Linden Postcard Show 2011

Editorial

The challenge: to create a work of art no larger than 30cmx30cmx30cm that can be exhibited on the walls of St Kilda's Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. The result: one of Australia's most dynamic and popular annual art exhibitions.

First held in 1991 as part of the St Kilda Festival, the annual Linden Postcard Show sees artists from across Australia and around the world submitting small scale works, all of which are for sale, to Linden's annual fundraising exhibition.

Gaining its name from the fact that six entries each year are selected to be reproduced and sold as postcards, the unique format of the Linden Postcard Show ensures that the chosen works are seen not just by the thousands of visitors to the gallery - originally an 18-room mansion built in the 19th century - but by people worldwide, as the postcards wing their varied ways around the planet.

By turns bright and audacious, subtle and intimate, and ranging across a range of media, from oil paintings to sculpture, this delightful exhibition literally has something for everyone.

“Works by established as well as emerging artists hang side by side in a frenzy of colour and movement - a great noisy celebration of creativity. But it is the small and individual pieces of art people come back to see, that - even through all the noise - have quietly spoken to them,” says Giacomina Pradolin, Director, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts.

Richard Watts, Citysearch