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Collins St Regulars 1
Collins St. Regulars bought into the spotlight the background figures from John Brack’s beloved 1955 painting Collins St., 5 pm, in a soft sculpture street art installation as part of White Night Melbourne, 2013.
The figures all blindly hustled along in one direction towards their original destination of Spencer Street Station (now known as Southern Cross Station). This left the viewer to take the role as one of the foreground characters in the painting.
Sewn from canvas and painted, the figures referenced the medium of Brack’s original work, with a nod to another of Melbourne’s beloved artists, Mirka Mora and her painted sculpture dolls.
Collins St. Regulars was a playful work that invited the public to become a part of one of Melbourne’s best loved paintings. All night people were photographed it or photographing themselves in front of it.
As the night wore on, more and more of the Regulars were souvenired by passersby, by 7am only 11 remained.
Collins St Regulars 1
Collins St. Regulars bought into the spotlight the background figures from John Brack’s beloved 1955 painting Collins St., 5 pm, in a soft sculpture street art installation as part of White Night Melbourne, 2013.
The figures all blindly hustled along in one direction towards their original destination of Spencer Street Station (now known as Southern Cross Station). This left the viewer to take the role as one of the foreground characters in the painting.
Sewn from canvas and painted, the figures referenced the medium of Brack’s original work, with a nod to another of Melbourne’s beloved artists, Mirka Mora and her painted sculpture dolls.
Collins St. Regulars was a playful work that invited the public to become a part of one of Melbourne’s best loved paintings. All night people were photographed it or photographing themselves in front of it.
As the night wore on, more and more of the Regulars were souvenired by passersby, by 7am only 11 remained.