UPTOWN: An Exhibition for Our City

UPTOWN: An Exhibition for Our City

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Posted 2021-01-29 by Jenfollow

Fri 29 Jan 2021 - Sun 28 Feb 2021


EXHIBITION
Delivered by the City of Melbourne and Creative Directors Robert Buckingham and Fiona Scanlan, UPTOWN , an exhibition for our city is FREE, outdoors and is located at, and has transformed the top end of Bourke Street. It has been running since 15 Dec and will continue till 28 Feb 2021. It is a summer treat for us all to enjoy and walk about. Stay updated via Instagram .

Do go along and ponder over a program that was inspired by the role artists play in making Melbourne a creative capital and how artists contribute to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. It has certainly been a drawcard encouraging people back into the city to support local shops, restaurants and cafes.

Featured are contemporary Melbourne artists that include Peter Atkins, Kerrie Poliness, Louise Paramor, Destiny Deacon, Bill Henson and Polly Borland. It is a unique summer experience that partners 26 artists with the street's architecture, vacant shops, restaurants, local businesses and laneways. You'll find details of all the artwork and artists here . Just click on each of the 26 images for more information.


UPCOMING EVENT
Parliament Steps Walking Drawing on Saturday 6 February from 12-3pm at Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne is an upcoming event the community can participate in. Artist Kerrie Poliness has been commissioned by ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) to produce a public art event for the UPTOWN exhibition. It is a large-scale participatory, geometric drawing, to be chalked onto the steps of Parliament. To participate, register here .

This project continues Poliness' ongoing series Generation Mesh , where large architectural drawings are created in public by groups of people using coloured chalk. The series is characterised by geometric compositions that reference social, design, and computational networks and collaborative and adaptive inter-relationships between people and the world.

Poliness invites diverse public members to work together to create a collective drawing according to a compositional template and instructions, the results revealing the inter-connective processes and patterns of nature and people. The location was selected for its classical architecture and status as a civic institution and the geometric pattern will contract and expand as it descends the terraces and steps of Parliament, eventually erased by rain or foot traffic. The event is supported by the City of Melbourne and part of ACCA's Who's Afraid of Public Space? program.


UPCOMING DISCUSSION EVENT
MRelay UPTOWN: Reinventing the City. on Saturday 13 February from 10 am-12.30 pm, at MPavilion Parkade , Level 7, 34-40 Little Collins St (access via lifts on Mcilwraith Place), Melbourne is an action-packed discussion on the role of artists and designers in Melbourne's Future. Working with MPavilion's MRelay format, the curators of UPTOWN will present an actioned-packed morning of speakers primed to discuss the role of artists and designers in Melbourne's future.

UPTOWN co-curators, Fiona Scanlan and Robert Buckingham, have joined forces with MPavilion and Turning Circle Collective to explore how artists and designers have contributed to the cultural and economic life of Melbourne in the past and how they can help Melbourne regain its mojo. If you'd like to attend in person, register here . The same link will also have the invited list of speakers.

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