Avant Garden

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Avant Garden is a public art project that responded to the Toowoomba Region’s drought and water crisis, with a focus specifically on it’s impact on the iconic Carnival of Flowers event.

Commissioned artworks were ephemeral, non-permanent, low carbon and have low environmental impact. Participating artists were asked to consider the use of local, recycled and low cost materials.

PROJECT DATES

2007-2009

AVANT GARDEN | SELECTED WORKS

Avant Garden Fantasy Gardens artist: Toowoomba Art Quilters

OUR ROLE

Community Collaboration
Event Partnerships
Capacity Building
Project Management
Public Art

As a child I remember peering into fishponds in a park and being delighted by the huge goldfish with their reflective skin catching the light as they moved. My work is a response to this memory and to artworks by MC Escher, who greatly appreciated the rhythm and patterns of nature.
Deb Beaumont
Avant Garden artist

ARTIST DOCUMENTATION

Sally Charlton, FORLAWN