6 Artists and a Vision = A Wild Dog Approach.
Take one artist with a vision, a supportive community of five other artists, a council with connections in China, then couple that with supporters “prised out of the woodwork” and you have the Wild Dogs From Down Under, the result a fantastic journey for all involved.
Kerrie Warren Painter, and her five artistic associates pulled off an AMAZING feat earlier this year by doing what many would have thought was too challenging to contemplate, let alone attempt!
Let’s see where do I start, take six regional artists from Gippsland (most with little or no exposure out of their region) and give them an opportunity to display their works in a range of small art galleries, then head the whole show off to China for a show utilising a sister city relationship developed by their local council. with the aim:
- To Interact with other Communities and Cultures
- To break down language barriers through ‘Art’
- To express our individual love of ‘Gippsland’
- To live with Passion
- To Inspire others to follow their dreams……
That all sounds feasible, except anyone in the “bigger” art scene would tell you that such a notion actually should involve well known artists, an entourage of emmense scale, HUGE logistics, PR on a scale not heard of in the arts and a solid disregard for regional “whatever that word means darhlings… no no why waste your time doing such a thing with ‘regionals..’”
So without the impediment of even thinking that the “Bigger” art scene would hold such a view, the task’s were undertaken with a “heck why not” view instead of the opposite. Barriers arose, (costs and logistics) and these were all over come. Even “Regional Galleries” were not initially in with the project…
I guess no one really factored on the tenacity or the drive with which Kerrie and her team approached things. I don’t think anyone took that into account, indeed on first hearing of the project I tilited my head and said why would anyone do this??? But then after chatting to Kerrie a few times I was soon saying “Yep this will happen and happen well!”
So it did, the experience for the artists “once in a lifetime” the experience as a device to inspire others in their community, probably too big to measure. The fact remains that they did it and did it well, and yet many in the “bigger” art scene probably didn’t know until now that the whole thing took place… Another strike for the “quiet achievers” and artists everywhere with dreams and ideas. To Kerrie and team, well done!
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