THE BACKGROUND
Stories started emerging from many artist colleagues, about artworks
that they had begun, yet for whatever reason, not followed through to
completion – works that had dwelled in the corners of studios, spare rooms and garages. Works that had existed in a kind of limbo, lingering
in the hope of being rediscovered, rejoiced and finally finished.
The Duets exhibition was an opportunity to dust off these shelved ideas
and artefacts. The project was initiated as an attempt to shed light on those enduring and ill-fated artworks, to allow these neglected works a
chance for a second lease on life, and to give these wallflowers their
second chance to shine. It was also devised as an economic way to use a readily available resource: abandoned artworks. The incomplete artworks
were offered up for recycling in both their material and conceptual
sense, in that either the ideas or physical matter could be mined and
reworked. These works were then made available for prospective adoptive
parents to take home and complete.
THE PROCESS
The duet occurs between two parties: the ‘initiator’ and the‘completor’ in a kind of potluck collaboration, that brings out new
potentials from unfinished and unrealised projects.
Submitted artworks can be in any state or stage of gestation, from raw
materials to near finished works. Artists need to be willing to let
submitted works be subjugated to any modifications, un-doings, or
re-workings. THE INVITATION
Artists and audience were warmly encouraged to participate in this exhibition; either
through submitting and making available for adoption their own abandoned
sculptures and unfinished projects, or by making an application to
adopt one of the abandoned works in the show.
To submit an abandoned artwork, artists were asked to drop of your work during the
gallery’s opening hours, including with the work a description of the
project - what the ideas were, what happened, and why the work was left
incomplete. To adopt an artwork visitors were asked to fill in an application form that was available at
the gallery or to email us the name of the artwork
and a projected plan of completion. |
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