Treading on Lego #selfiesculpture
Artist/Maker and role
Lucy Barker (Australian, b.1975): Artist
Geoff Magee: Photographer
Production date
2014
About this object
This artwork was donated to the MRAG Collection for ‘The piano has been drinking (not me)’, a Maitland Regional Art Gallery exhibition that celebrated the retirement of Cultural Director Joe Eisenberg in 2015. All the artists and donors participating in this exhibition were responding to Joe Eisenberg’s final ‘begging’ – a request to create a work on paper inspired by the lyrics of the Tom Waits song, ‘The piano has been drinking (not me)’ and then to donate that artwork to the MRAG Collection. This major act of goodwill and benefaction resulted in a parting gift from Eisenberg to the City of Maitland of 174 artworks valued at over $100,000.
Artists statement:
In 2014 I created #selfiesculpture to be exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi. It was a human sized display case into which the audience could enter and pose to become their own exhibit. #selfiesculpture involved the audience in the enduring question - What is the role of art and artists? and framed it in today's digital context. One night, I dressed up and posed as 5 different versions of myself. This self-portrait is me as domestic goddess. Lucy Barker
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