Gertrude Street Projection Festival brings us ‘Transience’

This July the Gertrude Street Projection Festival (GSPF) will celebrate its seventh year of staging inner Melbourne’s most visible and accessible free large-scale arts festival.

By day, Melbourne’s Gertrude Street is lined with art, food and fashion; and from July 18 to 27 this boulevard will be bombarded by award-winning projection artists such as Andy Buchanan, Arika Waulu, Ian de Gruchy, Nick Azidis, Amanda Morgan and Lin Finch.

Bright lights and perfectly positioned colour-scapes will adorn 40 sites on and around Gertrude Street, illuminating everything from the trunks of trees to entire buildings. Shop fronts, laneways, windows and footpaths will come alive with bold interpretations of this year’s theme, ‘Transience’, all exhibited for free to the people of Melbourne.

“Local and international artists will present their artworks and installations in response to this, using the buildings and surfaces of Gertrude as their own unique canvas. What is usually seen by day will be completely transformed by the time darkness falls. We can’t wait to see how the artists respond to the theme and how art-lovers and families react when they see Gertrude Street anew”, says Kym Ortenburg, co-founder of the most not-for-profit Gertrude Association.

The Festival Hub for this year is The Catfish, 30 Gertrude Street which will be transformed into a late night space offering a range of free and ticketed events including live performances, workshops, panels and music.

Projection artworks will be shown from 6pm until midnight every evening during the Festival.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival
18 to 27 July, 2014
Fitzroy, Melbourne

Nick Azidis and Yarra Youth-Services Studios, Atherton Gardens Landscape

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