Come on the Scene: A Next Wave and NETS Victoria touring exhibition

1 August, 2009 - 11 October 2009

Come on the Scene, a touring exhibition from Next Wave’s Regional Kickstart programme, presents the work of five young regionally-based contemporary artists, who transform the communities around them through their creative practices.

Based in diverse locations across regional Australia, each artist’s work fuses innovative contemporary art methodologies and processes with a grass-roots connection to the people and communities which characterise their town or regional centre. The resulting works provide a fresh perspective on regional Australia and the role of art in fostering a new sense of community and connectedness.

Curated by Jeff Khan and Tamara Marwood the exhibition will include new media, sculpture, painting, printmaking and installation works alongside documentation of the works being made in regional communities.

Image: Trevor Flinn The Puma, the Stranger & The Mountain 2007. Still from DVD. Courtesy the artist and Next Wave