Ash Keating, Press Release
Melbourne’s mX newspaper is more popular than gouging out your eyes with a fork. However, if they handed out free forks at train stations we are sure that more people would change their preference.
Ash Keating, who has a background in street art, activism, waste management and fine art, poignantly uses mX newspapers as the medium for his current exhibition at Diane Tanzer Gallery. His show Press Release asks us to consider the mX outside the confines of a peak hour train ride. Of concern to the artist is the environmental consequence of thousands of newspapers being dumped attrain stations each day, as well as the way in which the city and its events are presented in the media. In many ways Press Release is everything that the mX is not; meticulous, considered, conscientious, unique, intelligent and informative.
Medium: Installation
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
Keywords: Ash Keating, Diane Tanzer Gallery, Gertrude Street, Art
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