GDay Chair Project – G’Day GALA.h
Dr Sally Gray is a creative thinker whose self-crafted career has been independent and inventive. She is currently a writer, curator, artist, concept developer and creative producer with projects realised, nationally and internationally, under the umbrella of the arts consultancy she founded in May 1994.
Sally, Gray, Sydney, Artist, Curator
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GDay Chair Project – G’Day GALA.h

GDay Chair Project – G’Day GALA.h

Artists, architects, photographers and designers were invited, by G’Day Chair designer Brian Sayer, to make a creative response to the graphic form of the chair, for AIDS benefit auctions held in Sydney in 1988 and 1989.

The G’Day Chair interventions were auctioned by Sothebys, to raise funds for the AIDS Trust of Australia. Sally Gray’s intervention was a laser-etched, conversational inscription:

It’s got a kind of monumentality that takes itself seriously, but its got a sense of irony …

 

Review

Leo Schofield (1988) ‘Leo At Large’, Sydney Morning Herald, November 26 1988

 

 

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