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AVALON: ART & LIFE OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING
SATURDAY 21 MAY AT 2 PM
MUSEUM OF BRISBANE, KING GEORGE SQUARE FOYER, CITY HALL
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Avalon is an apartment building located at the crossroads of sleaze and affluence in Brisbane. From first class residence to lowbrow dwelling, the 75-year-old New Farm building has experienced many changes both in its surrounding environment and its tenants within. For more than 13 years Avalon has provided visual artists a place to live and work. This publication features the work of 16 of these artists and documents some of their Avalon experiences. In addition, it contains a collection of oral and written history from over 50 past and present tenants and others with intimate links with the building. Recent interiors are recorded, the architectural history is revealed, design and social relations are explored and art exhibitions are documented. The book has a local focus with far-reaching appeal. Art, architecture and social history are its primary themes, but it also includes various notions of belief, sex and music.
Avalon: Art & life of an apartment building
ISBN 1 876091 53 3.
Retail price: $30 including GST
Hardcover, 148 x 210 mm, 288 pages, over 260 illustrations, 193 in colour.
Available from MoB Store and selected art & design book stores. Ask your favourite bookshop to order it in for you if it's not in stock.
Edited by Ricardo Felipe and includes texts by Leonard Brown, Ross Gibson, Timothy Hill, Courtney Pedersen, Skye Raabe, Robert Riddel and Luke Roberts. Featured artists: Lincoln Austin, Troy-Anthony Baylis, Leonard Brown, Jun Chen, Li Juan Chen, Donna Confetti, Miles Hall, Melinda Jane, Greg Nelson, Jane O'Neill, Sean Phillips, Skye Raabe, Luke Roberts, Sandra Selig, Elmar Verwer and Heather Winter. Co-published by the Museum of Brisbane and Vanity Publishing. The Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, funded the publication.
RSVP by 17 May: mob@brisbane.qld.gov.au
AVALON: ART & LIFE OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING
SATURDAY 21 MAY AT 2 PM
MUSEUM OF BRISBANE, KING GEORGE SQUARE FOYER, CITY HALL
View your invitation at: http://home.quicknet.com.au/rica/AVALON-INVITE.gif
Avalon is an apartment building located at the crossroads of sleaze and affluence in Brisbane. From first class residence to lowbrow dwelling, the 75-year-old New Farm building has experienced many changes both in its surrounding environment and its tenants within. For more than 13 years Avalon has provided visual artists a place to live and work. This publication features the work of 16 of these artists and documents some of their Avalon experiences. In addition, it contains a collection of oral and written history from over 50 past and present tenants and others with intimate links with the building. Recent interiors are recorded, the architectural history is revealed, design and social relations are explored and art exhibitions are documented. The book has a local focus with far-reaching appeal. Art, architecture and social history are its primary themes, but it also includes various notions of belief, sex and music.
Avalon: Art & life of an apartment building
ISBN 1 876091 53 3.
Retail price: $30 including GST
Hardcover, 148 x 210 mm, 288 pages, over 260 illustrations, 193 in colour.
Available from MoB Store and selected art & design book stores. Ask your favourite bookshop to order it in for you if it's not in stock.
Edited by Ricardo Felipe and includes texts by Leonard Brown, Ross Gibson, Timothy Hill, Courtney Pedersen, Skye Raabe, Robert Riddel and Luke Roberts. Featured artists: Lincoln Austin, Troy-Anthony Baylis, Leonard Brown, Jun Chen, Li Juan Chen, Donna Confetti, Miles Hall, Melinda Jane, Greg Nelson, Jane O'Neill, Sean Phillips, Skye Raabe, Luke Roberts, Sandra Selig, Elmar Verwer and Heather Winter. Co-published by the Museum of Brisbane and Vanity Publishing. The Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland, funded the publication.
RSVP by 17 May: mob@brisbane.qld.gov.au
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