Moving Galleries in collaboration with established art programs
In line with Moving Galleries’ incentive to support and strengthen Melbourne’s art community, its upcoming exhibitions will draw artwork from two established programs creating opportunities for artists. ArtPlay and Creative Spaces, in their differing approaches of assistance, will also reflect the diversity of Melbourne’s art organisations.
The spring 2008 exhibition will select it artwork from children’s pieces produced at ArtPlay, located in Birrarung Marr at Federation Square. In accordance to the theme of ‘innocence’, this exhibition will aim to inspire its audience through poetry and art that considers or reflects a sense of wonder at the world, new beginnings and fresh perspectives.
ArtPlay was chosen for its mission to enrich the greater community by involving families and their children in creative activities – to give anyone from any background the chance to become a creative citizen of the world. Beyond providing an exciting opportunity for Melbourne’s young artistes to have their work displayed someplace other than the kitchen fridge, we will be indirectly supporting the artists who run the programs.
The autumn 2009 ‘transformation’ exhibition will see Moving Galleries in collaboration with Creative Spaces. In consideration of our own project’s unusual exhibition space, we’re curious to see how Melbourne’s artists are also transforming everyday spaces into unlikely canvasses and showcases for their own work.
Creative Spaces is an online resource for projects that take place outside traditional spaces. It assists artists with the necessary information to get their projects running, providing a number of spaces just waiting to be inflicted with creativity. Our partnership with Creative Spaces will work as a means to document the selected projects in a photographic exhibition. In a city that’s sprouting with creative work in every uncanny corner, wall and crack, this exhibition will highlight what the wandering eye might miss and capture the transitory.
