Oh yes, peeps, you read right: another exhibition to excite the rev-heads, petrol-heads, design buffs and motoring boffins. And it's only a two hour drive North of Melbourne in sunny Shepparton.
Muddy and I have just returned from a weekend away in fruit-canning country, where we enjoyed two remarkable exhibitions dedicated to car design and manufacture. Yep, TWO exhibitions.
The Shepparton Art Museum is hosting Dream Machines, a terrific collection of more than a hundred hand-drawn illustrations of cars - both concept and production vehicles from the 1940s to the 1970s - from America's iconic carmakers. The materials are pretty prosaic - pencils (graphite and colour), magic markers and ink pens and occasional watercolour brushwork - but the sketches are gorgeous and near-photographic in their precision. This is before CAD, people, when artists and designers drew this cool shit by hand.
A tasty accompaniment to this, is the amazing selection of fully-restored cars on show (4-5 actual real-life manufactured and fully restored cars featured among some the sketches in Dream Machines) at the Shepparton Motor Museum, just 10 minutes out of town on the main highway.
A $17 adult ticket buys you entry to both exhibitions - and you don't need to visit them on the same day.
Dusty says check them out.
(A pleasant surprise was discovering the work of a local artist, Jane Spencer, on display in the wing next to the Shepparton Art Museum. This talented local has some terrific landscapes and still-lives on show).
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