle flowers in the rain, feel the clay mud slip underfoot and hear the trickling winter creek. This work speaks about the landscape of my childhood property in Balhannah, where the creek flows towards the Onkaparinga on Peramangk land. The handwoven pattern is based on a c.1800 weaving manuscript attributed to John Landes, representing pools and flows of the living river, the indigo dyed and hand-woven textile drapes and flows over a chair; standing in for the undulating landscape, and simultaneously for the absent body. Much like the water flowing through the creek and into the river, the aftereffects of war, loss and displacement flow through the generations of my family, affecting us all in nuanced ways. This textile holds trickier, crunchier, sadder parts whose meaning is a winter creek: sometimes fluid, forceful, muddied, sometimes dry, full of ants.

Materials: Organic cotton, indigo dyed handspun Finnish landrace sheep wool from Greenhills Farm, Meadows, the artist’s childhood chair and accompanying audio
Dimensions (cm): 78 H x 41 W x 40 D

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