Collaborative and creative, i sent a postcard was designed to both celebrate local artists and to express the COVID-19 experience for the South Gippsland community.
In this project, three postcards were commissioned by local graphic designer, Emma Bartlett of Empire Design, to incorporate the themes of isolation, connection and emergence, while providing space for an artwork on each card. Sets of postcards were posted directly to South Gippsland artists and distributed throughout the Shire in community galleries and art spaces. Artists made their works on the cards, responding to each of the themes, and returned them to the Shire by mail.
All the works received by the Shire are included under each heading below. Together they describe this extraordinary time for the future, bringing imagination, possibility and humour to the world we are now adjusting to.
The next phase of this project is to redistribute a sample of these artworks into the community, re-printed as postcards once again for people to pick up in their local gallery or cafe and send on to someone who might benefit from a message of art and kindness.
