Elizabeth Woods

10 February - 31 March, 2012

Kelly's Garden,
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart

Elizabeth Woods' work at Kelly's Garden, Hobart, is part fiction, part art installation, part public event, part fund-raiser. In a mock-funerary rite, the opening event presented a blue-grey 1967 Toyota Corona, descended upon by a murder of crows, amidst the sombre notes of a gipsy accordion - the guests paid their last respects and shared fond remembrances of Porphyry, the once-illustrious visionary who died in tragic obscurity, rendered obsolete by contemporary conservatism.

In the ensuing months, the work will be the prize in a fund-raising raffle, a procedure that will eventually reduce the work from the status of art to a collection of practical, usable and imminently saleable commodities - dissolving the vision into the mundane.

Séan Kelly's catalogue essay for the exhibition is available here.

The proceeds of the raffle will be donated to the Salamanca Arts Centre and the results will be announced, both on this site and on www.salarts.org.au, on the 31st of March, 2012.

Please contact the artist for more information on ticket sales.