Pick Me Ups with Claire McArdle

Ballarat Mining Exchange laneways

12 Lydiard Street North,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Sat 9 May

9am–5pm

Part of the Ballarat Craft and Design Week, Claire performs making jewellery in the alleyways around the Mining Exchange. Neckpieces will be impressed with a pattern through a device built into her shoe. The act of walking will form the neckpieces. Each neckpiece will be placed into an envelope with Pick Me Up written on the front. The Pick Me Ups will be wedged into available spaces in the laneways, awaiting a curious person to find them and take them home.

Perhaps you will come across the making performance in progress or perhaps you will find a Pick Me Up afterwards. Information about the work will be written on each Pick Me Up.

After the performance, a map of the alleyways where the Pick Me Ups can be found will be posted online, so that interested people can look for them.

Content: City of Ballarat

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