Creative work associated with Elements ID 370830;  original eprints ID 34938 and dup Eprints ID 31418 deleted.  verified 12/3/18.

Research statement: This was an exhibition of original creative works including two videos, and a series of found objects for a group exhibition titled "Decade". Artist's were formed into (random) pairs to create collaborative works that reflected on the artist run gallery project, Trocadero, celebrating 10 years in operation as a exhibition space and studio complex in Footscray. The project was designed to investigate notions of place, artistic identity and collaborative creative endeavour. Artist Bianca Durrant and I exhibited around 10 individual works together to produce a "collection" which we combined into a form of miniature 'institutional critique' titled "The Magpie Museum." The works included a performative video, which vocally mimicked the call of the magpie and another video work re-presenting magpies in domestic settings. Other works tracked flocks of local birds around the Maribyrnong River and phonetically reproduced the Magpie 'warble' as drawing. The works conceptually referenced the intersection of nature and culture, and the everyday yet extraordinary contribution of artists as natural to the Footscray Community and environment. The important exhibition commemorating the Trocadero Artist Run Project Space in Footscray was by invitation, with only artists who had made a significant contribution to the artist run space since its inauguration invited to participate. These artists were selected by, and included, members of the board. This was an important final exhibition for this iteration of the organisation, which afterwards had a complete reformatting of its membership. The works produced were an opportunity to evidence and critique this institution via creative research with the impetus to collaborate, a further celebration of the unique potentials of collective endeavour.