January 19 - March 16
Redeeming the Ruin - The Art of Consumption

‘The Art of Consumption’ is an exhibition which explores our consumer society and the inevitable waste we leave behind. It shows how the fashionable object is quickly transformed from something we covet into something we discard. Twelve artists were selected to create fourteen sculptures or installation pieces for this exhibition, and using salvaged waste as their medium, they ask the question: What can be redeemed and what truth can be revealed?

A shell-like, organic sculpture by Graham Hay, comprised of compressed paper, comments on the everyday overload of paper and information, while Simon Horsburgh’s ‘Untitled Monkey Business,’ old thongs fashioned into banana peels, becomes a metaphor for the by-products of consumption, and by extension, the pitfalls of unsustainable environmental practice.

‘The Art of Consumption’ opens on January 19 and runs until March 16. This exhibition is a Banyule City Council initiative.   
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Mona Ryder, Head Hunters, Corporate Body series, 2007 (detail). Courtesy of the artist. Photograph Richard Glover