Wendy Murray

Pipped at the Post (2015), 140 posters, Sydney AUS. Millers Point & social housing in Sydney. Pipped at the post responds to the public housing sell-off in Millers Point and The Rocks and the greater issue of public housing in Sydney and NSW, Australia.

At Millers Point and in The Rocks, developers are likely to be given access to a fire sale of historic properties and it seems they may even be able to purchase consolidated lots of housing. Meanwhile, in adjacent former docklands, the vision of a gambling billionaire and Lend Lease corporation’s $6 billion Barangaroo South high-density housing project is openly facilitated by government as an ‘engine of growth’. read full article »

THE POINT IS Community, Heritage, Relationships, Art, Home, Save Millers Point
7th-11th October, 2015, 107 Projects
Coordinated by Paddi O’Leary | Curated by Cara Martinez

Reg Mombassa, Deborah Kelly, Ruark Lewis, Mini Graff, Ian Milliss, Alison Alder, Be Useful Group, Tamara Dean, Nikki Easterbrook, Jane Bennett, Sally Cushing, Margaret Bishop & John Dunn, Paddi O’Leary, Peque, Members of the Millers Point Community. Keynote speech by Eva Cox AO

Responses by artists and the community are presented in a united show of resistance to the relocation of Millers Point tenants. The Point is underscores the diversity and social cohesion inherent in the unique, historic community of Millers Point.

Alison Alder and Mini Graff: Some Posters / Local Positions
6 March to 18 April 2015, The Cross Art Projects
The exhibition Some Posters / Local Positions aims to blur the line between studio, street and social/political art practice. A modus operandi of artists Alison Alder and Mini Graff is to use a fluid community residency to engage with social justice issues; their print and poster works or stencils often pose puzzling, persuading or provoking questions. Both artists are also renowned high-end printmakers and teachers. See exhibition »