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Hot Spots: hook turns with Bus Projects
Thursday 19 August 2010, 11.39 AM
By The Team | Posted in Places
Melbourne’s myriad laneways are home to an industrious network of artist-run and independent art spaces, promising all manner of brain fodder and creative inspiration should you venture in their direction.
Hot Spots caught up with Drew Pettifer from Bus Projects to find out what makes this gallery’s wheels go round (and round).
What makes Bus different from other artist-run initiatives (ARIs) and independent art spaces?
Bus Projects focuses on the exhibition of sound and spatial art, which certainly distinguishes it from other ARIs and independent art spaces.
We are still open to all forms of contemporary art production, particularly if it is experimental or adventurous, but sound and spatial art is our main focus. Our mission is ultimately to get more art by more young and emerging artists seen by more people more often.
What kind of artists have you had on your roster in the past?
Bus has shown a broad range of different artists during the past nine and a bit years. Artists such as Chris Bond, Helen Johnson, Tai Snaith and Viv Miller have all acknowledged the significant role Bus played in the development of their artistic careers.
We’ve had some great sound performances at the gallery too, by artists such as Marco Fusinato, Phil Samartzis and Rod Cooper.
Bus closed its Little Lonsdale gallery doors in March. Is Bus now going to move into a real bus?
That’s certainly part of the plan…We had planned to launch a mobile art space on a bus earlier in the year, but had problems with the roadworthiness of the vehicle we had in mind. I think our ideal situation is to have both a permanent gallery space and a bus which we use as a mobile project space. Hopefully, in the coming months, one or both of these spaces will become a reality.
Is there a stronger focus on off-site projects?
We’re interested in satellite projects and project spaces and engaging artists and audiences in new ways. Until we have a new space of our own we will certainly continue functioning as a kind of roaming gallery – we’ll certainly be sticking around for a while longer.
Keep an eye on the Bus Projects website for details of coming projects. Some big things are in the wings, we hear.
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