THIS WAY UP
photo of ‘THIS WAY UP’ installed in the WEBB Gallery, one long row of drawings of boxes and arrows in black and red, above a row of boxes ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers

‘THIS WAY UP’ - Instillation shot, October 2019, WEBB Gallery, Griffith University, Australia.

 

This series of works is a playful experiment with the packaging instructions ‘this way up’. I made these works for a group show, which was named after these works, in October 2019. All of the works in the exhibition were made in London and sent via airmail to Australia, along with instructions on how to be displayed. As well as making a joke about Australians being upside down, these works act as their own, often confusing, instructions for installation. The exhibition was put on in collaboration with a group of PhD students at Griffith University who we organised to swap exhibitions with as a curatorial experiment.

 
drawing of ‘THIS WAY UP’ boxes in a row, surrounded by red
collaged together ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers
drawing of ‘THIS WAY UP’ boxes in a row, surrounded by red
drawing of a box that says ‘THIS WAY UP’ on it, with red arrows and red insides
drawing of ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers, upside down
box covered in ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers
box covered in FRAGILE tape
draw of a box that says ‘THIS WAY UP’
photo of ‘THIS WAY UP’ installed in the WEBB Gallery, one long row of drawings of boxes and arrows in black and red, above a row of boxes ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers
drawing of ‘THIS WAY UP’ boxes in a row
box covered in ‘THIS WAY UP’ stickers
drawing of ‘THIS WAY UP’ boxes in a row
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