LET’S ORGANISE YOUR LEISURE (LOYL) WITH KATHY MACKEY
Celebrate SWELL 2022 at Currumbin Creek with local artist Kathy Mackey for “Let’s Organise Your Leisure”. Join the LOYL team for a guided walk along the creek to retrieve sculptural materials – pool noodles, yoga mats and other “materials of leisure” – before diving into a creek-side workshop to build some floating artworks.
WORKSHOPS:
When |
Saturday 10th September 9.00am – 11.00am
Sunday 11th September 1.00pm – 3.00pm
Where | Meet at the SWELL Northern Hub, Currumbin Alley
Cost | $5 + bf
FLOAT OFF FINALE (performance):
When | Sunday 11th September 3.00pm – 5.00pm
Meet at the Alley to be involved in the procession down to the beach where you will be able to be a part of the floating installation.
Where | Currumbin Alley
Cost | FREE (no bookings required)
More about Kathy Mackey
Kathy Mackey is a Queensland based photomedia artist whose work explores the complexity of space and light within art and architecture as well as the liminal spaces between the natural/ the artificial and the public/ private. She works across photography, painting and installation. She completed her Ph.D exegesis The Post-tourist Mirror in 2011. Kathy is one of eight artists of the GENERATE GC cohort and is exploring the concept of organised leisure through site responsive works. See more about her project LOYL here.
This project is proudly supported by GENERATE GC, a City of Gold Coast initiative.
Generate GC acknowledges the Yugambeh people, the traditional owners of the land on which we work, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on the Gold Coast today.
