The Canning Stock Route Project
What sounds like the name of a cool music band isn’t, in fact, strictly related to music. When my arty friends mentioned the Canning Stock Route project I wasn’t thinking that I must see it. On my way to work each morning, I noticed a large poster in the city train station. That actually intrigued me. It is an art exhibit delivered by FORM.
Having decided to do a little gallery outing while I’m on a holiday we’ve ventured out to the Perth Convention and Exhibition centre to see the grand exhibition. What the Canning Stock Route is can be found out easily in the official website. You can even browse all of the artists and their works.
If you live near by (highly relative term this… let’s say in the Perth metro area?) you should see this exhibition. It provides fantastic interactive experience with artworks displayed in a rather dramatic way – all black and each work is spot lit.
Like any other exhibition not every work was to my liking but there were some highly covetable works. If I were to be a grand thief and a talented escape artist I would have found a way to walk away with a few fabulous looking paintings (this and definitely these). Unfortunately or rather fortunately, the CSR works are owned by National Museum of Australia.
Another interesting aspect of the Canning Stock Route Project is the interactive touch display panels developed by Lightwell. We are so used to the touch interface thanks to modern day smartphones and tablets. They are still rather small. What this exhibition had was a series of linked touch displays that have tons of interactive elements. It truly felt like I was in the movie Minority Report – remember the scene where Tom Cruise was flicking screens in mid air wearing special gloves? No special gloves required in this!
Have a cultural weekend and go and visite this fantastic exhibition. Although it’s free to view you can pick up some postcards with a gold coin donation.
