This is a poem
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08.07.2021 — 13.11.2021
Buxton Contemporary

This is a poem

Bringing contemporary art and poetry into dialogue, This is a poem was a multi-disciplinary project encompassing new commissions in a diverse mix of media and forms, live performances, a publication and an exhibition. The project draws notable artists and poets into creative discourse. Each participant has been invited to write, perform, read or present in visual form an original work of poetry in response to an artwork held in the University’s Buxton Contemporary collection. Conceived to creatively animate the collection, This is a poem brings art, artists, and poetry into orbit with audiences through an experimental and experiential exhibition that...
installation view: This is a poem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2021
installation view: This is a poem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2021
installation view: This is a poem, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2021 showing Peter Tyndall (left) and Mitch Cairns (right)

Artworks

Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 1, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 2, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 3, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 4, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 5, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 6, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 7, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 8, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 9, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 10, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Study for This is a poem 11, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Figure/Ground for Buxton Contemporary, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Mitch Cairns, Figure/Ground for Buxton Contemporary, 2021, paper serviette detail, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Mitch Cairns, Figure/Ground for Buxton Contemporary, 2021, print 1 detail, 2021
Mitch Cairns, Mitch Cairns, Figure/Ground for Buxton Contemporary, 2021, print 2 detail, 2021
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