The Mactaggarts Woolstore
WHAT
Residential shared artist studios, screen printing and gallery.
WHO
Artists including Michael Eather and his “Arthur Craven Room”, Sheridan Green, Gideon Oberzanek and Toadshow ( Cane Toad Times Second Collective).
WHEN
1987-1990
WHERE
Teneriffe New Farm Artist Precinct.
53 Vernon Terrace, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
WHY
Affordable residential studio rental.
NOTES
Epilogue:What Campfire wasn’t
“Campfire was never a collective as such. It was an attitude and an ideology. Not a one-off trendy ideal culled from mainstream politics, but gleaned from level discussion n s in the artist’s studio, over a beer in the backyard, a cup of tea around a fire out bush…”
Shoosh! The History of the Campfire Group, Institute of Modern Art and Campfire Group, 2005, Ed. Michael Eather, P. 117