From Mundane to Friday: The Art of Everyday Melbourne

What can we learn about ourselves from the seemingly mundane ephemera that litters our daily lives? What do our shopping lists and discarded items reveal about us? From Mundane to Friday: The Art of Everyday Melbourne considers what the transient objects we leave behind might say about who we are and who we want to be, and what this legacy might reveal about us to future generations.

Curated by Kenny Pittock, the exhibition features artworks from the City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection by Elizabeth Gower, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Ghost Net Art Project, Jesse Marlow, Patrick Pound, Louiseann King, Peter Atkins and Kenny Pittock.

An optimistic push into finding value in the often-overlooked, the exhibition also includes various prosaic oddities plucked into significance, such as Melbourne’s first brick and recently discovered contents found in the pocket of a ticket inspector’s jacket from the 1990s.