Artefact is where art meets historical relic inMaking Melbourne , City Museum’s chronological survey of Melbourne’s evolution. Thirteen contemporary artists weave their small-scale works through the historical artefacts of the permanent exhibition – works that grapple with questions of narrative, with traditional forms of display, with diorama and the relationship between physical objects and technology.

Artefact enriches Making Melbourne with the mystery and seduction of craft-based art practice, just as the museological context of Old Treasury’s nineteenth century environs inject an elegiac disquiet into the contemporary installations, playing off their allusions to grandeur.

Artists:
Hannah Bertram
Dale Cox
Daniel Dorall
Jayne Dyer
Greer Honeywill
Ruth Hutchinson
Susan Milne
Anna-Maria O’Keeffe
Jessica Page
Vin Ryan
Julia Silvester
Kylie Stillman
Louiseann Zahra-King

ARTEFACT - A MELBOURNE KEEPSAKE
Fully illustrated 48-page catalogue available from City Museum Shop.
Featuring texts by Simon Gregg, Martina Copley and Martyn Pedler.
RRP $10.00
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Curator: Simon Gregg
Venue: Making Melbourne Galleries

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