4A A4

Overview

It's a pretty simple idea. Make an artwork that is A4. Yep, that paper size that we all use pretty much every day. Usually feeding it unashamedly into a printer. Finally, A4 paper is getting its moment of glory.

As part of a major fundraising endeavour, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art made a callout across the globe to “artists, writers, designers, architects, animators, photographers and fashionistas and everyone in between”. Everyone was invited to submit a work, of any media, into the exhibition 4A A4. All the artworks will be sold at the fixed price of $200.

The artist of each artwork will remain unknown to the buyer until after the sale. So you'll have something in common with the unsuspecting Banksy buyers of New York if you end up walking away with a hot artist's work for a steal. Plus, the money from each sale will go towards funding 4A's future exhibitions.

Here's to both supporting a gallery that creates opportunities for artists and having a great, affordable new piece hanging in the lounge room.

Image: David Lui, 4A's first Treasurer at the Fundraising Auction in 1997, courtesy of 4A.