A Chicko Roll wrapper found in Melbourne's General Cemetery and miscellaneous discarded items picked up in Alice Springs and Ayers Rock -Uluru - contributed to an unusual entry in the October l978 Lost and Found : Objects and Images art exhibition at the Ewing and George Paton Galleries , Melbourne University Union . A rare catalogue for the event was included in the collection of Australian art researcher , the late Margaret Vine , of Magnetic Island, Queensland .
Artist John Wolseley, who emigrated to Australia in l976, obtained inspiration for the above work , entitled Panel for Diorama of Uluru ( Ayers Rock ) ,said to be exhibited at the Macchu Pinca Museum of Religion , Tierra de la Piedro Oscura , from items collected in various places . Apart from the Chicko Roll wrapper at the cemetery, there he also found a Carlton Football Club passout and a cardboard box for a Kookaburra cricket ball .
On a run from Dalgety Street , St. Kilda , Melbourne , to the yacht marina and back , he collected empty plastic cordial containers , an early l960s space rocket and part of a ship's rudder.A piece of cut up woman's tights had been rejected .
Switching to the Northern Territory for additional oddments and inspiration , he slept on an outcrop at the Alice Springs Golf Course and found a Dunlop 65 ball ; the dried up Finke River produced an Alectoria Superba grasshopper , part of a cicada wing , five discarded Polaroid camera pieces , a Ring-tailed Dragon , Amphibolouris Cardosinctus , a heat twisted rubber shoe and a Desert Goby (fish) ,Chlamydogobius Eremius .
While walking in Mulga scrub near the Ayers Rock tourist bus stop he spotted five pieces of tourist brochures, a Dragonfly nymph skin , a 100g Rocky Road chocolate wrapper, a water dragon , two Riverside Studios Pty. Ltd. postcards , a giant centipede (seven inches ) and 24 "sloughed " Polaroid bits .
In the foreword Janine Burke said the exhibition , assisted by Sunday and John Reed , who presented their collection of Australian art, including Sidney Nolan's first series of Ned Kelly paintings, to the Museum of Modern Art and Design in l958, explained the event .
The entire exhibition was about the transformation of found objects , personal memorabilia , magazine advertisements , newspaper photographs, labels and other flotsam and jetsam of a consumer society salvaged and recycled by 11 artists in a way that was a comment on both their art and on the society that informs and influences that art .
The entire exhibition was about the transformation of found objects , personal memorabilia , magazine advertisements , newspaper photographs, labels and other flotsam and jetsam of a consumer society salvaged and recycled by 11 artists in a way that was a comment on both their art and on the society that informs and influences that art .
She went on to say the Australian pop art movement had been a fugitive one during the sixties , headed by a small group in Sydney and Melbourne . The exhibition began "historically " with assemblages by Mike Brown, born Sydney 1938, and paintings of Richard Larter, born in the URK , a deliberate misprint , who came to Australia in the l960s , later producing art with the help of syringes .
Both he and Brown had opted for a freewheeling response to society and sexuality, parodying through juxtaposition and choice of image a barrage of media-created voyeuristic fantasies. The Vietnam War and the My Lai massacre were subjects for Larter.
Both he and Brown had opted for a freewheeling response to society and sexuality, parodying through juxtaposition and choice of image a barrage of media-created voyeuristic fantasies. The Vietnam War and the My Lai massacre were subjects for Larter.
Vicki Varvaresso , from Sydney , described as heir to that city's tradition of funky, pop influenced art , acknowledged in Make Your Face the Focal Point This Season -below-that the power of advertising is insidious. The central figure's face is hidden from view , only her reflection seen -the self image she desired with its Maclean's smile and Decore blonde hair .
According to the dictates of fashion , a woman was always a reflection, narcissistic , chameleon-like, changing hair-cut , make-up and clothes for the latest and chic-est style . Identity was sacrificed to these demands and each season produced new women to match .
According to the dictates of fashion , a woman was always a reflection, narcissistic , chameleon-like, changing hair-cut , make-up and clothes for the latest and chic-est style . Identity was sacrificed to these demands and each season produced new women to match .
Part time lecturer at the Victorian College of Arts , Elizabeth Gower used materials such as tissue, newsprint, wax paper , resin, paint and some found objects . Her exhibition , Labels, socked home the brash , immediate impact of supermarket shopping .
A lecturer in printmaking at the Canberra School of Art ,Mandy Martin provided the silkscreen Unknown Industrial Prisoner 1977 ,inspired by David Ireland's Miles Franklin Award winning Australian novel . Showing a worker being hauled away in the background , it could be used to symbolise the government's proposed new union bashing laws.
