Whereas craft is about the skill of the creator, art is about the audience. It should take us somewhere we could not go by ourselves, whether it be to greater sublimity or further abasement. It should also provide rough and friendly red wine and cheesy snacks if it is to appeal to scroungers like myself who like nothing better than latching on to our cultural betters.
But those were the heady happy days of the Hawke-Keating era and art has yielded to commodification and beer for sale in our visit to the opening of the Supermart exhibition in Northbridge. Filled to the aisles with conceptual art gags 784% funnier than your average Christmas cracker. Hinging on the themes of food – Pre-Packaged Finger Food , Knitted Sausages , and Mrs Alderson's Little Book of Garnishes ; and belonging Other People's Lighters and Other People's Shopping Lists . I settled for a friends', look out for him B. O'Connor's, Black and Yellow Small Work of Art , which will get pride of place in the SB production centre.
Then moved over to have beers and chat in the mild and fading light where I bumped into local blogger Karen Cheng to compare bellies and talk about roasting pigs. This reminded me that I should send you over to her gorgeous site . Get to Supermart before Christmas – cheap and clever (and is it too late readers, to let you know that there's a Ford Falcon XC Cobra for sale over at Australian Muscle Cars – hint hint).
Off then to a birthday party when I drank ( attention Bucks Off Innaloo shoppers $40 a carton) Monteiths's Pilsners with gallettes and tasty sausages.
supermart has opened, keeping normal business hours until December 30 (closed Christmas and Boxing Day) at the the Breadbox Gallery at the Bakery Artrage Complex, 233 – 239 James St Northbridge.
