Are you a headcase?

30th April, 2008

Calling all emerging or established designers, illustrators, photographers and artists! Fancy soaking your screen/sketch pad/lens/canvas in subject matter that will challenge, inspire and give you a hit of the unexpected? We thought so.

Head Case, a brand new exhibition taking place at the distinguished Sofitel Hotel in Melbourne, 1 – 3rd September, will exhibit work donated by talented creatives (like you) about people living with brains that aren’t as they once were. Whether impaired by mystery illness, accident, drugs or any other number of reasons, Australians suffering acquired brain injury (ABI) are as varied as you can imagine. We think it’s about time their stories were explored creatively and visually.

Up for it? Here’s the brief: respond to the theme of loss with works linking back to the experiences of people with an acquired brain injury — it could be sufferers and/or those who love and support them. The following quotes are to kick-start your ideas…

“Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.”
– Luis Buñuel, Spanish Film Director,
1900 – 1983

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
– Christina G. Rossetti, English Poet,
1830 – 1894

Download Call for Entries
PDF document, 1111.4KB, 30 Apr 2008