Alphabet soup

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Mee, Simon and O'Neill, Jane. 2014. Alphabet soup. Melbourne, Australia 04 Sep - 18 Oct 2014

Title of Exhibition/Event	Alphabet soup
Type of Exhibition/Event	Exhibition/event
Creator/Contributor	Mee, Simon (Visual artist) and O'Neill, Jane (Curator)
Place of Publication	Melbourne, Australia
Event	Alphabet soup
Event Details	Alphabet soup Event Date 04 Sep 2014 to end of 18 Oct 2014 Event Location Melbourne, Australia Event Venue Mailbox Art Space
Description of Exhibition/Event	Sequence of small drawings deliberately reminiscent of cards and Coles Funny books. A playful examination of the historical, the naughty postcard and alphabets. Accompanying artist statement: I have always had a natural talent for the visual spoonerism…being unfashionably late to the conceptual party, the wrong end of the stick or the sore end of the pineapple. It seems only appropriate that throughout my preparations for the series at Mailbox I end up with an alphabet soup. This came about as I was looking at vignettes, postcards, Punch and Judy and 19th century street imagery around boxes and narrow spaces…a time when people were literally 'boxed' . Via a circuitous route this series owes part of its narrative dialogue to pastiche, a narrative that is both individual and the sum of its parts- an alphabet as designed by a Victorian absinthe drinker
Contains Sensitive Content	Does not contain sensitive content
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	360602. Fine arts
Byline Affiliations	School of Arts and Communication
	No affiliation
Date	2014
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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