IN KIND: Art Swap

Sally Molloy

10 April 2020

Sally Molloy, 'sacrificial toad' 2017, acrylic on cardboard, 15 x 8cm.

Sally Molloy and Outer Space bring you, IN KIND: Art Swap.

IN KIND: Art Swap is a response to the chaos unfolding, a revolt against the disconnectedness thrust upon us. It's as simple as it sounds: it's an art swap. As a participant, all you have to do is offer a small work as a gift to another artist within the art community, who will offer a gift in return. A big web of artists caring for artists.

This is a small opportunity to spread joy like margarine on white bread. It's a moment of great collective generosity. An exchange, a performance, a gentle gesture by a community ready to adapt and carry on in strange and uncertain times. This way, amid the distance, disconnectedness, and doldrums there may also be tenuous tactility, material connections, and the warm nearness of another in their marks, traces, wonderings, decisions, mistakes, bum notes and glory.

If you are an creator currently based in Australia who would like to show care for the community, enter your details here. Register your interest before Friday 10th April, we'll send you the details for your swap, and then all you need to be able to offer is a small work as a gift for a fellow artist, covering the cost of postage within Australia.

Stay safe, stay strong, stay soft too.