20 April to 19 August 2022
The City Gallery exhibition From Mundane to Friday: The Art of Everyday Melbourne considers what the transient objects we leave behind might say about who we are and who we want to be, and what this legacy might reveal about us to future generations.
The exhibition features artworks from the City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection by Elizabeth Gower, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Ghost Net Art Project, Jesse Marlow, Patrick Pound, Louiseann King, Peter Atkins and Kenny Pittock. An optimistic push into finding value in the often-overlooked, the exhibition also includes various prosaic oddities plucked into significance, such as Melbourne’s first brick and recently discovered contents found in the pocket of a ticket inspector’s jacket from the 1990s.
Curated by Kenny Pittock
Kenny Pittock is an artist based in Narrm/Melbourne who works with painting and ceramics to playfully critique everyday life. Using humour and optimism, Pittock's work responds to ideas that are both timely and timeless.
Pittock received an Honours Fine Arts degree in painting from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2013 and since then has had solo exhibitions in Italy and Singapore, as well as consistently exhibiting his work throughout Australia with galleries including ACCA in Melbourne, PICA in Perth, Artspace in Sydney and MONA in Tasmania. Pittock's work is represented in many collections including Artbank, the University of Queensland, Deakin University, and the Monash University Museum of Art.