Tell Us A Tale (bilingual storybook) - Wollongong Gallery

While I was in town I took in as many of the displays in the gallery as possible. I was curious about Tell Us A Tale because it is quite naive, though obviously there is support in the administrative apparatus for a show like this that features the multicultural aspects of the city.

The pictures are by children and there is interpretive apparatus left next to the images to help guide visitors around the walls. The display took up an entire room on one of the gallery floors.

The interpretive apparatus is held by the same type of frame used to hold the drawings. This is curious, and you can see why it was done, since clearly it is simple to use the white frame for everything. It does end up being a littel confusing however. The frames weren't always perfectly fitted to the artworks furthermore, but this is a minor issue.

But it was as though the explanation was as much a part  of the show as the drawings. I am not sure what I think of this, as normal curatorial practice is to distinguish between two two types of show content. It is obvious from the display that the city is culturally diverse.