Memories to Be Made This Summer as HOTA Unveils New Children’s Gallery Exhibition

HOTA, Home of the Arts, is proud to announce the next iteration of the Children’s Gallery exhibition, Magic + Memory: make me a home, opening to the public for free this weekend.

Featuring acclaimed Australian artist Anna Carey, the engaging exhibition will delight and captivate young minds.

Families are invited to learn about Carey’s practice of a unique blend of photography and model-making based on familiar but fictitious architecture with hands on and creative activities for all ages and abilities.

Children will be able to dive into the imaginative world Carey creates where reality and fiction blur, and memories are reinterpreted by discovering a life-sized model within the Children’s Gallery. Here they can use their imagination for play to explore themes of memory, imagination, and the magic of art.

Yarmila Alfonzetti, Heads of Arts and Culture, Experience Gold Coast said she was excited to see the next Children’s Gallery exhibition come to life.

"This exhibition offers a unique and immersive experience that invites young minds to explore the intersection of imagination, memory and creativity. At HOTA, we are passionate about nurturing the next generation of art lovers,” she said.

Based between the Gold Coast and Los Angeles, Carey is celebrated for her intricately crafted architectural models and their transformation into captivating photographic artworks. Carey uses the camera lens to magnify the model with all its imperfections, reminding the viewer that the photograph has been constructed with a miniature object.

Through her work, children can explore the connection between space, memory, and dreams in a way that is playful, engaging, and thought-provoking. While exploring the life-sized model families can tackle puzzles in the loungeroom together, enjoy imaginative play in the kitchen, create a diorama in the dining room, rebuild parts of the model and do some interior decorating to make a home away from home.

"The spaces I create stem from my childhood memories of my hometown, the Gold Coast. However, my work is never based on a specific place. I’m interested to see how the children use their imaginations to play and interact inside my model,” Anna Carey said.

Exhibition details
Magic + Memory: make me a home
From Saturday 9 November
Open 10am – 4pm daily
Children’s Gallery, Ground Floor, HOTA Gallery 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise Free
https://hota.com.au/whats-on/live/exhibitions/anna-carey-s-magic-and-memory-make-me-ahome

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CONTACT Danielle Ford | 0487 002 022 | ford@hota.com.au

Images available for download here. 

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About the Artist:

Born 1987 Tweed Heads NSW, lives Gold Coast QLD and Los Angeles USA

Anna Carey is an Australian artist based between the Gold Coast and Los Angeles, whose work overlaps photography, model-making, film and drawing. Through memory and imagination, she creates architectural spaces based on familiar iconic architecture that she photographs. The camera lens magnifies the model with all its imperfections and reminds the viewer that the photograph has been constructed with a miniature object. Anna Carey completed a Bachelor of Visual Media with Honours (first class) at Queensland College of Art and recently received her Doctorate (DVA) with QCA. She has exhibited extensively in Australia and the US: Photo la; Artereal Gallery; Andrew Baker Art Dealer; Dlux Media Arts, Qld Centre for Photography; Sophie Gannon Gallery; Tweed Regional Gallery; and the Museum of Brisbane.

She has been shortlisted in numerous prizes including The Churchie National Emerging Art Award, the Queensland Regional Art Awards and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. Her work is represented in public collections including HOTA Gallery, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Australia, Artbank, University of Queensland, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, as well as private collections.