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