Heidi Kenyon

Andrew Purvis chats to Heidi Kenyon about the themes of her practice and her work in Neoteric at the Adelaide Train Station.

• HeidiKenyon.com
• @HeidiKenyon.Art
• NeotericExhibition.com
• Heidi Kenyon, We shall by morning inherit the earth, 2022, Pleurotus ostreatus and citrinopileatus, timber and mixed media, dimensions variable. Sound by Ben Davidson (Ben Sun) using electromagnetic sequences generated by the fungi.
• Neoteric Digital Catalogue (pdf)
• ‘It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.’ - Rebecca Solnit, 'A Field Guide to Getting Lost'

Image: Heidi Kenyon, work in progress for We shall by morning inherit the earth, 2022, photo Adrian Kenyon