ART-Town have announced Caitlin Telford and Nico Reddaway as this year’s first-prize winners for their interactive performance video and installation, Brand Me Baby. The work explores the blurring of the commercial and the personal in society and how this impacts on the increasingly exhibitionistic and voyeuristic behaviours.
Glad Rappers, a collaborative yarn bombing project has taken out second prize with their work, Picnic in the Park, and Nicole Buning has been awarded third prize for her intricate paper cuts and finely drawn architectural studies of the buildings and surrounds of the Grattan Gardens that makes up an artists book.
Established in 2010, ART-Town is a Chapel Street Precinct Initiative that invites artists to create a work of art in public spaces with an aim to engage people in their everyday lives and provide an opportunity for dialogue and social interaction that is the heart of this vibrant precinct. The ART-Town project also fosters an environment that celebrates creativity and cultural experiences and the creation of unexpected moments of beauty, amusement, reflection or intrigue.
This year over 130 participating artists took up temporary residency over two weekends – Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March and Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 April, 2015 – to produce a work of art that celebrates the diversity of the vibrant precinct that is Chapel Street. They inhabited local spaces in the Chapel Street Precinct, from the Salvos store in Windsor, the sidewalk at Revolver, the window at Design a Space, portrait painting at the Melbourne Bowls Club, Windsor; Melbourne Polytechnic students collaborating on their mural; sculptors and painters at the Prahran market plus so much more.
The exhibition of 84 of these works is currently on show at Chapel off Chapel until Sunday 26 April.
Winner of the Art Almanac Subscription Prize is Sam Deakins for his work entitled, Chapel & Vine. Congratulations Sam!
ART-Town
Until 26 April, 2015
Melbourne
Caitlin Telford and Nico Reddaway, Brand Me Baby, interactive performance video and installation
Sam Deakins, Chapel & Vine, oil on canvas