Shriya NevatiaArts Project Australia
November 19th 2006 09:00
On Wednesday I headed out to Northcote to visit Arts Project Australia which is a studio and gallery space dedicated to artists with an intellectual disability. When I arrived at Westgarth station the police had the street cordoned off in a manner which made me think someone was making a movie rather than committing a crime.
Then it started pouring with rain and it was bitterly cold, I actually had to take refuge in a church. Well, it was an Opp shop in the church grounds and I pretended to be utterly fascinated by a Colleen McCullough cook book until the weather cleared.
The space appears to be dedicated to works on paper and I was disappointed that the artists didn’t create their own labels as well as the works of art. There’s nothing worse than some wanker banging on in some convoluted way about a house that is hovering anxiously in the landscape when there’s no chance that’s what the artist would say or even intend. Therein lies the ironic beauty of art; it produces an emotional response which can’t be tamped into a wall label.
Arts Project Australia is on the web at: http://www.artsproject.org.au/
Then it started pouring with rain and it was bitterly cold, I actually had to take refuge in a church. Well, it was an Opp shop in the church grounds and I pretended to be utterly fascinated by a Colleen McCullough cook book until the weather cleared.
The space appears to be dedicated to works on paper and I was disappointed that the artists didn’t create their own labels as well as the works of art. There’s nothing worse than some wanker banging on in some convoluted way about a house that is hovering anxiously in the landscape when there’s no chance that’s what the artist would say or even intend. Therein lies the ironic beauty of art; it produces an emotional response which can’t be tamped into a wall label.
Arts Project Australia is on the web at: http://www.artsproject.org.au/
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