Bernadette Klavins
photo: Saul Steed
Based in Tartanya (Adelaide), Bernadette Klavins is a South Australian artist, writer, and arts worker. Through processes of casting, Klavins draws out the poetic potential of materials and interrogates our human relationship to deep time. In 2016, Klavins graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art with First Class Honours and received a Major Travel Award. The following year, she completed a residency at The Icelandic Association of Visual Art in Reykjavik. Klavins has since exhibited at spaces including Watch This Space (NT), Canberra Contemporary Art Space (ACT), Cool Change Contemporary (WA), FELTspace (SA), Floating Goose Studios (SA), Adelaide Central Gallery (SA), Art Pod (SA) and Carclew (SA). Klavins has an upcoming solo exhibition at FELTspace in July 2022. Klavins has also lectured in First Year Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, been a Co-Director at FELTspace, and currently works at the Art Gallery of South Australia in the Public Programs team. Klavins works from Switchboard Studios in Norwood.
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Bernadette Klavins writes about Gus Clutterbuck in Neoteric 2022.