Terri Brooks, Content, 2023. Oil on paper on wooden box, 27 x 40 x 9cm. Courtesy: the artist and Tacit Art, Melbourne.

Precious objects desire special homes. Artbox exhibits 40+ invited artists taking a functional object and transforming it into an art object that speaks to them and their practice. A desired object to be envied by all.

Made at Tacit, crafted and finished by hand, double primed matt black, these lidded boxes provide an opportunity to transform an object associated with the storage of the most precious of objects into its own precious object. Paint the lid? All the external sides? All the external sides and the inside? Object(s) placed inside the box? All of the above?

Exhibited artists include Adriana Artmeier, Melanie Bardolia, Lillian Bateson, TJ Bateson, Bruce Baycroft, Louise Blyton, Terri Brooks, Michelle Caithness/Clive Murray-White, Magda Cebokli, Elizabeth Colbert, David Coles, Lana De Jager, Merrian Dennis, Lesley Dickman, Merrin Eirth, Christine Gibbs, Paulo Gil, Janice Gobey, Jodi Heffernan, Ilona Jetmar, Sheridan Jones, Julie Keating, Vietta Korren-Steele, Kyle KM, Chris Lawry, Helen Lehmann, David McBurney, Paula McLoughlin, Anne Mestitz, Jan Palethorpe, Gaye Paterson, Cat Poljski, Linda Pickering, Shirley Ploog, Peter Rowe, Liz Sullivan, Brendon Taylor, Lena Torikov, Andrew Weatherill, Michael Wedd and Linda Weil⁠.

Opening Event: Wednesday 6 December, 6.30 – 8pm.