By Goya Dmytryshchak
Hobsons Bay residents have an opportunity to be part of a large-scale installation at Arts Centre Melbourne exploring what “home” means to people.
Home is a Melbourne-wide public art project where people decorate small wooden houses to convey ideas, stories, memories and emotions evoked by home.
Until December, community members are turning 6000 miniature houses into works of art – each decorated to tell a personal story.
On January 10, the houses will be gathered and displayed in an installation called
The Big House on the Arts Centre main lawn.
At the launch, people will be invited to take a little house with them. They are encouraged to leave the house they pick up in a public place for a passer-by to find.
People are asked to photograph where they leave the house and share it on social media so its journey can be tracked. A further 1000 tiny houses will be at the
Arts Centre for people to decorate until Australia Day.
Workshops are being held this month for people to decorate a house. Free community workshops will be held at Laverton’s Woods Street Arts Space at 10am on November 29 and Altona’s Louis Joel Community and Arts Centre from 1pm on November 30.
No bookings are required.
