Cementa Art Auction

The online Cementa Art Auction launches this Thursday 24 February, on artinvestor.net.au, forming the final phase of Cementa’s four-month fundraising campaign to purchase WAYOUT Artspace in Kandos, New South Wales. Over the last two years, Cementa has built WAYOUT into a vibrant, regionally situated, artist-run contemporary art space. After nine years of operation, the artist-run contemporary art space aims to secure a sustainable foundation for its artist-run programs and establish WAYOUT as an ongoing platform for regional participation in the arts.

Thus far, Cementa have acquired $55k through a public appeal and have received $90k from a Create NSW grant.

“The purchase of this building will establish Cementa on a permanent foundation that will allow us to evolve our unique approach to developing regionally based contemporary art through the exploration of socially engaged experimental art that involves our community as partners in our creative endeavour,” says Creative Director Alex Wisser. “Aside from the flood of support we have received from our community through our public appeal and the generous endorsement of our project from Create NSW, it has been the enthusiastic contribution of all the artists we have approached that has been so gratifying, expressing to us the high value that the artists themselves place on the work that we are doing,” he adds.

WAYOUT premises. Courtesy Cementa Inc., New South Wales

A dazzling array of artworks by leading contemporary artists including Jason Wing, Abdul Abdullah, Alex Seton, Deborah Kelly, Karla Dickens, Blak Douglas, Maddie Gibbs, Fleur MacDonald, Adam Norton, Phil James, Dale Collier, Tony Albert, Liz Day, Kuba Dorabialski, Katy Plummer, Liam Benson, and others, will go under the hammer.

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