SHOP SHOP Fundraiser
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SHOP SHOP
Drawing upon a shared interest in playfully toying with a sincere versus ironic engagement with popular culture, SHOP SHOP by Melbourne-based artists Juliet Rowe and Christopher Sciuto will take the form of an exaggeratedly tasteless market place, replete with both hand-made and customised manufactured items such as t-shirts, temporary tattoos, baseball caps, key chains, pencils, towels, friendship bracelets, mugs, stickers and tote bags. In most cases, these ‘goods’ will re-appropriate texts, images and materials used by the artists' in earlier art works.
SHOP SHOP is part of the group exhibition No Reasonable Offer Refused, to be presented at West Space, Melbourne, between 21 September - 13 October 2012.
No Reasonable Offer Refused brings together object-based and performance projects that explore if, and how, it is possible to reshape acts of commerce and exchange. This involves gestures that do not exclude the artist from the activities of the market, but instead actively use this system as a medium that can be negotiated. Curated by Liang Luscombe and Patrice Sharkey, the exhibition features work by Kelly Doley, George Egerton-Warburton, Agatha Gothe-Snape, and Juliet Rowe and Christopher Sciuto
In this
context, Shop Shop is presented as an alternative, symbolic
economic intervention that addresses ideas relating to contemporary consumer
behaviour, the capriciousness of trends, celebrity culture and the cult of the artists, as well as issues of waste and value relating to
disposable products.
FUNDING
The money will go towards a percentage of the exhibition space hire, catalogue printing, and costs related to the raw materials and manufacturing of items for the SHOP SHOP stall. We would be extremely grateful if you could help us realise this project!
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Juliet Rowe
EDUCATION
2008 - 2011: Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) - Drawing, Victorian
College of the Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Free Sunsets, Trocadero Billboard, Melbourne (solo)
Hot + Dangerous, North West Project, Melbourne (solo)
HAIR
PEACE, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Penthouse Mouse,Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne (group)
Through a Glass Darkly, Death be Kind, Melbourne (group)
2010 Free Sunsets, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne (solo)
Wallara Travelling Scholarship,Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne (group)
Christopher Sciuto
EDUCATION
2008 - 2011: Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) - Drawing, Victorian
College of the Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Totes West, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne (group)
2010 Out of the Bedroom, Into the Streets, Platform Contemporary Art
Spaces, Melbourne (solo)
RENT ME, Workers
Club Window, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Well Hung, North
West Project, Melbourne (solo)
LINKS
For more details on the exhibition, please visit: http://westspace.org.au/calendar/event/no-reasonable-offer-refused/
For more details on the artists, please visit:
http://hatisaboysname.blogspot.com.au/ (Christopher Sciuto)
http://julietrowe.blogspot.com.au/ (Juliet Rowe)
Our sincerest gratitude for helping to make SHOP SHOP possible.
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For any donation over $20 you will receive a selection of artist-made items that will appear in the SHOP SHOP stall. These can be collected on site at West Space (255 Bourke St, Melbourne) during the exhibition (21 Sept - 13 Oct 2012). If you are unable to attend the exhibition, we can make alternative arrangements for collection. Shipping fees may apply. <br /><br />The basic $20 pack contains: <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> a draw-string bag, zine, pencil and condom
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The $50 pack contains all of the above, plus a patch and key-ring.
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The $100 pack contains all of the above, plus one large item - either a hand-designed t-shirt, wall-hanging, mug or towel.
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The $150 pack contains all of the above, plus a hand-drawn t-shirt customised by Juliet Rowe to the buyer's specifications.
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The $400 pack contains a 2-piece tracksuit with matching tote bag customised by Juliet Rowe and a mug and wall-hanging customised by Christopher Sciuto.
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