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The Fringe Festival wakes up Merlynston Shopping Centre with contemporary art installations
A Site-specific art exhibition by eight artists Agnes Whalan, Bridget Griffiths, Cara Best, Fern Smith, Josie Alexandra, Melody Greatorex, Ro Noonan and Trent Crawford and curated by Alisha Abate.
The artworks will festoon the shop windows and spill out onto the sidewalks with contemporary motion and installations arresting the foot traffic along the shopping strip of Merlynston Shopping Centre; where boundaries are blurred between public and private space.
Where: Lorensen Avenue: FernArtz and Maxine Hair Dressing Merlyn Street: The Cubby Bake House & Deli Cafe, Queen of Paws and Welcome Shop Coburg North 3058
When: 14th September to 1st October 2017
Quote: Curator Alisha Abate:
Out of the white cubed gallery space and into the shopping strip of the Northern suburbs. Eight artists will create site-specifically artwork in Coburg North. Stroll along the strips of Lorensen Ave and Merlyn Street, peering into shop windows to see where boundaries are blurred between public and private space, where the artists reference their own personal and museological histories. The shop front window is an inaccessible space, boarded off to the public, but alludes us to look deeper into, inviting us further inside.
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Exhibition date: 10 am – 5 pm 19th August – 27th August 2017
Where: FernArtz Art Studio 23a Lorensen Avenue North Coburg 3058
‘Lid it!’ is an open group exhibition with twenty seven participating artists who have created artworks on recycled lids paying homage to the past while exploring the future.
‘Lid it!’ will be opened by Lenka Thompson an environmental scientist, former Moreland Councillor and now PhD student.
While everyone is upsizing, this exhibition is downsizing and placing great importance on the recycled, the creative process and the tradition of miniature art.
Artist and curator of ‘Lidit!’ Fern Smith speculates that placing the creative process upon a lowly ranked lid transforms it into an object of virtue thus changing our appreciation of it. Considering its life’s journey and the environmental impact. Smith also considers the open entry exhibition places the idea and concept at the forefront of the artwork, not the artist at the forefront.
The exhibition reflects on Melbourne’s famous ‘9 by 5’ exhibition at Tom Roberts’s Studio in Melbourne, August 1889, where artworks were painted on recycled cigar lids in.
Like to be invited to the opening text 0408978747 “LID IT with your name and email address.