COLLAGE WITH FRIENDS tHE DADA DINNER PARTY SERIES

Curated by Kerry, stuck down by friends.

Everything is art, and everyone is an artist. Medium: Collage 

This personal project was the culmination of events where guests created spontaneous artworks through playful art games, guided by materials and instructions curated by Kerry Lennon. It pays homage to pre-war European art, a time when modern art was emerging, and the avant-garde served as its surreal counterpart. During this period, small groups of artists, writers, and free thinkers hosted dinner parties that became vibrant hubs of free expression, creativity, and safe spaces for queer, feminist, and non-conformist voices.

Surrealism challenged the mainstream with its anti-art approach, using found objects like newspapers and books to champion collage, chance, and performance. It embraced creating art without literal meaning while uncovering meaning in the process. For this show, we’ve continued that tradition, using chance and play to explore the idea that everything is art and everyone is an artist.

NB: Artwork titles were selected at random

Ephemeral Dada Art Show

The POP UP art show was held on Woi-wurrung Country. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community.

DINNER PARTY 0NE

1)Untitled
Charlie Waters

2) Tod’s hole hurt from thick
wood round his neck
Glen Slobodzian

3)The Dark
Emma Stryder

4) Look behind beautiful delight
Wlliam Bouquet

5) First lady of the seeing eye looking everywhere for remember

6) Something licked me! Cock the sky-rocketed, She’s not young woman. Then to our horror, the pilot could not bend her “More”
Shmophie

7) Untitled
Michael Batley

8) I remember old boots extraordinary
Michelle Gordon

DINNER PARTY two

9) Invisible
Emily Maiorino

10) Four lovely ladies
Rob Murray-Leach

11) Me at Once
Mary Northrup

12 dreaming.
Josh Allen

13) Stuck in the water
Polly Pollins

14) Untitled
Redouane Chaouki

15) stiff and weary
Wil Ma

16) Oh, nonsense!
Shim Tripovich

17) Window
Kerry Lennon

lunche0n party three

18) Mr Pink BALLOON
Sonja Adelle Loader-Jurac

19) POP? nonsense
Cara Pupsenkopf

20) Well, well-what a pity! surprising
Sarah Cole

21) Scratched
Bec Grech

22) “Cuck-cuck-cuck-cuck! Cuck-cuck-
cuck-cuck-cuck! CUCK-CUCK!”
Callum Macpherson

23) was really quite enormous
Quest Pond

24) “Dont be distinctly Mother silence
Bren Tonne

25) wonderful show of be silly
Corinne Wood