ARE YOU A HEAD CASE?
Calling all emerging or established designers, illustrators, photographers and artists! Fancy soaking your screen/sketch pad/lens/canvas in subject matter that will challenge, inspire and give you a hit of the unexpected?
We thought so.
Head Case, a brand new exhibition taking place at the distinguished Sofitel Hotel in Melbourne, September 1st to 3rd, will exhibit work from talented creatives (like you) about people living with brains that are not as they once were. Whether impaired by mystery illness, accident, drugs or any other number of reasons, Australians suffering brain injuries are as varied as you can imagine. We think its about time their stories were explored creatively and visually.
PARTNER
Head Case has teamed up with Brain Injury Australia. The exhibition will mark the opening of The Combined 2nd International Conference on Alcohol and Other Drug Related Brain Injury and the Brain Injury National Conference in September 2008, aiming to raise awareness of ABI throughout the community.
DEADLINE — 15th July, 2008
To register your interest in donating your artwork contact Skye Luckins —
Submissions should be emailed as a JPEG or PDF (under 6MB).
FORMAT
Works should be no larger than
841 x 1189mm (A0). No 3D objects will be accepted. Successful submissions must be provided ready for hanging.
DETAILS
30 finalists will be selected to exhibit in the Head Case exhibition by a panel of judges including; Daryl Jackson — Architect; Kate Rhodes — National Design Centre; Peter Bennetts — Photographer; Melissa Loughnan — Director, Utopian Slumps; Büro North Multidisciplinary
Design Studio and Anna Pappas — Director, Über Gallery.
SALE OF ARTWORKS
All artworks selected for Head Case by our panel of judges (above) will be for sale during the exhibition. 70% of the total sale will go to the artist, and the remaining 30% will be donated to Brain Injury Australia. At the conclusion
of the exhibition, all unsold artworks will be returned to artists. NB: All exhibiting artists will be invited to
the launch of Head Case on
1st September, 2008 at The Sofitel.
PRIZE MONEY — $5000
A People’s Choice prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the artist whose artwork receives the most number of votes at the exhibition’s launch event (1st September). Guests will be invited to nominate an artwork for the award, and the winning artist will be announced at the end of the evening.
LINKS FOR ABI
To assist in your understanding of ABI, please check these links;
UP FOR IT?
Here is the brief: respond to the theme of loss with works linking back to the experiences of those with Acquired Brain Injuries (it could be sufferers and/or those who love and support them).
The following quotes are to kick-start your ideas;
Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really
an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.
- Luis Bunuel, Spanish Film Director,
1900 - 1983
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina G. Rossetti, English Poet,
1830 - 1894
