Your Creative Flute Lottery / take WA Artists to the World
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After exhibiting in the 2015 Cottesloe Sculpture by the Sea, I calculated about 700 people had supported me over the 3 years it took to make and exhibit the artworks (see: https://graham-hay.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/no-artist-is-island.html). (So I don't missing any of you, please don't send details via Facebook etc, thanks) I then thought about the thousands of WA people, who have directly and indirectly provided professional, technical, moral, and financial support, over the last 23 years. It is the total WA artists community. An opportunity has arisen to create a work to publicly acknowledge all these people and the whole WA arts community. I am making 3,500 porcelain flutes, which will stacked to create a 2.5 m high circle of figures. The art work will be partially disassembled, and some of the flutes used to drink wine at an Opening in Italy. A video recording of this and the “ruin" will be show over the next 8 months, to around 300,000 exhibition visitors. I will print the name of any WA artist, who send me their web details, onto to individual ceramic flutes. The name could also be an individual website, or group website page, or Facebook page or other social media address. At a previous Preview/Openings at the venue up to 10,000 people have come along. Around 2,000 wine glasses go missing each time. If you send me your name or web/social media address, there is a good chance the flute with your details will find it’s way into a purse or suitcase, and then onto a home bookshelf, kitchen shelve or office desk. Eventually the discrete text on the flute will be noticed and perhaps typed into a smartphone or keyboard. It’s a free, creative lottery. Hopefully this may create an individual to individual connect. At the very least the flute will make them wonder where is Western Australia, and speculate about how large our ceramics and arts community is. The 10,000 people who attend the preview and opening are leading artists, curators, collectors, writer, critics, and patrons from around the world. So rather than just take WA art to the world, this may bring the art world directly to WA. After all we all know well how Perth is the most geographically remote city on a continent in the world. So what do I do? Via www.grahamhay.com.au/infoplez.html please send me your name and your website or a group website, or Facebook, or Instagram, or Flickr or LinkedIn etc, you want me to print on your flute. (So I don't missing any of you, please don't send details via Facebook etc, thanks) Please do this before Friday 17 February, as I need time to organise, print apply and fired decal (so names are small but legible) on 3,500+ flutes, then packed and ship the 1/2 ton of art to the Venice biennale exhibition. Not on the web? You can always quickly setup a free social media account and send me that immediately. You have until 11 May when my exhibition opens, to add images of your art works and other details. What happens next? You will receive an acknowledge receipt of your email and in return provide a web address and how you can follow the project’s progress. I will not share your details with any organisation without your permission nor will I spam you after this project. Let's put the whole WA arts community on the world art map! Cheers Graham Postscript 10 March: Why not Tip just in a little bit, and then Share, Like and talk to others about this. Encourage everyone to nudge it along? |
Some of the 3,500 porcelain paper clay flutes currently being made.
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