The exhibition What do you see when you look up includes an exchange project. A hand made receipt book accompanied the
works on show and viewers are invited to offer something in exchange for a
painting.
This element of the project experiments
with Marxist ideologies, investigating the value of my own work in relation to
the skills and ‘stuff’ that other people have and are willing to share or part
with. This method of exchange demands a more personal approach to the
acquisition of objects, confuses the power balance between user and maker and
highlights the diversity of value judgements, both through the variety of
offers made, and perceptions of those offers.
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| Opening night with people writing in the receipt book |
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| receipt #41 |
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| receipt #28 |
Below are some of the things offered in
exchange for a painting (along with the description of the work given by the
person acquiring it).
- A home made cinnamon tea cake (little blue and white clouds).
- A studio work space (fluffy clouds).
- $20 (red and blue clouds).
- A photo print (another one I want that’s spoken for)
- 1 Beef carcass cut up and made into steak sausages and mince delivered, organic and gluten free (a woman trying to tie the cloud down).
- Will negotiate (fairy floss).
- To make you coffee in the studio for a season (Engorged puddles of rain journeying through a blue sky).
- An aluminium heart made for you (lotus flower).
- $30 to a charity – will let you know which one (burgundy med size).
- An espresso Martini, tour of Melbourne & a bed to sleep in (Pink and red clouds).
- A Cook book I wrote (mauve sky and white clouds).
- 1 preserved brain (the little blue one).
- A free dance/tap lesson (mint green swirl cloud).
- To help Kate take the artwork down in 3 weeks time (vibrant sunset in New Guinea).
- One small drawing &/or 1/2 dozen fresh eggs (red sails in the sunset but the sails are cotton – raw cotton).
- A drawing from first semesters work (Purple & pink clouds).
- Anything (clouds).
- Three wishes (Flowers).
- Some lettuce and spinach form my garden (painting that looks like a green sausage).
- 20 coffees from 27 Deakin (a blue sky with white clouds on paper that is not square).
- Pink salt and Jam (darkness with some white fluffiness).
- Framed photo of the South Sudanese dancing in the mall (red w purple pink fluffy clouds).
- To my friend who’s little boy is very sick, a meal every day for one week.
- A poem about a witch, and a fresh chocolate cake with orange icing (a greenish blue river with light green/dark green bushes).
- A fabric summer hat and a fixed fence for a friend (an orange inlet in the white forest, birds eye view).
- A donation to St Vincent de Paul society and Wesley mission (an explosion of two colours).
- A free roller-skating lesson to Kate and a person of choice – (I’m goodish) you’ll be safe :) (a strawberry lolly has been melted on top of a light shade).
- Dinner at our house (a nesting bird).
- 5 free lunches at the café (green pastures).
- a delicious hamper of Croatian treats made with love (a shiny piece of happiness).
- A year’s supply of trims and blow-waves for you or someone in need (you holding the cloud)
- A piano recital of Mozart’s sonata in C (complete) from memory (blue swirly things).
- $50 to a charity of your choice (fluffy white clouds).
- $40 and a donation to my local animal shelter (red sky and white clouds).
- You 1 nights accommodation at Pincally Station B&B Nth of Broken Hill (purple and red clouds, green and purple clouds)
- Window art to be painted at your workplace (green clouds)
- Financial services for life (mine) + a boat ride a year (the painting that looks like a tethered cloud).
- A piece of my artwork (a bubbling heaven evolving from the bottom)
- A piece of my artwork (strawberry ice cream).
- A bottle of your favourite wine (strawberries and cream).
- A small drawing/painting (purple background and orange clouds).
- Artwork in return for (red sky white clouds).
