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’Pong was one of a group of photographers who took some great images at the long weekend’s Sleaze Ball. They’re currently showing in another public slide show event at 76 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, opposite the Snakebean diner. In Sydney. Every evening until it stops.
The food is laid out, ready to eat, but everyone’s waiting for someone else to make the first move.
This photo was taken at the close of the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize exhibition on Sunday. Eventually the woman in the blue top sliced into the cheese — and suddenly the spell was broken!
’Pong tells me that in Thai, the very last piece on a plate is called “the polite piece” — the piece everyone is too polite to take.
I used to stir ’Pong because he never had people in his photographs. So I was amazed to see this image from Earthdance the other weekend. He was lifted bodily above the mosh pit by eager partiers — just check their faces! ’Pong took plenty of other photos, before sunset and after dusk, all of them well worth consideration.
“Just how many people can you pack into one tiny art gallery,” I wondered as I squeezed through At The Vanishing Point‘s winding displays to find a drink.
The launch of the inaugural Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize was an upbeat but slightly chaotic affair last night, with 61 works packed into a narrow gallery space and probably every contemporary artist in the village jammed into a narrow corridor trying to reach the dodgy chardonnay and too-few spring rolls being served in the back yard.
’Pong’s photograph Red Sofa (right) has been shortlisted for the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize 2007.
The Award Presentation and Launch is tonight at At The Vanishing Point gallery, 565 King Street, Newtown from 6pm to 9pm.
However the exhibition is spread across two galleries, with the rest the works on display at the Don’t Look Experimental Art Gallery, 419 New Canterbury Road, Dulwich Hill. That half is launched tomorrow night from 6pm.
Sadly ’Pong won’t be able to make the award presentation tonight, though I’ll try to be there. However we’ll both be at tomorrow’s launch in Dulwich Hill. Join us?
The exhibition runs at both galleries until 23 September.
’Pong has just posted some images of yesterday’s APEC (in)action, including the 21-bum salute to George W Bush. As always, click through for the full-sized beauty. He’s just left to see what’s what with the “main” protest today.