It’s tough times for the music industry – people are leaving songs on the street. This handpainted cover version of “This Must Be the Place” by Talking Heads, for example. It’s a song that has been widely covered, even inspired … Continue reading
Sunrise or sunset? The impressionist cousin of Summer Holiday, this painting was languishing on the streets of Marrickville until we picked it up and added it to the Re:make collection. It must have used a lot of yellow paint – … Continue reading
Most of the Re:make artworks are paintings, but there has been the occasional object that has piqued our interest as we’ve kept an eye on the roadside. There was competition for this one – other people nearby had noticed it … Continue reading
A large canvas with a small hole in it – still wrapped in plastic – we first thought to be ruined and discarded, not an artwork at all and merely an abandoned canvas. But when we visited the Yoko Ono … Continue reading
This is the solemn face of the unloved portrait, left out on an inner west street to an unknown fate. This mysterious face has a number of siblings, other portraits of various characters with similarly grave expressions. We can’t promise … Continue reading
The unusual thing about “Both Sides Now” is that both sides of the canvas are painted. On one side are three, nude pale human figures floating through an abstract pool of navy blue, and on the other (from which this … Continue reading
Found in Marrickville, far from the beach, we guess that the artist was yearning for a glimpse of the ocean so much they made their own. Some of the artworks we’ve found we can’t work out if they were finished … Continue reading
We’ve called this painting Pick-up Sticks after the children’s game of coloured wooden sticks that you drop in a pile, then try to remove a stick without making any of the others move. Someone worked hard on Pick-up Sticks and … Continue reading