Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Print - Digital collage, 586, Captured, 2011
... artist 586...During the Open House Melbourne 30-31 July 2011, the artist..., the artist nicknamed "586" participated in one of the Norla Dome ...
"Art is the vehicule for communications far Beyond the confines of a space, while design is the aesthetic cradle in which messages are nurtured and processed."
"A 586 rework of the iconic building that has withstood the redevelopment of the Melbourne Docklands and defied the odds.
On display a large format print 700mm x 1400mm print. Also a limited run of smaller prints on archival paper also available to support Melbourne's first non-profit charitible organisation that is still self funded, ie. not government funded."
During the Open House Melbourne 30-31 July 2011, the artist nicknamed "586" participated in one of the Norla Dome Project Space events sponsored by Bendigo Wealth.
Made in Melbourne, 586 is an urban digital experimentalist who blends social narrative with found image creating messages that inspire social consciousness and free thought. Cast in a local foundry back in 1991, 586 was a number, amid hundreds of men working between the ladie and the furnace in a clock on - clock off automated industrious landscape.
Legend tells of a time when correspondance to workers was addressed to their number, not their name. Disapproval spread rapidly and a revoit soon followed, eventually the power of the masses won out, but the demoralizing treatment of the worker would go on to shape 586's perception and became the catalyst for a personal protest against social imbalance.
This print was on display and smaller prints were also sold to raised funds for the Mission.DigitalLarge digital print of a design that overlays various symbols ( 4 flying angels ), the sails of a sailing ship and contemporary cityscapes and seascapes. centrally features a full photograph of the Mission to seafarers building at 717 Flinders St. Melbourne. Mounted in a large black frame and glazed with perspex .mission to seafarers, flinders street, melbourne, windvane, dome, flying angel, sea, norla dome, bendigo wealth, artist 586, 2011, artwork-paintings, open house, norla dome project space