Wunder Gym X to turn Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay into creative playgrounds

Artwork by Frances Loriente which will feature at Wunder Gym X. (Samara Clifford)

Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay councils are joining together to

present Wunder Gym, ‘Recollection: Western Region Environment as Creative

Playground’ as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

The Wunder Gym group exhibition will feature at The Annex at Wyndham Cultural Centre from Thursday, October 5 until Sunday

October 22.

Wyndham councillor Marcel Mahfoud said Wunder

Gym is an art program that extends the skills and practice of emerging,

established and curious creatives.

“Artists from Melbourne’s western region were mentored by contemporary artist

Elvis Richardson, to see their worlds from new perspectives and draw inspiration

from their local environment and communities as their artistic playground,” Cr Mahfoud said.

“This creative prompt invited artists to be collectors, editors and curators using their

local environment’s objects, recordings, sounds and images as their raw material

and inspiration for their artwork.

Exploring how their art practice changes the function

of the chosen object.”

In addition to the physical exhibition at The Annex, Recollection XL, a series of

large scale temporary public art installations will be located at Laneway Gallery at 44

Woods Street Laverton, and the Altona Civic Centre.

For more information visit: www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/whats-on/wunder-gym-

recollection