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Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition is back to celebrate local creatives
As a Footscray artist known as LaDY MoHaWK, I am excited to announce the upcoming Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition 2024. This free public art exhibition offers a unique opportunity for local artists to showcase their talents. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Westside Stories,’ inviting artists to explore and depict the diverse experiences, stories, and landscapes found within the west of Melbourne.
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Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon brings her Object Of Projection to Newport’s Substation
Most know Kim Gordon as the co-founder of alt-rock band Sonic Youth. From 1981 to 2011 their atonal sounds won them the sort of indie cred few have equalled. Since the band’s breakup Gordon has continued her adventures in music and sound whilst experimenting with film, writing, acting, painting and design. While all these aspects of her work appear in the exhibition Object of Projection, now showing at The Substation in Newport, four short films form its clamorous beating heart.have equalled.
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The history of Footscray’s after-dark entertainment
The grandeur and vibrancy ofFootscray’s nighttime past is to be celebrated this October with an exhibition titled Friday Nights in Footscray. The exhibition will tell the story of the 'Cinderella Suburb', a place which once had five picture houses and multiple ballrooms within the main city block.
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Altona Pier Revue exhibition
The Altona Pier Revue exhibition at Louis Joel Gallery in Altona is the culmination of an expressed desire by locals, former residents and longtime visitors to acknowledge and capture in a lasting way the life of the 1888 pier, its demise, and the shiny new one that’s replaced it.
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RePurpose YOUR Future: An art exhibition empowering Melbourne’s youth to respond to the climate emergency
The RePurpose YOUR Future Art Workshops and Exhibition aims to raise awareness of the climate emergency and empower young people to envision a sustainable future.
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Salt Water Boy exhibition
The team at Community Bank Seddon had the pleasure of connecting with local artist, Jack Forbes-Walker (aka Salt Water Boy) in 2022, while sponsoring his participation in a local artist in residence program.
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EXPLORING THE ART ROOM: WHERE CREATIVITY MEETS COMMUNITY
A place that harmoniously balances artistic creation with intellectual exploration.
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SHOW YOUR WEST-SIDE A SMASHING SUCCESS
Show Your WEST-SIDE is different from other art exhibitions in that it’s personal, warm, inclusive, free of charge and ‘for the artist’.
