Backwash Flea Market

The upcoming exhibition Backwash at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery will feature a pop-up flea market out under the trees in front of the gallery! The Backwash flea market will be held on Thursday 21st September between 10am - 3pm

 

Contemporary artists have lived through an era of uncertainty and disillusionment. Floating along a current of late-capitalism, a self-perpetuating system of waste, they find themselves stuck in a cyclical deadlock, overloaded with images of humanity's self-destruction. In creating art from the 'backwash' of contemporary life, this group of artists seek to grapple with a tide of excessive mass consumption and an ever intensifying globalisation by readdressing its residues.

 

Backwash includes works by Robert Bittenbender, Isabella Darcy, George Egerton-Warburton, Sarah Goffman, Spencer Lai, Marian Tubbs, and Philadelphia Wireman. Curated by Oscar Capezio and Tony Oates.

 

Stall applications are open to all staff and students of the ANU. In keeping with the thematic of the exhibition, second-hand and handmade goods will be given priority for a stall spot.

 

If you are interested in holding a stall or know someone who might, please complete the expression of interest form linked in our bio! If you have any queries you can contact Sonja - sonja.sagar@anu.edu.au