Mates & Milkshakes : Corner shops in Ballarat

Title: Mates & Milkshakes : Corner shops in Ballarat
Creator: Berry, Phillip
Date: 2012
Type: Text; Visual art work
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/57688
Identifier: vital:4762
Abstract: Mates & Milkshakes : Corner shops in Ballarat Exhibition 2nd-13th May 2012 at Post Office Gallery, Ballarat. Phil Berry’s work brings to life the iconic Australian corner store - the local provedore selling everything from a bottle of milk or packet of cigarettes to a range of smallgoods. Once a hub and important landmark within the community, abuzz with conversation and ablaze with advertising slogans, they stood like social beacons amid the drab, dull endless sprawl of suburbia. Celebrating these abandoned often reused or reappointed places, Berry’s work not only highlights the disappearance of the personable local proprietors and their conjoined shop residences but also the sense of community that has disappeared with them.
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Subject: 1905 Visual Arts and Crafts