The Gallery’s November exhibition will bring some cheer to your day.
The exhibition, For a Monday, are the works of Candice Boyd, a local artist in the Macedon Ranges whose project inspired her community in the darkest of times.
During the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boyd, like a lot of those in the Macedon Ranges, were on the other side of the ‘ring of steel’ to some of their friends.
It was during this time that she started posting photos of flowers from her garden on social media, hoping to share a little bit of regional life with those she cared about across Melbourne.
She said it brought a bit of joy to people’s lives and once the restrictions were lifted and she stopped posting, her friends asked Boyd to bring back the cheery posts.
Every year since, the posts have continued from September to May in the form of a weekly post called For a Monday.
Each of the works in the exhibition comes from one of these social media posts, but they have been transformed from a basic digital print by hand distressing the surface of the image with an artist’s rubber, revealing the texture of the handmade paper underneath.
This process allows these works to blur the line between digital and non-digital art.
With 12 works part of the exhibition, the images represent Boyd’s favourite exotic plants from her garden.
Originals and calendars are on sale with the exhibition on display from Tuesday 4 November to Sunday 30 November at The Gallery, Mount Macedon.
The Gallery is open Friday to Tuesday from 10am to 4pm.
