Portia Maché
2013
Image Courtesy of Elloise Grills
At the invitation of curator Channon Goodwin I was invited to create a solo show at Bus Projects. Then positioned behind the Collingwood Porsche dealership, I entitled my show “RIDE” & I created "Portia Maché" A life-sized, hand-made, non - functioning, papier maché, replica of a Porsche 911 Carrera convertible. Exploring the parallels between folk art & brand worship.
This project was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The project took three months to construct with the generous assistance from Andrew Truong, Noriko Nakamura, Christopher Sciuto, Melanie Neal & Celeste Rowe.
Materials include cardboard, egg cartons, newspaper, corn flour, water, packing tape, masking tape, gaffa tape, aluminium foil, acrylic paint & steel wool sponges. In order to move the work from my studio to the gallery the car was built in three main pieces that sat on top of a collection of cinder blocks.
Flyer Designed by Simon Browne.
Gallery Images Courtesy of Cristo Crocker
