Container art expo

Artist gary deirmendjian, whose work push will feature on the Hungry Mile and who has a long standing relationship with the union has work on exhibit at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park on the Parramatta River, until September 27. 

His work  Consumer Temple, Broken Icon  featured on Sunday Arts, ABC1, in August

His latest exhibition at Newngton Armory in Sydney once again uses shipping containers to make a political statement about consumerism.

artist statement:

A shipping container and timber pallets are combined to form an upright architectural proposition. The work appears in a state of stable decay, sitting still and singular in the green expanse. A narrow entrance leads into an intimately walled enclosure offering no out other than the way of entry. Through the walls only fragmented glimpses of an outer world are discernible. In the relative darkness the eye is drawn up into the airy chamber high above, where light beams through small windows onto a centrally suspended item. It is a cash register, hanging beaten, broken and looted. 

While the architecture may be suggesting a foreign house of worship, its deity and practices however are imaginable and may feel oddly familiar. In its dilapidated state it may be read as a post-abandonment scenario, where the faith that has brought this house into being is clearly no longer dispensed here.

Gary has also recently exhibited container art,  at the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Cottesloe Beach, WA