Kitty Calvert
Thoughts and Prayers
3 - 14 May 2023
G3
Opening Night
Friday 5 May | 6pm – 8pm
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The inspiration for Kitty Calvert's unique one-off sculptures comes from a love of vintage and a desire to reuse and recycle unique pieces of discarded treasure, each piece of treasure being an individual memory-carrying vessel. Evoking cherished memories of childhood and making new cool stuff out of old cool stuff.
We invite the viewer to reflect on the concept of waste in the world, of recycling that waste into a new form, and the potential journey each individual piece has made to its final resting place inside the sculpture. In today's world, where things are designed with obsolescence in mind, we find there is a hankering for things that last.
Artist Bio
Kitty Calvert assemblage sculptures are a collaboration of treasure hunt and treasure build between Melbourne-based husband and wife Julia Brampton and Phill Calvert.
She developed a passion for vintage toys at birth (they weren’t vintage at the time), just the things she played with every day……at 12, she was one of Sydney’s, Paddington Markets first and youngest stallholders, continuing to trade in vintage ephemera at various markets and street fairs around Sydney.
He learned how not to “strangle” a hammer around the age of 3, along with a good method for whacking things, which stood him in good stead in his future career as a drummer. His father taught him how to make and fix things “proper” and how to use tools and build stuff.
Fast forward to today, and together they are Kitty Calvert, lovers of vintage, recycling, upcycling, re-engineering, and creating.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
