Eastern Suburbs Art Group

I had a nice invitation to contribute to this show and put in some collages, one of which I sold. The woman who bought the item also had something in the show. Trinity Myers' piece (see below) is a fridge covered in some sort of growth, something green that stands out against the hard lines of the kitchen appliance. Trinity has made a kind of domestic collage. The fridge contains food but it doesn't chill, everything is at room temperature so you'd probably not want to eat it. We chatted for a while and I took this snapshot. I was reminded of a work I made last year, one of my Fridge! series (see below). I make a similar comparison in a brochure produced for Ryde Library collage classes. A household fridge is a kind of collage, except instead of glue you use magnets. In my series I try to show this alongside the remnants of a life - a life I lived - illustrated with the sort of snapshots people put on their fridges. I mean everyoine has a fridge right?  In the digital colla...