.....The Collective is a group of female artists, who met in Sydney but are now dispersed all over the place, and began working together with a focus on creating awareness, discussion and engagement through participation, fun, energy, spontaneity, controversy and commentary.
To view some of our projects see below or visit thecollectivesite.net for further information.
Projects include
Just a couple of weeks prior to the 2007 Australian federal election, at an exhibition titled The Howard Years, held At the Vanishing Point in Newtown, members of the public were asked by the Collective to record an audio message for the next Prime Minister of Australia. These messages were then sent to Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after his election.
I am not someone to fear, was a collaborative performance based work that responded to the heightened state of security in Sydney surrounding APEC, specifically for the decentralized multi-venue exhibition Trajectories of Dissent.
Patches stating I am not someone to fear were hand sewn onto the clothes of willing members of the public at each exhibition opening. Each person wearing a patch was then photographed and a collection of Polaroid images emerged on the wall of the gallery building a community of individuals both within the exhibition space and living throughout the city of Sydney itself.
Ann Finnegan has written about this work in her article "Hyperplexic, desalinated but not scary" in the journal Artlink, Fuel for Thought Vol 28 No 1, 2008.
