Offset litho print: Elastic Printed Project, 2003 (ed. Andrew Hurle and Lisa Andrew)
Catalogue: Pitch Your Own Tent, Monash Gallery 2005 (curated Max Delaney)

This work consists of contemporary photographs taken of the sites of artist-run galleries in the two Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
The 76 galleries were as many as I was able to confirm in a year of research. Some of them are galleries I have been involved in, some were discreet or temporal projects that only a few knew about, some were around long before I was practicing as an artist.
 
The criteria for inclusion were simply that the gallery had to have a name and, at the time of photographing, be no longer active as a gallery. It also had to have been organised and run by artists who weren’t accountable to a parent organisation.
 
There is deliberately no dates or specific locations assigned to the images in the series. This is meant to encourage their representational collapse into a flattened and printed contemporaneity. They are not meant to be informative in a documentary sense - they are more like abstracted tabloid ‘obituaries’ for artist-initiated activities.