By MELISSA MEEHAN
PAINT, music, young people and skating – it already sounds like a recipe for fun.
So it was no surprise that when a number of talented young artists came together for a planned paint out at the Upwey Skate Park, sponsored by the Yarra Ranges Shire, the end result was magnificent.
It was organised by the tiffaney bishop COLLECTIVE (tbC), an artist run initiative that offers young people, up to 20-something the opportunity to contest the historical divide between the community and contemporary arts.
“This contested line between community and contemporary art inspires and drives the groups practice and outcomes,” Ms Bishop said.
“These young people, work in-between spaces and experimental cross-disciplinary practices to propose a ‘new status’ for young artists and a ‘new aesthetic’ for community based art.”
The tiffaney bishop COLLECTIVE developed out of a successful four year contemporary community arts project called tiffaney bishop and the SCUMPUPS, based in the Dandenong Ranges.
“Over this time the group has developed and sustained a formal collaborative arts practice and the more recently formed tiffaney bishop COLLECTIVE will see the development of this exciting model
of engagement and arts practice,” she said.
