HARRELL FLETCHER

Harrell Fletcher creates art through collaboration and participation often with those outside the parameters of the art world. From installing a museum focusing on local peoples’ lives in a northern California shopping mall to working with an eight-year-old boy as the principle decision-maker for a work of public art created for a park in Brittany, France, Fletcher’s art is really all about you,

rather than all about him. Whilst in residence at Gertrude Contemporary, Fletcher made work for The Sound We Make Together, a large and ambitious project looking at community groups in and around Melbourne, exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, 11 September 2010 - 30 January 2011.

Since the mid-1990s, Harrell Fletcher (b. 1967) has worked collaboratively and individually on socially engaged, participatory works. He is currently the director of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Oregon.

NGV exhibition: www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/harrell-fletcher-the-sound-we-make-together-melbourne

Artist website: www.harrellfletcher.com