The City Speaks Softly
MELISSA SPRATT and TAL FITZPATRICK
Presented by BLEACH* and Experience Gold Coast through the EGC Arts Fund.
Thu 31 Jul - Sat 30 Aug
The City Speaks Softly
The City Speaks Softly is a collaboration between artists Melissa Spratt and Tal Fitzpatrick that uses the comforting nature of textiles to explore how art can soften our experience of public space.
This socially engaged project seeks to shed light on how art might create moments of gentle sensorial reprieve. Utilising street pole banners as a broadly accessible site for a creative intervention with the potential to gently surprise audiences.
Artworks will be installed on street poles around Broadbeach Cultural Precinct, Burleigh Esplanade, HOTA, Kurrawa Park and Broadbeach for the duration of the festival.
#Artist bios
Tal Fitzpatrick (she/her) and Melissa Spratt (she/her) are both textile artists based on the lands of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region. They bonded over a mutual love of textiles and text-based artwork whilst simultaneously working from studios at Placemakers* as part of the INCUBATE program. Their collaboration bloomed when they both entered the GENERATE GC program and merged their making techniques to convey complimentary meanings.
Tal holds a PhD from the Victorian College of the Arts (2018) and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from Griffith University (2010). Tal is best known for her creative and academic work in the field of craftivism.
Melissa studied a Bachelor of Digital Media with Honours at Griffith University QCA (2015), majoring in Fine Art/Studio Art. Melissa is best known for her finger-knitted artworks which respond to her lived experience of being a highly sensitive person.
#Acknowledgements
This project is supported by Generate GC. Generate GC is a City of Gold Coast Program through the Arts and Culture Unit.
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