Had a great time checking out Phillipa Berry's latest exhibition of shrines at the One Star Gallery in Melbourne today. As usual, some beautiful and amazing creative works devoted to a variety of (often neglected) filmmakers, movie stars, musicians, Mexican wrestlers and other cult celebrities.
Some personal faves were the Lee Van Cleef shrine (which is interactive and comes with a toy rifle to shoot the targets down, like an old carnival game!), the brilliant Albert Dekker shrine (paying homage to his notorious kinks), the Ron Haydock/Rat Pfink (which I would have dived on if someone hadn't beat me to it), and the Barbara Peyton shrine (which opens up like a classic old toy puzzle!).
Could have walked out of there with at least half a dozen to my name...in the end, I snagged the Bert I. Gordon shrine (Mr. BIG himself), which seemed appropriate as I had recently recorded an audio commentary track (along with Lee Gambin) for Kino Lorber's upcoming Blu-ray release of Gordon's FOOD OF THE GODS (1976).
Exhibition is only running until this Sunday, so get your skates on if you want to check it out...highly recommended!!
SAINTS & SINNERS * ICONS & IDOLS
IDEAL FOR IDLE WORSHIP
Created by Phillipa Berry
TURNING TASTELESS TRIBUTES INTO SINCERE CASH-INS
SINCE 1991
OPENING Thurs JUNE 27th. 6pm – 8pm
Exhibition continues until Sunday 30th June
Fri 3-7 pm, Sat 1-7 pm, Sun 1-5 pm.
ONE STAR GALLERY, 301-303 Victoria Street,
West Melbourne, VIC 3003.
shrine enquiries: initialspb@hotmail.com
