blatant self-promotion #232

melody ellis, who has had an awesome history of arts admin/curating/getting-stuff-done type stuff, has started a new thang in her home town of canberra. garage openings, literally in the garage of her place, shared with sarah logan, is the new site for emerging and contemporary art bits and pieces.

their first show is feathering the nest, a mail-art project, where artists have been invited to send a work via the post. 'so long as it fits in an envelope' was the primary requirement. all works will then become a 'nest' in the space - a true mashup.

i sent along some of the patterns/wallpaper works from 1300 x 740 x 47, which became bias, which has now had another cool manifestation (more on manifestation and installation another time). and getting the works back is optional (and i, for one, haven't requested mine back), so it's becomes more about the participation, rather than some kind of commodity.

so if you're in canberra , head to the opening! mel is going to send me pics, which will end up on flickr, so keep an eye out.

the deets:

feathering the nest
opening night: saturday 4 april 6-8pm

garage openings
68 hopetoun circuit
yarralumla, ACT


UPDATE: Here's the list of artists:
Marc Alperstein
Jonathan Baskett
Zanny Begg
Lauren Brown
Kate Carr
Monica Carroll
Melody Ellis
Marc Freeman
Somaya Langley & Christian Malejka
Sarah Logan
Annette Marie
Paul McGee
Brendon McKinley
Sarah Mosca
Vedanta Nicholson
Kalina Pilat
Francesca Rendle-Short
Spyridon Simotas
Peta Sirec
Richard Spellman
Alison Spence
Sarah St Vincent Welch
Casey Temby
Nella Themelios
Amy Thompson
Stedman Watts
Zuza Zochowski

image credit: nest in a tree, melody ellis.