a herd of purple cows

CowParade is a public art event that has been held in over 50 cities around the world including Paris, Tokyo, London and New York, and this year I was lucky enough to see many of the pieces in Margaret River WA.

Life size cow sculptures are painted and decorated by artists and set on display in various spaces, sponsored by businesses.



Margaret River is of course famous as centre of the wine producing region in South West Australia and many of the cows appear in the grounds of the winerys and other businesses in the area.

Public art considerations often include site specificity, community involvement and collaboration and somehow it's more inclusive and accessable in it's nature than it's gallery based cousin.

I bought a few bottles of wine too, funnily enough.

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superfly

Superfly is a crowd-sourced collaborative public art concept showcasing contributing artists and designers on posters in outdoor spaces nomally used for advertising. The first 'exhibition' took place in November last year on the streets of Dundee, in Scotland.

This weekend you can see a more conventional 'indoor' exhibition of that 'exhibition' as part of the Dundee Pop-up - a day of art events curated by creative social network Central Station.



It all gets a bit meta now as this weekends event is, in effect, being 'advertised' by means of posters containing similary crowd-sourced art in the same said outdoor 'advertising' spaces.

Yes, I'm still trying to figure it out too, but whatever it means, it's very interesting.

Superfly founder, Jon Gill, is no slouch on the illustration and graphic design front himself and is a friend of Never Get Out Of The Boat.

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