“Minnie the Moocher”
Kate Smith and Alex Vivian
18 Jan → 30 Jan 2011

Kate Smith and Alex Vivian proposed an exhibition surrounding notions of sloth, using a departure point Mel Campbell’s 2009 The Age article ‘Sloth, Glorious Sloth’. Within the piece Campbell explores historical and present attitudes towards sloth, and sloth as an important precursor to creative output. Smith and Vivian will build within The West Wing a chillax pad of lowbrow entertainment including photocopies of outdated newspapers, women’s magazines, baby couture, screenings of Lady and the Tramp and Peewee Herman stand-up.

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Kate Smith was born in Cootamundra and lives and works in Bethungra. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) from the Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra in 2005. Recent exhibitions include: If you’re into anything, you’ll always find your own morality play, Sutton Gallery, 2014; A Country Practice, Monash University Museum of Art, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland, 2013 and Deep Privacy/Convex, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2012.

Alex Vivian