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10 March–3 April 2021

Adam John Cullen, Elton

LON Gallery is pleased to present, Elton, Adam John Cullen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Continuing the artist’s personal archeology, burying, excavating and recontextualising narratives through symbolic and significant personal objects, Elton comprises of a series of urn like sculptures made from hydrostone cast in op-shop vases, glassware and ceramics. Informing these works are domestic motifs from the artist’s home and photographic works.

Elton at Faulkner Cemetery rose garden, as part of 'MoreArt2020', 2021Pigment printFramed: 74 x 79cm

Elton 1, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, cotton, fine bone72 x 30 x 30cm

Elton 2, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, cotton, fine bone china, porcelain and cast shirt sleeve28 x 28 x 38cm

Elton 15 (Middle work in grouping), 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, porcelain and cast28 x 28 x 38cm

Elton 3, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, studio trials, printed cotton from Temora32 x 20 x 20cm

Elton 4, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, studio trials, cotton shirt, buttons and group house curtain and coconut fibre plat83 x 29 x 29cm

Elton 5, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, studio trials, paraffin wax and cast ice28 x 20 x 20cm

Elton 6, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works and studio trials30 x 20 x 20cm

Elton 7, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, studio trials, section of ceramic vase, steel, wallpaper and found scented paper drawer liner73 x 30 x 30cm

Elton 8, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, porce- lain and section of ceramic vase38 x 23 x 8cm

Elton 9, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, wall paper, house- hold curtains, wall paper and section of ceramic base20 x 20 x 6cm

Elton 10, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, ceramic tableware, curtains and gifted cotton pillow case64 x 24 x 24cm

Elton 11, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, cotton shirt and fine bone china20 x 20 14cm

Elton 12, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works, studio trials, ceramic bowl fragments, egg shell, and plastic flow- ers from the Hill End cemetery25 x 25 x 20cm

Elton 13, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works and my old country road cotton shirt30 x 20 x 12cm

Elton 14, 2021Hydrostone, plaster, cement, oxides, past works and studio trials40 x 25 x 25cm