Mickie Quick

The Northern Rivers Echo runs the story about ‘Bringing Michael Jackson Back To Life’

Here was my press release:

The people of Lismore and its surrounds are being asked to help “Bring Michael Jackson Back To Life”.

By bringing a pot plant or cutting into Lismore Regional Gallery and contributing it to a “growing shrine”, the towns people can simultaneously show their admiration for the dead star, and their lament for his unsustainable way of living.

The concept was developed on the fly by Mickie Quick, the artist known to many for his recent involvement with Channel Ten’s Guerrilla Gardeners. He is in Lismore to develop an installation for the Ecologies exhibition which explores our relationship to natural and urban systems and the need to consider our relationship with the environment.
The exhibition will be opened by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garret AM, MP, next Wednesday July 8 at 1pm.

The shrine to Michael Jackson is being installed in Lismore Regional Gallery’s street-front window-box exhibition space called 24:7. It will feature a sculptural likeness of Michael Jackson budding with new growth, and the hope is that it will be surrounded high and low with lucious plants donated by the locals.

“I was wondering about how to use that space as part of this show, to make a work about living sustainably, in harmony with nature, but feeling like their was no way I was going to be able to compete with the abundant lucious growth that I was seeing in and around Lismore, and then, like everybody, I heard the terrible news about Michael Jackson, and lamented on how sad it is that he seems to have died from treating his body so unnaturally. And then it hit me, some of the lucious growth I see around Lismore can be brought in by the people of this town as a combined expression of their grief, loss and frustration about Michael’s death, doing something more life affirming than laying wreaths of dead flowers”, said Mickie Quick.

Plants are being accepted from now until September 5 when the exhibition ends. Plants need to be able to survive in an indoor window box that will get daily watering. Donors will be asked to fill out a ‘Message To Michael’ card which will then be displayed inside the gallery along with all the others.

UPDATE:
The project has gone really well!
here is a quick link to another article
More soon

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