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                    Concrete prints from the McEwans celebrity pavement.

                    ​​​​​​​​Thursday 11 April to Friday 16 August 2024

                    Who remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement? Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their hand- and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer, you’d step in the prints of actors, musicians, sportspeople, writers, dancers, politicians, an astronaut, a racehorse – even an operatic dog.

                    Gotcha! presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times.

                    Curator biography

                    Robyn Annear writes about Melbourne’s history. Her books include Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found (Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne), Adrift in Melbourne and Corners of Melbourne. Gotcha! is her fourth exhibition for the City Gallery, and her third with a one-word title.

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