By JESSE GRAHAM
FOUR artists will come together this week to tell their stories as part of a new exhibition gracing the walls of Healesville’s Memorial Hall for the next month.
On Friday, 28 August, ‘4 Artists, 4 Stories’ opens at the Memo, featuring about 60 works by artists Mim Kocher, Robyn Henchel, Max Grierson and Savaad Felich,
With paintings, graphite drawings and sculptures, the artists’ different styles come through in their own mediums to tell stories and provide social commentary, according to Ms Kocher.
In an interview in the lead-up to the opening, Ms Kocher said that some of her works are inspired by politics and current events, including her vase, titled When Are We Going to Get a Key?
“I’ve got this vase, and it’s full of people, but there’s this vacant flat they’re looking to buy,” she said.
“The couple are clambering up the vase – the building – and up on top, it could be the owner of the whole apartment … he’s standing up there, imposing, and he’s got this massive bunch of keys.”
The inspiration, she said, was the discussions on Joe Hockey’s controversial “get a good job” comments towards first home buyers earlier this year.
Ms Henchel, meanwhile, says she paints landscapes and things that she comes across in her day-to-day life, using acrylic paint and canvas.
Mr Grierson creates graphite drawings taking a new look at legends such as that of bushranger Ned Kelly, and Mr Felich is a sculpture artist using reclaimed materials and curator at Yering Station’s art gallery.
The theme of the exhibition, according to the artists, is to provide four different ways of story-telling through the different works, mediums and styles.
“I think they link in the way that they all tell a story,” Ms Kocher said.
4 Artists, 4 Stories opens on Friday 28 August at Healesville’s Memo Hall, 235 Maroondah Highway, from 6-8pm.
TarraWarra Museum of Art curator Anthony Fitzpatrick will officially open the exhibition, which will run until 22 September.
For more information, visit ach.yarraranges.vic.gov.au or call 1300 368 333.
