Brighten My Day: Colour in the Everyday, in the Art Factory

Brighten My Day: colour in the everyday, 2010, project space.
Brighten My Day: colour in the everyday, 2010, project space.

Deborah Paauwe, Sweet Lullaby, 2002, C-type photograph, 120 x 120 cm, Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Deborah Paauwe, 2006
Deborah Paauwe, Sweet Lullaby, 2002, C-type photograph, 120 x 120 cm, Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Deborah Paauwe, 2006

Works of art from the MRAG collection which convey the colour and vivacity of everyday life have been hung at child height on the walls, while a brand new permanent light installation, developed by Melissa O’Brien, hangs in the adjacent stairwell space. In the play space, a 10 metre children’s collaborative drawing installation runs the length of the exhibition space, flanked by a children’s kitchen intended to point out the colour and pattern hidden in the everyday, and a relaxing garden where parents and kids can sit down to read one of MRAG’s children’s books on colour, or inspect the details of a digital montage ‘garden’, created out of drawings by students from Term One’s Art Tuesdays class. Curated by Lauren van Katwyk.