
spaceAID exhibition/auction:
7pm, Saturday May 12 2007
spaceAID 2007 was the inaugural exhibition/auction to raise funds to support the activities of Queen Street Studio; a non-profit creative development and rehearsal facility run by artists for artists.
It is the celebration of the potential of space . . . how artists can claim an empty space and with their imaginations, fill it. From nothing to everything like a blank canvas or an empty rehearsal room, artists can transform space into something of unique beauty – of complete terror – of great understanding.
Queen Street Studio – established in 2005 – was created in support of Sydney’s performing arts community whose spaces are continually being shut down redeveloped and genetrified. Queen Street Studio supports the artists potential by providing a space in which to create.
spaceAID 2007 had the priviledge of being curated by the delightful cartoonist Reg Lynch of Sydney Morning Herald and Bulletin Magazine fame and driven by Boss Magazine art director Samantha Wright.
The event has attracted around 30 established and emerging visual artists who mostly created work especially for this event. Responding to the idea of space and performance, this was a unique collaboration of visual and performing arts where all work was auctioned at the event. Proceeds went to the potential of space and the potential of an artist’s imagination – when an ‘idea’s time has come’ (Victor Hugo).
For more information about spaceAID 2007 auction/exhibition, please send and email to:
sam@queenstreetstudio.com.au
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