Image: After Walter Hopps closing party, 2022. Photo by Leiko Lopez.
GALLERY ONE
AFTER WALTER HOPPS CLOSING PARTY
FRI 20 SEP 5:30PM - 8.30PM
CELEBRATION, PRIZES, & CLOSING
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
PLEASE NOTE if you are new to exhibiting and require significant assistance with installation, we ask that you bring your work on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday, as our Curator Amber Smith will be onsite to help.
Walter Hopps installing Kurt Schwitters’ exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, 1962 Courtesy: The Norton Simon Museum Archives.
After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, 2022. Photo by Leiko Lopez.
On Friday, September 20, the community is invited to gather and celebrate the After Walter Hopps exhibition on its final night.
The closing party is a wonderful opportunity for the participating artists to meet each other, discuss their works, and strengthen creative connections. Our broader community is invited to come along for their last chance to purchase some fabulous, accessibly priced artworks from the exhibition, which also supports local artists in our regional community.
Scott Pickett of Frameline has kindly donated three great door prizes. Winners will be randomly selected from exhibiting artists who attend the night.
Nibbles will be provided, and our bar will serve alcoholic and non-alcoholic choices provided by our valued supporters, including Heaps Normal, Higher State Co., Great Ocean Road Gin, and Blackman’s Brewery. Support from our sponsors and major partners has helped Platform Arts keep participation free for all After Walter Hopps events.
For more information on how to participate in the exhibition or associated events, check out the What’s On section on our homepage, or see related events below.
Many thanks to Frameline for being our official program partner for After Walter Hopps.
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To keep the submission process free, Platform Arts will take a 30% commission on all artwork sales. This is to contribute to the installation staffing costs, marketing, party activities, and administration costs.
Works will be installed around those already installed in the space. The installation staff will take care not to obscure, cover or damage another person's artwork.
Purchasing works: Works will not be reserved until payment is made via Platform Arts. For works priced over $1000, we require 50% deposit to reserve the work, which is non-refundable. Balance must be paid within two weeks, or the artwork will be returned to the artist. These terms are not negotiable and are in place to encourage legitimate purchases and protect artists from forfeited reservations of their work.
Purchased works will be immediately labelled with a sold sticker but must remain installed for the exhibition's duration.
Both sold and unsold works must be collected on the night of the closing party: Friday September 20. Due to our current full capacity for excess art storage, any artists or buyers not attending the closing party must pick up their work by 3.00PM, Saturday, October 05.
Any works abandoned by either artists or buyers will be dealt with at our discretion. Unfortunately no refunds can be issued in this scenario. If you're unable to pick up the work yourself, please arrange for a friend or courier to do this for you. Contact us prior to confirm your alternative arrangement.
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This exhibition takes its inspiration from Walter Hopps' 36 Hours project held at MOTA (Museum of Temporary Art), Washington, USA in 1978. A renowned non-conformist, maverick curator, and transcender of boundaries, Walter Hopps’ seminal project 36 Hours was an open call for any artist to take a single work to the gallery without any chance of rejection or censorship, where he would personally hang the works as they arrived. The show was inclusive, making no distinction between artists or selection of works, the only limitation being a size restriction.
