The Redrawing Collective 2005-ongoing

Ben. Harper, String Quartet No. 2 (Canon in Beta), 2008, install detail at Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne.

The Redrawing Collective grew from a series of conversations around ideas of reconceptualising existing artworks/practices and (re)deploying these as interventions into the historicising concept of "the contemporary" in current practice.

These conversations developed into a series of exhibition and publishing projects: Redrawing, Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne & CAST, Hobart, 2008, and Collected Collaborations, MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), Melbourne 2011 & Cross Art Projects, Sydney (forthcoming 2012); Redrawing Times (edition of 300) (ABpress: Melbourne 2011) and Redrawing the book (edition of 25) (ABpress: Melbourne 2011).

The collective comprises, variously, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Ben. Harper, Fiona Macdonald, Alex Martinis Roe, Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Spiros Panigirakis.

Fiona Macdonald, Redrawing as of May 2008, essay for Redrawing @ Project Space/Spare Room 2008


Redrawing Convention, Project Space, 2008: Redrawing Collective with Bronwyn Clark Coolee, Untitled (trying to describe something) 1998-2008, ink and pencil on paper, and Untitled (remake Art Make-Up 'It is not easy'), HD video.


Redrawing, CAST, 2008: Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Art Now, 2005-present, graphite on paper, 22x30"; Spiros Panigirakis, MORE SILENCE, 2008, wood, painted canvas, paper chain, books, poster; Fiona Macdonald, After Right After no. 4, 2008, lambda print on aluminium, 154x120cm.


Ben. Harper, Spectral Shadow of String Quartet No. 2 (Canon in Beta) 2012, from Redrawing the book, 2011


Redrawing Collective, Redrawing the book, 2011, for Collected Collaborations, MUMA, 2011