By CAMERON LUCADOU-WELLS
Art is making its mark indoors and outdoors in Noble Park this month. Noble Park Community Art Show, which opens this weekend, is bursting with 500 entries, many from 10 nearby schools.
Organiser and botanical artist Heather Duggan says the newly added schools section has attracted a flood of young talent vying for a $500 prize. Last year, a debut art show entrant took out the public’s popularity vote.
Ms Duggan said the community art show broke the isolation often felt by artists. “We can come together and see what other people have created. It also brings the community together.”
Public artist Georgina Humphries completed stage two of her three-part ‘Sketching Noble Park’ series last week. She transformed fixtures in Douglas Street — a bike, bike rack, bench and bollards — into “three-dimensional drawings” by covering them in black and white fabrics.
Humphries has enjoyed the interaction with passers-by. Many hadn’t seen public art made in front of them. “Everyone’s appreciative that something like this is going on in Noble Park. It’s something that can be accessed as you go down to the shops or to the station. Not everyone, me included, has time to go to a gallery.”
The third stage of the Noble Park project will involve a shopping trolley and bench near Coles supermarket.
The art show opens at Noble Park Community Centre, Memorial Drive on Friday at 7pm. It runs on Saturday and Sunday, 10am-3pm.
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