Produce Lane Initiative, 2021

The Produce Lane Initiative provides artists with a flexible public art platform to create illuminated art images in the West End and forms part of the Hindley Street Improvement Plan. Utilising Lightboxes and Gobo Projector lighting, it has been developed in partnership with TAFE SA, and the Adelaide College of the Arts. This initiative creates an annually changing public art attraction for the City and a unique identity for one of the lesser-known laneways linking to Hindley Street.

Read more about the initiative here.

The current artworks have been adapted from the series, Surrealism in the Dark and are being presented in the Produce Lane Initiative. These works were first created in 2019, with new iterations added more recently. Surrealism in the Dark began in the darkroom – a place where marks are left to chance, edges burning with glowing light, liquid dripping down the paper to reveal a face, water moving over the page and blurring what we see. The images then moved into the digital world, where actions and clicks responded to analog marks, further obscuring and fragmenting the original image. These works explore the idea of chance and how it may lead both artist and audience down unexpected paths, to surprising discoveries. Chance leaves all doors open for the image to exist in endless forms…