20 July 2011
After the peak hour crowds had gone home last night, a team of
ISIS employees moved into Flinders Street Station and transformed a
space on the main concourse into a pop-up gallery for Moving
Galleries.
The pop up gallery emerges as part of the 2011 State
of Design Festival, only to disappear on 1 August, before
reappearing at the Royal Melbourne Show in September. Its last stop
will be Federation Square next February.
The visually striking, purpose-built pop-up gallery includes 11
display boards and large-scale letters spelling out ART and POETRY.
It was designed by 6 Hats architect Daniel Dalla Riva and built by
ISIS.
ISIS joins a number of corporate and government partners helping
bring art and poetry to Melbourne commuters through this exciting
Victorian initiative.
The artwork on display in the pop-up gallery comes from Arts Project
Australia, a professional arts organisation based in Northcote,
which nurtures and promotes artists with an intellectual
disability.
The poetry was selected from more than 1000 submissions made by
the Victorian public. They include a mixture of short and long form
poems as well as ‘Rooku’ - an Australian version of the very short
Japanese poetry form, Haiku.
Visit the exhibition in person or online at www.movinggalleries.org. Vote for your
favourite artwork and poem in the People’s Choice Awards to be in
the running to win a prize valued at $500.