As Melbourne’s Gertrude Street turns itself into a canvas for contemporary artists, four Greek Australians will take part in this year’s seventh Gertrude Street Projection Festival from 18 to 27 July.
Artist Soula Mantalvanos, award winning projection artist Nick Azidis, portrait and social documentary photographer Nicola Dracoulis and photographic artist Katrina Stamatopoulos will find themselves amongst numerous local and international artists, who will explore meaning and interpretations of fleeting and impermanent moments, while using the buildings and surfaces of Gertrude Street as their own unique canvas.
The theme of this year’s Festival is ‘Transience’.
For 10 evenings in July the length of Gertrude Street in Fitzroy, 40 sites altogether – its buildings, laneways, footpaths and tree trunks – will be lit up with site-specific, curated projections of the visions of talented projection artists.
The Catfish on 30 Gertrude St will serve as the Festival Hub for art exhibits, transformed into a late night space offering a range of free and ticketed events including live performances, workshops, panels, music and projection artworks.
One of the highlights of this year’s festival is Wind Up Bird & Mermaid by Katrina Stamatopoulos and Alexandra Spence – a film installation created with found footage sourced from eBay comprising imagery spanning various decades.
Also, exhibit 211, 2014 (a series of projected works) by the team from Projectionteknik: Nick Azidis, Ian de Gruchy and Amanda Morgan, will transform the facade of the Builders Arms Hotel with each of the artist’s projected concepts.
The Gertrude Street Projection Festival artworks will be projected from 6.00 pm until midnight every evening during the festival (July 18-27). For the full list of artists and more information, visit www.gspf.com.au/